First Bike

Looking through some old photos the other day and found this.
My 1979 Honda C50, I purchased this in 1986 for £70 if I remember right.
******* thing seized on me at 40mph once, scary when theres no clutch lever to pull, left a 40 foot skidmark on the A52 (the one in my pants was not as long but much wider). Stayed on though



Anyone else have any pictures of their first ride

yes but mine is a 2002 bike.
i was born in 1986 (does that make you feel old?)

Well I sadly don't have any photos but here are my first rides whose pictures I found on Google:

Puch Maxi 50cc (boy was that thing fast the first time I rode it!)



Honda SS50E ZB2 (though mine was in lime green and had a disc brake)



Kawasaki S1B 250 (one of the legendary Kawasaki two-stroke triples - though only the 250. And it still looks good!)



Then it was another (cough) twenty four years before I got my SV . But now at least bikes are here to stay in my life, simply couldn't think of not riding.


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'03 Gilera Runner Purejet, I did love it, until it broke, then kept on breaking.



'00 Aprilia RS125, was alright, felt very fast after the runner, but imo the handling is much overrated. Was gorgeous though, I cried when I sold that bike, bottom end seizure meant it had to go though




Then it was another 3 months before I found my SV, can't get enough of it, handles and goes so well, so much better than I hoped and was told it would be.

We used to run the Honda 90's in the fields when we were teenagers.
Cut the fairing and exhaust off them and give them sh@t all day on a £1.00 of petrol.
The things were bullet proof and just kept going.

[tigersaw]

Jonboy - was that your KH250 or a library picture?

Awesome bike, I had the disk brake version with a set of microns - you could hear that thing barking quarter of a mile away, and there were no particular laws about noise in those days!
Cost me £300, which when I work out how many hours work it took me to pay it off, it would cost me around £18 - £20,000 today!

Originally Posted by GC-SV

We used to run the Honda 90's in the fields when we were teenagers.
Cut the fairing and exhaust off them and give them sh@t all day on a £1.00 of petrol.
The things were bullet proof and just kept going.

We used to do the same thing
My brother had a Puch Maxi field bike once, went over a big bump, took off, front wheel fell out, catapuluted him over the handlebars and into a big concrete fence post !!. He had a lovely shiner but thankfully no lasting damage

This is what I brought when I started my biking career in 2002:

[mattSV]

tricky wrote:-

GC-SV wrote:
We used to run the Honda 90's in the fields when we were teenagers.
Cut the fairing and exhaust off them and give them sh@t all day on a £1.00 of petrol.
The things were bullet proof and just kept going.


We used to do the same thing
My brother had a Puch Maxi field bike once, went over a big bump, took off, front wheel fell out, catapuluted him over the handlebars and into a big concrete fence post !!. He had a lovely shiner but thankfully no lasting damage

We started with a C90 in a field that is now the Hants Police Training College! We then progressed to a lambretta 200:-



Actually the one in the pic is mint compared to our piece of ****. The bench seat was great - you could get about 8 of us on it at a time.

My brother still has a scar on his leg from the exhaust after one trip in the bushes.