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Mine was a Suzuki X7 with Microns and K&Ns that I'd bought before passing my test and was riding illegally on the A45, it followed up the amazing feat of an indicated 105mph with a holed piston, and then when I stopped in a layby the kill switch functioned a bit too literally and shagged the cdi and coil, so I had to push the X7 home about 3 miles, I was lucky as I could wheel it down the embankment of the A45, across a field to a road that went towards my village, it would have been an 8 mile push if I'd followed the road.

It was a mates ZX7R when I had passed my test early 2000’s, he walked over to me with the keys and said “don’t crash it”……….I went out the Mollands straight and hit 130 and was blown away by it, the small 125 I had purchased before my test had to go.

A nearly new GS550. I was about 18.

Mate's Triumph Tiger (old, original, Triumph, not the new-fangled Kawasaki copies ) 500cc twin, single carb, post-bathtub).

Old
Loud
Rattly
Bent handlebars (dropped the week before)

Downhill, on the A3 near Petersfield

Speedo wavering widely, so actual speed estimated from the tacho)

Don't remember it at all


Next time, 400Four on the M3. Whirrrr boring "Is that it?"*

* Edit: about 3 miles from where I was, soon after, nicked for an average of 94.2mph over 1/4 mile.

My almost new Honda cx500 plastic maggot on the newly opened M25, junction 25 to 24 stretch. Hit an indicated 106, so I reckon it was a 100 give or take.
Never bothered since.

As mentioned on the biking history thread, mine was on a 1966 Honda CB77 (305cc). It had a 180 degree crankshaft and I did the deed at about 6:30 a.m. on a lovely May morning in 1969 on a deserted and straight stretch of road outside RAF 16M.U. in Stafford. It certainly felt like some kind of landmark - the bike was flat out and so was I.

Y reg 1983 Suzuki GS650GT. I got it in 1989 (ish) off a friend. Took it to 100 on the Speedo because I could (having just come off Superdreams)

A 1976 Yamaha RD350,one of the rare new bikes I've ever bought.

Same as this.

zxr400, i'd have been nearly 30 at the time and hadn't done my CBT

Loved that bike, it was when i didn't care about all the things i cared about now, like keeping it 100% immaculate lol.

My FS1E, big bore kit and tuned by the mate of a mate who was a race mechanic. Honest.

Actually a CB900F. I can't recall exactly but it was probably somewhere stupidly inappropriate.

When I passed my test at 17, I bought an NS125R. It was the only thing I could insure and I didn't need l plates. It didn't break the ton.

I rode it for a year and then bought a really nice CBR400RR Tri-arm. I remember taking it over a ton on the first ride and thinking how utterly brain meltingly fast it was.

Two days later a blind old codger in a Nissan Bluebird pulled on me writing it off (I was actually doing well under the speed limit as I was early for an appointment).

I had a few goes on my RD250C but even flat on the tank with Ace bars on the Chester - Hoylake road it would only manage just a tad under 100mph.
First proper ton was on a CB400N on the A350 along the Lacock bypass, I think it indicated about 115mph.

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.

Probably the only bike I've ever wheelied. And unknowingly at that!

First was a CX500. (Then, quite frequently). The memorable 100+ really though, involved a fully loaded, 2-up K1200LT, a very long period on the A3 and a ferry that we squeaked onto such that we were still rolling on the car deck when it set off for Caen. I kept the GPS log of that one for a while.

Honda Bros 650 on a very empty bit of just built motorway in Denmark -took a while to get there

An Aprilia AF1 125, when I was 17. Just for t'craic.

An uninsured 550-4.....I was in my mid thirties. So bite me.....

Probably my CB1, grey import Honda 400cc.

I got that not long after my test pass when I was 17. The only other bike I rode before that (other than the bike school's 125) was my Mums CB250. I imagine I tried to get a tonne on that but doubt I managed it.

Most memorable indicated tonne though was deffo on the Bonnie last year

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:14 pm
Most memorable indicated tonne though was deffo on the Bonnie last year

I bet that seemed like 150.

I might win the award for most unlikely bike to do it on - '92 Gpz 305, on the A50 dual carriageway between Stoke and Uttoxeter, the concrete surface made it sound like everything was going to drop off it.

It ate it's generator on the M6 the next day