Yamaha r125 look amazing in the flesh

[dern]

I dropped off the 636 at a local bike dealer who wanted it for a track day and had a look around his stuff and he had this Yamaha r125 for sale…

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It would struggle carrying me about i suspect but what a thing for someone wanting a 125. Looked like a proper bike. I’d have been very pleased rocking up to sixth form on that.

[Skub]

I hadn't 2p to rub together when I was at secondary school. Bikes were only a dream.

[dern]

Same but also I wouldn’t have been allowed to have a bike even if it was a possibility

[Count Steer]

I hadn't 2p to rub together when I was at secondary school. Bikes were only a dream.

Me neither, but I scraped together enough to buy the cheapest thing in the local scooter shop. A Lambretta TV175 which was far from new. Learned a lot just by keeping it running

A couple of friends had brand new Japanese 125s and they were an eye opener...who knew things could rev that high!

[ChrisW]

They do look great. There are a few kids around this way who have them. They all have godawful open pipes on them though - they sound like really loud C90s whose exhausts have fallen off!

[Yorick]

Same but also I wouldn’t have been allowed to have a bike even if it was a possibility

I rocked up to 6th form on my Puch 50 M3

[A_morti]

I turned up on a CB -1, same year, college, and bike as @Mr. Dazzle

[Mr. Dazzle]

I turned up on a CB -1, same year, college, and bike as @Mr. Dazzle

We were too pikey for sixth form.

They do look great. There are a few kids around this way who have them. They all have godawful open pipes on them though - they sound like really loud C90s whose exhausts have fallen off!

The revs climb far too slowly too

[Supermofo]

Yeah kid in my road has one, at least I think it's one of those. Loud can and lot of blips coming down the road. I love it as it's a kid actually getting into bikes.

I should imagine my old TZR125 would smoke it though as the 4 strokes are proper restricted.

[David]

Yeah kid in my road has one, at least I think it's one of those. Loud can and lot of blips coming down the road. I love it as it's a kid actually getting into bikes.

I should imagine my old TZR125 would smoke it though as the 4 strokes are proper restricted.

Even my old YAS 125 was quickerer than a modern one.

[ChrisW]

The revs climb far too slowly too

Hehe - true!

[Whysub]

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I owned this up until a couple of years ago, well past my teenage years. 22 years old now, and still looks modern.
33bhp too.

[MyLittleStudPony]

I had an Aprilia AF1 125 at 6th form. But then again I am pretty hard and street and cool.

When I went to University I had a GSRX1100L.

Both bought with money I'd earned doing work.

[KungFooBob]

Both bought with money I'd earned doing work.

Part time model, part time enforcer. Semi professional gigolo?

I didn't go to sixth form, I did a YTS. To get there I had a GP100, when that was stolen a KC100 and when that was stolen a NS125R.

[Mr. Dazzle]

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I owned this up until a couple of years ago, well past my teenage years. 22 years old now, and still looks modern.
33bhp too.

Unobtainable stuff of dreams for the 17 year old me.

[KungFooBob]

Alberto Tomba had a Mito.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Boys are the ones with a 125 right?

[Bigjawa]

I had one up till august last year.

I was 47, 6'1 and 19 stone.

I'm sure I looked ridiculous but it was one of the most fun bikes I ever had, it would redline in top at an indicated 81mph.

[MyLittleStudPony]

Both bought with money I'd earned doing work.

Part time model, part time enforcer. Semi professional gigolo?

I didn't go to sixth form, I did a YTS. To get there I had a GP100, when that was stolen a KC100 and when that was stolen a NS125R.

Working in a village shop and then as a motorbike courier sadly.


And look at you now, shitting the clever IT money and motorhomes and Mercs and Maseratis. And me ending up as a form filler inner and checker, running round in an old VW.

[mangocrazy]

Both bought with money I'd earned doing work.

Part time model, part time enforcer. Semi professional gigolo?

I didn't go to sixth form, I did a YTS. To get there I had a GP100, when that was stolen a KC100 and when that was stolen a NS125R.

Working in a village shop and then as a motorbike courier sadly.


And look at you now, shitting the clever IT money and motorhomes and Mercs and Maseratis. And me ending up as a form filler in and checker, running round in an old VW.

His success mocks your failure...