Which Bike did you take your Test on?

[royum]

[quote=stevel;102853]

Originally Posted by cooleronthecoast

My RD200 Yammy, the date Feb 1976, bloody 'ell thats over 30 years ago.
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And what a summer that was, ladybirds everywhere, went on for months, and the Eagles did Hotel California. I had a 400/4 after the crap old Triumph and a rather exotic girlfriend for a few weeks, happy days or WHAT??!!

Stevel, Hotel California was surely 1977?

1976 was Dancing Queen by Abba which knocked Elton John and Kiki Dee off the number one slot in August I think. Ah the Youth Club Disco, platforms and no punk just yet. An endless Summer, well May to September it didn't rain once. The Prime Minister resigned (oops no politics allowed) and the country went into debt with the IMF, quite a summer. 30 years later and we get the same again, but wet!

Top hits of 1976?
1Brotherhood of ManSave Your Kisses For Me
2Elton John & Kiki DeeDon't Go Breaking My Heart
3PussycatMississippi
4AbbaDancing Queen
5Dr. HookA Little Bit More
6ChicagoIf You Leave Me Now
7AbbaFernando
8Tina CharlesI Love To Love
9Demis RoussosThe Roussos Phenonemon (EP)
10ShowaddywaddyUnder The Moon Of Love

[Lin]

GS500 for me. It were a right nail too.

[Bananaduke]

I did mine on a Aprilia RS125.

Great bike, but it has an aweful turning circle. The tester took me to an extra wide road to do my u-turn because he knew how bad it was.

[Rossman_999]

Ah the LC there was a bike to dream about, I still want one! I just wonder how good they would actually be 20+ years later.

One week after my 17th Birthday I passed my test on my GSX250, this felt so fast (but could not reach the ton, without resorting to "extrream aerodynamics") compaired to the MT50 that I ran about on as a 16 year old

[Dave748]

This thread has certainly brought back the memories and lots of old photos!! Great, isn't it!

[stevel]

[quote=royum;102893]

Originally Posted by stevel

Stevel, Hotel California was surely 1977?

1976 was Dancing Queen by Abba which knocked Elton John and Kiki Dee off the number one slot in August I think. Ah the Youth Club Disco, platforms and no punk just yet. An endless Summer, well May to September it didn't rain once. The Prime Minister resigned (oops no politics allowed) and the country went into debt with the IMF, quite a summer. 30 years later and we get the same again, but wet!

Top hits of 1976?
1Brotherhood of ManSave Your Kisses For Me
2Elton John & Kiki DeeDon't Go Breaking My Heart
3PussycatMississippi
4AbbaDancing Queen
5Dr. HookA Little Bit More
6ChicagoIf You Leave Me Now
7AbbaFernando
8Tina CharlesI Love To Love
9Demis RoussosThe Roussos Phenonemon (EP)
10ShowaddywaddyUnder The Moon Of Love

Come on Roy, cut me some slack man....it was ages ago!! On reflection you maybe right, it's all blended into one.........great though innit?!

[royum]

[quote=stevel;103078]

Originally Posted by royum

Come on Roy, cut me some slack man....it was ages ago!! On reflection you maybe right, it's all blended into one.........great though innit?!

Yer right of course Stevel, it was a long time ago, but it's still a tremendous album, consider the slack cut.

Originally Posted by Rossman_999

Ah the LC there was a bike to dream about, I still want one! I just wonder how good they would actually be 20+ years later.

Rossman I bought the 400 version of the 250 I passed my test on trusting that the years would be kind. It's a lump even with the extra horsepower! Funny how I can remember treating the 250 with deep respect even though it would struggle to 95mph on the clock.

So for both Stevel and Rossman I bow unreservedly to the fact that the passage of time is not only unkind to machinery, but to the old body and brain too.

[Herb]

Honda C50 in 1988, then onto a Honda CBX250RS which I loved until the crank siezed.

[Dan]

This is the badboy I took my test on.... 100cc of pure unleashes aggression!

I always thought it amazing that if I had the cash, the day after passing my test I could have gone and bought a ZZR 1100... scary! But I loved zooming around the country lanes on the RXS in the rain, happy days.

[harriebird]

i almost got one of those but having done my CBT and a few lessons on the H100 i went for what i knew.....

mine was dearly loved, and i recently met someone else who still has one (37000 miles!) and it made me all misty eyed!

[tdijam]

I passed my test in 1972, on a 1971 250cc YDS7 Yamaha, my first brand new bike.

[Duke of Wales]

Originally Posted by Dave748

This thread has certainly brought back the memories and lots of old photos!! Great, isn't it!

Totally agree . Great Trip Down Memory Lane ...
Approx 3 yr's ago i sourced a Yamaha fs1e-dx off e-bay , same as the one i had way back when , at the age of 16 . It has'nt moved since , but i get great pleasure avin a peep at it everytime i get the Duke out of the shed ... (av tried to attatch a photo , but failed badly !!!) ...

[Eviltwin]

cb 500 honda 2001 ish

[moto-boy]

passed in june 1979 - Suzuki GT 185 , it had a clever start system that as i remember reversed the polarity in the alternator and used it as a starter motor , cool back then !!

[OogieBoogie]

Mine in 81 was a 74 round tank RD200 that refused to start, with the examinner on the pavement checking his watch, had to bump the pig!

Couldn't believe I actually passed after that!