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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tim754 on April 08, 2008, 11:15:40 pm
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Banging on elsewhere about my first bikes made me stop and think 'What was the bike I first rode successfully?" Dare I say it... A Honda 50cc pushrod stepthru... age just turned 7 year 1964...Shit am I smiling to myself right now or what. Cheers Tim
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Deckson mini bike Victa engine no suspension around the old Mt Cotton mini bike track 1973
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a mighty yamaha AG100
heavy muther of a thing! i couldn't pick it up when it fell over for a long time.
3rd gear was stuffed so it was 1st, brm, 2nd berumm, 3rd/4th boorruuuum and so on,
you get the idea me thinks
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well it was late sixties on a Grasshopper, victa motor i think. with 4 brothers it lasted about 2 weeks and we moved up to a Honda 50 step thru, by the time i was 12 we must of had about 20 different bikes , including bsa's and triumphs, throwaway bikes from dad, they only lasted so long because they were used on the beach from Noosa to Fraser for beachworming. That's where the worms tag comes from.
Cheers Trev ;D
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An old Douglas Vespa scooter wth the gear linkages on the left hand bar, 5 years old at the time (1967) and i reckon that first foray into bikes has a lot to answer for ;) Could not remember everybike owned since then but that first one sticks in the mind,
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About a 1968 CT90 Trail. ;D
Dual range gearbox, leading link front suspension.
Cool................ :D
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TS 185 :(
(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee74/All_things_414/TS185.jpg)
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triumph tiger cub modified for mx motor ran on methenol,motor built by a bloke named sid willis in calton sydney,it ran for years racer for 2 years at nepean 1970-1972 only rode in novice class then as i was to young to race with the other riders.then rode dt1 and bully slider.
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A Bridgestone 90 and a Vespa scooter in Maroubra sandhills.
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My first ever ride was on a qa50, i was 7 or 8. It was at a place that hired out bikes in the Sydney area. My dad seems to recall Lucas Heights, near a nuclear plant of some sort he seems to think.
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1974 CR125M, second hand. 14 years old and worked all the Christmas & school holidays for two years to save the money.Then I couldn't get anyone to pick it up for me, so I walked the 8klm to where it was, and pushed it 8klms back home. That was in 1976 and I think I paid $400.00. The clutch was slipping a bit when I got it but I didn't know any better at the time. I got a little shock after the clutch fried itself completely, and got it fixed!
Cheers,
K
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Honda MR50 :)
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Suzuki RV 125,I did some miles on that bike 1982-1986,beach combing and coastal exploring.
Now those tracks are a Historic Walk Trail. :'(
Alison
Honda QA50 and then a Yamaha steppy 90,both died natural deaths.
Steven
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QR50 > RM80 > XR200 > RM250 > CR250 > YZ250F > YZ250 > CRF450 > CRF250 > CZ400
Hmmmm.
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Honda CL175 first bike, circa 1967.
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Ah yes...I was drunk & she a lady of the night ::)
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Puch 50 (which probably still has a piece of my big toe in the gearbox) --- honda 50 4T(death trap on road tyres) --- Yammy GT50 --- DT100C---DT125---IT175----Maico490---IT465---IZ465---Kato495
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First ride was in 1974 on my elder brother's Yamaha DT100A.
Rode it into the frontend of a Ford XB stationwagon on 9th May 1975 (no licence). Result = 1 x break in the right leg, 3 x breaks in the left, 200 odd stitches in the face, 5 month rehab and a severe reprimand from the local police sargent.
What remains of the bike is still in the shed at my mum's place.
CJ
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Honda Mini trail sent me into a 44 gallon drum in 2 seconds flat so thats not a success unless you stay on for 8 seconds and dont lose your hat.
Lost a lot of skin on a Victa powered grass grub which I also blame for my distaste of left hand corners for many years( 10" tyres 9.5" sprocket)
Mates Grey XR70, fun little bike that, actually had suspension.
Then my first bike, a russian tank called a Voskhod 175 roadie that took me two years to decipher what the hell ??????? ment so i knew what to call it cept for bloody heavy russian heap of crap.
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BSA Bantam 1967,10 yrs old,first trip over the bars and first face plant, down hill in 3rd.no helmet also,come to think of it ,my ridin style aint changed much :P Anyone got photos of their first weapons?
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Two step learning process:
Step 1: 1984 ATC125M. Yes, one of those god-awful trikes, with no suspension and a 125cc version of the old CT110 engine.
Step 2: Anything of my friends' bikes that I could 'swap' a ride on.... Mostly either a Z50 (an 83 model and a much earlier, yellow one with a solid rear end) or an XL75. And then an SL70.
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Quote from KB171 Anyone got photos of their first weapons?
There is a large amount of photos in the Foto Forum under the heading "When we where kids/teens" started by Quicksilver Feb 21st.Check out page 6 with the two Chips support crew.
Some real classics 8)
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Eno wrong sort of town bike!!! ::) Motorcycle type please!! Maybe better not to start a thread here on the other........ ;) Must have hit a strong nerve or two.. 20+ responses much less than a day :D and lots of crude Deckson/Victa type minibikes, stepthrus and agibikes ;D Cheers
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A '74 YZ100 at Hungry Creek [for one day].
And then an Ex-Betric Racing RM125C - the first of many.
I thought the YZ was OK until I rode the RM, what a difference. No more Thermal Flows for this little black duck.
WoooHooo!!!
Those were the days.
VMX42
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'bout '72 or '73 first ride. The bike as an MT50R Suzuki Rockhopper this was followed by the TS100 which I rode much more ofen..pretty much every day at times :)
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A QA50 at a fair. Then a Vespa 125 that dad and I built! ;D (got my first telling off from the cops on it too. No licence, rego or wof) Dad sorted it out? Dont know how!? ::)
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A second hand Yamaha YZ80B on Anzac Day 1976.
Dad put up the $250 and I had to pay back half.
Learnt to ride up the local park before venturing to bush tracks at 'the Rocks' behind Trinder Park and 'the Quarry' on Compton Rd in an area now called Calamvale.
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Worked school holidays and weekends to buy my Suzuki TS90MX.
Pics in the "When we where kids/teens" thread in the foto forum
Brent
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Yamaha GT80MX in 1975. Yellow with the black trim. Nearly as good as the YZ80 I really wanted. I had some old test of the YZ80 that was nearly impossible to read through drool stains. First ride on the GT and I spat the dummy - heap of shite stopped after a few minutes. Turns out you gotta turn the fuel tap on...
Bloody great fun. Altho... Eno's night sounds like it coulda been even more so.
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1960s era Manet (Jawa/CZ) large wheeled scooter - 100cc, electric start, leading link forks - on the beach at Straddie.
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first bike a 1948 125 bsa bantam no back shocks got stacker to big bore it to 150 rode
it on the farm put diesel in once by mistake actually ran but shitloads of smoke
next bike was a xl100 brand new mmmm went to a motocross saw the new elsinores
went home painted tank and guards silver engine black bassani pipe 150 kit
went real good looked pox then a new xl250 nice :P then a 250 maico
and after that the list goes on ;D
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A Deltek grassgrub with a victa lawnmower engine in about '73, rode the thing to death every day after school then got a TM75 and started racing in the gold coast minibike club. That track is now a canal estate behind pacific fair.
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Honda CB 250 CB72. Dad actually forked out the $50.00 for it & we bought it home in many boxes. I was about 15 at the time bit I think i was 16 before I managed to assemble it in a running condition.
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The mighty SL125 Honda. Mum and Dad payed $100 for it. We were biker kings of the block,the kids over the road only had a XL100. Darcy :)
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Bridgestone 100 with a piece of rope tied to the rear brake. Had to take hand off the throttle and then grab the rope and pull on it to get the brake to work. Tended to crash a lot in the early years.
Ed
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James 110cc (Villiers engine), followed not long after by twin shock YZ80.
Tex
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First time on bike ever, absolutely no tuition (zero, zip, ziltch) was on a Triumph Saint 650, on the tar roads around Parramatta Park aged 15.
Still remember learning to 'lean' rather than 'steer the handlebars' at 60kph with on coming cars on a sweeping left hander.:o ::) ;D
Its called 'been thrown into the deep end' - what doesn't kill you can only make you stronger ;D.
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first bike I personally ever bought was my RM80B. Superceeded $499 and I mowed God knows how many lawns at $2 a go for a year to save for it. I still fell $100 short and the C had been released by then but mum and dad came to the party to make my dream a reality ;) Hence I still have the little beast as it's the only dream to date that has ever come to fruition and I won't ever be selling it ;)
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I know how you feel about that little RM80b Doc. I've still got my Maico I bought new in 1970 and as much as we know that bikes and cars are inanimate object without a soul, there's a special feeling that comes from owning something for so long that causes us to almost regard them as a part of the family. I doubt that I'll ever sell that Maico or my Jag for that reason.
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Doc, you still have your first bike? That's Gold 8)!
Is it a full resto bling-mobile parked on top of the telly or is it still a rider?
MX250, you reminded me I was given no tuition either.
I still recall my first ever prang was a result of pulling in the front brake instead of the clutch travelling in 3rd gear :-[.
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yep agree with both Doc and Firko. i had one of those RM80B's Doc and it was a great bike. i advertised it for sale when i stepped up to my YZ125D and some scum queen stole it. i got it back but it was rooted and the thief was never charged as he was a minor (more like a major prick).
i too have a bike i have kept for years my 86' CR250 got it off my mate late 86' and still have it to this day, its a keeper.
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A 1970s HONDA CB 125.
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Wombat, yup same bike 30 years on. Not quite as nice as the day she arrived but it's had more than it's share of being flogged mercilessly over many years and it was the king of the local tracks :D like all my bikes it's not a 100 point resto but she's 100 percentage point fresh on the inside and not at all scared to get it dirty if I feel the need ;)
(http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2816/rm80bht5.th.jpg) (http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rm80bht5.jpg)
this bike, the TM75, RM80Z and JR50 are all up here with me simply because I need the space in the garage not because they are above being ridden ;)
Hoony..for what they were I reckon they were the pick of the bunch in 77 although I gave the new at the time 5 speed XR75's some serious thought, I didn't like the yz80 even though it was the right colour. They didn't 'sound' right or as responsive and it didn't seem quite the complete thing the RM was but more of a factory hotted GTMX80. They all went well but the Gaston Rahier RM80 advertisment in '77 got me hook line and sinker ;)
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mine was a honda cl 90 down pipe and road tyres when it died i got a bsa bantam 175 no kick starter it was a push job then i got a brand new tm 125 75 model my new step dad bought it for me it was a bribe so i would like him lol ,it worked i use to go riding with his brother who had a ts 185 think he did it to get rid of me at the weekends
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I LEARNED TO RIDE ON A DECKSON THEN AN XR75 K0, I RECLAIMED MY 1st YZ (YZ125X) BACK LAST YEAR FROM AN OLD FRIEND THAT I HAD SOLD TO 30 YEARS AGO, IT HAD BEEN RIDDEN MAYBE 10 TIMES IN THE LAST 30 YEARS.
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Honda QA50 riding around the local quarry in Greensborough and then moved onto and raced a Gemini 50 in the early 70's at the Diamond valley mini bike club. My first new bike was a YZ80C it cost me $435.00, lots of collecting trolleys and filling shelves at Coles to pay that one back. I then got into the XR75 scene and built up a hottie which scored me a few trophies in the late 70's.
I still have the XR and I'm currently restoring back to its race condition with the addition of a DG swing arm.
Viper 79
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Mine was a very bare 350 Enfield Bullet that someone gave me when I was about 13. It had a handy extra lever on the gearbox which was a ' one kick ' thing to find neutral. Did a lot of donuts around the old Man's vege patch, and hundreds of miles on ball bearing gravel roads, that old Enfield. Graduated from there to three BSA 500 Empire Stars at different times, the best one cost 14 Quid. Thought I was shit hot on that until a kid down the road bought one of the first Bonnevilles. :o Cheers, T250.
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A Honda 90 step threw (probably spelt that wrong) which I then proceeded to put through the old man's fence when I couln't work out how to stop it.
From there I had a number of bikes including a PE 250, XT 500 and even a registered TT500 before they stopped them getting rego.
I even had the pleasure of putting a hole in the piston of a Bultaco 360 Pursang when I leaned it out too much, but shit didn't it go well if only for a short period.
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'46 ? C10 beesa, no tube in front tyre (not needed, as the tyre was old and rock hard). water pipe leak clamp on front down tube , where they ALL break, bought for $5,(I was 12), sold for $6 a week later, after discovering if the gear lever was manually centered,,I could get into 3rd gear !
Bike No2 was a '38 empire star ($16) , ex Bill Hepburn speedway solo, couldnt kick the damn thing over, and it had to be bump started in 3rd, then it'd fire, but couldn't clutch it fast enough to keep it going,,untill I discovered DIRT !
This bike ended up with an ex TQ 500 trumpy engine in it, running Av gas, and did a mean tank slapper @ 100 mph (according to my mates CB350 speedo) when slipping it into 4th and passing him :o , it's amazing Iv'e made it to 55,,lol
Tiny
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More empire star memories,,
After trying for 1/2 hr to start it, my mate and myself were finally listening to its whoom-bahhhh in the street where we lived,,when a paddy wagon came rattling down the street, on the wrong side of the road, as it turned out, a greeves owning neighbor didn't appreciate 2 12 y/o lads enjoying themselves, so phoned the cops !
Well, we couldnt stop it ,,,and it was dragging both of us down the street @ 500 rpm in 1st,,until running into the paddy wagon's front bumper.
Dad was NOT impressed when he was requred to front up with me in court, where I was hit with a $16 fine for riding unlicenced, uninsured and unregistered.
It didnt end there,,my mate wanted a ride,,so (we had discovered how to pull it back off compression by now) I pushed him down his mums driveway in 2nd,,the clutch was dumped, throttle opened when it fired, only to lift the front wheel, list over into a hedge and rip a few weatherboards from the side of the house.
only stopping when the timber got caught up in the open primary chain.
I snuck off home real quickly :-[
Tiny
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I learnt mostly sitting on my arse watching my bike slide to a stop ::).
First went off roading on a YDS5 at Menai :-\.
First trail bike was an electric start AT1, gold tank :-[. First MX was electric start AT1, gold tank. First DT was electric start AT1, gold tank. First enduro, Cessnock 4 day, was electric start AT1, gold tank. :o - and I finished 8).
First MX'er was an MX250. First race win was an MX250 8).
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First solo unassisted ride was on a '71 Suzuki MT50R (equiv of Z50)
First unassisted crash followed about 30 seconds after my first unassisted ride.
First bike I ever purchased with my own money was my RM80B in '77 which I still have. Mowed a zillion lawns for 2 bucks a go to save the $499 required for purchase.
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I lived in Las Vegas as a teenager and from our back yard we were in desert with around a 20 mile ride to the base of the mountains. Most of us had mini bikes and rode around everywhere in them Taco 22 and 44 were the best at that time. I raced 2 stroke go karts so always had a spare engine to throw into a mini bike once in a while for a scare! First real bike was a 1962 Yamaha Santa Barbara. It was 125cc pressed metal frame and had a massive rear sprocket on it so first gear was next to useless. I traded an engineless mini bike for it. It had a terrible habit of the throttle sticking wide open. I never fixed it, just rode it that way and hit the kill switch if it happened. I was glad to get rid of it, forgot what I swapped for it. My brother had a 1971 CT70 then a Yamaha Enduro 90. I had a 1970 Kawasaki 100 Trail boss which had dual range gear box. Low was too low for anything other than mountain goats and high was too high for desert riding. I used to do a paper route in the desert communites just out of town. The exhaust ended in the bag holding the papers so someone would always get a burnt or oil smelling paper! I was a crap paperboy! I used to look forward to finishing the route as from then I had no papers in the bags and could hit the fire trail roads full on on the way home!
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1974 CR125M. Worked all the school holidays, saved my $350.00, and walked 8klms to where it was and pushed it the 8klms down the road to get it home. Was a baptism of fire for sure. That was 1976.
Cheers,
K
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1982 z50 ;D un killable
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1970 and a friends uncle invited us to come and have a ride on his electric blue Honda Dax. Spent the next two years watching the two brothers from around the corner riding their Z50 Honda round in circles on the vacant block. Until....
My uncle bought his kids a Yamaha jt1-60 (my dream bike at the time) and a mx60 and invited dad and I to go ride at the quarry in Greensborough Dad got that exited he raced out the next week and bought me an egg yolk yellow Honda sl70. I was 12. I used to ride at an abandoned apple orchard we called the Lewis road track in Wantirna Vic. Also rode at an old quarry in Upwey I think it was. And the Koomba rd mini bike track after it closed.
I've had bike fever ever since. Some nights as I Iie in bed my missus will ask me what I'm thinking about. She then answers the question herself "Motorbikes?"
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and walked 8klms to where it was and pushed it the 8klms down the road to get it home.
Ah come on Mick, pull the other one :D. You don't expect us to believe a 16yo, or whatever, pushed his bike 8 kms with a tank of fuel :o.
Its 30 years mate, I think the statuary period has expired, no one gunna book ya ;) ;D.
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Vespa scooter and Bridgestone 90 circa late 60s
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I remember Bridgestone having a line of Off road bikes and off the shelf road racers. Someone in the forum was looking for a Kawasaki 238 green streak, (mean streak?) and looking at the Hodaka on E bay, (should have bought one and hid it and made 1000% profit) brings me back to my youth! In school we used to do drawings of Vespas as special issue dog catching, street cleaning and sundry other wacky vehicles. I should have bought stock in Vespas then too but I was only 12 of course!
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Deckson-> RM80B->RM125S->RM125C the fear and the pain are still vivid !!
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My Grandfathers Honda 50 stepthrough in about 1967 or 68
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yamaha GT80 mowed lawns to buy it cost be $60 bucks it had welded on kick starter and gear stick ,every time i fell off the weld would break on the gear stick :'( allways happen in top gear ,so i had to ride the clutch all the way home ;)
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ty175c great little bike not so good at jumps tho( i was 15 at the time 6` and 80kg)
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A custom built minibike with a suzuki b80 engine, that my father made for the Chimpanze's in the Soul Bro's Circus, 1964 , I was 4.
I have a photo that I will try to find and Post.
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Suzuki RM 50 C great little bike.
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1979 TF 185 mudbug,1979 Honda XR 185,1985 XR 200.
That XR 185 was a magic indestructible bike.
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1958 Dougas Vespa ::)
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My workmates K1 750 Honda. Honest, it was the first bike I ever rode!
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My workmates K1 750 Honda. Honest, it was the first bike I ever rode!
MR50
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Yamaha GT80>Yoshimari'd XL250>BSA B50
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my old man had an old harley outfit i would sit on the seat at 4 yrs old and there was a little button on the tank i used to touch and this plunger popped up which i pushed back down again of course. a little while later he would come out and start it with a gentle push from his size 12 boot then a big plume of blue smoke would envelope the scenery! he would yell which one of you kids has been mucking about with the oil boost pump? i'd stand there with a guilty look thinking how did he know anything was touched!.....the first bike i rode was an M20 army beeza which i still believe to be the easiest bike to learn on ever built. i was 14. my mum said "if either of you boys get a motor bike i'll cut it up with an axe" 1st bike i fell off was a mates c11 bsa in the back yard resulting in 1 stitch right hand. i came out of the nashos in '57 disposed of the old axe and bought a 52 ajs 18S with my deferred pay...i said to myself it will probably be about 2 weeks before i fall of this thing. the middle of the next week i went round a corner with gravel on the tar road and to my amazement found myself sliding down the road with two hands still hanging on to the bars but i was looking straight into the headlight with both me and the bike loosing paint and skin!...... since then there has been quite a lot of machines most of which i fell off at some stage on the road or on the track. i have learnt not to even think about road racing as it would not suit my erratic style! and so at this stage of my life i will rarely ride on the road. 71 and still into turning the twist grip to the stop. cheers wally.
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RV 90, Dad had to get me started because I could not reach the ground. When I was off and going dad would step off the back and leave me to cut laps around the yard. When I had had enough, just a beep on the horn and my side stand would appear!
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youd have been in trouble if the horn went i was on a minitrail with st70 motor quite fast really and it had a throttle that stuck that nearly caused a few accidents :)
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First bike was a BSA bantam 175 set up for dirt track this was in 1967(I was 14, $30).First thing to do when I got it home was to cut that funny expansion chamber exhaust thing back to its first cone and create a megaphone exhaust,man did that thing make some noise,so it must have gone heaps better.yeah right.
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Early 70s Honda BC 125 great bush basher???
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First thing to do when I got it home was to cut that funny expansion chamber exhaust thing back to its first cone and create a megaphone exhaust
Moto, you realize you probably cut off what is probably now the most collectable and sought after part for a Bantam! :D jeez I wish I still had the 3 bantams I had when 14 :'( sold the lot for $50 and one was a complete runner converted for dirt track..actually we just fitted worn out knobbies, pulled off the steel guards and took off the muffler in it's entirety but it kinda looked like a dirt tracker from 70 yards ;D
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TM400, 74 model I think. Can't remember much as I was only a kid, but fairly placid sort of bike.
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Z50 first bike birthday present still have, must get around to rebuilding,next very quick RM80B that I broke in half gave it away but might know where it is,CR125RB brought new still own and race
Andy Viper #70
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Tas(still own it -just needs a piston) > honda dax > yamaha JT1 60 > yz80d(about to start to restore one)
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geezas $30 for a bantam in 67 :o,musta had lots chrome onnit ::),in mid 60's $30 bought a 500 matcho"beachfishermans" model,car tyres f/rear,(all tread removed),mate & i(equal 1/2 shares) were finally banned from the local beaches,(especially when lifeguards were on duty),was tad noisy on straight through header pipe ;D