1st job 1984 Remember the frosty mornings riding my Fizzy from home in Guildford down to Hindhead struggling up the long hill approaching Hindhead along A3, 2nd gear sometimes! zero compression lol, Listening to AC/DC on Sony Walkman with headphones under helmet if it was a 'Highway to Hell' it was a bloody slow & cold one! Great memories Cheers 🥶
What memories ... OVY 337P Jan 76 £216 new from our local dealers ... 13,000 miles in a year on that, learn't a bit about mechanics with that, opened the ports, skimmed the head and de-wadded the baffle, was quite a quick and pulled like a train ... opened up my world, I still have 2 bikes but I wish I'd got my first ... oh the joys !
I had the fizzy purple 1975. My mates had the Garelli and the Gilera.Always found the fizzy the more reliable!!As kids, loved doing wheelies🤭.GREAT BIKE!!
A truely awesome bike for a 70s 16 year old. I skipped an fs1e and saved and bought a new Kawasaki 2 stroke 250 outright at 17. I still have wonderful memories of that bike today at 60, not the most powerful bike I've owned, but strong memories of friends and great times.
What a great video. Thanks. I used to have a 1976 P reg when I turned 16, that was in 1978, Purple, I put an expansion chamber exhaust on it and polished the head and ported the cylinder. I think I managed to get it up to 69mph.............what a racket ! My mum and Dad used to know when I was almost home..LOL. A fantastic little bike.
Great video, I never had a Fizzy, I had a Honda SS50, but I prefer the Fizzy. I'm not so young and skinny now, a larger bike suits me better now, but the moped got me hooked on biking. The endless hot Summer of 1976 was when I got the SS50. I got a cb250g5 in 1977 when I was 17and have owned many bikes since. My smallest bike is a Yamaha DT3 250 Enduro from 1972 and my largest is a FJ1200 from 1990.
I had a AP50, disc brake, metallic blue, OLE65P from memory! It went like a train! Great bits were the top speed - I got an indicated 70mph, head on the tank, down Brockley Hilll in Elstree Herts! Worst were the headlights, like an usherettes torch, and the pedals used to ground if you leant to far on the corners! Had so many narrow squeaky bum escapes!! Great Days eh guys!!
I had one of these little bikes when I was 17, cost me , if I remember, around $450... a lot of money in the day. But here in Montreal, Quebec it was called the “ Québécois”, still though a Yamaha. No plates or registration needed, not even a helmet, as these small bikes came with a 49.9 cc engine and therefore was exempt from bike laws for the road. Learnedwhat I needed during a summer and the following year, went up to a ‘69 250cc Yamaha Twin. After that summer, next was a ‘72 350cc Kawasaki Triple, a 2 stroke big enough to teach me what a”powerband”was. Got my dream bike in ‘76 with a brand new Yamaha RD400c Twin. ‘Nuff said. 🏍
Good video, Martin. It brought back a few rose tinted memories from 1981. During that year or so, and up until I passed my car test in 1982, i owned a 1977 Baja brown - speed block FS1E, a 'mint' 1977 blue Suzuki AP50 (but the crank bearings gave up - and so did my patience) and so finally, a 1977 blue - speed block FS1E-A (autolube). Wished I had the foresight back then to keep them all for the future!. Cheers, Mark.
Wow, they would have been worth a fortune now Mark. I remember chucking my Fs1e-autolube in a shed when I got my RD250 DX and I basically sold it to a mate for pennies. Cheers Martin
@@burthabard8316 The very first time I saw a Raleigh Wisp it had Twiggy riding it for a photo shoot. I think it was in Hyde Park, London, down by the Surpentine lake. She was very slim!
Same era as me ...I bought the Gilera Touring then the GT 250 Then the GT380 Ram Air when I passed my test and then GT750 ....ahhhhhhh happy days !!! ..Would my Kettle back but too expensive now
Excellent video! I went from my first powered 2-wheeler, an NSU Quickly, to the candy-gold, Yamaha SS 50 when they first came out from a bike shop in West London - Acton?? (Reg. MYN 82L. Where are you now?) I remember their workshop was full of orange XS Yamaha 4-stroke twins. Went everywhere on that bike: work, social, even to Derbyshire!
Nice video Martin! Very nice job editing. I don't know anything about old bikes, but I found the video enjoyable and interesting. Are you friends with the bike restorer?
I filmed it 9 years ago and have been selling the dvd all this time but I decided to add it to my channel in segments for my subscribers. I only met John once but he's in my facebook friends list. A nice chap. Cheers Martin
think i started the trend,as before mine,most bikes were Honda C50's.Bet mine's long gone,i can't even recall it's reg,other than it was on an N plate!had other Yam's,most notable an LC250,but i also had a YAS3 that i had a RD125 engine installed!
i had one of them many moons ago.my first legal bike. think i put 50 pence off petrol in at a time.brings back some good memories and then Suzuki TS125
My (late) dad bought the AP50 off me and had the engine fully rebuilt by a bike shop, because I couldn't afford to do it on Youth Training Scheme wages of £25 a week!. In hindsight, he was just helping me out really, because he only used 2 or 3 times in a couple of years to commute to work and back, then sold it on.......for peanuts. Great times - I loved my independence on my nifty 50.
PBK 68M where are you now? I only have the front number plate that I took off when the law changed. It takes pride of place hanging over my current ride in the garage. I'd love to spin a Fizzy over the back of the hill and lose myself in the back lanes of my youth again. But I'd probably get flattened by a "mummy in a hurry", they never existed when I was a kid; they're everywhere now...
I wanted a FS1E or a Suzuki AP50 when I was 16.My dad said no.He was in the Royal Signals motorcycle display team and an army driving instructor.He told me London roads were too dangerous for mopeds.My mates had mopeds and I used the buses.🥴🥴🥴
Probably it's thanks to your Dad you're here to tell the story. Although I didn't live in London my Dad wouldn't let me have a moped either and in my case he was probably right since I have some sort of minor defect in that i find it easier to do left bends on a bike compared to right bends. Didn't stop me from hiring an FS1E when I went on a Summer holiday in Vouliagmeni, Greece though (nicely named Hotel Paradise although no longer there I see). Great feeling of the warm air in your face cruising at 30 - 35 mph.
Great videos have been looking at purchasing a fizzy do you ours any of your followers could put me in the right direction. I'm after one to restore or partly restored one any advice would be appreciated thanks
My dad found mine at a garage sale for $75 when i was 9yrs old and i thought it was normal that it only ran at 15mph maybe 20down a steep hill i only had it for a year before i upgraded to a Suzuki moped that did 35mph
Yeah but I'd like to actually own the DVD. Thanks Martin I'll have a look. What is the ad title? By the way I bought my Fizzy project from John Watts :)
retrorestore I had two fs1e's and and 1 Suzuki ap50 witch was faster in the early eighties i coundn't find a second hand yamaha ss at the time because they were a rare find but the fs1 were five speed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_FS1
Its funny to hear the prices. You say this was recored in 2006? he says it would probably cost £500 to but the Popsicle purple one in that condition. you could probably double or triple that number now. prices of everything have gone mad over the last 10 years.
+ziggybome Yes, I remember when I filmed it back then and I thought £500 for that old fizzy was a lot of money as well lol. Mad prices now though. Cheers Martin
There is far too much mechanical noise from this engine. It sounds like an engine that has been in a damp place for 20 years in the course of which it has seized due to rust in the bearings and has then been freed by pouring oil in the bearings and forcibly rocking them back and forth until they will again turn. If the problem is in the main bearings only then it costs a few pounds for the parts to fix it, if the big-end is also rough then a few tens of pounds.
@@retrorestore I'm a Biker and ANY self respecting Biker would tell you that to ride on a public road without the correct gear is a big no no . Only brain dead simpletons ride a bike in T shirt and shorts .
1st job 1984 Remember the frosty mornings riding my Fizzy from home in Guildford down to Hindhead struggling up the long hill approaching Hindhead along A3, 2nd gear sometimes! zero compression lol, Listening to AC/DC on Sony Walkman with headphones under helmet if it was a 'Highway to Hell' it was a bloody slow & cold one! Great memories Cheers 🥶
What memories ... OVY 337P Jan 76 £216 new from our local dealers ... 13,000 miles in a year on that, learn't a bit about mechanics with that, opened the ports, skimmed the head and de-wadded the baffle, was quite a quick and pulled like a train ... opened up my world, I still have 2 bikes but I wish I'd got my first ... oh the joys !
I had the fizzy purple 1975.
My mates had the Garelli and the Gilera.Always found the fizzy the more reliable!!As kids, loved doing wheelies🤭.GREAT BIKE!!
A truely awesome bike for a 70s 16 year old. I skipped an fs1e and saved and bought a new Kawasaki 2 stroke 250 outright at 17. I still have wonderful memories of that bike today at 60, not the most powerful bike I've owned, but strong memories of friends and great times.
Just read this I did exactly the same dad signed for it on finance kh b2 in blue on a s plate great times back then.
Ah yes, 2 purple fizzys, a Fantic Ti and then a KH250 PYE 302R. Simpler times and a fraction of today's traffic. Happy days indeed!
What a great video. Thanks. I used to have a 1976 P reg when I turned 16, that was in 1978, Purple, I put an expansion chamber exhaust on it and polished the head and ported the cylinder. I think I managed to get it up to 69mph.............what a racket ! My mum and Dad used to know when I was almost home..LOL. A fantastic little bike.
I had a P reg too when I was 16. £220 brand new. Fab first bike and easy to learn on. I went everywhere on it.
Faulty memory. Not even the Beeline tuned fs1e's did that. Had an indicated 62mph out of mine, about the same as a Tiger Cross
Great video, I never had a Fizzy, I had a Honda SS50, but I prefer the Fizzy.
I'm not so young and skinny now, a larger bike suits me better now, but the moped got me hooked on biking.
The endless hot Summer of 1976 was when I got the SS50.
I got a cb250g5 in 1977 when I was 17and have owned many bikes since. My smallest bike is a Yamaha DT3 250 Enduro from 1972 and my largest is a FJ1200 from 1990.
Great bikes you got there
@@patrickhockey245 I also have a FZR600 3HE, a FZR600R, FZR1000 Genesis x2, YZF750R, GS500 and a CB360.
I had a AP50, disc brake, metallic blue, OLE65P from memory! It went like a train! Great bits were the top speed - I got an indicated 70mph, head on the tank, down Brockley Hilll in Elstree Herts! Worst were the headlights, like an usherettes torch, and the pedals used to ground if you leant to far on the corners! Had so many narrow squeaky bum escapes!! Great Days eh guys!!
I had one of these little bikes when I was 17, cost me , if I remember, around $450... a lot of money in the day. But here in Montreal, Quebec it was called the “ Québécois”, still though a Yamaha. No plates or registration needed, not even a helmet, as these small bikes came with a 49.9 cc engine and therefore was exempt from bike laws for the road. Learnedwhat I needed during a summer and the following year, went up to a ‘69 250cc Yamaha Twin. After that summer, next was a ‘72 350cc Kawasaki Triple, a 2 stroke big enough to teach me what a”powerband”was. Got my dream bike in ‘76 with a brand new Yamaha RD400c Twin. ‘Nuff said. 🏍
Had a ride on my mate Steve’s metallic purple fizzy when I was 14 down Southport promenade loved that bike wanted one ever since 40 years now
Good video, Martin. It brought back a few rose tinted memories from 1981. During that year or so, and up until I passed my car test in 1982, i owned a 1977 Baja brown - speed block FS1E, a 'mint' 1977 blue Suzuki AP50 (but the crank bearings gave up - and so did my patience) and so finally, a 1977 blue - speed block FS1E-A (autolube). Wished I had the foresight back then to keep them all for the future!. Cheers, Mark.
Wow, they would have been worth a fortune now Mark. I remember chucking my Fs1e-autolube in a shed when I got my RD250 DX and I basically sold it to a mate for pennies.
Cheers
Martin
Fond memories of the Fizzy got my first one in 1979 R reg in blue I was 16 and still at school used to scrape the pedals away on a regular basis.....
Fizzy, SS50 & Puch Maxi. I still love them all! Happy days! :)
The fantic gt and the puch Monza were my dream ended up with a Raleigh wisp wish I had it now
@@burthabard8316 The very first time I saw a Raleigh Wisp it had Twiggy riding it for a photo shoot. I think it was in Hyde Park, London, down by the Surpentine lake. She was very slim!
@@burthabard8316 PS: Dont' forget the 50cc Fantic Chopper - also available as a 125cc.
500 and 500 to restore...good luck getting a barn case for less than 3k now!
I had a dark blue autolube Yamaha FS1E ( SPJ322R ). Loved it ...
Great video I bet everyone who owned a fizzy back then still owned it now whish I still had mine i paid £60.00 back in 1979 stay safe 🇬🇧👍
My dad use to build these up on the driveway of my nans house for his mates in the 70's. kids dream apparently.
Same era as me ...I bought the Gilera Touring then the GT 250 Then the GT380 Ram Air when I passed my test and then GT750 ....ahhhhhhh happy days !!! ..Would my Kettle back but too expensive now
Excellent video! I went from my first powered 2-wheeler, an NSU Quickly, to the candy-gold, Yamaha SS 50 when they first came out from a bike shop in West London - Acton?? (Reg. MYN 82L. Where are you now?) I remember their workshop was full of orange XS Yamaha 4-stroke twins. Went everywhere on that bike: work, social, even to Derbyshire!
Eeh memories of 1974,downhill, flat on the tank to break the 50mph barrier!
Could never get used to the gear shift on mates bikes,i was a 1 down 4 up guy,so never had a Fizzy.
sadly the book does not live up to much so much missed but fair play for doing it long live the fizzy
When my mate passed his cbt 2 years ago, he got one of these instead of a twist and go, can see why!
I always wondered with pressed steel frames how do you know how much rust there is on the inside?
You don't and they do rot out.
I had a blue one, flat out 50 55 mph rush hour traffic on the A6 in the middle of the road out of Luton going home from work UNK 975R
Good times eh.
I had one in the early 80s my first bike found out that the YB100 engine went straight in, that's what went in mine with a micron exhaust
I had the transition model, late '73 candy gold but with FS1-E on side panels. I think most of the gold ones were the SS
The very first ss fs1e's (k reg) had an upswept exhaust!
Nice video Martin! Very nice job editing. I don't know anything about old bikes, but I found the video enjoyable and interesting. Are you friends with the bike restorer?
I filmed it 9 years ago and have been selling the dvd all this time but I decided to add it to my channel in segments for my subscribers. I only met John once but he's in my facebook friends list. A nice chap.
Cheers
Martin
Ace mate.
I bought a 1979 honda 250 superdream love it
I still have the 1970 Yamaha and I looking for the spare parts magazine to buy the specific parts
Online searches will probably pull up more results bud.
9 out of 10 of my mates,owned one of these,including me.mine was a purple N reg,as were all my mates bikes.
think i started the trend,as before mine,most bikes were Honda C50's.Bet mine's long gone,i can't even recall it's reg,other than it was on an N plate!had other Yam's,most notable an LC250,but i also had a YAS3 that i had a RD125 engine installed!
Dx models are the one with break calibers and k1 are with drum brake
i had one of them many moons ago.my first legal bike. think i put 50 pence off petrol in at a time.brings back some good memories and then Suzuki TS125
That sounds about right Sid. I think it was about 45Pence a gallon in the mid 70's.
Cheers
Martin
Nice video Martin. I remember my brother had a fs1e. Not for me I got a car mk2 cortina 1600E Much warmer.
it was a sixteeners dream though Tony lol. That would be a mk 2 Cortina or a mk3 me thinks.
Cheers
Martin
This was my first bike when I was 17.
+elkysunnykuri Good memories though bud.
Cheers
Martin
My (late) dad bought the AP50 off me and had the engine fully rebuilt by a bike shop, because I couldn't afford to do it on Youth Training Scheme wages of £25 a week!. In hindsight, he was just helping me out really, because he only used 2 or 3 times in a couple of years to commute to work and back, then sold it on.......for peanuts. Great times - I loved my independence on my nifty 50.
I am doing the AP50 vid later in the series. Should bring back memories.
Cheers
Martin
PBK 68M where are you now? I only have the front number plate that I took off when the law changed. It takes pride of place hanging over my current ride in the garage.
I'd love to spin a Fizzy over the back of the hill and lose myself in the back lanes of my youth again. But I'd probably get flattened by a "mummy in a hurry", they never existed when I was a kid; they're everywhere now...
excellent
I wanted a FS1E or a Suzuki AP50 when I was 16.My dad said no.He was in the Royal Signals motorcycle display team and an army driving instructor.He told me London roads were too dangerous for mopeds.My mates had mopeds and I used the buses.🥴🥴🥴
Probably it's thanks to your Dad you're here to tell the story.
Although I didn't live in London my Dad wouldn't let me have a moped either and in my case he was probably right since I have some sort of minor defect in that i find it easier to do left bends on a bike compared to right bends. Didn't stop me from hiring an FS1E when I went on a Summer holiday in Vouliagmeni, Greece though (nicely named Hotel Paradise although no longer there I see).
Great feeling of the warm air in your face cruising at 30 - 35 mph.
brilliant
Where can I get the DVD from Martin?
Pebo Share The dvd is on Ebay but all the vids are on here.
Cheers
Martin
Great videos have been looking at purchasing a fizzy do you ours any of your followers could put me in the right direction.
I'm after one to restore or partly restored one any advice would be appreciated thanks
if you're still looking for a fs1e look in France you can still find them for under 500 euros
My dad found mine at a garage sale for $75 when i was 9yrs old and i thought it was normal that it only ran at 15mph maybe 20down a steep hill i only had it for a year before i upgraded to a Suzuki moped that did 35mph
ah the good times
Great vid Martin , Love the old bikes ! Have several my self but mine are Honda's ..
There is a Honda coming up soon Shawn. Stay tuned.
Cheers
Martin
Right on !!
great watch-50mph?-they did a bit more than that didn't they? I had a suzuki ap50 left the fizzy standing :)60 flat on the tank
NICE
Mine was UUM 86M in purple
Suzuki was the King of Chrome in the UK
Yeah but I'd like to actually own the DVD. Thanks Martin I'll have a look. What is the ad title? By the way I bought my Fizzy project from John Watts :)
Pebo Share Just copy and paste the following into ebay to find.FS1E AP50 SS50 Fantic Garelli Tigercross Moped DVD
CheersMartin
I thought the Yamaha SS had 5 speed box and fs1e had only a 4 speed also detuned from 1973
Not as far as I remember Mike but I'm no expert.
retrorestore I had two fs1e's and and 1 Suzuki ap50 witch was faster in the early eighties i coundn't find a second hand yamaha ss at the time because they were a rare find but the fs1 were five speed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_FS1
Nice one, didn't know that.
Cheers
Martin
yamaha ss50 had a 4 speed box
fs1e was a 4 speed
Its funny to hear the prices. You say this was recored in 2006? he says it would probably cost £500 to but the Popsicle purple one in that condition. you could probably double or triple that number now. prices of everything have gone mad over the last 10 years.
+ziggybome Yes, I remember when I filmed it back then and I thought £500 for that old fizzy was a lot of money as well lol. Mad prices now though.
Cheers
Martin
Interesting.
Nostalgic look at the bikes I grew up with Tim. Cheers
Martin
you might pick up a early fizzy from free ad papers for 500 but you have no chance on ebay. this popsi would fetch 1500 no problem.
This was filmed in 2006 before they went up to silly prices
nice rd cant hear him
Rust box FS1E now go for £2500
I paid 100 pounds for my popsicle purple FS1E in 1978
Hi m8 we used to call them fizzie chicken lol atb Gordon
Never heard of that one Gordon lol.
Cheers
Martin
sell me the purple one same what i had lol when had a life
I love you
There is far too much mechanical noise from this engine. It sounds like an engine that has been in a damp place for 20 years in the course of which it has seized due to rust in the bearings and has then been freed by pouring oil in the bearings and forcibly rocking them back and forth until they will again turn. If the problem is in the main bearings only then it costs a few pounds for the parts to fix it, if the big-end is also rough then a few tens of pounds.
Candy orange NOT gold
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That first bike has got after market exhaust it sounds crap they were smooth runners not like this one
not a real fs1e got no pedels
Omg I am jelous
Riding on the road with out an helmet and in tshirt and shorts ARRRGGGHHHH . Can't watch any further .....
Get real bud.
@@retrorestore I'm a Biker and ANY self respecting Biker would tell you that to ride on a public road without the correct gear is a big no no . Only brain dead simpletons ride a bike in T shirt and shorts .