Which Bike did you take your Test on?

[Masher430]

Rd125LC in 1984.

Crashed and written off 2 weeks later.........................
Cage time for a while,left home,2 wheels again

[Paivi]

Am I really the only one never to have taken a bike test?

[Laz]

... I did it on my 350LC which had '250' side panels on it ... the coppers never looked hard enough or knew the difference (250s had single front disk).

How I wish I still had it now

http://www.leespeedracing.com/RD350LC.jpg

Snap-ish i did mine on an RD250LC but same colour as this one tho i had painted the frame blue and wheels white - trust me it looked better than it sounds!! What a bike they were!

Test was laughable back in the 80s !!

[749red]

Back in the middle ages (1978) my RD 250 gave up the ghost the day B4 my test - passed OK when my mates RD400 came to the rescue wearing my 250 side panels, No Plate & Tax Disc !!! Just couldn't happen these days could it !!

[Nigel101]

Honda Cb 250 NA Superdream,first bike ,we did it all, laughed ,cried,crashed,met a lot of plod,went everywhere,rode like idiots,out in all weathers,.......shaped my life one way or another......ok it wasnt the greatest bike ever built but it was mine and i was 17......

[Imola Duke]

1985 yamaha rsx 100, Then on to RD 250e silver 8)

[97Bip]

Ratty GS500 with crash bars, lever protectors, scratches rust and scuffs.

I gave it back to the school after the test, forgot it as I drove home and collected my KR1-S that very afternoon... Here's one just like it..



97.

[Duke of Pendle]

and my mate took his test on his Honda 250, can't remember the model.
However, this has a rather humerous aside;
I had three buddies who all had hondas. They decided it would look cool if they painted "Honda" on the back of their leather jackets.
None of them could speak Japanese, so they got their owners manuals out and proceeded to try and track down "Honda" from there. They found the phrase which occurred most frequently and got down to painting.
Some months later, mate no. 1's brother returned from Tokyo, where he had been working for the past two years.
Richard, "why have you got "Genuine Spare Part" written on your back?"

[Derek]

An Ariel Arrow Super Sport 250 2-stroke twin in 1968.

[Kenoir]

Do you have to do a test?

[David.Hicks]

Originally Posted by Paivi

Am I really the only one never to have taken a bike test?

How did you avoid that then Paivi?

Are Geckos exempt?

[johnrose]

ER5 N was awful! Really excited about first time on 'proper' bike and hated it

[Paivi]

Originally Posted by David.Hicks

How did you avoid that then Paivi?

Are Geckos exempt?

We are actually, as the tail gets in the way in the U-turns.

I got mine automatically with my car licence all those years ago. On the continent, that was the norm until the early 1990s, you see. 8)

[half man, half mole]

On a Vespa T5 back in the late eighties.

The Italian passion continues .

Mike

[stevel]

Originally Posted by Kenoir

Do you have to do a test?