Which Bike did you take your Test on? - Page 8

**Laz** · 21 Sep 07, 07:33 PM

Geez we're all showin our age a bit aint we!! Lots of FS1E boys on here!! I remember them all sooooo well too. I had an RD50 as my 1st road bike at 16 after an A100 and a TM100 then a RM125 and a DOT250 (dont ask my Da brought it home i think he stole it from a museum

) My mate had 1st 250LC in Ireland and i got to ride it when i was 15(ish) i had to wait til i was 20 befor ei got my own LC but boy i loved it and it did 105mph on the flat!!

**royum** · 21 Sep 07, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by tdijam

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

Good man, none of that Reed Valve, RD rubbish then! (ducks) and the fuel cap had "catch me if you can" around the tuning forks, magic!

**andrewmc83** · 21 Sep 07, 10:22 PM

mine was on a lovely example of a bike school CG125 with Sh** brakes, tyres, engine well everything! a crowbar was used to pull the rear brake leaver out from the previous drop before we went the test center. the emergency stop would have been faster if i'd have dragged my feet! but at least i was expected to cane it! and the speed limit wasn't in any danger. Theirs a lot to be said for a battered old piece of reliable punishable junk.

**Micky Mojo** · 09 Oct 07, 03:48 PM

1986 RD125LC B reg white with black speed blocks. I loved that bike.

**Dave101** · 09 Oct 07, 03:59 PM

it was a red one.
a 2005 kawasaki 500cc something or other.
DAS in 4 days, and passed 1st time. yessss!

**Dek999s** · 13 Oct 07, 04:44 AM

Suzuki GT250 in 1979, I inherited it from my mechanically dyslexic brother who thought it was shot, one woodruff key later and it became my pride and joy for years! Still remember now riding round and round the block waiting for the examiner to step out for my emergency stop Ha! oh how things have changed.

**Rob998** · 13 Oct 07, 01:17 PM

Ey-up Dek, we're in the same part of the world!

Suzuki GS500, then straight on to vee twins.............a Honda CX500 Eurosport, that had been round the world, literally, I had the write ups in some old bike mags (I'd never heard of the mag then, nor have I ever seen it since) to prove it. I bought it for £150 of a mate who'd dispatched on it in the smoke, totally neglected it & then finally got knocked off it by a taxi. The bike was as bad as you'd expect, but ran & had an MOT. My mates leg was in an Ilizarov cradle for months, & he still can't run, & if there was an MOT test for humans, he'd fail miserably!

Sold it a year later for £375, having done nothing to it apart from polish the comstars & t cut the paintwork & put air in the rear shock! Then started a dangerous addiction to ZXRs........

**Paivi** · 14 Oct 07, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Duke of Pendle

...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?"

I'm so going to paint 'Ricambio originale' on the back of my jacket!

**hughmark** · 14 Oct 07, 02:16 PM

1976 on a Honda 250. Test involved riding round a short circuit in Tunbridge Wells with the examiner watching you from afar. - that is until he jumped in front of you for the emergency stop! Wish I could have had the 250 Desmo Ducati at the time.

**theoldbuzzard** · 15 Jan 08, 01:50 PM

"B" reg' Suzuki 50, ("proper" motorbike, as in NOT step-through!). Yes that IS the original "B" reg'

as in 1964....but it was 4years old at the time.

I'll leave you to do the maths

**Monkey Boy** · 15 Jan 08, 03:40 PM

1992 on some 1985 Suzuki 100cc commuter.

It was actually borrowed from the council. Impossible to find neutral, brakes were non-existent, had this huge wooden DIY job on the front wheel to show the oversized L plate and the seat was damp from the heavy overnight rain getting into the cracks. It was the most awful bike I had ever ridden....

Even though I got a damp patch on my posterior (from the seat, mind) I, thankfully, got my full licence at the end of the test

**Jolley** · 15 Jan 08, 05:01 PM

Another Suzuki GS500 here... painted bright Orange!!

Failed first test due to a dabbed foot on my u-turn (only 2 minor faults, but dabbed foot is an automatic failure... bloody stupid rule!!!)

**David Matthews** · 15 Jan 08, 05:50 PM

CB200 in 1977 at Dorchester. Just had to ride around a couple of residential blocks. I think it would have been hard to fail.

**zap303** · 16 Jan 08, 10:25 PM

An awful looking bike the 2003 BMW F650 CS, but a really easy bike to do a U turn on, when you get the hang of it! Heated grips too, great when you do your test in a cold spell in December. I passed 1st time, god knows how, the tester took me to the tightest U turn road I had ever tried a U Turn on ever, me and the beemer got around it somehow.

**spike748** · 16 Jan 08, 11:11 PM

GS500 for me as well. The examiner followed me in his car as he had a bad dose of the "Johnny Giles" and could not get astride his Beemer!!

I had to ride round the block 3 times before he jumped out (very carefully) from behind a lampost for my E-stop!