Paging the old people

I had one of them, followed by an RD50, then a MTX125, then a
RD125LCII.

 

TL125, Gillera 50[1], RD250DX[2] for me.

[1] I was so glad I was 'different'. Cracking little bike - love to
have another.
[2] Lozzo foaming mouth material[3].
[3] White it was - wiv red bits[4].
[4] And Castrol GTX/Hoover RamAir system, & a Zippo boost bottle.

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Krusty
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

<Dons white with red speedblock motif anorak>

They never made an RD250DX.

They made an RD250D - note: no X[1] -, which had points ignition,
followed by the RD250E and F with CDI. Only the E and F came in white
with red speedblock decals, the F was easily identified by its red
wheels and dogleg levers as they were the only diferences. Other colour
Fs only got the dogleg levers. Frame numbers for the E started with
110, and for the F they started 330.

<removes anorak>

[1] A horrible legacy of spotty teenagers moving up to RDs from FS1Es,
which did have a DX model to signify a front disc brake and were
identified by their speedblock graphics. Naturally some owners of
RD250Ds had speedblocks and a disc brake and automatically decided they
had a DX not a D model as that was the model designation of their old
FS1E. It's a bit like Rover SD1 owners saying they have an SDI - they
are clueless cunts who can't read a handbook.

 

AOL

 

<snip 'get a life' material>

Hmmm, batter or breadcrumbs, that is the question.


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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

That's a nice MV Augusta you have

 

I had a 125 Bantam, one of the more modern ones with rear suspension.
Took the kick start off, put the gear lever on the other way round and
used the pillion footrest to save shoe wear when cornering. Tuned it up
by filing some off the cylinder head, had a bit of trouble getting the
head gasket to seal as the filing wasn't very flat.

 

I've got half a box of Tempranillo in me, & two dates lined up for this
week - it'll take more than a spurious u to wind me up.

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

Still counting those chickens, eh?

 

I had a FS1EDX followed by an RD200. Silver, wire wheels, T-reg. Can
I have the full history of the 200s too, please?

 

I'll ask my eldest daughter, she knows more about the 125s and 200s
than I do. She's restored a 1981 X plate RD125 twin

 

My 200 became a 125 after I sold it, as the 125cc L-plate law came in
and the then owner thought the easiest thing was to swap the engine
over. I don't know whether it ever became a 200 again...

 

The easiest thing was to swop the details on the log book and the
sidepanel stickers then grind the capacity numbers off the bottom of
the barrels. That's all we used to do when we were flogging off the
ones we'd bought for pennies. We always told the buyer that it was
actually a 200, but they never seemed to care. We did the same with
KE175s, DT175MXs etc...Kerching

 

I used to live near Enfield. But I've never been to Bantam..

Phil

 

It's not an edifying sight.

 

Yeah, I knew there were some right crusty's on here Those were the
dream bikes of my era as a 16 y/o. I of course was (very unfairly)
banned from riding such a dangerous object, and since I then went on
to write off 2 cars in short order, it's probably one of the things my
dad was more right about in retrospect.

P.

 

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