The moped days.

[Inkognito]

Ah sitting here thinking back to when i was 16 riding mopeds.
Found some pics of the mopeds i had

My first moped was the Tomos 50. Looked exactly like the Puch MS50 except it was wind cooled where the MS50 has air cooling.
Mine looked like this one. (This seems to have been modified and the air cooling removed. Probably using the Puch Maxi cylinder and top end like My tomos had after i wrecked the original one.
I had this about a year i think before i forgot about it in a friends shed and got a Yamaha. (It's probably still in his shed *shrug*:
https://www.atommax.com/cybermax/k3.jpg

This looks exactly like my second moped. Had it a year till it got stolen. Yamaha FS1:
https://www.moped2.org/d/moped/yamaha/wow.jpg

The one moped i always wanted but could never afford was the Honda CD50. A 4 stroke moped that sounded amazing compared to the rice racers everyone else had.
Just take a look at this and tell me it's not utter moped sex! just look at the exhaust *droool*:
https://www.minibike.nu/HONDA%20CD50.jpg

In Denmark regular mopeds are limited to 30km/h.
Shortly after i stopped riding mopeds all these scooters came out and they're still here!
I never really see a proper moped anymore and i think it's a shame because to me they have a lot more character than the plastic scooters about today.

What did you begin your biking days on?

[The Shaggy D.A.]

CB100N. At 16, I couldn't afford a moped (taking the bus was an extravagance) so walked everywhere.
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[Inkognito]

I delivered newspapers since 15 getting about £60 a month. Helped a lot with getting that first moped. I think i only paid £70 for it anyway lol

[Kickstart]

Hi

Never had a moped. Mu first bike was a Honda H100S.

Do have a 50 currently on the road but it isn't registered as a moped.

All the best

Keith
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[Carvel]

My FS1. I only rode it for about 3 months. In that time I managed to crash it and sieze it. Still got it.
https://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae271/RxsOllie/Bikes/yamahafs1.jpg

This is what I replaced it with. Still riding it around. Hopefully tomorrow will it's last day if my RXS passes it's mot.
https://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae271/RxsOllie/Derbisenda.jpg
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[Inkognito]

Where i grew up all you can ride at 16 is a moped limited to 30km/h.
At 18 you can ride a scooter limited to 45km/h if you have a car licence.
You can also do your bike licence at 18 but you're limited to 250cc for 2 years i think.
We didn't have the luxury of fast bikes at 16-17 like you do here lol.
I have a feeling not a lot of you guys started on mopeds

[panrider_uk]

Puch Maxi.

Would've liked a Fizzy but couldn't afford one.

Mark
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[Amreet]

https://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/617851/DSCN1096.jpg

heres what im riding
Fitting some flatter/drag bars for comfort and doing a few other mods, like the original speedo was beyond saving so im going to get a bar mounted speedo, and maybe some nice old fibreglass panniers and eventually some clean chrome coil shocks, the originals are very rusty and quite worn out.

absolutely love it! Will keep it for ever, so much fun to work on and ride (when it works!) hopefully soon ill actually be able to use it as reliable transport, and at some point id quite like to build a custom engine for it, the french are still really into mobylettes even though their emmissions laws effectively banned two strokes (AFAIK) and there are some insane watercooled, heavily ported, reed inducted monsters with custom variators (even with a pedal which allows you to manally control the variation of the engine, effecively giving you an infinitely variable manual clutchless gearing!) which pull ridiculous speeds, so once the bikes 'done' so to speak Im going to try and get an AV10 bottom end and build up a water cooled top end just for shits n giggles

Im really into these old mopeds though, theyre so much fun and theres something so un-pretentious about the sort of people that ride them (although they are very far and few between in the UK)

You guys should check this website out for some of the custom work they do on mopeds:
https://www.1977mopeds.com/gallery/

Id love another mobylette, or maybe a puch some time, and a Kreidler is on my list of dream bikes, as well as an SS50 or something similar.

[silky666]

1981
https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v195/57/82/513393841/n513393841_402063_3252.jpg

Then a whole series of these:
https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v208/57/82/513393841/n513393841_716714_1711.jpg
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[Polarbear]

My first moped

https://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7453/1p50copy.jpg

A Honda P50
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[craigs23]

[DrDonnyBrago]

[Amreet]

[ms51ves3]

[Kickstart]

Hi

25 that are either on the road or will go back on the road (some need nominal work for an MOT).

The 50 on the road is the YSR50

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/YsrRegistered.JPG

All the best

Keith
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[Polarbear]

Thats a georgeous little bike Keith
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[plugger147]

I had one of these bad boys when I was 16, the amazing fz 50.

[ms51ves3]

[Kickstart]

[Inkognito]

Wind cooling requires the bike to be moving to cool the engine

[plugger147]

lol, nah you got it backwards air cooling requires the bike to be moving when it's windy the air blows into the bike ..

Should have said nothing the fan thing mentioned made sense.
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[Pernig]

It was one of these in blue with black side panels and horn cover. It had some stickers on the side which it wore when I bought it. I will try and dig out a picture.

https://www.vespaclub.com/OLDVESPA/fusiditesta/PK50.jpg

Vespa PK50S

Despite having a 110 cylinder kit on it, it still only managed to do 45mph. Also I must have gone through about 3 or 4 pistons in the space of about 2-3000 miles.

The slightest spot of rain would have your front brake locking up every time you used it.
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[Whosthedaddy]

https://p1.bikepics.com/pics/2009/02/07/bikepics-1563370-800.jpg

I waited till I was 30 before I had a scoot!

Yamaha BWS (Big Wheel Scooter) 100cc 2t.

I am ashamed to say that it was really fun to ride in the city and racing the v8 Holdens from the lights.
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[ollieholt]

this was my first steed! it had just come out and i bought one new! the seat was pneumatic and lifted with a flick of the ignition key! it had a rev guage! digital speedo the works lol

https://www.yauto.cz/includes/img/inzerce/Peugeot_Jet_Force_50.jpg

some old fecker t boned it and me into oblivion 3 short months after.

got a benelli k2 namur that i bought for 400 whilst my insrance claim went through.... took 4 and half years to settle it all! it broke and was resigned to the scrap heap.

https://images01.olx.fr/ui/1/09/27/f_1360227_1.jpg
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[truslack]

This first:
https://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w215/impreza_2007/image007.jpg

This second:
https://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w215/impreza_2007/STP80691.jpg

I was going to have a Puch Maxi aswell, but someone offered more money than me (rich bugger paid £100! I offered £60)
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