Result

Let's look at the reasoning here:

Only a pikey would want to maintain a bike themselves.
Only a pikey would want to filter through the densest of traffic.
Only a pikey would want to be able to ride for 300 miles without
having to stop for petrol.
Only a pikey would think twice about throwing their money about.
Only a pikey would not give a damn about what other people thought
about their bike.

Yeah, right. <fx: rolls eyes>

And I suppose that implicitly only a pikey would regard a bike as a
form of transport and not as a phallic extension to be waved in the
air at weekends?

 

....but you got him that time, darsy.

 

I've got a 5 years on bikes one coming up this October.

 

Does one count this from getting one's licence or from actually purchasing
your first bike?

I ask because I passed my test in '95, which means I _could_ have 10 years
on the road next year except that I didn't actually get a bike until '98.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

I counted from getting my full licence. If it was owning a bike I'd
have to wait another 4 or 5 months based on when I got the SV.

 

Champ said:

Newbie... June 19th 1979 - one week after my 17th Birthday...

 

Cool.

Shared party?

My anniversary is 10th July.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Guilty as charged m'lud. (For values of 'pikey' applicable to this
NG.)

So, can we have a list for the Pikey Police to identify themselves? (I
suppose the Typo Cops need no enhancement of their notoriety.)

 

Champ said:

Only in years... Young Champ.

There was wasn't there. I'd forgotten that - I applied about 6 months
before my birthday for the test - Hove it was where I took it.

Nor was I, but girlfriend of the time could go on pillion of my Moped as
she had passed her car test, but when I got a 250 she couldn't, so there
was a bit of an incentive to pass!

Did he pass?

 

<Shame>

At the time I passed my test I was living with my folks who were (and indeed
still are) rabidly anti-bike.

If I wanted a bike I had to fine somewhere else to live, which I did ... but
it was Coventry.

So because I was moving house and because all of my mates were up North and
because I still had to travel on business and because I didn't have a garage
at my house in Coventry and because I couldn't afford a car and a bike I
just stuck with the car.

I suppose, in retrospect, I could have found something slightly cheaper to
run than my Audi Quattro and used the spare money to fund a bike, but it
just never occurred to me.

In fact, I think I'd pretty much forgotten about getting a bike until I was
offered a fully funded company car and was reading DiRE one night and saw
the bit that said, "Bike prices are now at the lowest they've been for
years - if you're ever going to get one now is the time" that I had my
epiphany.

The next day at work I asked a colleague if I could use his garage, I
arranged to sell the Audi to the mechanic who'd looked after it for me and
that weekend I went out and bought the CBR4.


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Champ said:

How can you say such an outrageous thing? If you cut me, do I not
bleed?

Happy days.

Mais oui. but I keep it a bit of a secret so that I don't get pestered
by all the ladeez on the group.

125? Was he some sort of nancy boy? Surely that was before the 125
restriction came in?

 

<snip>
Jeepers just figured this year's my 30 years on the road

<quiet voice> First wheels ... Honda P50
http://www.cvmg-gpr.ca/Honda P50.jpg </quiet voice>

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The Lure of Frankfurt...

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21st March 1977, followed 10 days later by writing of the bike and a
car

 

Aye, them were t' days.

A CB125T was 18bhp and revved to 16,000rpm.
80mph was a little optimistic, however.

 

Simon Atkinson says...

Beat you, Tuesday April 10th 1979, 3 days after my 17th birthday. I
passed my car test 2 days later on the Thursday.

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My full licence hit 10 years on Sunday.

Doesn't time fly!

 

Champ wrote

40 years next year for me.

I can't wait.

"I had been doing this for 40 years sonny......"

 

Sorry, I prefer angle grinders ... sound *and* sparks.

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