Keepers

[Brian Watson]

In line with DA's ability to get a "keeper"..(then sell it)....what is the oldest / longest time you have kept a bike... I'll start it off, with my Dad..Bill..still has at home a 1960 250 Maico....owned it all this time...christ it's nearly as old as me...

[firko]

I bought my 350 Maico in March or May 1970. I've had my other 350 Maico since 1980 and I've got a '73 250 Maico motor I've had since 1974. I've owned my DT1 from Hell since 1989.

Off the thread a little, I've still got the very first thing I ever bought with my own money. I saved like buggery for a year when I was about 7 or 8 to buy a toy fort for my toy soldiers. It still has pride of place on top of the bookshelf in my office. I also have a cast iron 'Sambo' moneybox I've had since I was around 5.

[Nathan S]

1974 Yamaha DT250A. Bought when I was 14, in 1990.
The next longest serving is the '94 TM125E that I bought in late 1997.

Both of them survived the poor times because they were (and still are) worth so little relative to their value as a bike to ride. Then they got to the point of being sentimentally valuable.

[paul]

In line with DA's ability to get a "keeper"..(then sell it)....what is the oldest / longest time you have kept a bike... I'll start it off, with my Dad..Bill..still has at home a 1960 250 Maico....owned it all this time...christ it's nearly as old as me...

  ID LIKE TO SEE A PICTURE OF THAT MAICO

[FAT-TOY]

  I purchased my 1966 Dot early in 1969 and still have it.  Mind you I did sell it twice and get it back in that time but its here for keeps now.
                                                Zane

[Slakewell]

Ive been divorced so I had to start again 7 years ago. 

[Iain Cameron]

ah slakewell been there she got the house I kept the toys  :'(

[Slakewell]

AS I have always needed and wanted one and now have one I sure Ill keep this one. Just a few small details to fix up and she be an awsome Evo bike.


Now to find the perfect 390 so I have the set.

[JC]

I still have my 1st & last racebikes from back in the day, which both happen to be Bultacos. (Not all my race bikes were Buls)

Bought the 125 Sherpa S 2nd hand for $330 in early 73 IIRC, to race juniours. Bought the 250 Pursang brand new from Donny Newell in Aug 76.

[TM BILL]

Ive been divorced so I had to start again 7 years ago. 

Me to  worth it though aye 

[sudman]

1980 PE175T purchased new in early 1980, rode it to work everyday for the 4 years of my plumbing & gasfitting apprenticeship, still have all the road gear & it still goes as good as the day I got it two sets of rear shocks & 3 overbores later.

[Marc.com]

1980 PE175T purchased new in early 1980, rode it to work everyday for the 4 years of my plumbing & gasfitting apprenticeship, still have all the road gear & it still goes as good as the day I got it two sets of rear shocks & 3 overbores later.

Like my PE175T, bought it as struggling 1st year fitter and turner, rode it to work, rode it to MX meetings, raced it and rode home, rode it drunk to parties, rode in rain hail and frost.... PE never knew a fresh piston and just kept going  .

Guess the RM125S I have had for the last 29 years.

[monaro308]

As above I bought my PE175X when i was 16 and at 17y9m rode it to and from work on my L's as an apprentice motor mechanic for over a year until i bothered getting my car license.
Stone cold reliable for 9 years inc a hit and run by a car which left me with a buggered scaphoid in the wrist for ever and regretted selling it till today.
BUT as the heading says.....my very first bike,an SL70 still sits in my mums backyard as a wreck but will never scrap it.....34 years now

[BETRIC]

I still have my 1st YAMAHA from my teenage years, it's a 76 YZ125X, also have owned a WRF400 for the last 12yrs.

[bazza]

Now Bil we no Val is a :keeper" Had my Maicosport since i built it in 91