First real bike

[cdstirland81]

where have all the durex bikes gone ? when i was peeing out of a pube the durex paint scheme was all the rage !

they split, in all senses of the word!

[cargo]

This is getting to be like that Monty Python sketch...........four yorkshiremen

any way can anyone beat this list.............all owned and ridden by me starting with the earliest...............

AP 50
GT 250
KH 250
KH 250 (another one)
Z 650
CB750
CB750 (another one)
XJ750
TS150
GPZ750
FZ750
ZXR750
CB250RS
RD350
GT750
TRIDENT 900
TRIDENT 900 (another one)........... still have it
CBR600 (race bike)
CBR600 (race bike) (another one) ...still have it
ZXR400 (race bike).....................still have it
ZXR400 (race bike) (another one)....still have it
ZXR 400 (race bike) (thats 3 now)....still have it
ZXR400SP
ZXR400
ZXR400 ( thats 6 now)
GSXR 600 (race bike)
ZX6R (race bike)........................still have it

I bought at least 3 other ZXR 400s in various states of destruction

I'm sure I've forgotten something

[Wabby]

Here was my 'first' big 'road' bike.

Wasn't learner legal (35 RW BHP) but I used it on the L's anyhow

[Mori Man]

Started out on one of these:

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Then it got swapped for one of these:

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Motor had so much torque you could pull away in top gear , i put the front wheel against the kerb stone outside the house to help bed the clutch in and it dug a hole in the tarmac Spent all my YTS cash on it making it back to road legal and it got nicked By the time I got my provisional licence I had 9 points to go on it

Spent more hours off the road than on with both

[Jamz]

I didn't do the moped route and went straight in with a 1992 Yamaha TZR '125'.

I say '125' because after riding it for a year when I had to get another 125 before my full test (and the ZXR400) my test rides on proper 125's even de-restricted showed mine to be a bit of a beast that had been bored out to buggery and might even have been 200cc+:

[Mori Man]

Had a "S" reg CG125 - 18BHP

Done a bit of work on the motor and was clocked at a constant 90MPH on it - took a fortnight to get there though

I'm about to add some info to the owners website as i regularly blew the engines up

But really they should be indestructible with push rod engines

[Vard66]

The ZXR.

Wouldn't have ever been seen dead on something that I had to sit on with my legs in front of me, or something that looked like a sports bike but went 'NYIMM nyim nyim nyim...'

So I jumped in at the 400 marker, first bike I rode (just down the village and back) being a CBR 400, and then bought the ZXR eight days before passing my test!

[wonderpupp]

My first road bike at 17 was a RD125DX like this, but with some microns on it: Mental little bike though.

Then I got a TZR125R Italian import 33bhp when I was 18
then had a gap for a year while waiting for my provisional to renew, and I kept the black one with all its battle scars and for my 21st birthday, my boyfriend at the time bought me a white one like this

it dyno'd at 36bhp, and I went for a ride with my frined Cahrlie on his 33bhp restricted GS500, and basically showed him the way. Ha ha. It was mental.

then did my test a couple of months later and sold them both to fund my ZXR400.

I am very keen to get a TZR again, cheap tax, cheap insurance, and best of all that smell of 2 stroke. I have been without a sttroker for a year now, and I have to admit I am having withdrawal symptoms.

[Wabby]

My first road bike at 17 was a RD125DX like this, but with some microns on it: Mental little bike though.

Then I got a TZR125R Italian import 33bhp when I was 18
then had a gap for a year while waiting for my provisional to renew, and I kept the black one with all its battle scars and for my 21st birthday, my boyfriend at the time bought me a white one like this

it dyno'd at 36bhp, and I went for a ride with my frined Cahrlie on his 33bhp restricted GS500, and basically showed him the way. Ha ha. It was mental.

then did my test a couple of months later and sold them both to fund my ZXR400.

I am very keen to get a TZR again, cheap tax, cheap insurance, and best of all that smell of 2 stroke. I have been without a sttroker for a year now, and I have to admit I am having withdrawal symptoms.

Love my 4DL (Pics above) but spent more time fixing the electrics than riding. lol

[wonderpupp]

just once, when it rained, it went backwards for about 4 foot before juddering to a halt.

[HairyHatMan]

My RVF which was restricted for all of, oooh about 6 months after I passed my test....



which was soon to be turned into this:



then got a "big" bike...! :




and after some years off I'm starting back out on a ZXR!

Jo
xx