Did you like bikes when you were a kid? Im relatively new to motorbiking, only passing my test in December 2005, but when I was a kid, I used to cause havoc on my blue BMX She was sooooo cool and I remember being about 10 and asking my mum what she thought of my new idea. I said I wanted to invent this new machine, which would be a bicycle with an engine. I was totally devastated when my mum told me that it had already been invented L I used to have a pedal gokart and a skateboard too. Weird how I didn’t really get into motorbikes until I was 26 though!?
we used to find lots of dumped C90’s…and various peds…when i was 14 i bougt two, a honda vision! and a buzzy honda thing, liek a bike frame but bigger with an engine…no pedals tho, funky thing…used to rie around teh estate etc
we used to play on them, then i got nicked again…and i get sent to a motoring project…we used to ride off road, green laning, moto x tracks etc, we had several DT125R’s that we tuned up and used, also various other bikes, ER185, DR200 my instructor at the project let me ride his YZ125…THAT THING WAS BONKERS!
done 4 days green laning in wales when i was 15, that was tough…but fun…we also maintained the bikes ourselves, and we built a kit car that was auctioned off for charity.
and a dune buggy style thingy…i owe the fellas down at that project alot…they put me on teh right path…i nevere got nicked or nicked anything again.
before all that i would regualry charge around epping forest on mountain bikes and BMX’s…lots of crashes lots of wrecked bikes!:w00t: i was known for jumping anything! not a hump to big!
Pretty much same as - spent my yoof on BMX’s and mountain bikes as was NEVER allowed a motorbike as a kid although did do a bit of MX with some mates ( never raced though )
Remember spending all my time when Mum used to take me shopping in a little Suzuki franchise in High Wycombe ( think it was called Coles ?? ) drooling over RG125’s and RGV250’s and obviously the GSXR range at the time - never thought I would ever be owning one myself at that time though !!
Got my license about 6 years ago and have never looked back since - should call these the " wonder years " when you are old enough to appreciate the finer things in life
Living on a farm was great growing up,i learnt to ride an xt round the fields like a nutter by the age of 12:D scaring sheep morning noon and night:P then my dad bought me a boiler suit then the penny dropped he expected me to work! :doze: but i was chuffed to bits when i got bought a kmx200 for me 14th birthday needless to say …i killed it within a year!:Whistling:
biking was my life when I was young, kept me nice and fit also. Until about 16 I was using my bike non stop, between 14 and 16 I was a paperboy so the bike was my way to do it very fast. I also had all kind of bikes, loved my BMX, fun bike:) Did about 60 miles one time, went with my mate on a road trip and loved it.
All about the BMX baby, I had loads but loved my Diamond backs. Broke my face on more than one occasion trying endo’s (rolling stoppies) This lasted til’ I was about 14 and shot up 5 inches in one summer and lost all my balance and beefed up time for a Yammie YZ125. Still way to big for a BMX so maybe I should build one for Gorrillas like me?
Used to go to a place in Dartford where some motorcross bloke called Dave Taylor had an off rd track for kids to go round. Started on a little PW50 with an auto box moving up to 80 & 100cc bikes with gears. When I was 17 had an NS125R but moved to London when I was 19 and had no where to store a bike so didn’t have one again for 10 years, although did hire one every now and again and had week ends away with mates
well my parents were bikers so i guess i was one of the lucky ones…i wanted to do motorcross…so my father made me work for the bike and he would pay the club fee’s…i mowed lawns the whole summer and he saw i was struggleing so went halfs with me on an old KX125…before i started moto x…i had to go a season with bmx so joined a club called ‘the brandon foxes’’ and raced a season with them…didnt come close to anything…but won a few races…
after that i then competed in moto x…i dislocated my thumb…tangled my boot into someone elses chain…and cost my parents a small fortune in plastics…but had a fairly good run untill i wanted to have a crack at speedway…thats when my parents said NO!!!#
after my first season…my bike got stolen out of my shed and all my gear along with it…i was devestated…and could never afford to repalce everything…so i carried on being a normal kid after that…but managed to get the western super mare under my belt…!!..that was my most memorable race ever…!
ive re-kindled this little flame and have a RM 125 that im putting back togeather…donated for free by a member on here…im gonna race it again…just once…lol
I wasn’t allowed to have my own bike when I was a teenager after my mum witnessed an horrific accident near where we lived. Strangely, she didn’t mind me riding pillion on my mates bikes- never quite worked that one out! Bought a C90 as soon as I left home to go to Poly. Why a C90?- it was absolutely the cheapest available secondhand bike at the time- mine cost me £40 to buy and about £5 a week to run
Like many others it seems I would ride my BMX like a mad man. I really liked MX bikes and would be envious of my friends getting 50cc crossers when they were 15-16.
I also used to travel to Sardinia a lot and hang out in the harbour looking at these lovely little round buzzers. I knew one day I would own a vespa.
A few years ago, we booked a weekend to the Isle of Wight, little did we know it was the scooter ralley weekend. I came home and bought my first Vespa (PX125) a couple of weeks later. Been hooked on scooters and bikes ever since
I had a Mongoose bmx and also when i was 10 years old i got my first motorbike a Puch 50 scrammbler and i loved it. At weekends put it on the trailer and of we go to a piece of land a ride it.
My pride and joy when I was a kid was my black special edition Raleigh Chopper(which I still have by the way rusting away in the garage). This was my first ‘proper’ bike as the previous one only had one gear. My mate had a Grifter which weighed in at 3tons. A crowd of us used to play chicken all the time with hilarious and sometimes almost fatal concequences. I still have a scar where the brake handle went through the inside of my elbow (and a scar to my cranium where my mum belted me around the head for being so stupid).
Used to love watching any motor racing esp. Speedway on Grandstand. Only times I ever got to ride a motorbike was when a mate would let me have ago on his 125 dirtbike. When I got older I always wanted to do my test and get my own bike but never had the time/spare money until now.
two memories of bikes as a kid 1st was used to have a red grifter, hanging around down the local park with a river going through it i was the first one to jump the river with out falling off!! that was until i tried to get back across , went over the handlebars put my arms out to save me right hand landed on a broken bottle went in the palm and out the back:w00t: , just missing main vains, the other was i was 16 and had a ts125 field bike me and my mate phil were riding it through the local woods just before dusk came back out towards entrance phil shouts watch the river , to late both ended up going over the handlebars phil landed in the stingers i landed in the river with the bike , what made it worse was a load of scouts laughing , pulled bike out and it started first time and shot off very embaresd
Way before bmx,s and around the time raleigh launched the ‘chopper’ in 1970 , the thing to do for kids whose parents couldnt even think about affording a real chopper was to get hold of a pair of 14" or even 16" 'apehanger 'handlebars .
My bike was handed down from my dad so was a full size mans bike with 3 speed sturmey archer hub gears,the brake cables were of course far too short for the new bars so the levers were attached either side of the stearing stem and therefore utterley out of reach . but the film easy rider had been launched a year earlier and despite being too young to watch it me and my mate were peter fonda and dennis hopper devotees .
I dont think i got it out of my system till i built my own chop about 20 yrs later
She was sooooo cool and I remember being about 10 and asking my mum what she thought of my new idea. I said I wanted to invent this new machine, which would be a bicycle with an engine. I was totally devastated when my mum told me that it had already been invented L I used to have a pedal gokart and a skateboard too. Weird how I didn’t really get into motorbikes until I was 26 though!?
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