[URL]http://thumbsnap.com/pkrIaPmv[/URL] Allegedly some kind of FS1E?
FS1E-SE The very rare (thankfully) 'Custom' version of the Fizzie. In the UK, available only in restricted mode.
Suzuki did a Somerset version of the GT50/X1 called the OR . It was equally vile. Did the designers just think 'how shyte can we make a motorcycle look and still have someone buy it'?. Remove the engine, then kill the remainder with extreme prejudice, sticks and fire. Revive it, then kill it again to be sure.
Thanks for reminding me of that horror... you bastard! Bloke I worked with had one of those. We forbade him from parking it with our bikes and made him leave it by the waste skips. It came to a fitting end, when he left it in the delivery yard, one day, where, just after he got off it, an artic promptly reversed over it. He replaced it with a c70 and was then allowed to park with the rest of us.
It is a service I provide. Chap I knew had one. The rest of us had bikes like the TS50, DT50, CB50, endless MT50s Fizzies et al. He didn't have it long. The sting of universal disdain and humiliation led him, not to the anticipated suicide, but to get a Simson SS50, with which he kicked our arses. At last, Kevan could come ride with us and hold his head up high as a proper 'pedder'. He only bought it because it was cheap. It was cheap for a reason. The reason was it was vile. The Simson was cheap. The Simson was good though.
Number One Son's first bike was a DT50MX. Wiv 65cc kit, of course. I went through every inch of it, sorting it out[1, and even with my weight on it, it did an indicated 55. He sold it, once he was 17, for enough money to buy a decent used 125 *and* a brand new Nintendo Wii. The buyer was another 16-er, who came up from the Isle of Wight with his Dad (who knew bikes). Dad could see it was a good'un and handed over the cash with a smile. Brilliant bike. Absolutely brilliant. Never rode one, but they were supposed to be quite nifty. [1] New tyres, brakes, swinging arm bushes, head races, fork oil, various electrical bits[2], seat cover, mirrors... [2] The reg/rec had actually been removed completely, and the wires just joined together....
They were certainly competitive in terms of pace and reliability with a stock Japanese 'ped of the early 80's. When we went down the tweaking route, it was easier to tweak to a real 45mph. With a little porting and port cleaning/alignment, a slight mod to the silencer and upping the fuelling a little, it became a real speed demon ( for fairly low values of speed ) and could keep pace with a Kreidler Florette. Yes, I'll admit it. Mid life crisis has hit and I want an early 80's 'ped. Quite why, I have yet to work out. Mmmmm, TS50ER with a Gianelli pipe, bit of port tweaking.........
Was that the zr50? POS faux custom moped thing? A friend had one, we used to see how high we could jump it over a hump back canal bridge. Should have just thrown it into the canal. flook
http://www.suzukicycles.org/OR50/OR50.shtml You may need mind bleach. If you mooch around the site and look for the GT50P with alloy wheels, remove the pedals and that is what I remember as the ZR50, but you are right in that a faux custom model called the ZR50 was available. I'm doubtless misremembering. It was less visually offensive than the OR or the loose bowelled hippo droppings of the Yamaha equivalent.
