while going through some pictures i found this one! my first (legal) bike, i was 16 and boy did it seem fast.. could do 45mph ya know!

I don't have any pics of my first bike but it was one of these, although it started off white and was later painted metallic blue.

One like this....



only mine was the CSR (Competition Sports Road   )

So it had chrome sports mudguards, a chrome panel on the tank and a 'sports' chainguard.



As heavy as a bus, with acceleration to match :oops:


Actually, it didn't accelerate, it just gathered speed.


Oooh, just found a better pic

Got my first bike in 1967 paid 15 bob (75 p) from a bloke I was apprenticed to,  insurance 25bob (1.20) tax 10 bob (50p). Was a 1962 raliegh moped with a sturmey archer engine! had it 3 weeks crashed it into the back of a mobile shop :verysad:

Fastfitter
Did it stop? rode my cousins, brakes were crap, oil every where, gearbox kept moving in the back of the primary chain case, clamp on eccentric adjuster was buggered

Pretty fair assesment xsian. And if you stalled it three times it shredded first gear.

By eck we were 'ard in them days  :laughcont:

I had a Yam RD250 R-reg (air cooled)

Had a full fairing on it with ridiculously angled clipons.
If I used brakes while lights were on it had a tendency to stop the engine!
fairing was so close to the pegs that I could only ride it with my thinnest trainers on.
Pushed it further than I rode it - so nothing new there then

I had a Honda C50 to get me to work. It was an L reg. Went about 55mph cos it was derestricted. My mate knackered it by filling it with petrol out of a container that had paint in it.
Then I had a DT50, too feckin' slow. Then a DT175 which was quicker and numerous field/mx bikes after that before the dreaded car licence.

Fs1e, CB 250 G5,Gt380 after passing test-heard this B4 somewhere? six months later first proper bike-you could still insure a Honda 750 at 17 back then(& have enough left over to fill the tank with petrol)

EEEE ,when I were a lad, first proper bike I had after my raliegh moped was a phantom Bantam 150 (gi 2 quid for it along with a box of BSA Dandy bits, passed my test on it I did in 1968 in'tt days when you gave and signals, engine fell out held it in wi cloths pegs to get home, a reet laff I cn tell you. Ad a 200cc LE velocette (noddy bike) after that (sold the Bantam for Racing) 7.50 I give for it at a garage wot sold reliants  only. Shortend velo on side of a car, I got paid out 100 quid yep true, so I boght a 650 BSA GoldenFLash, BAG OF sh!tE it was, Joe Lucas prince of darkness self  demountable head light (every time you hit a bump the headlight fell out), self destruct mudgaurd stays, built in leg warmers (cylinder barrel came loose and pissed hot oil on to my legs every time the pistons went on the up stroke

One thing though all of the British sh!te I owned taught me how to fix motorcycles.

EEe them were the days, fag paper to set the timing, cardboard to stuff in the tyres cause we didn't have a puncture outfit. Larf, I never larfed so much since me granny got her tits caught in a mangle  :wwww:  :wwww:

This sounds horribly familiar.. you sure you ain;t my older brother?  :swivel:

Its OK Scoobydoo I aman only child, mi mum took one look at me and sed feckin hell no more o them lardy bradts, can't afford ter feed em :buttrock:

Funny you should mention BSA Dandy bits Ian - cos that's what my first bike was.

Terrible thing!  Had 2 gears - slow and very slow!  When I look back it's quite amazing that I used to ride 30 miles home from my live-in job at weekends on that thing - all across the Bromyard downs in the mist and the dark.  But when I think about it, it always did get me home once we got on the road.

After that I went all ohv and sophisticated with a Honda C50 - leccy start an all!

Then I got a car.  

Ah, those wasted years..........

Got my first bike when i was 15 a TS 50 with a 65cc big bore kit and deleroto carb,bought it of a mate, took it home dragged it up the stairs into the house and did it all up.Got me provisional and never got the bike to run again.
Went back to bikes at 29 after years of pleading with the wife did the DAS course and got a CBR400 now got the falco and still havnt rode that(well legally yet) :verysad:

Christ Bikergran
You were either brave, foolish or din't know better 30 miles on a Dandy. Mine kept loosing the gudgeon pin out the piston, eventually put a slot in the cylinder. Silencer kept falling off and I held it on wi a wire coat hanger  

If anyone's got a picture of a DT125 circa early 1970's I'd love to see it. Especially it the bike's green. If it's got a breather tube out the of the filler cap it's too young!

That was my first BTW... ::

The last I guess - didn't have any option anyway!

Haha! reminds me of the first bike I actually owned... a Honda CB125 which someone had fitted a 12volt 2 tone horn to! Yep, the horn button was a pretty effective engine kill switch.   :oops:

My memory of the aircooled RD's is that they handled better than the LC's. Probably they were lighter.

I thought that was Hilda... by the bike sheds...  :Oo:

Mine was a road shredding fire breathing monster.  Well actually it was a MB5 the same as the one Dave posted.  Black and with a silly fairing on it.  It was crap.  When I first rode it i wondered if i could handle the power1  It had a expansion pipe from micron, I think,  and went like ...well...quite slowly really up to a max of about 45 on the flat.  saw one last year and could believe that the forks are about as fat as a biro!

Funnily enough though i did a lot of two up work with that thing.  Birds loved it!