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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 13:44:20 GMT
The best year of motorcycling has to be between 15 and 9 months (don't ask) and 17, I did a total of 16,000 miles and the only repairs were a new set of clutch plates, due to my mate holding the rear rack whilst I tried to pull away, eventually burning out the clutch, which was probably the first mechanicing on bikes job, I won't mention the two sets of stanchions due to crashes, one caused by me fiddling with the ignition key which was located in the side panel, trying to turn on the lights, before running into a neighbour's car, and the other finding out a drum braked mini had better brakes! Mine was a lovely maroon colour!  the kickstarts always broke, so it was bump start only! mine was low milage a year old and far cheaper than this one!  |
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Post by grumps on Jan 13, 2015 14:22:44 GMT
Were those photos from Stafford Show?
Bonkers money for a bike!
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 14:25:10 GMT
Were those photos from Stafford Show? Bonkers money for a bike! Yes they were! |
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Post by teejayexc on Jan 13, 2015 18:26:12 GMT
I had one of them, exactly same colour too..SFU 830N. Kickstart never broke and I did about 20,000 miles on it, wish I still had it at those prices  |
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Post by m40man on Jan 13, 2015 18:37:25 GMT
I had one of them, exactly same colour too. Further reinforcement of my notion that you northerly sorts are a bit too flush  . My first 'bike' was a very second-hand Honda C70  . |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 19:29:15 GMT
Mine used to do 100mpg of two stroke mix, Mind you I used to drain the fuel out of my brothers CB125S, back in my hypocrisy days  It's ok he has since made up for it! |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 19:35:49 GMT
I had one of them, exactly same colour too. Further reinforcement of my notion that you northerly sorts are a bit too flush . My first 'bike' was a very second-hand Honda C70 . My brother had a C90 he was 16 at the time and given to him by my father, who incidentally never gave me or George one, I still don't know how come he rode a 90 at 16, all his mates had mopeds, I saved up for over a year doing paper rounds to earn enough to buy the fizzle, my mate bought a disc braked one though it was on tick, actually he took over the payments from someone, and paid more for it used than a new one, even before you added in the interest, then did the same thing again on a old GT250 Suzuki, I still see him, he has a Buell Ulysses! |
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Post by Deeps on Jan 13, 2015 19:51:08 GMT
My first bike was one of these.  |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 19:58:32 GMT
My first bike was one of these. That would have been super cool, was it a RD50, because it looks great, but 30mph would not have meant the great year I had on the fizzle! |
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Post by Deeps on Jan 13, 2015 20:45:30 GMT
Correct RD 50, but after my best friends dad had finished with it it was more like 65 cc if I remember correctly, something about a big bore kit. I seem to remember that I could keep up with my mates on their bikes.
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 20:58:58 GMT
Correct RD 50, but after my best friends dad had finished with it it was more like 65 cc if I remember correctly, something about a big bore kit. I seem to remember that I could keep up with my mates on their bikes. Lucky man! I never could afford the Italian 50's, or the German ones, I lusted after the Puch Grand Prix, or the Garelli tiger cross, Even the casal 50 seemed more exotic at the time than the Japanese 50's They were always blowing up though unlike the fizzle! |
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Post by Deeps on Jan 13, 2015 21:06:50 GMT
Mine was OK in the dry, but it hated the wet, the water seemed to run down the HT lead and it would cut out,
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Post by TwoHat on Jan 13, 2015 21:47:58 GMT
My first bike was a C10, but I had a fizzie much later - and it was a purple one. I ported it and put a smaller front sprocket on and it would do a genuine 60mph. I put a wider tt100 on the rear too, and you could fairly chuck it into corners and it always seemed to come out right way up and facing in roughly the direction you intended. Possibly the most fun I ever had on a bike until I discovered racing on the TT course.
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 13, 2015 21:55:20 GMT
My first bike was a C10, but I had a fizzie much later - and it was a purple one. I ported it and put a smaller front sprocket on and it would do a genuine 60mph. I put a wider tt100 on the rear too, and you could fairly chuck it into corners and it always seemed to come out right way up and facing in roughly the direction you intended. Possibly the most fun I ever had on a bike until I discovered racing on the TT course. I decoked mine probably every other week, and tuned it, which meant fileing the ports and making a thinner head gasket out of copper sheet, to raise compression, Back then I was a world class tuner and managed to get it up from 48mph to 52mph, no change of sprocket though It's amazing how much I knew at 16 and how much I had forgot by the time I was 21  Fizzles had 4 gears all down, that was unusual in itself! Though not at all unusual compared to Fantic choppers!  |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 14, 2015 9:08:34 GMT
I had one of them, exactly same colour too. Further reinforcement of my notion that you northerly sorts are a bit too flush . My first 'bike' was a very second-hand Honda C70 . There's worse mopeds to have owned though, cool now, but far from it in the 70's when your 16 and your mates had fizzies and ss50's and AP50's at the very least!  |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 14, 2015 9:52:09 GMT
Further reinforcement of my notion that you northerly sorts are a bit too flush . My first 'bike' was a very second-hand Honda C70 . There's worse mopeds to have owned though, cool now, but far from it in the 70's when your 16 and your mates had fizzies and ss50's and AP50's at the very least! There's no reason you can't bling it up though!  |
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Post by showaddydadito on Jan 14, 2015 11:40:24 GMT
There's no reason you can't bling it up though! Or you could just man up and ride it as it is. Not liking something and wanting to change it shows a lack of character in some people's opinion. My first was a C50 - never ridden anything before. Bought it at a shop on the A6 in Hazel Grove so I had about 50 yards to get used to it and then out into rush hour traffic.  Great little runner - it used to cost me 47p to fill up and that got me to work and back for a week. Happy days - we had a couple of tough winters but it was light enough to ride through snow, even where big drifts had been rammed down into a 3ft high ramp. |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 14, 2015 12:13:35 GMT
There's no reason you can't bling it up though! Or you could just man up and ride it as it is. Not liking something and wanting to change it shows a lack of character in some people's opinion. My first was a C50 - never ridden anything before. Bought it at a shop on the A6 in Hazel Grove so I had about 50 yards to get used to it and then out into rush hour traffic. Great little runner - it used to cost me 47p to fill up and that got me to work and back for a week. Happy days - we had a couple of tough winters but it was light enough to ride through snow, even where big drifts had been rammed down into a 3ft high ramp. I am very tempted to man up and do that to one of my Mobylettes, give it some character, sadly both of them have been off road for a few years! I never understood C50's, they were not even mopeds, so you could not ride them at 16 before 1977 and the law changed! |
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Post by showaddydadito on Jan 14, 2015 12:16:05 GMT
I am very tempted to man up and do that to one of my Mobylettes, give it some character, sadly both of them have been off road for a few years! Go on - you know you want to - it'd be a sight worth seeing.  |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 14, 2015 13:04:42 GMT
I am very tempted to man up and do that to one of my Mobylettes, give it some character, sadly both of them have been off road for a few years! Go on - you know you want to - it'd be a sight worth seeing. Its at the back of a long list of projects that need starting never mind completing!  |
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Post by crickleymal on Jan 14, 2015 13:27:33 GMT
My first bike was a C90. 140mpg and a 6 pint tank. Fill it up once a week.
A friend of mine Frank, used to have a C70. He used to go out for rides with a friend of his who had (I believe) a H100. Anyway on the way back from one of their rides they stopped for a fag break somewhere in Wiltshire.
"I know," said Frank, "We passed a sign for Longleat not long back. Why don't we go there whilst we're in the area?"
His friend took a drag on his ciggy, looked at his H100 and took a long look at Frank's C70.
"Are you f****** mad?"
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Post by showaddydadito on Jan 14, 2015 15:25:46 GMT
Go on - you know you want to - it'd be a sight worth seeing. Its at the back of a long list of projects that need starting never mind completing! Oh THAT list. That's about the only thing where I get to say to another bloke "I bet mine's longer than yours" Garrison Keillor used to tell of a guy who disappeared one day, and when they searched for him they found his list in the shed, complete with pen with the lid off. There were 39 items on the sheet and they reckoned he must have just despaired and walked out to look for a better life. So keep your list below 39 items. |
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Post by showaddydadito on Jan 14, 2015 15:28:27 GMT
My first bike was a C90. 140mpg and a 6 pint tank. Fill it up once a week. A friend of mine Frank, used to have a C70. He used to go out for rides with a friend of his who had (I believe) a H100. Anyway on the way back from one of their rides they stopped for a fag break somewhere in Wiltshire. "I know," said Frank, "We passed a sign for Longleat not long back. Why don't we go there whilst we're in the area?" His friend took a drag on his ciggy, looked at his H100 and took a long look at Frank's C70. "Are you f****** mad?"  Wouldn't that be a bit like David Attenborough's cameraman putting running shoes on before a Cheetah filming trip - Attenborough smiled and said "You'll never run faster a cheetah" and the guy replied "Don't need to. I only need to run faster than you" |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 14, 2015 16:02:08 GMT
Its at the back of a long list of projects that need starting never mind completing! Oh THAT list. That's about the only thing where I get to say to another bloke "I bet mine's longer than yours" Garrison Keillor used to tell of a guy who disappeared one day, and when they searched for him they found his list in the shed, complete with pen with the lid off. There were 39 items on the sheet and they reckoned he must have just despaired and walked out to look for a better life. So keep your list below 39 items. Noted, it's not quite at 39, (1)and it won't be getting that high either, (1) sets himself up to be a hypocrite again! |
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Post by showaddydadito on Jan 15, 2015 13:04:35 GMT
Then again, sometimes it seems like there are a million things that need doing - but if you write a list you find there are only seven, and of those seven, three are off because it's raining, one can't be done until some other person has done something, and the other three can be done easily in an afternoon.
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 15, 2015 16:48:01 GMT
To be fair I never chose the fs1e, it chose me, I would have preferred the Honda SS50, the early one with the flat handlebars and a 4 speed box, I never liked the 5 speed one with cable disc 5 speeds and chopper style bars, I had saved £100 and a mate of my brothers was upgrading to a RD250, so was selling the fizzle, it was a year old on a P registration, they were around £220 new, so was a bargain, it had only done 1600 miles, I sold it a year later with over 18000 miles, for £100! |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 16, 2015 11:00:02 GMT
Did anyone ever own a Suzuki AP50?
They were not popular and I could never understand why, they looked good, went as good as any other sports moped, they were 5 speed as well
if you look at the picture at the top, next to the fizzie is an AP50,
Of course they were not as fast as the fizzie, though I did know a guy back in the day who had one and it was the fastest of all the 50's of those that I knew of except the Puch gran prix s, and the exploding Garrelli, I suspect it had some work on it to make it faster though!
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Post by ContourMac on Jan 16, 2015 16:34:50 GMT
Did anyone ever own a Suzuki AP50? They were not popular and I could never understand why, they looked good, went as good as any other sports moped, they were 5 speed as well if you look at the picture at the top, next to the fizzie is an AP50, Of course they were not as fast as the fizzie, though I did know a guy back in the day who had one and it was the fastest of all the 50's of those that I knew of except the Puch gran prix s, and the exploding Garrelli, I suspect it had some work on it to make it faster though! I had an AP50. After 2 Fantics (a TI and a Chopper) it seems the height of reliability and sophistication. A bike that you didn't have to bump start every morning!
Was quick too, much faster than the fizzy.
Some scrote nicked it from outside my work so I brought an Agrati Garelli Tiger Cross with the insurance money. Now that is a bike I wish I still owned!!
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 16, 2015 16:42:48 GMT
Did anyone ever own a Suzuki AP50? They were not popular and I could never understand why, they looked good, went as good as any other sports moped, they were 5 speed as well if you look at the picture at the top, next to the fizzie is an AP50, Of course they were not as fast as the fizzie, though I did know a guy back in the day who had one and it was the fastest of all the 50's of those that I knew of except the Puch gran prix s, and the exploding Garrelli, I suspect it had some work on it to make it faster though! I had an AP50. After 2 Fantics (a TI and a Chopper) it seems the height of reliability and sophistication. A bike that you didn't have to bump start every morning!
Was quick too, much faster than the fizzy.
Some scrote nicked it from outside my work so I brought an Agrati Garelli Tiger Cross with the insurance money. Now that is a bike I wish I still owned!!
An AP50 you say, then a tiger cross, the scrote did you a favour!  |
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Post by HRHpenfold on Jan 16, 2015 16:53:54 GMT
Actually the first italian bike I ever rode, was one of these at 15  it was in "heap" condition, and it was on a large bit of land between the council estate and the A19, Hedworthfield in Jarrow, it's probably been built on now, but it was flat with views towards Sunderland airport, which is now the Nissan factory, if you went over a bump the seat came off, if you were pillion, you landed still sitting on the seat, but the rider was ok! |
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