I am 54 now but when I was a teen, 16 the right of passage to getting driving on the road was owning a "sports" moped. It had to have pedals but it could easily reach 50 mph if you laid prone over the tank!!!! It was all about who could go fastest!
We spent every hour sticking sports exhausts on and deafening the local community.
The choice wasn't only down to the 4 Japanese manufacturers. There was the Yamaha FS1-E aka the fizzy, the Suzuki Ap50, Honda SS50, Kawasaki but I can't remember the model number? Was it the 105e. There was a great debate about which was best. Until someone nicknamed animal pitched up on his Puch GPS!!!
If you wanted to be a bit more exotic there was the Puch Grand Prix, or the Italian Gilera's or in my case the Malaguti.
After that was a step up to the world of 250's or 400's, in my case an RD 250 with a coffin tank, white with red stripes. Popping wheelies like a lunatic:D
This all went on in the downtown streets of Beckenham.
But 38 years on my two best mates from meeting in those days, are still my best mates after all that time. We all have families, only one still rides a bike, so it isn't only bikes that have kept us together.
There must be other fizzy owners or riders of other makes of mopeds still about there who remember those days?
We spent every hour sticking sports exhausts on and deafening the local community.
The choice wasn't only down to the 4 Japanese manufacturers. There was the Yamaha FS1-E aka the fizzy, the Suzuki Ap50, Honda SS50, Kawasaki but I can't remember the model number? Was it the 105e. There was a great debate about which was best. Until someone nicknamed animal pitched up on his Puch GPS!!!
If you wanted to be a bit more exotic there was the Puch Grand Prix, or the Italian Gilera's or in my case the Malaguti.
After that was a step up to the world of 250's or 400's, in my case an RD 250 with a coffin tank, white with red stripes. Popping wheelies like a lunatic:D
This all went on in the downtown streets of Beckenham.
But 38 years on my two best mates from meeting in those days, are still my best mates after all that time. We all have families, only one still rides a bike, so it isn't only bikes that have kept us together.
There must be other fizzy owners or riders of other makes of mopeds still about there who remember those days?
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