I've got an 18 gear Raleigh

The RG 500 Gamma I had a picture of that on my bedroom Wall for a while

it was the bike I always wanted but everyone said why only move up from a 350 to a 500 you may as well get a 750 or 900 etc... I never did upgrade I met a girl and got a fiesta instead.


there was a mechanic at a garage in stockton heath that said he could put a competiton powervalve on my lc for me and it would do 130 mph i never took him up on the offer, it was probably wise.

anyway an image of my first bike, I had a matching yellow and blue AGV helmet too. this was indestructable though I got hit by a car near james lee house about 3 months after getting it i made a mess of an 80's Casual leather jacket but the bike hardly got a scratch


my dad brought a gp 125 home one day he was like that..! it was a mess but we did it up an sold it for a small profit (and when no one was home I took it out for many an illegal test drive)


amazingly i cant find a picture anywhere of an All REd RD 125 like the one I had but it was the same style as this and was a brilliant bike


but this is my favourite ever bike and if I could go back in time it would be to 1986 when I bought this


then probably some 9 years later I had one of these for 12 months, took a while to get my eye in but I did really enjoy it...but drove it like a dick reallly.


My Leather jacket is still in the bedroom wardrobe just to keep the fire burning I havent given up hope of biking...

loving the RD125.... the TZR i had was just a newer version.. deltabox frame and a nice fairing.

i learnt to ride on a beat up CG125... what an animal... it took some stick that bike.. and it still got up off the floor for more off road hammerings.


The RG500 gamma was an amazing bit of kit.. i never owned one but a mate of mine did...he used to blow all the 750s off on that beast... temperamental as hell though.. which is 2 strokes for you.. the 500's were really prone to having spectacular engine blow outs... sometimes the engine would get so hot the piston rings would weld themselves to the inside of the sleeve and totally seize the engine... fun to ride though.... we were forever fixing 2 strokes in my mates gararge... head gaskets would blow all the time.... in the end we stopped buying them.. we made them out of cornflake boxes with a load of instant gasket.... worked just as well (only on 50's though).

that was the beauty of moving over to a 4 stroke.. no more pricey engine faults and no more 2-stroke oil.

I think once you have the biking bug its very hard to get rid of... infact i dont think it ever leaves you.

to answer the original query from wires 71



Good advice i was given once is 'make sure you get the bike that is the fastest for your personal taste.. there is nothing worse than getting a bike and then a few weeks later wishing it had more kick'... i made that mistake when i got the CBR600.... real gutless machine with a horrible riding position... i have never liked the fireblade range since... doesnt matter how fast they go.. you're is so far up in the air you end up doing life savers under your arm.... certainly not a bike to go all the way to the isle of man on anyway.

Harley V Rod

Weirdly looking at this thread I have been thinking about getting back on a bike, I passed my test way back in 1986 on a Suzuki GP100 (red with yellow stripe 70mph down Alder Lane in Burtonwood with a tail wind). Before that (at 16) I had a Yamaha TY50 trials bike and a Kawasaki AR50 that unfortunately used to catch fire from time to time. Only really nostalgic for the old sports peds though, re-living the days when me and my mates used to hang around on DT50s, MB5s, Fizzies, X1s and AP50s. Thinking about buying one to renovate as my eldest lad is not too far from being old enough to ride one. A renovated Fizzy pre 1977 can sell for over £3k now! The little two strokers are so much sheer fun. Like a fat girl, great to ride but a bit embarrassing to be seen on. Good sites; www.fs1e.co.uk/ www.sportsmoped.com/

Weirdly looking at this thread I have been thinking about getting back on a bike, I passed my test way back in 1986 on a Suzuki GP100 (red with yellow stripe 70mph down Alder Lane in Burtonwood with a tail wind). Before that (at 16) I had a Yamaha TY50 trials bike and a Kawasaki AR50 that unfortunately used to catch fire from time to time. Only really nostalgic for the old sports peds though, re-living the days when me and my mates used to hang around on DT50s, MB5s, Fizzies, X1s and AP50s. Thinking about buying one to renovate as my eldest lad is not too far from being old enough to ride one. A renovated Fizzy pre 1977 can sell for over £3k now! The little two strokers are so much sheer fun. Like a fat girl, great to ride but a bit embarrassing to be seen on. Good sites; www.fs1e.co.uk/ www.sportsmoped.com/

Had bikes since 1995 all Kawasaki's ZX6 ZX7 ZX9 ZX9 again ZX636 two ZX10 now ZX10 performance edition think we like Kawasaki's