revtothelimit - motorbike forum

Skub wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:31 am A 1976 Yamaha RD350,one of the rare new bikes I've ever bought.

Same as this.

Same bike I did it on except mine was a 1974 RD350 A ( GOR 828N) funny how you can still remember number plates lol

I think it was my mates RD350LC, if not that then a GPz 750 Turbo the same mate borrowed from a dealers for a test ride then let me have a go on it. Both were around the same time late 1984 .... i had a provisional license at the time and a GS125ES

CBR400RR Tri-arm.
My first proper bike after passing my test

RD250e on a long local road that was a slight downhill gradient, but even then i was laying on the tank. I remember my mate edging past me on his x7, the prick!

The mighty GS500.

CB500T, Cronk y body chasing some lads on Elsie's.
They left me for dead!

asmethurst99 wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 2:10 pm Honda Bros 650 on a very empty bit of just built motorway in Denmark -took a while to get there

I’m wrong - it was my GPZ600r a few years earlier on the M11

Mate's dad dared me to have a go on his CB900F when I was 16. He regretted it as I tore off up the road flat out. It was pretty tame compared to my Maico to be fair.

A GPZ750 when I was 17 and had no licence…

Convinced my best mate’s big sister’s boyfriend to let me have a go on it. I was told he was a member of the local chapter of the Hell’s Angels but as this was West Lancs I’ve no idea exactly how true that was.

“You bone it, you own it”

In 1985 I was knocked off my new RD125LC, while I was mending the local bike shop rebuilt it ready for me, derestricted, allspeed pipe and a full meedspeed fairing ! It would pull an indicated 103mph with a skinny 17yr old me on board. Maybe a genuine 90mph ? But that was the first ‘ton up’

'75 S3 400 triple.

This puppy



I passed my test on a KH100 and afterwards could only afford a TZR 125. About 9 months later I'd got a student loan out and bought my TZR 250 which felt bloody mental after the 125. Cracking bike which I rode like a right dick which is how you're supposed to ride at 19 Seem to recall cracking the ton on my first ride

All about the italians, me on a Morini 500, mate on his Montjuic, heads down on the A4 between Reading & Thatcham*

*Vaguelia clocks so anybodies guess really.

My first bike : CBR600F6

Couchy wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 7:52 pm In 1985 I was knocked off my new RD125LC, while I was mending the local bike shop rebuilt it ready for me, derestricted, allspeed pipe and a full meedspeed fairing ! It would pull an indicated 103mph with a skinny 17yr old me on board. Maybe a genuine 90mph ? But that was the first ‘ton up’

As I saw 93 mph on my yas 125 two up wiv moi mate riding.........I can believe a 125 Japanese pre restriction could creep over the the ton....but hey...its only a number......

My mate has a 125LC, he has a Micron for it, with either of us chubby middle aged blokes on it the fastest it would indicate was 90mph, with his whippet like son on it, it would indicate 100, GPS said it was doing 90, still quick for a 37 year old 125.

With the standard pipe it's at least 10 mph slower (it's unrestricted) but much nicer to ride.

I was having a PM exchange with Johnny Corrin on the RDLCCrazy forum; this guy is 5 ft 3 ins and weighs 7stone 10lbs. No surprise that he romped home as winner when they held the Pro-Am revival on 250LCs at Cadwell a few years back, when you looked at the pie-munching old guys he was racing against...

GS550E

westers151 wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:34 am

Felix wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:12 amGS550E

I lusted after anything that said 500, or above, or anything bigger than a 125 that said RD, RG, or KR.

However, in 1988 I was a poor, poor 17 year old student (play that small violin for me, orchestra), the shelf stacking job only paid so much, and the parents wouldn't fund it. So, GPz 305 it was - we all have our cross to bare.

Only reason i could afford my 550 was someone died and left my mum a few quid. She gave my brother, sister and my £1k so i just passed my test and started to bike hunt. This thing had a crap Canary yellow paint job and sat in Ernie Pages bike shop for long enough. It got reduced by about £50 every month. Anyway im sure i handed over £700 for it. Loved the overweight pig.

westers151 wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:59 am I hear a small violin orchestra playing just for you

Well aye as i got sacked from my shelf filling job and was only washing pots and pans in a hotel. Saying that beer was about 75p a pint then so who cared