When was the last time you.....

When was the last time you.....

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evo8

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468 posts

214 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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rode a 50cc.

Tonight, taking my sons 50cc bike for a MOT, boy is it sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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About 36 years ago !

evo8

Original Poster:

468 posts

214 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Prior to tonight, I recon, 30 years ago for me, 0 to 60 never!!

Nigel Worc's

8,121 posts

187 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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evo8 said:
Prior to tonight, I recon, 30 years ago for me, 0 to 60 never!!
Nor mine, and that was before they were restricted !

I really do think these restricted ones are unsafe.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Never, smallest I've ridden is a 125.

555 Paul

782 posts

148 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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I last rode a 50cc bike about 25 years ago when I was just 14. On my CBT and on holiday's when I didn't have a licence it was 125's

Rubin215

3,985 posts

155 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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My daughter's Chinese scooter (Yiying QT50) about four years ago.

Sorted the carb so it opened fully, set the valve clearances properly and it would do 45 with a "powerfully built" gent on board....

Ki3r

7,806 posts

158 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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I've never ridden a 50cc. Smallest was a 125 on my CBT two years ago...that was painfully slow! Uphill with me (wrong side of 19 stone at the time!) was horrible!

BigHeartedTone

1,304 posts

216 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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1986

black-k1

11,889 posts

228 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Errr ....... 1979 boxedin

Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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black-k1 said:
Errr ....... 1979 boxedin
Ah, the year I was born.

BeerMonster1

77 posts

140 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Rawwr said:
black-k1 said:
Errr ....... 1979 boxedin
Ah, the year I was born.
Umm about 7 years ago when I was 16!! Blew the motor 3 times in 9 months as tried to "Tune" it. Going from a fully raced tuned KXF450 on a Sunday to a 50CC moped on a Monday morning..... Errrrrr.

In that year I was just a twinkle in my dads eye!!! Born 1992.

Gareth9702

370 posts

131 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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March 1978. I left my Suzuki AP50 outside a motorcycle dealer on Deansgate and rode off on a Honda CB500T. The AP50 had felt like the fastest thing ever when I first rode it.

Gareth9702

370 posts

131 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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March 1978. I left my Suzuki AP50 outside a motorcycle dealer on Deansgate and rode off on a Honda CB500T. The AP50 had felt like the fastest thing ever when I first rode it.

RemaL

24,967 posts

233 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Like some others never. I ridden a 125cc for my CBT then 600cc on my DAS.

Fitz666

634 posts

141 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Thankfully never....

moanthebairns

17,918 posts

197 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Never, not even a 50cc kart.

dapearson

4,252 posts

223 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Had an AR50 when i was 16...19 years ago!

Rode it in all weathers for a year. It was 30 miles to the factory that i worked in on saturdays. Memories of riding in rubbish gear in freezing conditions. I used to have to stand in front of one of the massive industrial heaters when i got there just to thaw out.

No way i'd ever let my lad do it, but my parents didn't seem bothered!

I once made the trip from Spalding to Kettering to see some relatives, only i didn't ring them to let them know. Took me about 2 hrs to get there, only for them to be heading out just as i arrived. Turned round, rode home.

It never took more than about £8 in fuel, yet would run for miles and miles.


I often think about getting a slow bike - a CBF125 or something similar. I had a new CB500 on loan when the blade went in for its 1st service and i wondered whether i'd got it all wrong wanting so much power. I rode the blade back much slower afterwards.

80+ mpg would be nice too...

Fleegle

16,688 posts

175 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Fitz666 said:
Thankfully never....
Not even if they looked like this?


spoodler

2,072 posts

154 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Twas back in 1980 when purchase of a four year old GP50 suddenly meant the world was my oyster... nowhere seemed too far to travel and I basically ran the poor little thing into the ground over the course of the next twelve months. Covered most of the south of England on it in that year tho'... and learned about how to fall off...
Collected a CB100 for a mate about ten years back and couldn't even ride it properly!