What was your first Japanese Motorcycle

[montesaukr]

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.

[TERMINATOR]

Mine was the yamaha yds3 good machine pain in the ass electrics.

[ajaytibsy]

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.

[gordon750]

1976 AP50

[john-boy]

My one and only jap bike was a 1976 Honda 400F. Great performance, 12000 rpm, oil tight, reliable -  and boring as hell.

[SAMMAN]

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

[geordie]

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.

[Blue]

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

[flatout1966]

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

[sutty]

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

[bobber]

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

[Grizzly]

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

[c2518]

 ;DMine was a 1981 GS550L. great fun

[pae]

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

[Shirlot]

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