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  • #8308
    imperialdata
    Keymaster

    I’ll admit my first off-road bike was a Suzuki GT185, used in a local quarry. Taught me a lot about:

    How to fall off.
    How a road bike doesn’t have bouncy suspension.
    How it hurts when you fall off.
    How police hate people enjoying a bit of waste-land fun.
    How falling off and getting squashed by the bike you just fell off hurts even more.

    Would be an anticlimax now to try it with a pukka off-roader. Who am I kidding, it would be a blast!

    #16534
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    My first try off road was on an XT500 and I fell off lots of times. I then bought this bike from my friend who got into Harleys. I then got into Harleys myself but kinda wish I’d kept the Yam as well.

    Hit it, hit it good.

    #16535
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    The XT500 was one of my first real off road bikes but the first one I ever rode was a Suzuki AP50. Yes it was off road too!

    #16536
    Radar
    Moderator

    The first bike I rode was an off roader, a DT175MX Yamaha, when I was 16 – it was a proper off road bike, but it was illegal – no MOT or tax. That was over 20 years ago and I never ridden off rode since, must put that right soon!!

    #16537
    psycho
    Participant

    im 16 amd ive only been riding since oct 03 im ridding a TTR 250

    #16538
    wheelie
    Participant

    A friend’s Suzuki TS125 was my first time off road and it gave me a real buzz. Bought a bike the next day!



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    #16539
    Muppdog
    Participant

    My first time off road was on a Yam DT50! What a joke! Next I tried my brother in laws Kramer 250 Moto Cross bike. Didn’t even make it down the start straight. Later on to an XT250, very solid in straight line and very light, easily outrunning big brother XT500. Then on XT550. Rear shock kept overheating which slowed you down no end

    Muppdog

    The lack of power cannot be replaced with madness

    #16540
    999blues
    Participant

    Dropped a goldwing down a bumpy right of way behind some garages once. Very expensive and painful lesson. Fractured my ankle and caused lots of plastic/chrome damage to the wing.



    Red CBX1000 with loud pipes!

    #16541
    Wild01
    Participant

    Can’t beat the yz80,125,250’s. I’ve fallen of them in every way possible!!![:D] Still do come to think of it, but by gum it’s good fun!!![;)]

    Wilba Wild 01

    #16542
    GSX Rat
    Participant

    i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again – you cant beat the cub off road for cheap fun!!!

    even better now i’ve got the front knobbly on!

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    I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
    Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)

    Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!

    #16543
    Wild01
    Participant

    Fook me, can you imagine catchin ya knacker on that seat mount!!!Ouch!!!

    Wilba Wild 01

    #16544
    GSX Rat
    Participant

    your joking mate, if it comes anywhere near get off time, just stand up and you clear it by a foot or so!!!

    I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
    Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)

    Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!

    #16545
    imperialdata
    Keymaster

    As usual with Hooly’s pictures the background is very interesting[:D]

    What’s happened to the third plug on the bench? Looks like the porcelain has blown up, probably through excessive heat generated by the off road power surge. Or is it just oil?

    #16546
    GSX Rat
    Participant

    oil m8, sorry!

    I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
    Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)

    Blackboard paint – Covers a multitude of sins!

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