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24-10-2007, 06:00 PM
I dont think ive ever posted in this section, but as i was browsing through pictures today i came across pictures of my old bikes and thought i would share them... All the way from 2005 :)
So First up we have my 16th Birthday present a 1999 Sym City Hopper
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/cityhopper.jpg
This is not my bike, my one was a sickly green/yellow colour.. unfortunately 2 days before college, 17th September 2005 i was run off the road and hit one of these:
http://teleramics.com/images/contributer/tris/scottishpole.jpg
Result: 1 week in hospital paralysed, months of intensive physio, fractured spine, lovely scar across my knee and told i would never walk or ride again..
Alas.. insistant to prove doctors wrong i mugged the ward granny of her zimoframe (sp?) and started painfully walking around the ward.. whilst being helpfully encouraged by the nurses mainly with threats of 'if you dont move we will give you the 'rubber glove treatment':eek:
A Year later it passes my 17th birthday, and i shock my family by telling them i want to ride again... and then shock them even more by telling them i was going to fix the rusted 'sonofabikered' CG125 sitting in the back garden.. so into the shop that goes.. and after a complete top end rebuild (almost 300 quids worth) its alive.. insurance, tax, and mot and im away.. stalling it down the road.. (Gears..? Wtf are gears??:grin2):reading
All goes well for the next few Days.. but 28 Days Later (good film?:grin1) i decide to do the regular journey to the other halfs in Linford (East Tilbury 'Posh' area) and as i turn into the high street BAM! Stupid woman driver has pulled out of a parking space straight into my path..
Noooooo!!!:shooter:grin3
Thankfully, no 'serious' injury occured.. (Telegraph poles do more damage then flying over cars...?) and I rest up from the minor injuries i received..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/CG125001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/CG125005.jpg
A week or so later a bike hire company has given me a 'Courtesy Bike'
Starting off with a SYM MEGALO 125 Twist & Go
http://www.skutery.net/grafiki/opisy/MEGALO-model110.jpg
Pretty much exactly the same as that.. same colour but having just got used to gears i wanted to continue that way so insisted they replace it with a geared 125.. and so they did...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/2007_0103FUJI0009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/2007_0103FUJI0007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/2007_0103FUJI0019.jpg
A nice 2004/5 Model CG125 '54' plate.. Pretty chuffed at having a fairly new bike and has to be the youngest bike ive had.. :grin2
However all was not it seemed as the CG125 had a knack for not starting, and with the alarm that went off immediately if you set it, the bike had to permanently be on 'park' as the alarm setting.. and due to a 'dud' battery as the company called it, it failed to start and left me stranded 9/10 times..:shooter Unable to be bump started due to the immobilser..
So reliable it was not, and needless to say i was thankful to be shot of it.:grin2
So the CG goes back and im once again left bikeless... so i enter the world of Fleabay.. to find my next hack..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/cb1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/7bdd_12.jpg
A 1982 CB100-NA came complete with a rickman fairing and topbox.. however being a 6 Volt bike with the 'points' system it was always having problems, it was the first bike i run out of oil and thus blew the engine up.. (though it was still running when i dropped it outside chadwell motorcycles and run for my life from the billowing white smoke pouring out of it..:grin2) so a new engine and the bike lived on (well.. sometimes) for the next couple of months..
The Windshield on the fairing didnt last long, as bike met friendly mr diesel on a roundabout and smashed the windshield to pieces.. thus i then had a bike that was dubbed the 'Battleship' as that is what it now looked like, the retarded front end of a boat..:laugh1
A after sussing out that the fairing was causing the bulbs in the headlamp to blow so much it was removed, much to the cheers and claps from the rest of EB..:grin1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0147.jpg
I've sold that bike now though, but it MAY be making a re-appearance at the white hart next wenesday, depending possibly if my friend has insurance and a license on it.. its now a home-sprayed royal blue and silver..:laugh1
That bike had its problems but it made a few good runs.. i remember this legendary picture.. turnt a few heads there too
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/Picture002.jpg
So whats next.. well the quest began for my full bike license and after two failures i nailed it and got myself my first 'big bike'.
A 1982 (Ring A Bell:grin1) Honda (Warmer?:laughboun) CBX550F (Huh?:grin2)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/1360_12.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/17ab_12.jpg
Saw on ebay and bought off of it for 400 quid it lasted about a week before the 'hardly serviced' engine decided to give up on the A13..
It is now currently gathering dust at my mothers house as i am waiting on news of an engine ;)
So once again, i am left bikeless (becoming a trait this..:grin1) and taking insults and abuse on the chin by the EB community:grin2 I decide to try my luck with a totally different make of bike..
Behold The Kawasaki GT550
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0426.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0427.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0429.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0430.jpg
Bought from Harrow for 425 quid, this bike has been nothing but exellent since i bought it.. the rattling the engine makes made me naucious at first but after finding out that these bikes do that generally.. its not bothered me.. the rides smooths, the brakes squeeky but good, and the noise is reasonable.. the weight took some getting used to, but after sitting on this bike for three hours at a time and not feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable, it was a true winner..:grin2
But obviously with everything the missus had to approve, and although she didnt have the same grin on her face when she got off pillion on the cb100 (the bike vibrated so much...hence the grin ;)):laugh1 she loves coming out on the kwak as much as i enjoy taking her out on it... it gives me no hassle, asks for nothing but a bit of tlc.. :reading
Unfitted to the bike are the panniers, which i need some sort of brackets for.. if anyone can give us advice on how to fit em or reckons they might know and can have a look let us know as id like to fit em as they are sitting in my shed rotting atm..:(
Someones already asked me 'when you getting rid of that and getting a real bike??' to which i replyed a simple 'F oxtrot O scar' and have been crucified as the bike 'aint fast enough' the bikes aledged top speed is 110mph.. ive had it to 100mph on a private road ;) with a pillion who failed to believe the bike could go that fast..:grin1 WRONG!!!
So all in all its turning out that the Kwak is my ideal bike.. and i should stay away from Hondas! :laugh1
So First up we have my 16th Birthday present a 1999 Sym City Hopper
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/cityhopper.jpg
This is not my bike, my one was a sickly green/yellow colour.. unfortunately 2 days before college, 17th September 2005 i was run off the road and hit one of these:
http://teleramics.com/images/contributer/tris/scottishpole.jpg
Result: 1 week in hospital paralysed, months of intensive physio, fractured spine, lovely scar across my knee and told i would never walk or ride again..
Alas.. insistant to prove doctors wrong i mugged the ward granny of her zimoframe (sp?) and started painfully walking around the ward.. whilst being helpfully encouraged by the nurses mainly with threats of 'if you dont move we will give you the 'rubber glove treatment':eek:
A Year later it passes my 17th birthday, and i shock my family by telling them i want to ride again... and then shock them even more by telling them i was going to fix the rusted 'sonofabikered' CG125 sitting in the back garden.. so into the shop that goes.. and after a complete top end rebuild (almost 300 quids worth) its alive.. insurance, tax, and mot and im away.. stalling it down the road.. (Gears..? Wtf are gears??:grin2):reading
All goes well for the next few Days.. but 28 Days Later (good film?:grin1) i decide to do the regular journey to the other halfs in Linford (East Tilbury 'Posh' area) and as i turn into the high street BAM! Stupid woman driver has pulled out of a parking space straight into my path..
Noooooo!!!:shooter:grin3
Thankfully, no 'serious' injury occured.. (Telegraph poles do more damage then flying over cars...?) and I rest up from the minor injuries i received..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/CG125001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/CG125005.jpg
A week or so later a bike hire company has given me a 'Courtesy Bike'
Starting off with a SYM MEGALO 125 Twist & Go
http://www.skutery.net/grafiki/opisy/MEGALO-model110.jpg
Pretty much exactly the same as that.. same colour but having just got used to gears i wanted to continue that way so insisted they replace it with a geared 125.. and so they did...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/2007_0103FUJI0009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/2007_0103FUJI0007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/2007_0103FUJI0019.jpg
A nice 2004/5 Model CG125 '54' plate.. Pretty chuffed at having a fairly new bike and has to be the youngest bike ive had.. :grin2
However all was not it seemed as the CG125 had a knack for not starting, and with the alarm that went off immediately if you set it, the bike had to permanently be on 'park' as the alarm setting.. and due to a 'dud' battery as the company called it, it failed to start and left me stranded 9/10 times..:shooter Unable to be bump started due to the immobilser..
So reliable it was not, and needless to say i was thankful to be shot of it.:grin2
So the CG goes back and im once again left bikeless... so i enter the world of Fleabay.. to find my next hack..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/cb1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/7bdd_12.jpg
A 1982 CB100-NA came complete with a rickman fairing and topbox.. however being a 6 Volt bike with the 'points' system it was always having problems, it was the first bike i run out of oil and thus blew the engine up.. (though it was still running when i dropped it outside chadwell motorcycles and run for my life from the billowing white smoke pouring out of it..:grin2) so a new engine and the bike lived on (well.. sometimes) for the next couple of months..
The Windshield on the fairing didnt last long, as bike met friendly mr diesel on a roundabout and smashed the windshield to pieces.. thus i then had a bike that was dubbed the 'Battleship' as that is what it now looked like, the retarded front end of a boat..:laugh1
A after sussing out that the fairing was causing the bulbs in the headlamp to blow so much it was removed, much to the cheers and claps from the rest of EB..:grin1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0147.jpg
I've sold that bike now though, but it MAY be making a re-appearance at the white hart next wenesday, depending possibly if my friend has insurance and a license on it.. its now a home-sprayed royal blue and silver..:laugh1
That bike had its problems but it made a few good runs.. i remember this legendary picture.. turnt a few heads there too
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/Picture002.jpg
So whats next.. well the quest began for my full bike license and after two failures i nailed it and got myself my first 'big bike'.
A 1982 (Ring A Bell:grin1) Honda (Warmer?:laughboun) CBX550F (Huh?:grin2)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/1360_12.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/17ab_12.jpg
Saw on ebay and bought off of it for 400 quid it lasted about a week before the 'hardly serviced' engine decided to give up on the A13..
It is now currently gathering dust at my mothers house as i am waiting on news of an engine ;)
So once again, i am left bikeless (becoming a trait this..:grin1) and taking insults and abuse on the chin by the EB community:grin2 I decide to try my luck with a totally different make of bike..
Behold The Kawasaki GT550
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0426.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0427.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0429.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Tooeys%20Bikes/DSCF0430.jpg
Bought from Harrow for 425 quid, this bike has been nothing but exellent since i bought it.. the rattling the engine makes made me naucious at first but after finding out that these bikes do that generally.. its not bothered me.. the rides smooths, the brakes squeeky but good, and the noise is reasonable.. the weight took some getting used to, but after sitting on this bike for three hours at a time and not feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable, it was a true winner..:grin2
But obviously with everything the missus had to approve, and although she didnt have the same grin on her face when she got off pillion on the cb100 (the bike vibrated so much...hence the grin ;)):laugh1 she loves coming out on the kwak as much as i enjoy taking her out on it... it gives me no hassle, asks for nothing but a bit of tlc.. :reading
Unfitted to the bike are the panniers, which i need some sort of brackets for.. if anyone can give us advice on how to fit em or reckons they might know and can have a look let us know as id like to fit em as they are sitting in my shed rotting atm..:(
Someones already asked me 'when you getting rid of that and getting a real bike??' to which i replyed a simple 'F oxtrot O scar' and have been crucified as the bike 'aint fast enough' the bikes aledged top speed is 110mph.. ive had it to 100mph on a private road ;) with a pillion who failed to believe the bike could go that fast..:grin1 WRONG!!!
So all in all its turning out that the Kwak is my ideal bike.. and i should stay away from Hondas! :laugh1