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What was your first motor bike ?

First bike I bought when I was an 18yo reprobate was a "spares or repairs" Korean import 125 - the "Daelim Daystar VL 125 L".
Took me about a year to source all the parts I needed to get it running again - but taught me quite a lot about spannering.

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Apparently it was the heaviest production 125cc to ever be made, and I think it's aesthetically based on the Honda Shadow Aero - though obviously a much smaller bike! The real fun was that I had gotten my CBT on some sort of 00's Honda 125 crosser, and at no point was I ever taught about operating a manual choke. Took me a while to realise what was happening...!

Managed to crash it once driving home, it has quite large foot plates, took a corner too hard and the plate hit the floor lifting the wheels off the ground. Bike dumped me directly down on my arse and slid away from me taking all it's speed with it. No injuries, just ripped off an indicator.

Anyway, sadly the thing died a death one day when I forgot to take off the disc lock, ripped the front brake caliper off, and whilst I managed to source a replacement caliper, the speedo "sensor" mechanism got all kinds of damaged, ended up selling it on as spares, and the cycle continues.
 
Canders said:
Honda XL250S with a purple tank and that ridiculous 23" front wheel. Only had it a year before they changed the law to max 125 on L plates. Had to do my test on a Kawasaki KC100 and then go back to the Honda.
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I had a white '78 XL250S in '81 stripped down for pure off road - no lights or battery and fitted Motocross knobblies, even found a 23" one for the Hula Hoop front wheel. Lowered the gearing with a massive rear sprocket and reckon it topped out about 45mph but, it got there quick and would pull through any bog !
 
Yamaha pw50 in 1989 (i was 5) then a Lem 50 about 18 months later, my first road bike was a VFR400R in around 2001 which I stupidly sold to buy an FZR600R (great bike but not a patch on the 400cc screamer) have had to many to count since and currently dont own one at all
 
Aspes 125 crosser/ field bike…loved that bike, crashed it every time I rode because I wasn’t very good at the off road stuff, but it did love that bike.
 
My first was a Raleigh Runabout hidden at a mates for track riding , until confiscated and sold.

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So i then snuck off and got a Yamaha FS1E and hid it at another mates.
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Thought i was the mutts on that, until yet again caught bloody spies everywhere. Then the bribery started stay of bikes and they would help with car and lessons. Stepfather of the time had ditched his Lambretta as a plumbing apprentice and just left it there in disgust. They didnt want me on bikes.
 
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burtucantbeserious said:
Then the bribery started stay of bikes and they would help with car and lessons. Stepfather of the time had ditched his Lambretta as a plumbing apprentice and just left it there in discust. They didnt want me on bikes.
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Got the same. Didn't work! It took a family to get me into a car, though the bikes continued after a break of a few years. I never got the same enjoyment out of a car.
 
Yep the licence back then let you play a bit more.

I then at 19 or 20 got a blue hand painted gem very cheaply off a mate, didnt know what i had. Being the normal ingrate totally forgetting the previous agreements, so last a few years ago news.
A Lambretta TV200

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Looked nothing like that except shape, really had the folks hackles up said it was a resto project. 🤨

Sitting here thinking the what if i hads, all the cars/ bikes/ rifles and the like if i had kept them. Maybe thats what is making the market what it is today, us old nostalgic duffers.
Couldnt possibly be sales and algorithems.
 
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Drifter2406 said:
And how many of you still riding? I started at 13-14 and still ride at 60, once it's in your blood it rarely leaves.
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I tried managed about 9 months before it blew up on my commute, on a lovely freezing two kettle throttle release morning. Still got it and a spares one who knows, nearly clipping 61.
Did enjoy the not butt kissing in line and overtaking the dual carraigway gods.
 
burtucantbeserious said:
............. Sitting here thinking the what if i hads, all the cars/ bikes/ rifles and the like if i had kept them. Maybe thats what is making the market what it is today, us old nostalgic duffers.
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Yeah, I often think about what if I had kept the the quality things of the past I had, which now are highly regarded and mostly unobtainable except at great cost, " if " available. At least I got to enjoy them the times when I had them, which unfortunately many of the younger generation nowadays may never have the chance to.
 
Ratman72 said:
Hello, Can anyone remember the first Yamaha with the 2 Stoke oil in a tank rather than mix in the petrol tank, Called Auto Lube , ????
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YDS 3 was the first I recall with "AutoLube"
As mentioned in the link, giving the background to later models.
(No YDS4 as 4 apparently is similar to the Japanese character for "Death" - though that might be a total myth!)

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Yamaha YDS5E - Old Bike Mart

Steve Cooper looks at an intermediary Yamaha model that cemented their fine 2T reputation. The earliest YDS1 had been based […]
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Open to correction, of course.
 
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Drifter2406 said:
And how many of you still riding? I started at 13-14 and still ride at 60, once it's in your blood it rarely leaves.
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I am, 75 years old.
76 in a couple of months time which will mark 60 years of road legal riding, never been without a bike or several.

CB250RS at present.

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