A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

[Janluke]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Biker's Nemesis said:

I was riding around on my 1000cc Exup and driving a 2ltr MK2 Escort when I was 23.

Quarter of a century later I am driving a 2ltr Focus RS and a 1000cc R1.

My life is in a rut, WTF am I supposed to do with my mid life crisis?

Clearly a man who knows what he likes

[moanthebairns]

Biker's Nemesis said:

moanthebairns said:

LiamB said:

moanthebairns said:

LiamB said:

Iang84 said:

At least you did it properly and are alright any ideas if you will get another or are you looking at something different

Looking at getting a fully loaded MK4 Clio now

I forget your of the age where anything decent will have a hefty insurance bill.

Only 19 so insurance does try to bum me.. Speed and dangerous typical young person is what the bike will be for then I have set myself a goal of an M3 by the time I am 23.

I do remember those days, mind you I had a fiesta st by the time I was your age which was quite a thing to behold, when most people my age lusted after a 106 quicksilver due to insurance.

I once went to a fiesta Scotland meet, it was local just at the Falkirk wheel. I was treated like a God because I had a ST, it was a strange night.

Some guy with a Jeremy beadle hand continually pointed at his new sound system with it. I'm not sure if he done this to impress me, to make it seem like it was a bigger subwoofer than it actually was or if he wasn't socially aware he had a child's hand.

Another guy got chucked of some fiesta tart that was now sleeping with a zetec s owner, sending this GHIA man raging into burnouts and handbrake turns. It was on that note I left I forget the point of this story.

I was riding around on my 1000cc Exup and driving a 2ltr MK2 Escort when I was 23.

You got any photos of the exup. I really have a thing for these.

[Biker's Nemesis]

2nd photo 1989 Exup




2nd photo 1988 FZR 1000 Genesis




2nd photo 1991 Exup RU

[moanthebairns]

Lovely. I nearly bought a exup I loved my brief teat ride but it was a shed.

I've always fancied one since.

[Iang84]

LiamB said:

moanthebairns said:

LiamB said:

Iang84 said:

At least you did it properly and are alright any ideas if you will get another or are you looking at something different

Looking at getting a fully loaded MK4 Clio now

I forget your of the age where anything decent will have a hefty insurance bill.

Only 19 so insurance does try to bum me.. Speed and dangerous typical young person is what the bike will be for then I have set myself a goal of an M3 by the time I am 23.

Might be better looking for something a bit unusual for your age again I changed from a 1.1 metro to a 1.8 mondeo at your age and halved my insurance admittedly that was a few years ago but should still hold principle, shame about the juke though they are a decent car to drive even if they are an acquired taste looks wise

[moanthebairns]

Iang84 said:

LiamB said:

moanthebairns said:

LiamB said:

Iang84 said:

At least you did it properly and are alright any ideas if you will get another or are you looking at something different

Looking at getting a fully loaded MK4 Clio now

I forget your of the age where anything decent will have a hefty insurance bill.

Only 19 so insurance does try to bum me.. Speed and dangerous typical young person is what the bike will be for then I have set myself a goal of an M3 by the time I am 23.

Might be better looking for something a bit unusual for your age again I changed from a 1.1 metro to a 1.8 mondeo at your age and halved my insurance admittedly that was a few years ago but should still hold principle, shame about the juke though they are a decent car to drive even if they are an acquired taste looks wise

Going on that logic he should buy a new MG. I think in April 2013 Mg managed to sell 13 cars in the whole of the uk.

"The good news comes as the firm celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2014. The latest SMMT figures show in March MG's registrations were 361, compared to just 41 for the same month in 2013.

This represented a 780 per cent increase and was the highest UK sales increase in the automotive industry. Figures for the first quarter were not quite so high but still presented a rosy picture for a firm rising from the ashes after its acquisition by Chinese car giant SAIC.

Between January and March, MG sold 546 cars, compared to 81 for the same period in 2013 - an increase of 574 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2013. This was also an industry best.

Overall, the figures mean MG has already sold more cars in the UK this year than it did in the whole of 2013."

Its a bit meaningless in context, to say they are the fastest uk growing manufacture is nonsense as 400 percent increase of fk all is still fk all. Selective journalism at its best. Plus if you have ever sat in one all its missing is a flux capacitor as its that fking dated.

[moanthebairns]

to add, mg registered 2500 cars last month, that's registering not selling with 77 dealers nationwide in the uk. That's 2.7 cars each month per dealer.

[Prof Prolapse]

Well said MTB.

MG, another sad story of the death of British industry where we all look at it through rose tinted glasses,blame market forces when actually it failed because it didn't have a genuinely fresh idea since the 1970s.

Load of st. Let the Chinese have it.

[moanthebairns]

Just texted my mate who works for Fiat in Edinburgh. They sold 155 cars last month. And that wasn't even a busy month.

[Prof Prolapse]

Biker's Nemesis said:

I was riding around on my 1000cc Exup and driving a 2ltr MK2 Escort when I was 23.

At 23, I had a second hand V8 Jaguar XJR and thought bikes were for lunatics. Now I have a rusty Ford C-Max and a 16 year old Honda.

So its great seeing my life is moving in the right direction.

[Iang84]

moanthebairns said:

Iang84 said:

Might be better looking for something a bit unusual for your age again I changed from a 1.1 metro to a 1.8 mondeo at your age and halved my insurance admittedly that was a few years ago but should still hold principle, shame about the juke though they are a decent car to drive even if they are an acquired taste looks wise

Going on that logic he should buy a new MG. I think in April 2013 Mg managed to sell 13 cars in the whole of the uk.

If it works for him then why not, but I was thinking something a bit more mainstream such as some of the newer Volvos/Kias which have lots of toys but aren't necessarily on most young peoples radar when it comes to cars

[Baryonyx]

Prof Prolapse said:

At 23, I had a second hand V8 Jaguar XJR and thought bikes were for lunatics. Now I have a rusty Ford C-Max and a 16 year old Honda.

So its great seeing my life is moving in the right direction.

At 23 I had an MR2 Turbo. Next year I'll have a Prius and a Triumph Daytona and I'll probably be more content with that! I'd have another MR2 Turbo but no back seats means it's off the cards...

[Prof Prolapse]

I had an MR2 tubby at 22. It was distastefully modified by someone else, a hybrid turbo, and a Dastek piggy back ECU. A full set of TEINs adjustable suspension as well. I have a dyno printout with 283bhp but I never worked out if that was the wheel. As it felt too mental to be the crank.

Utter deathtrap. It used to have almost no power and then feel like it was going to rip your face off. It wanted to spin every time you got the power even slightly down in the damp.

Cost me about £2,000 in repairs in the year or so I owned it.

I really fancy a BEAMS one these days.

[Yazza54]

I built this at 19




Which got written off although not my fault..!


Had this at 20







To be honest, I'm happier now with a turbo diesel Astra on the road and two bikes in the garage. 3 would be better though.

Edited by Yazza54 on Tuesday 15th September 11:38

[Fleegle]

I bought a brand new Nova

[moanthebairns]

I built a wall when I was 19.

Admittedly I had put a fork lift through the previous wall just days before.

[Mr2Mike]

Prof Prolapse said:

I had an MR2 tubby at 22.

I'm sorry to hear that. I had an MR2 Turbo about 10 years ago, presumably a much lighter car or perhaps one not designed by colourful children's characters that live inside a grassy hill.

[Hooli]

Fleegle said:

I bought a brand new Nova

For the love of god, why?

[Fleegle]

Hooli said:

Fleegle said:

I bought a brand new Nova

For the love of god, why?

There's not many cars that will do 125,000 with only a new set of plugs and points. The only time it went in a garage was for it's 500 mile service, MOT's or new tyres. The engine was still going strong when I got rid of it.

The only reason I got it was because of the insurance deals they were doing. My ex had a very poor track record on writing cars off

[catso]