Paging the old people

A quick walk down memory lane, available at all good newsagents:

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Yeah, but we know most peoples

1st Bike
1st Pillion
1st Collar
1st Race
1st Crash
1st Ton
1st Wheelie

And lets face it, when most of the fogeys on here started biking, they
wouldn't be able to do a ton or have the power to wheelie their AP50's
or FS1-E's

P.

 

Hmm.. maybe I am getting old. I wanted an AR80, then I lusted after a
350LC. *sigh* Still wouldn't mind something else loud and two stroke.
Got to settle for something odd and four stroke I'm currently in the
process of planning / building.

 

Had both of those, and great fun they were too. The AR80 was a stonking
little bike, but it did destroy clutch baskets if you wheelied it
lots...which I did.

 

Yeah. Back then, the only kit I could get my hands on that could honestly
crack the ton was a Cessna 150.

 

Much too young for the real fogeys, who started out on Bantams and moved
on to Nortons.

 

A few quick mods to the silencers on my Jawa and Robert is your father's
brother. For Sale. Cheap.

 

You say that as if it's a good thing.

Progress isn't a crime but I suppose anyone who includes the word
unix in their sig will argue that point.

 

Hmm... not me. I moved on to a Triumph Blazer SS, which was a beezer
with a Triumph sticker on it (which fell off, as did pretty much
everything else IIRC).

 

Yebbut anyone who had a FZ1E as a teenager is a youngster not a fogey.

 

I don't think you can undercut the one I'm getting for free. The engine
is coming out, and an auto scooter engine of some sort is going in [1].
All I need is a rolling chassis and log book.

[1] Most likely a Chinese air cooled four stroke jobbie

 

When I had my DT50MX, I aspired to an AR80.

 

That's the problem with you youngsters, you set your sights too low.
When I had a Fizzy I aspired to a Harris Magnum Z1000, like the one I'd
seen in a magazine. I ended up with an RD400F almost straight after my
test.

 

When I had my YB100, I aspired to a Suzuki GT185.

I actually *bought* a Honda CB175, which was (and is) a brilliant mini
sports bike.

 

I remember you saying that you had one or two of those DR400s. I'd have
liked my mates RD350LC painted up in a 7up type theme. Now I just want
to ride a twist and go scooter until I can afford to get a big bike with
no clutch.

 

I had a DT100 and then got a GT185 (with Ram Air, ooh gasp)

 

(corrected for you).

One or two? Try 29.

 

That's the one, I remember you telling me something about RD400s when
you and petrolcan went to pick up the shiteoldbike from a mate.

 

Oh, is it nostalgia corner. I saw an RD50 outside the local Yam dealer
the other day and it was in lovely condition.

 

Bantam to Enfield

I could have had a Manx Norton for £100, but couldn't raise the cash