What could you do on the first bike you had and can't do on your current one?

**Banditbandit** · 15th April 2013, 11:00

Strip it completely in the front room and rebuild it ...

**Banditbandit** · 15th April 2013, 11:07

Originally Posted by cruza

Geez you didn't even think about price of petrol back then......

Originally Posted by pete-blen

Fill it up for 85 cents..
Mow the lawn for $1 sat morn... then down
to the servo with a petrol can...
Then I could ride that little Benelli cut down scooter
mini bike thing all week..

I remember when I started work beer was 48 cents a jug and petrol was 49 cents a gallon - GALLON that is ... not litre ..

Originally Posted by BMWST?

48c a gallon and 48 c for a jug!Your post stirred my memory

Must have been a price rise ... 1 cent per Gallon.

**SMOKEU** · 15th April 2013, 11:59

I could lift my first bike (1977 CG125) fully off the ground by myself.

**leathel** · 15th April 2013, 12:22

I could wheel stand my first road reg bike ... for a little bit (only a 125), Leave to bike with the key in for months at a time.... Just didn't bother removing it.

No show wheel standing on the shadow.... No worries on the XR 250 but its not road Reg'd

But in no way do I wish to be back on the first bike... Regret selling the XR600 though and will get another at some stage.

**cheshirecat** · 15th April 2013, 15:23

Hm, First road bike was a CB160.
Stripping the thing down with just 10mm 12mm 14mm; having to de tune the twin leading shoe front brake in the wet, 12 volt electrics so the novelty of riding in the dark and actually seeing where you're going; setting the twin points by eye and a piece of card. Every ride an adventure - just getting back sometimes. Greasy Barbour jackets, watching BSA' and Norton owners having to kick start, Believing my CB160 wasn't that for removed from the IOM Hondas

**240** · 16th April 2013, 19:39

Me and a mate rode to Tauranga from Welly on a gt185 Suzuki in the mid 80s.
Had a steel 20l fuel can on the pack rack and my mate had a crate of piss on his.
I remember being on the desert road and a big Newmans bus was right up my arse and I was flat out at about 90ks. I can still recall seeing VOLVO in both of the mirrors of my bike and fucken shiitting myself as this bastard was right behind me and was taking the piss!

Fucken great times!!!Would I do it again on a bike like this???????? Yeah probably to be honest but the chances are no one else I know would do it with me and my current bike would get there on 1 refill and with heated grips as well!!
This is why I am SERIOUSLY looking to buy a classic gt380-750 or Kawa triple (or anything of this area other than Honda really)!!

To add to my garage.
Then fuck it i'm off again but his time said fucken large volvo coach bus can smell my dirty,oily,smelly,larger capacity 2 stroke arse and kiss my oily chrome exhaust!
(now all i gotta do is get a larger steel fuel can)

**Matariki** · 16th April 2013, 19:45

I could actually ride my old bike without too much hassle (Suzuki GN250). With my current bike being a 2 stroke (Suzuki TS 185) and me being a newbie at mechanics, has meant that I haven't gone out to ride properly yet since getting it over a year ago...

**Big Dog** · 16th April 2013, 20:01

Originally Posted by Chooky

Well I could carry a full carton of Lion Red on the tank of my C15 back in 1962... but I wouldn't try it on the Honda today..maybe I'm just getting old...

Dismantle, service or tune anything on the bike with only the supplied toolkit and a soldering iron.

**90s** · 18th April 2013, 16:30

In '88 on various step-throughs I could always get a crate of beer on the platform.

Now my bike has enough storage for ... well nothing.

On the plus side its comfortable 0-100 is less than the 0-40 speed those little guys used to do ... I know what I'd rather be on. (my bike was actually made in the year I got my first licence, and at the time I lusted after it and the hurricane - if I could have had one then I would've, but to be frank would have probably been a real danger at the time ...)