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To give you all a laugh here is me on my first Scooter, just turned 18. An early chinese grey import called a hundong zippy or something similar :lol:

Exhaust fell of 1st week I had it, It had next to no power whatsoever, in fact I used to have to walk with it up a particularly steep hill on my commute as it couldn't cope :oops:


unfortunately I was never able to find an insurer wiling to insure me as they wanted a uk equivalent which I couldn't give them (though being 18 and stupid I didn't put 100% effort into finding one) and approx 6 months later I was pulled over by a police trap on the way home. 6 points and a £400 fine :roll:

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RD125 no photos of it so you'll have to look on Google images :lol: first fast bike was my ZXR400, got a picture of that somewhere but it's an old paper one :scratch:

 

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Taken about 1995, I haven't changed :cheers:

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First bike was a TS185 field bike. Then had a 1990 RM250.


First road leagal bike was an 1991 RXS100 which I bought for £80 in 2001. I still have it and have just started a restoration on it.


Second bike was a z250 Scorpion and I have one of these as well. Getting it back on the road soon as a commuter to save miles on the SX.

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1976 SS50 5 Speed.

this one

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rob B

 

Your tax is overdue. 01/05/82 to be precise. 😁 So it looks like you did the right thing to sell it because it didn't last too long after that.

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First bike was a TS185 field bike. Then had a 1990 RM250.


First road leagal bike was an 1991 RXS100 which I bought for £80 in 2001. I still have it and have just started a restoration on it.


Second bike was a z250 Scorpion and I have one of these as well. Getting it back on the road soon as a commuter to save miles on the SX.

Beware the plastic oil pump drive cog .

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First bike was a 1959 BSA Bantam 175, paid £7 for it in Dec 1968. 16th birthday 2 weeks later and rode it to death from day 1 :bike2: Needed a rebore after a month. :thumb:

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the first one I had was a 1976 fs1e in baja brown with the speed blocks and I still have it :)

 

What are the speed blocks?




My first bike when I was 16 in 1973 was a 1972 'L' reg FS1-E in the original Candy Gold colour (actually a SS, before they changed the name to FS1-E due to a legal name case with Honda regarding their SS 50 model).


It had the pedals that were usually set as footpegs.

I tried pedaling it to a petrol station once when it ran out of petrol, but ended up getting off it & pushing it as it was easier.

It would just about do 50 mph, with a tail wind.


I paid £110 for it, second hand & I wish I still had it as they are now worth between £5,000 & £6,000.

Mind you, my wages were only £14 per week back then.

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Yamaha FS1E in 1985, no pedals so had to bump start it. Cost £50. I remember filing a mm off the exhaust port in metalwork at school. Micron exhaust. Did 62mph on the clock :D


First big bike was a GSXR750 in 1996 after passing my test. Jumped from a Vespa 125 to the GSXR, was quite a steep learning curve. Then a selection of very fast bikes over the years. 22 years later I haven't killed myself, which is a bonus.

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