01-07-15, 03:35 PM
Learnt to "ride" at 15 on a 3-speed Victoria 50cc moped with clutch lever. Was off-roading around a garden & was introduced to the rhododendron bushes & roses a few times before I managed a circuit without hitting anything!
Mid 60s saw me as a poverty stricken youth with a succession of beat up Lambrettas & Vespas. We all rode each others bikes back then & have fond memories of the following: 500cc AJS, 100cc Yamaha twin two-stroke, various low-powered Villiers engined two-strokes.
Long break from early 20s-marriage, kids, bills etc.
Came back to "proper" bikes in 2002; couple of Hondas-Cx500 & NTV 650 then got the Yamaha bug & have had 6 ranging from YBR 125 (commuter) to FZS 1000.
Have only ever bought 3 new bikes-current is the MT-07!
Dad rode bikes prewar & also in the army before being sent to France in 1940-he tried to discourage me by saying "the roadsare a lot busier than in his day"(This was 1964!) :lol
Mid 60s saw me as a poverty stricken youth with a succession of beat up Lambrettas & Vespas. We all rode each others bikes back then & have fond memories of the following: 500cc AJS, 100cc Yamaha twin two-stroke, various low-powered Villiers engined two-strokes.
Long break from early 20s-marriage, kids, bills etc.
Came back to "proper" bikes in 2002; couple of Hondas-Cx500 & NTV 650 then got the Yamaha bug & have had 6 ranging from YBR 125 (commuter) to FZS 1000.
Have only ever bought 3 new bikes-current is the MT-07!
Dad rode bikes prewar & also in the army before being sent to France in 1940-he tried to discourage me by saying "the roadsare a lot busier than in his day"(This was 1964!) :lol