Adventure Bike Rider Forum

Why worry about the gearchange pattern? All Yamaha were doing was preparing riders for the day when they could have a big boys bike like a Kawasaki 500 or 750 triple (thumbs)

I'll admit I sometimes get it wrong with the 5 down box on my Kawasaki but only in that I try to tap it up one to get 1st from neutral but I've never gone from 1st to neutral instead of 2nd. Most racers would insist that down to go up a gear is the obvious way to have it because your foot is on top of the gear change if you change gear exiting a corner with the bike still a long way over.

The Sarge wrote:Same as Bob, Tiger X blew the Jap shite away by 10 mph (thumbs)

Until they expired.... :laugh:

PaulinBont wrote:Apart from my Puch Grand Prix of course , the greatest moped ever made was the.........and I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet..........is the Fantic Chopper 50cc :whistle:

Loved and fanatasised about the Puch GP as sold in a local dealer. (thumbs) However, a lot of us rural lads were running around on modded Puch maxi's and the like ! A local guy would tune them to give in excess of 40mph... As for why, that is a question best left in the 70's..... (thumbs)

I had a FS1E and hubby had a AP50 he used to meet me from school LOL

FS1E DX £270 in 1977 if I remember, Not as fast as the AP50 but quicker than the Honda ss50.

Scott_rider wrote:I had a Fantic Caballero 50... (thumbs). In relative terms, that's where my love of speed all started and is still getting me into bother 37 years later

Thanks for posting that, I seemed to recall that my Fantic had pegs instead of pedals so technically not a moped at all. A fact I either missed or more likely chose to ignore when I was 16! Interesting to see the power difference, it really did feel quick up against the AP, a right little tearaway and good prep for the X7 when I was 17

Neither....Puch Grand Prix for me. 10k miles over a year with only one rebore. Never left me stranded but reliability was not quite up to Japanese standards. A bit faster than the Jap 'peds but nowhere near the Minarelli-engined Italian ones. Great memories of 'Yammy-thrashing' around the Orpington one-way system in '76!

Both

I had A Garelli KL50 as i field bike :whistle:

Red fizzy with the engine bars was first road legal bike

Then moved on to RS100 to take my test on just after 17th birthday.

34 years later and i still ride it



Wish i had kept the othe 2 as well as well

SteveR wrote:

The Sarge wrote:Same as Bob, Tiger X blew the Jap shite away by 10 mph (thumbs)

Until they expired.... :laugh:

I only had 2 rebores in the 12 months I had mine :whistle: