Teenage Two Stroke Tearaway Tales

[AMCrebel]

Allowed you to ride a 250 on L plates because much safer

I am old enough to have legally ridden my 250 on L plates without needing one of those.

[brandersnatch]

Allowed you to ride a 250 on L plates because much safer

I am old enough to have legally ridden my 250 on L plates without needing one of those.

#metoo. Passed test in 1980 on a Kawasaki Z250. JML146W. (You never forget your first love.) I did once see a Laverda Jota on L plates with a Sidewinder attached.

[Drum]

That must be what I'm thinking of. Prior to 1983 you could learn on anything up to 250cc. Afterwards, you had to get rid of it or put a sidewinder on it.

I was only 14 at the time so wasn't legal on my XL250S anyway
The country roads were quiet in those days.

[Yellowperil]

Just remembered,, one of the lads in the next village had one of these.

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An easy rider X1

[christine]

I wasn't allowed a motorbike as they were "deathtraps..." .
I had a 2T go kart though, and i crashed into the village policeman on his Honda cd200 noddy bike

[christine]

Later i bought a Bultaco 325 sherpa t and hid it behind the shed so my mum didn't know.... i was about 25 by then .They went out ..I got the bike out rode it down the lane to the common land . ..Now the bloke i bought it from was pretty good at trials riding and jumping it over obstacles looked piss easy .. That restored BSA 350 i pictured a few weeks ago ? Well it was him that sold it me..
So i thought i'd start on a rock the size of a breeze block ...Well , i got a bit of speed up ...hit the rock, the front wheel stopped dead and i go over the handlebars ... and the fucking thing landed on me ..chain zizzing one leg ,the zorst burning the other ....i would never walk again i was gunna die ....the kill switch didn't work...and the chain saw was going at my leg still .. After a while it stopped .. Amazingly i still had 2 legs ...i managed to get it off me ,pushed it home and re hid it ...fucking thing ... sold it a few days later .. Now if i had been allowed one at 16 , i would have known how to ride one eh ? Or dead ..

[Asimo]

Once spent a whole Wednesday “games period” pushing a classmate’s Villiers Starmaker-engined MX bike, trying to start the bastard thing. Circuit-training AND a cross-country would have been less of a work out. Couldn’t get his Ariel Leader to run either. This was probably a good job as the spine frame had a massive crack and there was no saddle.

Still aware of the shoulder injury caused by starting a Stormer trials bike in 1st gear after stalling whilst trying to ride up a cliff / slope. Don’t let anyone tell you ‘strokers have no low-end torque.