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Motorcycle Discussions => Japanese Bikes => Topic started by: Coalhouse_Fort on September 11, 2005, 05:12:16 PM
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So here we are a nice Sunday a bit damp.
What was your first Jap Bike?
Mine was a 1973 FS1E UMC 70M
I was brought it by my parents for my 16th Birthday which is December 24th but I had it a month before and managed 35 miles up and down my parents driveway. I covered 13'000 miles (YES THOUSAND) in 1974 until I picked up my RD250A on 24th December 1974, I have a picture somewhere will try to sort it out.
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Hi,my first Japanese bike was a 1976 TY80 when I was six years old.It was quit a handful at that age LOL.
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G'day,
Mine was honda 90s 65 model.
Then I went the whole hog and brought a new CB77 in feb 66 still got it after racing it a few years.
I obtained a 250 dream with no front wheel and a leaking head gasket for $15 that was fun with my racing wheel on it.
later I brought a new CB250 sports 69 model. then an sl175 best fun lil bike with twin upswept pipes sounded like an mgb.
um then.. brought a CX 500 and didnt like it. too heavy dont like shaft drives at all. handled like a harley rotary hoe.
any one know of a pic of the honda 125 5cylinder its not in this site. and I'm lookin for a honda cbx 250 6
Cheers Neil
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G'day, Sorry. that pic is gigantic and I reduced it heaps.
Cheers Neil
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Mine was a 1962 50cc M15 Suzuki. I was in the RAF and bought it new when I was posted to Aden. 1962 was the first year they ran a 50cc class in the IoM TT which Suzuki won. I was so fascinated I just had to have one. It started a love affair with small Suzuki two strokes that lasted the next 30 years. I'd still be buying them if they made 'em for normal road use.
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Yeah Bob,
that 50cc suzy with the 14 speed rotary gearbox was a ripper,
The blokes that rode those things had no fear. Being in Oz, I didn't get to see too many great bikes.
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hi iv just got a ty175 hear it is
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First bike?? In 1976 I bought a Honda CB250G5. And if you tell anyone, I'll track you down! :D
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;D ;D Hi all my first bike was aSuzuki AP 50 and it was brill sped along at @ 55 mph 60 with a wind downhill Im still on bikes 30years later CBR 600 f/h
Dom
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I picked up an 1982 750 Maxim for all of $400 back in 1995. Not much to look at but a damn near indestructible bike.
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First bike was an AR80 Kawa. when iwas seventeen, got for 80 quid. Loved it
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My 1st was a TL125 Honda trials bike, my brother lent me it indefinately!!
My first road bike was a Kwaka Z200, passed mi test and purchased a CX500, then my best ever, even tday was a mint GS1000, wish i had kept it!!!
Jamie
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well, i just got my first bike last fall. a 1979 yamaha xs 650 special. I haven't had it out on the street yet, but will very soon.
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I got a CB100N (built in 1981 I think?) for £125. Loved it and ran it into the ground!! Re-built it before selling it on 4 years later...
Reliving the memories in a way as I've just got a CB550F... Come on Summer (and the spark plugs to get it working!!)
::)
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it was a cb250n superdream for me .it ended up being tuned and chopped.poor thing.
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My first Jap after Bantams and a 125 Benelli, Cotton Arrow and sundry others was a 1978 RD250 with a coffin tank. Tyres were TT100s which were well worn - "put on some Michelins" said a biker friend so I did and the handling got really scary. Used it 60 miles a day to work and back and eventually holed a piston so I bought a 1976 Honda 400/4 which was a truly great bike until I got hit by a car. Kept the wreck to rebuild but never got it done and finally parted with it 10 years ago but still regret it sometimes.
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Mine was the yamaha yds3 good machine pain in the ass electrics.
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Mine was the yamaha yds3 good machine pain in the ass electrics.
same here, a 1966 yds3, a lovely sound but the voltage regulator used to play up.
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1976 AP50 :)
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My one and only jap bike was a 1976 Honda 400F. Great performance, 12000 rpm, oil tight, reliable - and boring as hell.
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Hi All
First Jap bike was a 1975 FSIE, already thrashed to hell but I didn't care, 58 mph down hill flat on the tank I was the biz.
One new crankshaft, head etc etc later, I wasn't so impressed or rich.
Anyhow moved onto a 1976 Suzuki GT250 which I still have but hasn't been on the road since 2000
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first jap bike suzuki 250gt early 70s vintage.a lot of fun was had on that bike,some great rideouts on antrim coast road to giants causeway and portrush,happy days.currently on another old jap,1985 honda shadow vt750.
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A suzuki "Super-six" ... I wanted to be like everyone else and get a Bonnie or a 650SS but my dad forbade me from anything bigger that a 250 for a year (this was 1966-7). Im pretty sure that Suzi would run rings around those english twins at the time, hahaha
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hi, mine was a fs1e it was a 1975 gold colour it didnt last long then i saved all my wages and brought a fs1edx yellow/black looked the bollocks but again didnt last long smashed it up, then a ap50 this was the best of the bunch 58mph down hill with my feet on the rear indicators all this was in 1982 and in 2006 i am riding a cbr10000rr :D
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yamaha as1 bought off my brothers mate for 40quid me an my mates thrashed around the feilds it for about 3 weeks then the electrics played up so i sold it back to the chap i bought it off
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can't remember if it was a suzuki 250 super six or 250 hustler. if i manage to send a picture of me on the bike maybe somebody can tell me
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Hi all
My first Jap bike was a 1976 Honda CB200 in red. The thing had a cable disc, great in winter!. Bought it in October did the RAC/ACU (parents demand) passed my test in January I think and chopped it in for a Honda 550 K3 in April after 6 thousand mls. Kept the K3 for a year chopped that in after 12000 mls for a Suzuki GS 1000. :-
Grizzly
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;DMine was a 1981 GS550L. great fun :D
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Started with a FS1E when I was 16 (1979), can't remember what year the bike was, possibly N reg?
Then a SL125 which had a Dixon Racing 140cc big bore kit (part of their 550 upgrade kit I think? (they still around in Godalming?) - brilliant mudplugger of a bike, with great balance. Used it for loads of trialling, green lanes and enduros until it expired. :(
Replaced with a brand new DT175MX (reg was JWV ???W iirc). Bought it from Leask in Crawley, and again used every day plus plenty of laning and enduros on that. Good ol' days on Weavers Down :)
Went onto pure enduro machines after that - a Sachs engined special, built by PBH motorcycles who were around Caterham or Coulsdon (somewhere in Sth London, anyway), so no more Jap for the time...
regards, Phil
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Super six .CJK 49D . i was 16ish L plate and i could live with any thing up to about 120 ok[90]. Made my teeth chatter at least 10 times on first day. the tyers where great lol.
Dave
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1967 honda cd175. Brill little bike, took me plus 15 stone mate and half a ton of camping eqpmt to rallies all over britain with Honda owners club.. Never let me down in 35000 miles until I part exed it for a cb450. 80 mph and 75 mpg.
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My first Jap bike was, of course, a FS1E. It was gold in colour and bought for £40 when I was fifteen. I resprayed the frame, tidied it up and MOT'd it ready for my sixteenth birthday.
Kept it for a year even went to the Lake District on it from Hertfordshire; never had a problem with it. ;D
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:D :D my first Japper was a Kawasaki W2,
Followed by numerous Honda 750/4's..
Kawasaki's galore....
and my last one was a VF1000F2
OMG dont things change over 40 years... :o
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My first was a brand new 1976 RM125S (Still have it in box's)
The following year it was a 1974 Kawasaki S1B 250 Triple. :) ......... followed by a 73 T100T,first Kawasaki H2 in 1980 (still have it)..Z1000J...78 CBX/6 and so on.
Somehow Ducati Beveldrives slipped in from 1983 to the present.
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My first bike was a Suzuki B120P (well you gotta start somewhere.... ;D). Which I learned to ride up and down my brother's driveway, before venturing out onto the road. That was in 1976. A great little machine, and fairly fast, too, considering that it was only meant as a slow ol' commuter machine. I once saw 80 on the clock, going down Swanscombe cutting two up....then the engine began to nip up! Hardly surprising really...but it survived to fight another day! Then I had a succession of Honda 250s of various guises, a couple of MZs, and then a couple of CX500s, but they were two and a half decades apart. And thats what I have now, a black and red CX500a with only 22,600 miles on the clock. Have only had it a month or so, but I love it already. Don't listen to what the majority say (thats the 'majority' who've never even ridden one...), they are great bikes that handle pretty well. I'd love to hear from any other CX'ers out there and maybe swap tales of dering-do... 8) 8)
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started on a c90 when 7/8 on the farm, first bike legaly on the road was a Honda MT50(with a h100 engine) followed by a cg125 then a cb100 with an alpha exhaust and 125 head/carb - good for 80mph! then several small hondas a gs850 with a gsx head that used to snap shafts :-) and a full yoshi kitted 400/4 that ate lc's - that upset them - a 10 year old 4 stroke faster,a Gpz with a lot of harris goodies but as soon as I passed my test they were only work bikes - the bonnie is for fun.
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G'day All,
My first bike and the one I learnt to ride on when I was 14 was a Honda C70 stepthrough on the farm rounding up cows. They were slow dairy cows ;D ;D
First bike on the road at 16 and 9 months was a Honda XL 250 motorsport silver tank. WooHoo! When I got my full license I bought a Yamaha RD400. evil wicked and FAST!
Just bought my first old bike, a 1967 Yamaha G3 80cc two-stroke. I know, another Yamaha two-stroke
:-/
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Just thinking about it, my first was a c90 stepthrough (R reg) when i was a lad for use in the fields.
I then bought a customised 250 superdream and a honda 125 but never got round to getting my license so sold them on.
This year I bought a CBR1000fl, passed my test then got it on the road. Always wanting an old bike, I've now bought a honda cd250 k0 (i think) and a gsxr400 (1985).
An i thought i'd not had many!
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Mine was a 1975 Fizzy (Yamaha FS1-E) which I saved for from my £23 per week wages 31yrs ago. (is it really that long :o)
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its ok maddog mcq g5s were cool my one was ayear older with straighthrough exhaust ....
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My first was a 1981 Suzuki CS125 roadie scooter in about 1996.
In 1999 I bought my current 1973 Honda CB350F. Since then I've also owned a 1996 Honda C90. But that's about it for Jap bikes, though my current Aprilia 250 scooter has a Yamaha engine -does that count?
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Mine was a 1971 CB175, twin cylinders, twin carb, 95km/h max with no wind, but what a reliable and easy to handle machine. I got it so loaded up with passenger, groceries and all that I had to redo the back wheel spokes after I broke a couple...
The only trouble I ever had was a failure of the oil seal that protected the contact points: nothing major, but I needed a towing to the dealer.
Picture is at http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Honda%20Bikes/pages/Honda-CB175-71.htm
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My first rice burner (and my 2nd last) after a succession of Brit tackle was a brand spanking new CB900FA bought in may 1980 for the princely sum of £1600 from DC Cook in Goldthorpe S Yorks. I loved it to bits and courted my wife on it. I still have the wife but sadly the Honda has gone, maybe theres a lesson to be learned in this story somewhere....
Frank
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My first and only bike is a 1978 Honda CB 750k
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Mine was a '66 Yamaha YDS-3 250cc. My first bike that parts didn't fall off or need daily repairs. Loved It.
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It was around 1976 in Newfoundland (think 1876 anywhere else in the western world). I was 13. A wave of hysteria swept thru my town and all my friends suddenly were bombing round on Japanese bikes. Half of them had 100cc Kawasaki street bikes which was odd. I mean you should have seen the roads in this place.
I got a 100cc Yamaha Enduro. Brightest yellow with black lines. It was great for on and off road. We drove without helmets most of the time. Regional cops had a hell of a time. They'd flash the lights and we'd fly off thru some field spattering dung evereywhere.
This bike was passed on to my younger brother and then onto another brother and later to a cousin. I last saw it about 10 yrs ago. None of the electrical worked and it looked like shit but was still going and making some kid laugh.
The bike that wouldn't die.
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mine was a honda xr75 about 73 or 74
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1969 Honda CD175 Twin.
Thought it was really modern and fast, for about a week ;D
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I had a A7 Kawasaki -- damm leathal machine --4000 rpm and front wheel started to lift--called widowmakers in the states-- felt like they had a hinge in the middle at high speed --still alive though. Now on a 1950? power pac and a sh50 Yamaha --- a bit different. donw1@xtra.co.nz