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What were you riding at 12 ?

Wadders - 15/8/11 at 08:15 PM

Think i had a Honda 70 field bike at 12 which felt quite fast!

http://www.streetfire.net/video/Terry-Martin_170234.htm

ReMan - 15/8/11 at 08:27 PM

A chopped pushbike with extended forks and ape hangers

cryoman1965 - 15/8/11 at 08:29 PM

the girl next door

kevmcdo - 15/8/11 at 08:36 PM

Yamaha yz100 moto crosser, stupid fast at the time but sent me in the right direction

Toniq-r - 15/8/11 at 08:42 PM

MZ 50cc

lotusmadandy - 15/8/11 at 08:45 PM

I was riding a bright yellow Raleigh chopper

Andy

gavin174 - 15/8/11 at 08:47 PM

A CR500 field bike and a CB250 Superdream road bike
hopefully no police reading this!!!!

but would like to know what happened to him after.
cant seem to find anything other than the one video

deltron63 - 15/8/11 at 08:48 PM

Honda SS50

Volvorsport - 15/8/11 at 08:50 PM

raleigh burner - after my stryker got nicked .

UncleFista - 15/8/11 at 08:58 PM

martynrich67 - 15/8/11 at 09:04 PM

Yamaha TY175 in schoolboy trials

[Edited on 15/8/11 by martynrich67]

tompat3463 - 15/8/11 at 09:04 PM

Honda XL 125 with a bit of bike tube for the exhaust con pipe....came off on the exhaust side and scorched me leg... still got the scar.....

gazza285 - 15/8/11 at 09:08 PM

Montesa T15 cyclotrials bike.

27 years later I've just bought a Monty for myself to fall off.

skodaman - 15/8/11 at 09:34 PM

BSA Javelin (and shooting with a BSA Meteor.)

ali f27 - 15/8/11 at 09:37 PM

eileen down the village

skodaman - 15/8/11 at 09:41 PM

Wot u called ur motorbike Eileen?:

NigeEss - 15/8/11 at 09:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cryoman1965
the girl next door

Just spat my vino rouge on the keyboard

mark chandler - 15/8/11 at 09:50 PM

A lawn mower

slingshot2000 - 15/8/11 at 11:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cryoman1965
the girl next door

^^^^^^+1, I never realised why she was so popular until later

cryoman1965 - 15/8/11 at 11:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by skodaman
Wot u called ur motorbike Eileen?:

Dexies midnight runners later made a song about it.

N

snakebelly - 16/8/11 at 06:14 AM

The Darjeeling Himalayan railway

[Edited on 16/8/11 by snakebelly]

russbost - 16/8/11 at 06:55 AM

"A chopped pushbike with extended forks and ape hangers "

Ha Ha! Snap - absolutely spot on! (It didn't quite make 150mph however!!!)

shindha - 16/8/11 at 07:48 AM

Raliegh Chopper - painted BRG - very poorly.

ReMan - 16/8/11 at 07:50 AM

quote:
Originally posted by russbost
"A chopped pushbike with extended forks and ape hangers "

Ha Ha! Snap - absolutely spot on! (It didn't quite make 150mph however!!!)

I wish I could find a picture, I think it was painted with a peach dulux

shaft - 16/8/11 at 08:14 AM

a Raleigh Grifter......

looking back, how the hell did they make them so heavy?

kevmcdo - 16/8/11 at 08:25 AM

I remember how heavy my old Grifter was, cycling up any hill was a nightmare but going down was a hoot. Stable as an oil tanker in comparison to my mates Chopper though!!!!!

Peteff - 16/8/11 at 08:56 AM

When I was 12 I had a Hercules pushbike with rod brakes

Slater - 16/8/11 at 09:38 AM

I too had a grifter. I think it was a prototype BMX, the frame was made with heavy gauge scaffold poles and the seat was a house brick covered with thin rubber padding.

The 3 speed sturmey archer gears were great, the "slip" gear between 2nd and 3rd caught me out a few times and caused my nuts to crach into the crossbar.

scootz - 16/8/11 at 10:08 AM

Ah... Raleigh bikes of the late 70's and early 80's! Unbreakable!

If Tonka made bikes...

sucksqueezebangblow - 16/8/11 at 10:21 AM

A Lonnie Toft board with Gullwing trucks and Bones wheels. Didn't go that fast (probably 40 mph or so max) but lost a lot of skin and broke some bones trying!

MikeRJ - 16/8/11 at 11:26 AM

A Suzuki B100P converted to a field bike with longer rear shocks, plastic mudguards and a huge rear sprocket.

liam.mccaffrey - 16/8/11 at 11:38 AM

I had a Kawasaki KE 125, which had been converted to full field spec with no clocks or electrics and the knobbliest tyres in the world. My dad lovingly cut the corners off the knobbles with a stanley knife so it would go through the swing arm

I still have this bike in my shed

mangogrooveworkshop - 16/8/11 at 12:10 PM

First bike at 6 was honda 125 then we had a scrambler of some buffalo brand to tall for me so i would put it against the wall to start it..
.. then a move to the uk killed bikes for a while till dad bought the rd 400 whilst he had the bmw 600/6 with the touring pack. a puch moped and a fsie yamaha moped
then set out to get the uk bike licence so a c50 step thru was bought for 12 quid..... that went for ever till i moved back to africa.... then a 125 honda a 600 suzi then a 1000 suzi then the big crash destroying my right leg, ribcage , and a large amount of dermis off my back and legs then ziltch

splitrivet - 16/8/11 at 12:46 PM

A Norman Nippy (ask your grandad) cost me five bob.
Cheers,
Bob

[Edited on 16/8/11 by splitrivet]

Confused but excited. - 16/8/11 at 02:06 PM

BSA StarRider

mcerd1 - 16/8/11 at 02:13 PM

quote:
Originally posted by shaft
a Raleigh Grifter......

looking back, how the hell did they make them so heavy?

me too, although mine wasn't exactly new when I had it... (might still have it the shed somewhere)
re the weight: I think they filled the tubes with lead

actually that might be the same year I got the only new bike I've ever owned - a dayglow green pug (we are talking about 1994 here) although I'm colour blind and thought it was yellow for years

and back then my dad was always tring to get me to ride his majesty TY250 - but I always liked 4 wheels better, so he made us go-kart type things out of old lawnmowers

[Edited on 16/8/2011 by mcerd1]

kj - 16/8/11 at 02:38 PM

A grifter and a yamaha FS1E (50cc) canny quick at the time, on the field ( i am not that old )

spiderman - 16/8/11 at 03:00 PM

Horses a Bultaco Pursang 250 off road and a BSA C15 250 on road, hope Mr plod is not reading this!

Simon - 16/8/11 at 03:19 PM

Sunny and Firenza, our horses

ATB

Simon

Ninehigh - 16/8/11 at 05:07 PM

I had a frankenbike, made out of whatever bits could fit together...

Marcus - 17/8/11 at 05:26 PM

ok, embarrasing, but ......

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Got me a moped too, Demm Dove Mk 3....

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Awesome kit