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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 17:42:31 GMT
For me it happened in 1988......summer time. I knew there was an old moped in my granddads shed for some time and one day when we were working on his garden he said 'have this'.....it turned out to be a red PC50 registered in 1972 - JOU 531L.
As a 14 year old kid, the sense of importance I felt owning a motor vehicle was immense - being in charge of something that had an engineand a log book......a real identity....it really meant something to me.
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Post by BritPete on Jul 16, 2017 17:51:17 GMT
June 1980 - Just left school - off to college in October - been working a Saturday job - told my Parents going to buy a bike.....and they just let me do it!
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Post by kickstart on Jul 16, 2017 18:15:35 GMT
My god parents lived next door, there was some sorta moped and a BSA bantam always being tampered with and pre helmet days my godfather who was an excellent bloke used to take me miles sat on the gas tank on the back of his ped , I reckon it,s that , I was very fortunate and motorcycles always make me smile , so sonny thank you x
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Post by Somersetdreamer on Jul 16, 2017 18:38:28 GMT
For me I had moved away from wrantage in Oxfordshire at 13 & on a visit to see my best mate from that town he had got hold of a old Honda c50 step through & we spent days riding it around the fields (&isome roads  ) I was hooked, around 6 months later I begged my dad to drive back to Oxfordshire & I brought it from him, I lived right on the edge of Rutland water & some of you have been there on a meet, I used to ride it around the bit in the middle of Rutland water there is a off road track right the way around, I bet no one would be able to do that now though the fun police will have removed that for all the youngsters today, anyway that's what got me hooked  |
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Post by kickstart on Jul 16, 2017 18:44:10 GMT
For me I had moved away from wrantage in Oxfordshire at 13 & on a visit to see my best mate from that town he had got hold of a old Honda c50 step through & we spent days riding it around the fields (&isome roads ) I was hooked, around 6 months later I begged my dad to drive back to Oxfordshire & I brought it from him, I lived right on the edge of Rutland water & some of you have been there on a meet, I used to ride it around the bit in the middle of Rutland water there is a off road track right the way around, I bet no one would be able to do that now though the fun police will have removed that for all the youngsters today, anyway that's what got me hooked Sounds like heaven , the good old days 😀 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 20:20:29 GMT
cannot remember a time i didnt like m/bikes used to lie in bed on a night reading the old m/cycle mags,i too got my first bike at 13 seems a popular age for starting my firrst bike was a 350cc AJS single i bought it for 15 pounds never been without a bike since
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Post by terryc on Jul 16, 2017 22:12:28 GMT
Plain and simple my mates talked me into it I wanted a Moggy 1000
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 8:34:35 GMT
youve got good mates
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Post by marktrower on Jul 17, 2017 9:48:49 GMT
Nether got in to bikes more brought up with them,John and Ernie my mom's twin brothers big bikers only had girls so I was it .I was 8 when I got my first bike a plunger model bantam nether been without one since.they just not got me into bikes they planted the seeds to my career in engineering.
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Post by davefirestorm on Jul 17, 2017 9:57:42 GMT
Sisters boyfriend in 1967 (I was 13)took me on back of his Triumph 21. Been hooked ever since although Lambrettas were my first love
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Post by stevegbr on Jul 17, 2017 11:35:12 GMT
my father had a few motorbikes when i was younger, i still remember the black ajs parked in the front room, when you are a kid
you were not allowed to go in there, it was for visitors and family, anyway thats what started my fascination with them, in them days
when you went out it was just the ignition key you had to remember, not like now, phone, wallet, glasses, ete etc.
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Post by wazzbo on Jul 17, 2017 12:09:58 GMT
My old fella was bike mad so I've been around them fo as long as I remember, the first one I rode was an old bantam that he brought home when I was about eight took me nearly. 2 years on and off to get it going and I've loved bikes ever since.😊
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Post by terryc on Jul 17, 2017 12:48:01 GMT
Still have Brian we've all been mates now for fifty years or more oddly enough I bumped into one of them in Hornsea yesterday he was on his hols with his wife and grandaughter he collected my 250 SD for me in his van five years ago and him (Steve ) and his brother John have been very good mates since Junior school theres two or three more who i've known since senior school as well but we've never lost touch and we can just pick it up like we've never been apart whenever we meet up .Good mates all |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 19:59:56 GMT
its good when its like that
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Post by daved on Jul 21, 2017 6:56:34 GMT
Was 1981 for me and as a teenager aged 16 I needed transport to get to college which was a 45 mile journey. Went strawberry picking in the summer hols and purchased a Honda SS50-5 speed which served me well up until the Christmas that year when some kind soul liberated it from under its cover at the rear of the college residence where I lived during the week. Mum and Dad helped with a deposit on a shiny new Kawasaki KH100 which I had to wait until my 17th on January 25th to ride legally, although I had it already run in well before then just pottering around the housing estate ;-)
Rarely been without a 2 wheeled vehicle of some kind ever since. Happy days :-)
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) I was hooked, around 6 months later I begged my dad to drive back to Oxfordshire & I brought it from him, I lived right on the edge of Rutland water & some of you have been there on a meet, I used to ride it around the bit in the middle of Rutland water there is a off road track right the way around, I bet no one would be able to do that now though the fun police will have removed that for all the youngsters today, anyway that's what got me hooked 
