luckyrich
A Class Rider
Head in the clouds boy ,,,,,the old man was right then....smile.
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Post by luckyrich on Feb 14, 2010 10:37:51 GMT
 Just a bit of fun ,,,,,,,,,,can you remember your first ever go on a motor cycle My first ride was in 1967 ,,,,i was 12 & 1 of the kids at school got hold of a victoria moped ,,,,,we all raced it  on the local comon did us ok too,,,,,,,we all survived ok when we were old enough to get bikes on the road,,,,,pre moped law ;D  Never took to road bikes though , found it a bit flat First ever event was a Ringwood Trial in 1972 ....on a 4 speed bultaco ,,,,,,,,that was it the off road bug was in ,,,,,,,,never to be deleted,,,,,,,, ;D,,,,,rich.
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Post by superdream400 on Feb 14, 2010 16:40:17 GMT
Well way way back. in 1962. I was 12years old [not stone] it was unclethingys BSA c11g down in the water meadows i think i was flat out in2nd no wonder it started to rattle, Then it was a 1956 Frances Barnett 150plover on the road in 1967 that ended up in the front of a car first of my ofroader Dennis Kelly`s old 360 Greeves Challenger cost £150 of my own hard earned money(just in case the kids read this i did not have a dad that was soft as sh-t)that was 1971, first time out Kingbridge farm groverton devon.? steepest hill i have ever seen,I remember dropping over the top. My back wheel looking up so i clutched it I hit the stream at the bottom about 60mph. I remember telling the St Johns ambulance man to watch where he trod because I lost me glasses, happy days.(never did get much better) Nice one rich see you at the trial ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by anthill732 on Feb 14, 2010 18:24:13 GMT
the first time i ever rode a motorbike was all the way back in 1997! i was ten, after waiting 2 years for my dad to finish building the best motorcross bike for me (or thats what he strung me along to believe) he bought a puch maxi for my brother to ride round the garden. so one day whilst my dad was working and my brother was out i hopped on the little twist and go and took her for a spin round the garden. it was all going great untill going round a corner and i opened her up and i shot off over dads veg patch and rode in to his runner bean poles... i untangled it, parked it up and tried to repair the bean poles the best i could.. i never told him that so sorry dad...lol
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Post by whizzy on Feb 20, 2010 15:10:14 GMT
The first "bike" i bought myself was a Capri 89cc scooter, this was around 1970 when i was 12 (seems a good age to start ;D ) I had previously been riding around the local woods on mates bikes, one of which comes to mind was a NSU quickly. We had a chap who worked for us who used to ride a Puch Maxi to work and leave it our house, i don't think he ever realised i used to to ride it about when i got home from school  The Capri scooter was quickly followed by every version of the Bantam ever made except the Bushman, strange that a never owned one of those as converted most of them to off road. I had one with a full road race fairing which i used to ride on the road at 14  (can i still be prosecuted? if so somebody else wrote this ;D ) at night, but as it had no lights it was a tad dangerous so i sold it. By this time i was being paid for doing repair work on Bantams by various locals. My father was never keen on me competing so i had to wait until i was 16 for my first ride at a proper scramble- Yeo Vale at Aller i think. That was 1974 on my 250 Rickman Montesa. My father only ever came to watch me once, he was so nervous and white as a sheet all afternoon. I guess my riding "style" hasn't changed to much since ;D |
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Post by ebo2shocking on Feb 24, 2010 18:56:15 GMT
I started riding when i was 10, a mate had a Raleigh Runabout that for some reason was hidden in our local woods, I dont think it was stolen although we were not to tell anyone. I then got a bantam which i paid £12 for and my dads mate rebuilt it, it took forever but i still remember the feeling when it fired up,
We could not afford to race but a mate of mine rode in the horsham schoolboys and i used to watch him every week, he used to race against a little lad called Dave Thorpe---------
I only raced once then, borrowed a moto villa Next time on a bike was a few twinshock trials 6 years ago and started enduros at the ripe age of 47, must be mad,First motocross with you lads at penselwood, best day ever. got the bug and have now got a curtis to ride this year ,and i cant wait,
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Post by sonner1 on Mar 14, 2010 17:32:33 GMT
It was 1952, and father's trials Bantam. On a gravel farm track, I soon had the machine through a barb wire fence. Motor screamin' its nuts off, me hung up in the wire, blood all over and clothes ripped to shreds. Well I was only 6!! I gotta clout from the old man, and another clout and sent to bed from mother.However, the seeds were sown and that was the start of it all.
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Post by sonner1 on Mar 14, 2010 17:35:50 GMT
It was 1952, and father's trials Bantam. On a gravel farm track, I soon had the machine through a barb wire fence. Motor screamin' its nuts off, me hung up in the wire, blood all over and clothes ripped to shreds. Well I was only 6!! I gotta clout from the old man, and another clout and sent to bed from mother.However, the seeds were sown and that was the start of it all.
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Post by sonner1 on Mar 14, 2010 22:17:01 GMT
........been crashing through fences, ropes and tapes ever since!!!
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Post by monkeyboy on Apr 7, 2010 0:36:03 GMT
by lucky rich selling me one of his bikes that was in his loft,,,,,,,bad times,,,,,,,,and then selling me another one of his bikes that was in his loft as well,,,,,really bad times,,,,,,,,but i am now getting good times from the sounds of lovely 2strokes running,,,,,,much to my neighbours enjoyment. ;D ;D
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Just a bit of fun ,,,,,,,,,,can you remember your first ever go on a motor cycle 
on the local comon did us ok too,,,,,,,we all survived ok when we were old enough to get bikes on the road,,,,,pre moped law ;D 
(can i still be prosecuted? if so somebody else wrote this ;D ) at night, but as it had no lights it was a tad dangerous so i sold it. By this time i was being paid for doing repair work on Bantams by various locals.
