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@charldekock931 Ай бұрын
The Yama RZ50 was the fastest of all the 50cc bikes in my time... South Africa...80's... I would get to 65mph on the flats.. pretty easy. The good old days! 👍 In those days you could only purchase a 50cc when you are 16, so there were many to race with... I killed them!! 😁
@petesmusic6648 2 ай бұрын
Aahhhh life in the bus Lane 👍🏴🦡
@kevinbodnar448 2 ай бұрын
I did my part one test on my Honda xl100 s at the bovingdon Air ground in1982, good old days
@SUZUsaki-kz7bl 4 ай бұрын
Although it says "Restricted 50cc motorcycles," the speed limit was probably imposed by the foolish British government, which tried to protect British and other European motorcycle manufacturers from Japanese motorcycle manufacturers under the pretext of traffic safety. In Japan, 50cc bikes were much faster and more powerful in the 80s than in the 70s.
@moncktonhotmail 3 ай бұрын
Great comment thanks
@rickh8380 4 ай бұрын
I bet that RD50 was a blast to ride.Thanks for sharing. Take care. Cheers from the States
@WayneBlakey-ym4dy 5 ай бұрын
Had a Suzuki ZR50SKX in Red. Very rare now.
@gjclark2478 5 ай бұрын
I had a ZR50SL, in red. PLJ 740 W iirc. It was slow af. I'm pretty sure that the restriction was mostly in the gearing........
@AwSso-x6j 5 ай бұрын
I had 1986..RD 125 LC black bran new was very nice I also had 1990 DT 125 .LC new blue
@P.h.i.l.65 6 ай бұрын
I have my RD 350 bike since 1985❤❤❤❤❤
@GregPodster133 6 ай бұрын
Bought a brand new Honda SL 125 ( Trial ) in 1975. £319.00 on the road. ( wish i still had it 😂)
@lh5943 6 ай бұрын
I have a Yamaha 125cc twin scrambler from 1968.
@daverees9344 6 ай бұрын
Fantic 125 Chopper?
@daverees9344 6 ай бұрын
suzuki GP125?
@kevinpotts-to5nm 6 ай бұрын
I had a AP50 in 1982, loved it, then made the mistake of replacing it with a poxy ER50, hated that piece of crap with a passion.
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
Ha ha , all great memories 👍
@markianclark9645 6 ай бұрын
What happens when a Born Again Biker meets a Never Stopped Biker like me? Do we cancel each other out? And both cease to exist? I started in February 1975...was a courier for 4 decades (most of it) as I got into my 50's moved into retail and still used my bike for work...now I'm an OAP and still ride despite having recently received my Freedom Pass travel card...I wont stop till i get into my 70's...a video on the history of 125's...i never rode them till i got old..been on Honda Innova 125 's since 2007...I did not have a CZ 125 ..my second bike was the CZ 175...then the CZ 250 3rd bike...then Suzuki GT500..and stayed on Japanese..so many bikes I've ridden..never learnt to drive..so i became an instructor...a Motorcycle Instructor...imagine fitting that into courier work...a Million Kilometres later...still riding
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
Hi. Interesting point what you talk about , Born again biker meets a long standing biker , I try and answer that, I am in a group of 15 lads who mostly I grew up with , and rode with back in the day, I think few observations on that dynamic. Most of us 50s and 60s , The New to riding members haven't got the history and memories from the past or the knowledge of the old bikes or shared memories, But we are all compatible and bond well! The difference is the New lads recently passed or got involved have different riding styles take less risks, Because there training is up to date , Also they are not trying to relive their youth and risks they took back in the day, They also have no real interest in older machines they have no links to them , Older to the movement lads enjoy more confidence but have more riding faults I feel ( but not all ) It's hard to explain ,lot of factors going on ! I would think I am likely to have alot more in common with you , than you think , shared memories is powerful!! , even if we have never met , Motorcycling is amazing experience, ( obviously has its downsides ) it's very individual thing too , I hope I have answered some your opening question , On another thing my daily ride to work is Honda CG 125 , a grandad machine back in day , my 1980s machine , makes complete sense, I am almost a grandad myself today 😁
@markianclark9645 6 ай бұрын
monkton...thanks for responding..I am a grandfather..I'm pleased to admit to..all Granddaughters...I have so much retro enthusiasm it's obsession...I love machinery from decades ago... especially bikes...although as I mentioned I ride a Honda fuel injected 125 in my twilight years...keeps me sane...and is about quick enough for my late 60 reactions (slow enough) 50 MPH is plenty for my suburban London pottering about... I fully understand your groups modern approach...little or no connection with historic bikes...and adapted to today's traffic conditions not reliving past experiences...I can hardly stop comparing my youth with today's riding demands...I never owned Superbikes ...my bikes were mostly workhorses for the job...I still had fun in between...I had my racing around in small doses...I've heard of many deaths but never lost anyone close thank God...my own Father was against me starting in 1975... He'll kill himself etc...mum said let him...I fell off regularly...68 times i count...a few nasty ones...but never put off...not for a moment...patch me up...get back on... return to work...there were no bikers before me in my bloodline...I was the first...only influence was my brother in law...who had bikes he never used...despite my poor accident record...I was born to ride...destined to pass advanced rider exam....the Full License was too easy...
@qbarnes1893 6 ай бұрын
Had. Yam Rd 50, air cooled, brilliant bike, bullet proof and so easy to derestrict, got mine to reach 60mph on the flat with just a few carb and gearing mods... The AR 50s were great but never took off, very few still exist. The MB50 was a joke, at the time...just like the puch step though ...nowadays every 80s moped is worth over 1k 😱😱😱
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
I agree with everything you say , you make some good points , 👍
@malcolm178 6 ай бұрын
you left out the Yamaha 125 twins made before the RD125s the first model had a chrome petrol tank mine wass from 72 L reg with elongated tank YAS3 if my memory is correct
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
Well done , thanks for the comment
@Dean-1970 6 ай бұрын
Good old Days
@robnelson6063 6 ай бұрын
Couple more: Yamaha YAS1/YAS2 & YAS3 two stroke twins. RD125 two stroke twin. MZ ETZ125 two stroke single.
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
Excellent well done
@Nooziterp1 6 ай бұрын
To answer the question posed by the title, definitely killed it. In the heyday of motorcycling (my heyday anyway) in the 1970s every summer weekend the roads were full of bikes. Clubs and bikers' pubs abounded and every city or decently sized town had two or three bike dealers. Now, apart from bikes owned by people aged 40 plus who started riding before all the legislation in parts 1 and 2 you rarely see them. It is just too much hassle. Qualifying and driving a car is so much easier. Plus (maybe a case of rose tinted spectacles) we don't get the summers we had then.
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
Great comment thanks
@mellowr1 6 ай бұрын
I've still got an RD 125 LC YPVS and a DT 125 LC YPVS.🙂 Still great fun to ride👍 videos on my channel😀
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
I'll check it out!
@Nooziterp1 6 ай бұрын
Whoever thought of the 30mph moped law has obviously never ridden themselves. Putting an inexperienced 16 year-old on something with a maximum speed of 30 with huge lorries thundering past at 50 is surely a recipe for disaster. The first thing most buyers did was derestrict it and stuff the law. I don't blame them. Their safety is more important.
@deanrobertnoble138 6 ай бұрын
Just seeing the Z250c above your shoulder. My Dad had one new when it came out. Went all over on the back of that bike. Always thought it a lovely looking bike!
@timmaidens7483 6 ай бұрын
Suzuki GP125X, also a nice little bike.
@moncktonhotmail 6 ай бұрын
Good choice!
@aloopirrie5759 7 ай бұрын
fizzy
@malcolmism6 7 ай бұрын
One of my mates had a Honda NSR 125 C PLATE. red , white and blue. Had a belly scope on it. Cool bike. Also again my mate had a rd125 lc but he was a paint sprayer. He sprayed it in Malboro colours😂😂 of the time. White body and had the bright orange wheels.a beautiful bike. I nearly bought it. I was just turning 17. But 800 pounds was a bit out of my league back then.😂
@zx81uk 7 ай бұрын
My cousin had an RD80LC that had been used in one of the 1980's magazines reviews, I rode it back to back with my Honda CB100N. The RD80LC made my CB100N feel like a Honda SS50 - dog slow. The power delivery from the water cooled LC was so smooth right up to it's 65mph top speed and of course being a 2 stroke it loved being in the power band ALL the time. So much so that on turning 60 and going to buy a rebuilt FS1E DX (the bike I lusted after at 16 in October 1975 but never had) - I went and bought an RD350 YPVS N2, to get back my RD80LC experience * 6 = one of the best decisions I've ever made. I consider myself to be heavily influenced old school from the sect of Ogri believers, 'stuff everything as long a I've got me bike'! Plus a shout out to 'Bloodrunners' = sex on 2 wheels.
@moncktonhotmail 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment , appreciate
@zx81uk 7 ай бұрын
Not sure if you also did the 100cc bikes of the 70's and 80's, In 1979 I bought my Honda CB100N (10.5 BHP) for about £400.00 (£2000.00 in today's money) instead of the Honda CB125T which was more like £600.00 but mainly because the insurance was about £20.00 per year compared to £65.00 for the 125. (Still wish I could have found the extra £245.00 and got the twin - which in 1979 still had the full 16BHP and Comstar wheels.) I rode that CB100N for 24K miles before its cam chain snapped after 1 week of dispatching in London! in 2002. I could comfortably ride that CB100N at it's 10,000 red line = 63mph - for hours on the motorway from Durham to Brighton Polytechnic, using only half throttle if I followed a lorry (and still did 100mpg). I can now see you have also done: Honda Motorcycles 1980 United Kingdom which does have the CB100N (and the H100 2 stroke alternative.)
@moncktonhotmail 7 ай бұрын
Great knowledge thank you
@simonmcourt 8 ай бұрын
Yamaha rd125 lc..super pocket rocket in South Africa. Nothing on its range could touch it..Miss mine.
@nicholasbuttery511 8 ай бұрын
Big Bore kits ,Fresco/Micron silencers and Renthal Hanlebars with Jackup Suspension those were the days riding with L plates before the late 1980`s compulsory driving test was introduced and as soon as this happened small motorcycle dealers dissolved.
@AnthonyToth-t5v 8 ай бұрын
Please don’t forget the Honda cb100n great bike did 10000 miles on that reliable and great on fuel ⛽️
@markleadbeatter6196 9 ай бұрын
I had a Baja Brown Fizzie and then a Maui Blue AP50B and they were both brilliant in the own ways. Not sure I would own one now, as they would be too challenging to ride safely in modern traffic but never say never and I am still definitely very much in love with my classic bikes from the 70’s & 80’s.
@jibjab351 10 ай бұрын
They killed bikes in Britain. Instead of all this they should have just made training compulsory like cars.
@Fatpig-fq3vb 10 ай бұрын
Honda NSR 125 (1988-2001) ? Yamaha rd 125 ypvs ?
@ozzyprogdomino8815 10 ай бұрын
I passed my test on Kawasaki KH125 🙂
@moncktonhotmail 10 ай бұрын
I had a 1981 version in green , excellent bike , wish still had it 👍
@johnkeen4271 11 ай бұрын
After mopeds went to a gt125 twin, then a rd125lc, and a ar125, ended up buying a aprilia 1989 af1, great bike, but spares terrible, great bikes all of them
@TT.Hell. 11 ай бұрын
I had one 25 years ago and loved it. Selling that bike is one of my lifes biggest regrets! Mine was the same color as the first pic in the video. People say they were unreliable and dangerous but I dont agree. Mine never siezed or broke down at all, just maintained it normal. Dangerous depends on the driver, I never crashed it and at that young age I was not driving careful at all. It did not consume a lot of fuel on longer tours at legal speeds either like some people say. I think this is probably one of the best allround 2-stroke bikes ever built. I wish I can get one again but now they are rare and expensive, when I bought mine about 1998 it was cheap and noone wanted it.
@ingvarellingsen7270 Жыл бұрын
The Tempo Panter!!!!!!!
@sidecarbod1441 Жыл бұрын
3:06 I had an MT5 which was the 'off road' version of the MB5. Standard it was the slowest of the restricted peds! I tuned mine up to do about 45mph so it ended up being the fastest ped compared to my mates peds. 40 years later I purchased another MT5, this one was in crates, it was really bad, anyway I know a lot more about 2 smoke engines now so I made it my mission to beat my old 45 mph record. My current ped is doing an easy 55 on the flat, I'm very pleased with it, it looks like its just come off the show room floor, I finished off the engine work by fitting a 6 speed gear cluster from an MTX80, it helps the engine stay in the power band. I have more fun on it than my Triumph Speed Triple 1050!
@moncktonhotmail Жыл бұрын
Great comment thanks
@richardlionheart793 Жыл бұрын
Those were the days 16 in 77 and bought a new R reg black and red garelli tiger cross.
@stuarthunter7559 Жыл бұрын
FS1E all day
@stuarthunter7559 Жыл бұрын
My helmet saved me quite a few times. Only sensible law passed
@stuarthunter7559 Жыл бұрын
I borrowed my mates restricted honda cb50 having my own fizzie that would do over 60. I. Early died at the first roundabout i entered. Bloody stupid government and they are at it again
@moncktonhotmail Жыл бұрын
😆😆
@stuarthunter7559 Жыл бұрын
I just shed a tear seeing my old fizzie 😢 cracking little unrestricted bike. Mine had no pedals and a beeline racing can
@barryfoot7105 Жыл бұрын
Great little video I have a mk1 rd125lc and a dt125r 👍👍👍
@michaeldesilvio221 Жыл бұрын
What was that three wheeler from Honda called?
@moncktonhotmail Жыл бұрын
Honda gyro 1984
@martinmoss378 Жыл бұрын
Hi brought back fab memories I had A BSA TRACKER 125 i think it was yamaha workings ,suzuki gs 250 tt, then a cx500 euro sports in white.
@Stefan_trekkie Жыл бұрын
We in eastern Europe had different bike license laws back then. For that reason we don't had many 125cc bikes. Many 50cc for riding with car license. For the big bike, you can get full bike license at 18 but you are restricted to 350 for the first 2 or 3 years. So, we had a s**t load of up to 350 bikes.. CZ, Jawa, Izh and many 250s too.. Mostly east German and soviet block bikes. The most popular models where: Jawa 175, Jawa 350, Jawa 250, Izh 350 planeta, Izh 350 jupiter, MZ 150 and 250, CZ 350 /almost like a Jawa/ , Balkan 250. From the 50cc bikes, we had Puch Maxi, Sumson S51 and Simson enduro, Balkan 50.The most valued bike of the era was AWO 425 250cc 4 stroke with shaft drive. Similar to BMW R26
@moncktonhotmail Жыл бұрын
Thank you for great comment👍
@colpitts350 Жыл бұрын
Ok this is my friggin Dad. He bought his 1981 Yamaha RD350LC brand new. It's the only motorcycle he's owned for the last 40 years. He's obsessed with it. We are in Canada. I grew up riding on this bike! Learned to ride on it. It's in my shed right now.
@davidc5830 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like me 😂 why change it when it does everything you want 👍
@ylioperaattori Жыл бұрын
Honda CB125TD -83❤