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MarJay But it's British!
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Bought my Honda CB125s back in July 1975 and at the beginning of September applied for my test.I stupidly failed on insufficient rear observation.So I applied for a cancellation and two weeks later I passed.Best test that I have ever passed
The 125 was all that I could afford at the time.But in 1978 I bought my first big bike,a CB550F1 and have never looked back
https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Honda%20750/My%20bikes/BikesBikesBikes2007.jpg~original
The picture shows my younger brothers trying my bike for size ____________________ Just talk bikes.What else is there?
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Smashing flares man! ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off. |
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thx1138 World Chat Champion
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Hong Kong Phooey World Chat Champion
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Looks just like an Instagram filter of the usual helmetless goings on round my way ____________________
'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8 |
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Soggz Borekit Bruiser
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winz World Chat Champion
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Suntan Sid World Chat Champion
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pepperami wrote: | Happy days indeed the best road going 250 I’ve ever owned.
I still reckon it beats all my other road going 250’s into a cocked hat. |
More of an all rounder than the KR1S and the MC18 I've owned, but still amazing at the time, felt like a proper bike!
Funny thing is everyone raves about them when reminiscing, but at the time it was just sort of normal, can't say I ever gave it a second thought, I just assumed that, that was how bikes were, I suppose I didn't know any better, not having owned a four stroke. In fact the only person I knew who owned a four stroke was my mates dad, who had a rather nice GPZ 900.
Kept my 250LC for a while, then bought a 350LC.
For some reason I then bought a four stroke, a GS550EN, admittedly it was very smooth but a bit meh after the strokers.
Eventually I saw there error of my ways and persuaded the bank to lend me enough money to buy a brand new 350YPVS F1, hoorah, that was was in 1985. I kept that bike and rang it's neck for 5 years, used it abused it, crashed it bashed it, went to the IOM on it every year and entered the Ramsey sprint on it. I chucked that bike down the road at way over, sensible speeds, but when I came to get rid of it the only noticeable damage was the gaffer tape covering the crack in the belly pan of the full fairing and the scrapes on the left hand Allspeed. Absolute belter of a bike, at the time. I eventually swapped it, in 1990, for a DRZ600, one extreme to the other really. ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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BLB_Rich Borekit Bruiser
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Bandit 600 back in Aug 2015. Almost wheelied the thing. I'd never ridden more than 125 & the power was PHWOAR at the time. Now with a Yammy that has c.100hp & 3 yrs under my belt the Bandit wasn't that powerful in hindsight!
Did mine in Burgess Hill & passed both Mod 1 & Mod 2 at the first go
Got told off on Mod 2 for gunning it a lot to the speed limit but it was controlled & safe so he didn't mind!! |
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Lone-Wolf World Chat Champion
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Wotcha.
Many years ago, I read in MCN that the cost of the bike test was to be increased to over three quid. I promptly sent off before the price increase and headed over to Bilston on my trusty BSA Bantam . . . .where I happily passed.
The rest, as they say, is history. ____________________ Cheers.
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After having ridden motorbikes for nearly a decade in India in tricky urban situations I was extremely cocky when I started my fast track rider training in rural Cambridgeshire back in 2011.
CBT was no problem as expected and I breezed through DAS 1 with zero errors. Onto DAS 2 which I failed because of passing too close to a lorry... old habits die hard I guess :-p !
Attempt number 2 and I was a bundle of nerves and failed again.
Few weeks later and it was time for attempt number 3 and this time I thought "Fuck it... I am just going to ride the bike to the conditions" and if I fail then riding a bike in the UK is not for me. But this time i passed !
Bought my first big bike shortly afterwards which was a Bandit 1250 |
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CBT done in early 2007 having never ridden a motorbike before. I then bought a brand new YBR125 because it came with a years insurance, helmet, gloves and a jacket for £2k.
I rode around on that for the best part of a year and then did a 3 day DAS on a CB500.
I did my practical test in Weybridge where I was followed around by Hans-Moleman in his Nissan Micra talking to me via a one-way radio. The majority of the test was him asking me to pull over so he could catch up with me.
When it came to the emergency stop, we stopped in a quiet residential area and he asked me to go around the block.
Loop 1, I was being followed by a car, so he asked me to go round again.
Loop 2, I got back and I was followed by another car, so had to go around again.
Loop 3, another car! The examiner threw his hands up in the air in exhasperation as I rode by.
Loop 4, I gave it some beans around the block and made sure I wasn't followed. Did the emergency stop with no problems.
I then did the U-turn on probably the widest road in the local area, it was a very comfortable 5 car widths.
Got back to the test center and he told me i'd passed. He'd not noted any minors so just picked one at random to make it look like was doing his job. I think he chose 'hesitancy' or similar.
I then went and bought a Hornet, and thought it was utterly insane that I was legally able to ride such a beast.
Immediately after buying it I had to take it for an MOT, and took it to warp-factor 9 on the way there having had no experience on anything with such power.
Absolutely ridiculous. ____________________ Current - 2010 Kawasaki ER-6n - Green
Previous - 2000 Honda CB600F Hornet - Yellow
Previous - 2007 Yamaha YBR125 -Blue |
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My motorcycle test was the only one I did that wasn't taken through the Army. That was in 1964 whilst I was on leave in Paisley, where my parents were living at the time. It was on my trusty £4 Lambrettor LI150 and was fairly uneventful apart from the front brake not being up to much,, no great dramas and I came away with a pink slip.
A year later, I took my wheeled vehicle test around Carlisle in a Bedford RL 3 ton truck, in those days there was no HGV, it was possible to pass the test in your car and go out the next day and get a job driving the largest wagons on the road.
A further year on and I got my H licence for tracked vehicles, driving a Centurion tank around the driver training area on Bordon heath, that was the most difficult of them all due to the sheer physical strength involved, the vehicles used on these tank experience days are mostly armoured personnel carriers or self-propelled guns, fully automatic gearboxes and very little else to worry about, if it ain't a Centurion or a Chieftain, it ain't a tank.
I did take my HGV test, class 2, around the time that the compulsory HGV test came into being sometime around 1970 in Germany. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 192 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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