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I've been out and about again...:)
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Haha...I remember days like that...we all had mopeds...most had Fizzies (FS1E)...some had suzuki's but yes you guessed it I had the fastest...a Puch GPS...looked the dogs b******s..lovely cafe racer in JPS colours...was 5mph faster than the others...everyone wanted a go on mine.... Best of all was this was the summer of '76'...what a great time to be free on a moped, long before they restricted them to 30 mph....fizzie could hit 45, and the GPS 50....oh the memories.....blade7 said:This ^^^ reminds me of when I was 16 ( I must have a fantastic memory) and all the kids reckoned they had the fastest Fizzy/Garelli moped .
Pete
blade7
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PSH said:Haha...I remember days like that...we all had mopeds...most had Fizzies (FS1E)...some had suzuki's but yes you guessed it I had the fastest...a Puch GPS...looked the dogs b******s..lovely cafe racer in JPS colours...was 5mph faster than the others...everyone wanted a go on mine.... Best of all was this was the summer of '76'...what a great time to be free on a moped, long before they restricted them to 30 mph....fizzie could hit 45, and the GPS 50....oh the memories.....blade7 said:This ^^^ reminds me of when I was 16 ( I must have a fantastic memory) and all the kids reckoned they had the fastest Fizzy/Garelli moped .
Pete
I was riding a Bantam over the fields until I was 17, then I got a Suzuki TS100 and whupped all the ped boys into submission LOL. When my mate let me have a go on his 250 Hustler I had to have a 250.
blade7 said:PSH said:Haha...I remember days like that...we all had mopeds...most had Fizzies (FS1E)...some had suzuki's but yes you guessed it I had the fastest...a Puch GPS...looked the dogs b******s..lovely cafe racer in JPS colours...was 5mph faster than the others...everyone wanted a go on mine.... Best of all was this was the summer of '76'...what a great time to be free on a moped, long before they restricted them to 30 mph....fizzie could hit 45, and the GPS 50....oh the memories.....blade7 said:This ^^^ reminds me of when I was 16 ( I must have a fantastic memory) and all the kids reckoned they had the fastest Fizzy/Garelli moped .
Pete
I was riding a Bantam over the fields until I was 17, then I got a Suzuki TS100 and whupped all the ped boys into submission LOL. When my mate let me have a go on his 250 Hustler I had to have a 250.
Me too...as soon as I hit 17 it was 250 time, for me this meant the RD250...I loved that bike....my girlfriend went out with me because of the moped, we covered many miles on that little bike once I had the RD, we travelled further afield, all the way up to Northfolk on one ride...it's now 43 years since I bought the GPS and gained a girlfriend, that same beautiful girl will have been my wife for 39 years this July...,
Waylander
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so in 1979 I was a Star Rider instructor on a RD400 that the front wheel flatly refused to stay on the floor, not a good role model really, I would love another RD but I think kilo for kilo Saffron is cheaper,
and my Fizzy was as the fastest lol
blade7 said:If you want to know what really fast is, you should have a test ride on a BMW S1000RR. I must be getting old as I'm thinking about selling mine.
I'm too old for two wheels...I have enough trouble just standing on my own two feet...
Pete
Dan944t
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Waylander said:I do believe you can get zimmers with 4 wheels and brakes, that will do for me, having started my 59th year yesterday.
blimey Martin you don’t look 59 mate !
happy birthday ?? ?? ????
Dan944t
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and when I play with the kids on the floor then try to get up and my knees feel like there going to give way with pain I think to myself what’s going on here then! ??
other than things like like that I still feel 18 ??
Dan944t
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Waylander said:Your as old as you feel, and when you stop feeling, your old, apparently
vitesse
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Answer -No!- but went on to eventually get an early Kieft scooter with no suspension-the twin port Villiers 125cc 2 stroke exhausted through the frame & it had 3 gears with handchange behind the rider which you had to "feel in".
In between ,my cousin & I used to ride a 350cc Triumph sidevalve with girder forks,fixed rear suspension & a tuned exhaust (lads speak for replacing exhaust system with a length of copper sink outlet pipe) & go mudplugging on the local common.
Then an early Vespa with the headlamp on the front apron followed by another much later Kieft scooter with the Sachs 200cc Dynostart engine-good for 75 MPH (parents still wouldn't let me have a proper bike).
My girlfriend (now my beautiful wife of 55yrs) unfortunately always lent the wrong way through corners & eventually changed to 1st car,Austin A30 with twin SU's,Peco go-kart exhaust,etc .
As to knees,i've just had our Grandsons,7 & 10 with us for 5 days-almost continual football on Formby HockeyClub allweather pitch which we can access behind our house(& where I played until 4 yrs ago)-my daily 1000mg codliver oil capsule certainly helps with the activity!
blade7
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PSH said:Me too...as soon as I hit 17 it was 250 time, for me this meant the RD250...I loved that bike....
My old man would only let me have a TS100 when I turned 17. He reckoned I'd tear around on a 250 and do myself in. 6 months later my girlfriends dad signed the HP for me to get a GT 250, I wonder if he had a plan .
Waylander
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Once built oil change a gallon of fuel number plates and a road test.
My favourites of the time,
GS1000 EN Suzuki
DOHC 750 shaft Yamaha
Z1000 Kawasaki
CBX 1000 Honda,
Z1300 Kawasaki, lovely bike but weighed the same as a mini
Then the fabulous Yamaha YPVS RD350
Horrid job but someone had to do it,
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