Yamaha FS1-E 'Fizzy' 1970's Single 50cc
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- Don humorously reviews and test rides the iconic Yamaha FS1-E 1970's moped, affectionately known as the 'Fizzy'. Although at first not impressed by this 50cc toy for teenagers, his opinion changes as this little machine hauls him around the countryside. He appreciates that for many boy racer's of the the 70's and 80's, this bike was legally the closest they could get to a motorbike. It had a 2 stroke motor, 5 speed gearbox and looked like a motorbike. Downhill with a gale behind you, these machines could allegedly reach speeds in excess of 60mph
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I'm lucky enough to have owned a Popsicle Purple one from 1978 to1980 when I sold it. It had huge sentimental value to me so I spent years and years looking for it. Then, in 2021 it turned up just 40 miles away from me. It had been partly restored, so I bought it and finished the restoration. Now, 46 years later, it sits in my garage and I get to see it, ride it and just enjoy the whole experience every day! Pure magic!!
16 years old,mid 70s on me fizz with a 16 year old bird on the back making our way to Epping forest....we were very lucky to be teenagers in the fantastic 70s.wish someone would invent a time machine...
Did you pass your test so as to take yer bird legally ❔
@@peterfallows6802 yes..post office moped messenger...fantastic...now a 60 year old retired knacker...
@@paulcowell7588 - same`s 👍
You're not the only one! Those halcyon days of long summers and lots of bikes. So different now. Sigh!
@@Nooziterp1 you know it brother...
Life began at 16 with a second hand Fizzy.
New mates, new places to go.
Everyone has their own favourite Sixteener Special but mine was defiantly the Fizzy.
Summer evenings and weekends were dedicated too new and different place to go and see.
When employment came along the Fizzy made cheap and reliable transport to work.
Even if you moved on to cars at 17 years old, you never forgot the freedom and fun on that little Yamaha FS1E.
I had a fizzy aged 16 used to go to school on it...it was wonderous at that age...did the usual, ground the pedals away regularly...i used to literally take the engine to bits without a clue to what i was doing , but it always still ran. Happy days.
Loved mine .....way back 1975!
My 16 year old self was a very anti social lad on my Fizzy. I had a very naughty 65cc 'big bore' kit with a Micron exhaust and I rode like a muppet filled with that teenage sense of invulnerability. My god it was fun. I have fond memories of the Fizzy unlike the Suzuki 250 that replaced it on my 17th Birthday!
Tony BMW My GT 250 was amazing 😀
Back when you cold ride a 250 on L plates!
I Had a Fizzie in 1976 and the claim here of 60 mph is very optimistic. I managed 52mph on the clock downhill, lying on the tank. The Suzuki AP50 was slightly faster, again evidenced by a race downhill, in which it slowly pulled ahead. The Honda SS50 was a four stroke and was the slowest of the three. I remember there were also Fantic and Cagiva 50cc mopeds. - Happy days!
you bang on with the speed michael 52 MPH was the top speed on them.
I ended up with a Yammy TY50, slow, but still fun, at 16.
I'm with you there. Touching 50 was a rarity, downhill, tailwind and led on the tank.
Don't forget the garelli 50, supposedly the fastest along with the Itom 50 . Great Times !
The garelli tiger I believe was slightly quicker....
I had one, same colour and everything . My first step in to ''real motorcycling'' now 45 years later and a zx9r and a Versys 1000 i still remember what got me there. Happy days.
same colour....what a wimp! you had to have the yellow one to look like Kenny Roberts.....lol
@@WELLBRAN Your just jealous because your Puch maxi couldn't keep up lol....
@@lefthandedluke aagh no they were ugly old things
You told it exactly like it was. I am 54 now and at 16 being able to buy a used yamaha fs1 brought me so much pleasure, freedom and tecnical knowledge. The knowledge came from it being broken all the time because we made it go faster. I LOVED my fs1. The unexpected thing is that you are clearly in the UK and apparently rules were the same in your country as in mine (The Netherlands) It had to have workable peddles and 49.9 cc was the limit. Thank you for this very nice video about my youth :)
Glad you liked the video. Don's witty and observational review laced with sarcasm, I have to admit, is certainly close to my experiences as a spotty teenager of the 70's.
Proud to say I fell off my FS1E in 1976 hundreds of times.
Brings back happy memories racing with my college mates with our heads on the tanks!
Mine too!
I'm 64 now and this was my first bike in 1975. I paid around £300 on hire purchase from "Eddie's motorcycles" on Kirkstall Road in Leeds. I was 16 years old and I went all over the place in it.
I thought it was great to have my freedom back then. It took me to college at Leeds polytechnic for
3 years to study photography.
I was one of those kids you summed it up perfectly in your review
Well done. My first bike was a brand new 1976 Honda CB200T. As a 15 year old it gave me freedom and would cruse at 65 mph on the freeway. I still have many good memories from that time.
You are absolutely right, yes it was complete freedom to me at 16 years old in 1991! I also had a pre restriction model, in a rural area, so all was well ;) It also later found itself with a 65cc big bore kit and an RD rear sprocket. It did 55mph without overheating!
First bike was a Yamaha 90. At fifteen years old that bike felt perfect. Great memories trail riding and wilderness camping with pals.
The biker of today started out on these things like the AP50, SS50,FS1E .The rare KTM Commet Cross, Fantics , Puch Maxi GP, Malaguti and many more . Thanks for taking us back to those crazy hazy days. 👍👍👍👍
Nice 👍
I had one of those babies. My dad bought it for me on my 17th birthday in 1975..and yes...with a little bit of tickling they really did 60mph ;) nice video..happy days..great memories
really captures the feeling sound and what its like to ride a fs1e . im just recommissioning my 1975 bike .. And the bike in this video although sorn is still alive well done who ever has it
This was my first motorcycle. I went from a Honda moped to the Yamaha FS1 and loved it. Mine had an all black front end with fork gaiters, red gas tank with the black checkered stripe. Mine would go 50mph if I laid down on the gas tank and had a slight decent on pavement. It could carry two of us and still do about 35mph. Great little bike. The engine in mine had been freshly rebuilt. It ran perfect. I was 14 when I had this.
Happy memories,
I had one of these on my 16th birthday,
The day freedom began...😀👍
Great video, had mine March 1975.. got another one now, but miss my 1st one..!!
my mate had one, he used to tow me around the village on my skateboard, ahhh the good old days.
A bike with so much history you can't be embarrassed going on it it was a real icon Graham England age 48 my 50 cc years
I owned a secondhand battered FS1E and I was lucky to have that back in the mid to late 80`s
Don, you are the coolest dude I have seen in internet tv in years!! Screw top gear, BBC should give you a show!!
We were a bit luckier in France in the mid ‘70s. You could ride a 50cc bike on the streets at 14 years old with only proof of insurance. No license required. At 16 you could ride up to 125cc. License required and at 18 there was no cc limit. Gitane Testi, Kreidler, Derbi, Gilera, Flandria, Beta, BPS, Malaguti, and quite a few more that I can’t remember. Swapping out the stock tiny 14mm carb for a 19mm carb, expansion chambers, sprockets etc. Of course removing the pedals! Damn that was fun times
Love the presenters and very proud of the director!
The sound of the 70s and the hellish Nightmare of every parent whose kid got a Fizzy. what a racket those things made.And if you wasn't the only kid in on the block who had one . The sound of gang of fizzy riders was like the sound of Bees in a Biscuit tin
thats because we all removed the baffles.....i had a deaf neighbour come out to complain once :)
I had a Honda 50 as a kid. Got it from parents at XMAS. Wondrous doesn't begin to express what that minibike meant to me.
I had a fizzy and I loved it,the good old days.
Just to say a gang of us had them at school. We went out for rides and one kid always got left behind.
We just thought he was chicken or had a really slow one, however it came out weeks later he thought his was only 3 speed !
My early model would do just over 50 downhill with a tailwind lol.
Yes very fond memories.
Currently have a version of all three: '75 SS50 4 speed, '77 AP50 and a '91 FS1M. The SS is the slowest by a country mile!
As a former owner (aged 16) in the late 70's - I agree with all said - great times!
Loved my fizzy. Same colour as yours. Wicked film thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice colour ,great story on this moped, I was only 8or10 remembering that sound how iconic ,and my god never new they could reach 55,60 mph impressed 👍 wish I was a little older bk then to have ridden those fantastic 70s bikes the metallic colours were awesome 👏👍👌💯🇬🇧😉🍻🌟🌈
Glad you enjoyed it
Hahahahaha, recognised that sound straight away andnot heard that sound for over 40 yrs, we used to call em FESLE's round our way.
I was one of those kids too, mine was same color reg ---777N and it was a 20.1 fuel mix. Great days, Sold it for £100 in late 70s!
Surface grind .5mm off the head on the surface grinder at the local college. .5mm off the advance of the disc valve. Keep the air filter. Take the baffles out the stock exhaust. And keep the stock exhaust with the baffles out. One size bigger pilot jet. A 15 tooth front sprocket. Stick to the 20.1 mix. Oh yes and file the transfer port web to a smooth point. And be extremley careful when filing the top of the exhaust port. Too much can fuck things up. Yes pal. We did aquire mechanical knowledge. And loud is good. Great video bud x
Great video, I started with a Honda SS50 in 1976. It wasn't as quick as the Fizzy but it was cheaper! It got me hooked on biking!
I lost very little money on it when it came to get a 250 when I was 17.
The new mopeds were restricted to 30mph, most people wanted the unrestricted ones! It was fun, but when I first rode my CB250G5 it felt like a race bike after the SS50.
Fizzys are worth a fortune now but it's too small for me now.
My two stroke bike is a Yamaha DT3 250 Enduro, it's more practical and I can ride on a motorway if I need to!
I too had the ss50 on my 16th birthday and got the 250g5 on my 17th birthday 🤔👍
Going from one of these to a tuned Elsie 350! Was madness.
The FS1-E could reach 60 mph on the proviso it was inside a zero gravity chamber & piloted by an ant.
I think my old 1977 model with a micron exhaust would max out at 55mph on the speedo,so was probably closer to 45mph in reality
A guy in my class in school had a Garelli Rekord - the lucky swine, and he was a fairly small feller.
He got a genuine 'just over 50' out of that thing - on the flat. And it was swift to get there too. We all envied him.
The Fizzy boys never took him on directly. They all had tales of '50 plus' but none of them really could. Maybe just over 45.
But I'm not mocking - Oh lord no - I had a Honda C50. Oh the shame. But I still loved it.
They were great days to be a teenager the 1970's.
I'm looking to get myself a 50cc project again to be honest.
@@SD_UK I had one of the first Garelli Rekord Monza's in the country in April '72 and it was definitely the quickest of all the sports mopeds.
Had an FS1 that went 50 mph back in the days. I had the gas wire rolled around my right thumb (insane). Roads were mostly gravel where I lived and I remember meeting a car in a curve, and the car drove too far on my side. I couldn't complete the turn because of my velocity and rolling gravel, so I had no choice but going straight out in the mud field. Luckily I remained on the seat as the FS1 dug half its front wheel into the mud, otherwise the gas wire would've chopped off my thumb. Ultimately, one day I was caught by a cop and had to strip the engine right on place, miles from home. I'm quite thankful that the story ended like that. :)
I had an AP50, drop handle bars, Barcol tuned with micron power pipe, sounded like a swarm of angry bees but boy did I love it.
I had one of these in the late 80's early 90's. Norwegian regulations didn't require the mopeds to have pedals, but power was limited to 2.5 horsepower and top speed to 50 kph/30mph. Unfortunately, the previous owner didn't take good care of it, so I had more or less constant problems with it, but it was my first ride.
Absolutely loved mine. Happy days eh
Great review captures the buzz .....literarly! Work for 2 years in part time jobs out of school then 16 get your first super moped, me a Malaguti Olympique, mates on Fantics, Gileras, Suzuki, Honda but most were Fizzers. I doubt if there was 3 mph between any of us so it made for close racing..........erm I mean riding, officer! I cheated and put on a 50cc Kreidler full race fairing I weighed 8 stone and performed a disappearing act behind the racing bubble, I thought I was Bazzer. Every weekend we were off to some event, £2 petrol and gone, such a laugh lucky to have been 16 in the 70s.
I was 16 in my Homeland Brazil in 1976 and learned to ride motorcycles on Yamaha 50cc and Honda 125cc. What fun times.
60mph, in your dreams. Flat on tank, left arm on front fork would get 55 on the clock, after a long time. We had out files to modify ports, emery paper to skim head to raise compression, shorten baffle etc. Every 1 mph gain was a victory! Also they were 4 speed in my 70's era. Honda ss50 was 5 speed, but for Cedrics.
+adam green Well as my old boss used to say, "Yeah, righto!"
+adam green A tuned 70cc FS1-E is not an fs1-e anymore. .......
I want to to a 100cc swap and bore it out to a 120, performance exhaust, new carb and filter and I only weigh 110 lbs I think I'll get her up to about 90
Buy a Yamaha 125.
My 69 FS1SS is 5 speed and as stated will nearly do 60. A rear sprocket helps on the downhill lol.
I got 55mph out of mine. I loved it. Wish I still had it ,they worth a fortune now !
There's one near me , it was in original shape and great condition . The idiot who owns has repainted the tank bright yellow , changed the seat and fitted led lights all round . It looks ok but he's destroyed a classic and its value .
My first taste of freedom. Same colour as mine too. Purple popsicle, yum!
Realistically the top speed of a FS1-E was about 45mph. I don't doubt that some lads got up to 55 plus downhill with the wind behind them and optimistically read it as 60. Itwas the media which made that claim when they launched a campaign to have mopeds restricted to 30mph. They were successful and the law was changed. They were restricted to 28mph but the pedals were no linger required. Many young lads got around it because on certain models the restriction could be removed by just cutting a wire in the ignition circuit.
Enjoyed the vid awsome
mine was a r reg auto lube blue most fun i had on a bike had a set of avon tyres on it always falling off bending the pedles so much fun
This is the funniest video I've seen for a long time - 60 on a Fissie :-D
I've got one; my wifes got her early 80's Honda melody. Weekends involve at least one run out together to a local pub. I'm 50 and this is absolutely brilliant. I own a few other bikes but tits the week end run out with the missus I look forward to. If you're my age- get one- enjoy it, and enjoy the pack of people who crowd round it ignoring the bigger bikes. 50 mph is nonsense, imagine 35 and you wont be disappointed.
I filed out my exhaust ports and got 58mph out of her....it was a 1973 model before the restrictions........the unmodded ones would go 45 maybe and the restricted ones 35
lol . I was at least 3 stone lighter in those days so it would be interesting to see how fast mine will go now. its been tucked away in the garage for 20 years since i bought it off an old mate. I had a gold one on my 16th birthday (1982) . I paid £100 for it and £48 insurance .
Think its time to dig it out . :-)
Its tits weekend with the missus eh? Last time i noticed one of them bikes ridden around it was 1997.I didnt see it,i would be sitting in my flat and hear that unmistaken engine sound.
... he is grinning ear to ear!!! must be fun! I had one.... it was!
It was!
Learnt a lot in the early 80s about getting fizzys to go quite a bit faster than they should, standard barrel ported and bored out to max = 54.3cc, piston to match but fitted with some snipped down Honda 70 rings, engine sprocket up 1 tooth and back sprocket down 4 teeth, exhaust was a home made expansion box, cant remember jet size for carb but it was bigger than standard hence 27/28 to the gallon, not much really for a moped but it won me many 50 pence,s, The one i did the work on was NTB 13M and would pull 62mph on the flat, another i remember was RCK 78? R blue dx model, i remember going in to T & D motorcycles in Preston in 1980 and being quoted £215,85p for a brand new one ,
The need for speed - respect
Had 58 mph on the clock laying on the tank down the steepest hill I could find. I went on to an RD250 and then a GT550. Tried to push an AP50 up to 60 with my 550 and could not get past high 50s until the rider pulled the clutch in. Managed 85 with clutch pulled in. I have a 1000 now so could probably get even more, but I am a bit old for moped pushing now.
i got 58 after filing the ports out ....45 was the norm for a unmodded one
My first “real” motorcyclish transport. Bought it new in Montreal in 74 for about $250 hard earned money. This was , again, before the Feds got wind of it and the next year the regulations came fast and furious. But for that year, I used that shiny machine to take me every where there was pavement. It was , by dealers records at the time, the first Yamaha Québécois, that’s what the Provincial government insisted it would be called, sold in Quebec, if not Canada. It was so new , coming from Japan, I couldn’t even get it looked at for maintenance during my time with it( only that summer), no one had even heard of it. But it was a Zipper for sure, I clocked myself along side a big Honda 4 on the road, WOT, on the tank and the biker gave a thumbs up and indicated 45ish mph or 72-73 klms. And it was freedom for a 16 year old teenager, I was the talk of all the cousins ( I’m oldest), I would advise ANYONE wanting to get on a bike, considering the immense power they make today, to start SMALL, like a good used 250-400 cc bike and LEARN defense driving! It’ll save your life.
A variation of this was very common in Sweden baack in the days. Ours was very restricted, 1hp and 30 km/h (19mph) and could be driven at age of 15 without any licence. Removing restrictions and tuning them to go faster was very common but the police was very strict and chased us teens almost to death. They even used helicopter to chase. I got busted a few times and they confiscated the engine parts that was messed with.
Great sound, remember taking the head gasket out and using grinding paste on a mirror to make the surfaces flat, extra 1 mph, great fun, UNK 975R
Every little helps - hands on engineering, ingenious.
yes, I was forever taking the head off and polishing it and cleaning out the exhaust port with Solvol Autosol, probably did nothing for performance but I felt it did.
Bravo! Very funny review!
It was my first bike for the road had the one without pedals I put a 60 kit on it and a nice chrome race can on it she did about 70 on a good strait
happy memories
Ahem 40 ish tops with big bore kit and expansion pipe. But I'm still gonna get another thanks to you thank you
Had one exactly the same. Same colour even. It got knicked from a carpark. Now I know who knicked it lol!! Cost me £500. Paid it off monthly. I don't think the Fizzies were even 50cc. Mine was 49. Now I just bought an electric bicycle, £750. Great!!✌️👍
I had a Garelli Rekord Monza, Great little bike and even had a reverse gear ! ( When the engine mysteriously started in reverse) :-)
Reverse - useful when in a tight spot :-)
@@hoxtonmoto Yes I couldn't believe it when it happened the first time ! I think some of the three wheeler cars, of the 60's worked on the same principal.
It used to be up to 250cc for learners, then they reduced it to 125cc.
I had a Suzuki Hustler 250 lined up to buy in December of '71 and even had my new red licence ( I applied for the licence 4 weeks before my birthday) , I was as sick as a dog when Barbara Castle, the transport minister put the age up to 17 and I had to send it back. I had to buy a 50cc moped instead ! :-(
She probably saved your life, a 250 was way too powerful for a learner, I know because I tried a quacker 250. 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds. Imagine a machine like that in the hands of a teenager and a learner to boot. My first bike was a Suzuki TS 100.
@@Enpassantful Yes you maybe right, I did still get my T250J Hustler, but a year later, when I was 17 and I still had to put L plates on, I later had a KH250 Quack, which I took in P/X for a Z650, both great bikes.
Managed to get my front wheel of the ground yesterday :P anyone know what their top speeds are? haven't got mine out on the road yet! :(
One of my bikes is a classic 50cc HONDA MB5, and it will hit 55MPH! I'm 53, and I still ride it, and it is a BLAST!
Nice clip fine bike.
My 1974 (Bought in 1976 as a sixteen year old) Fizz had to go back every couple of weeks for a DE-coke. Managed to get 44 MPH downhill with a wind behinf me.
first 'real' m/c i owned.had a honda 'stroll-thru' c50,then started a trend at my school,by buying one of these.
Best time of my life
Mine was a Honda SL 100 dirt bike , street legal ,, such fun
I bought a SS50 as the fs1e were in short supply locally and I could not wait to get mobile. Big mistake, it was disheartening to have my mates fly by me on their fizzy's. Got a YDS7 on turning 17, it was like upgrading to the starship enterprise!
I had one, first time out with my mum following behind in a car I came off turning right at traffic lights in the rain 😁
Lol same here, apparently rear tyres were crap in the wet.
Wish I had it still, theres one on the bay of fleas for £11000 ! ! !
Back in the day we used to get 62 - 67mph max out of our fizzies.
Enlarge exhaust and scavenger ports/ cut out more of the disc valve and swap the front sprocket with more teeth.
Many on here were clearly not trying hard enough....
Who is the old man, it's amazing at his age riding anything.
Brings back wonderfull memories ,i sold mine for£25
my first bike on leaving school same as this one are the good days
Mate had one in yellow with a disc brake. It would do 50mphmon the clock. It would do that almost anywhere and would eventually get there two up as well. Reliable and felt unburstable compared to others.
Fantic GT was the fastest, six speed, constant changing and 60+, clocked by bigger bikes, just achievable!
Suzuki was marginally quicker than FS1E too.
There are a few youtube posts that show speed testing of the sports mopeds, admittedly getting on now and most don't make 50.
We used to take the baffle out lol 😆. Head down about 50 mph.
Tenho uma FS5 ano 1974 azul, 02 tempos é muito divertido
I was there man!..
my first bike ,wish i had it now .
and 50 with the wind on your back lol they were great little bikes i rebuilt the engine on mine but didn't realize i should have bled the auto lube pump you can guess the rest .
I had a new FS1E when l was 16 in 1978
The front disc one or the DX one TPX 859 T red
I rode a few myself at the time - fell off my mate Ray's shiny new one, bent the levers and pedals - mortified, I still feel guilty to this day. Sorry Ray
I'm sure you repaired it for him lol
they were well made
HAH! My first motorcycle was a new yellow 1964 Yamaha YG-1T 80cc "dirt" bike. A great bike for a learner to donk around off-road. The license plate on yours would seem to limit top speed a bit!!
RD 50 kicked its butt.
My first bike and it did 55mph. Strange that 40 years later it still outperforms bikes with twice the capacity.
Canny little bike in it's day for a daft as a brush kid, But it seemed to die off in the early 80s when it restricted to 30mph. Had 56 out of mind, And yes, It was down hill lol
I never owned one but someone lent me one for a few days when my Honda 250 was in the shop. It got me from A to B OK.
I Wan't ONE!
JEFF willaman I am sure if you look hard enough you can find a collector.
thank you!
JEFF willaman I have one! :D
Minha primeira moto, tinha uns 12 anos , naquele tempo, capacete não era obrigatório.nunca tive problemas com polícia apesar de ser menor.
I had a honda 100 at the time these were out they would do 60 but my honda would leave them way behind reaching speed of 80 mph good memories
60 mph, the max revs say 43 mph if you crunch the numbers😂
Mine was of the first build run in Candy Gold and, they were called SS50 until Honda kicked up a fuss already owning the name....UOY134M scrapped in 1981 I believe with over 40k up it.
The ridiculously large plate :D
I had one of those.