Fantastic Ian I had a lime green ss50 in 1980 . I’m now 61 years old and have a 1981 Suzuki gs850g and a 1998 ninja zx9r but I miss my first bike 😀 Regards Dave from Scotland
I was part of that motorcycle boom that year myself. As petrol had more than doubled in price in the space of a year it made a lot of sense to go back to two wheels to commute. It was also a lot of fun , my weapon of choice was a CZ175 sport which cost me £285 new from the dealer.
My first bike was a brand new Honda ss50, bright green and disc front brake. £199 from Coburn & Hughes in Haringey. I’d never ridden a bike before, they spent 5mins showing me how it all works and then just handed me the keys😄 luckily we came in a van to put it in. Great times though.
when i was 16 in the early 80's i had a second hand vespa (piaggio) Si moped from 79. A black one with red trim. I did regret that i sold it then. Last year i was confronted with one, while cleaning out a garage. The Si moped was from a very old lady who didn't dare to drive it anymore for years. I bought it on the spot. I drive it now only with good weather!
Sorry to hear that my friend, my parents too are old and every day is a blessing with them, and yes I enjoyed my younger years like you, I would not like to be a teenager today its far too complicated :( best wishes, Jeff
LoL yeah My mate from college took me to `Kings` in Brum to pick up my Puch MV50 and showed me how to change gear and then left me to it, the most frightening couple of miles ever lol, but the memories :) still wish I could have got a fizzy, nearly bought one one recently to do up but pulled out, this nostalgia thing is great aint it now we are older there is a thriving market for us :)
I used to razz about the fields on some of these , bought for peanuts in my youth . come to think of it I was a cool proper kid , motorbikes on the fields , air rifles ( never killed anything ) dens , bonfires , catapults , play on old abandoned lorries , getting chased by the coppers , dropping batteries from the top of the flats , paper rounds , jumpers for goal posts , Raleigh grifters , chippers , tomahawks , didn't go home Till dark or hungry , god those were the days ( sighs )
Moped weren't speed limited until '78 as my dad got a 50cc honda which eventually hit 40mph, slowly cruising past all the new sporty mopeds limited to 30! Interestingly otr 125cc today can be had for around £600 - alot cheaper than in 1975.
I was born in 81 and remembering the mid 80s a little, and with older brothers, I remember a lot of older kids had bikes; scramblers. Older people, does this sound right?
Was true even in the mid 2000s, lots of kids where I grew up had scramblers from the age of 7 going up! police never bothered doing anything about us apart from coming to our school the once to tell us underaged driving is illegal. nobody cared
@Steve Barclay a250suzuki super six with 350 rebel barrels / pistons was my bike I used to stick Avon road runner tyres on it and smaller sprocket on the back it stopped the front from lifting but gave me 115 mph it pissed all over there triumph pi I would get home then thy would drive up on to are front drive and I would go back out on mother's vespa 90 and not go over 25 mph to the pub then out the back door jump the wall over the back Lane's then piss past them on my bike thy got me in the end picking up a bird on the vespa and not passing my test I got a years ban and sold the bike I look back now and I think them two copper's saved my life and I am grateful for their job thy had to do PS thank god kids now have to take a CBT test because back then you could take a test at 17 on your mother's vespa and then jump on a 750 Suzuki gt kettle and think you were Barry Sheene
I was born in the early 70s and can distinctly remember the 80s. There were a lot more smaller motorbikes on the road than there are now and where I live (Forest of Dean) most people bought something like a DT125 which was effectively a road going trail bike, fun on the road and in the local woods! Back then there was a lot more freedom, fewer people about and generally people turned a blind eye to motorbikes in the wood. For a short time I had a CR500, an early air cooled bike that was heavy like iron and a b'stard to start and scared the crap out of me when it hit the "power band". Yes, the 80s was a lot of outdoor fun, no mobiles, no computers much and so we did stuff.
Was not sure if you were right or wrong about that, so I googled it to become an expert. How life has changed. My daughter had a pet hedgehog. She took it to the vets when it was ill. She had never observed as much googling in her life before that visit.
I love touring around E-Bay looking at classic bikes, the one that makes me laugh most has to be the one and only C90 from Honda , i remember these new were around £230 on the road but now all these years on people are asking 2 to 3 GRAND each FFS
Just for info: My FS1-E 1975, bought second had at a year old in 1975 for £168.00 Popsicle Purple (sighs and sheds a tear) Fizzy up for sale in peak Covid times earlier this year £7,995.00 Nope I didn’t buy, the garage is full up with a BMW R1250GS. Doesn’t stop me hankering after a ride for old time’s sake though....
August 1975 - 8 weeks before my 16th birthday, standing in a small motorbike dealers in Durham putting my money down on my Puch Maxi N2 complete with proper motorbike clutch lever and 2 speed tranny that came to £185.00 on the road with helmet and insurance, the salesman was trying to get me to upgrade to a FS1E DX. Other punters were heard to exclaim the madness of a disk brake on a fizzy "you'll go over the handle bars" they said. It would have been £285.00 on the road and that extra £100.00 was out of my league - I had spent 2 whole years on my paper round just to get £140.00 (I knew I had to have my moped at age 14!) and my parents stumped up the £45.00 I was short! bless them. Others of my friends were not so lucky, banned from motorbikes because the newspapers were printing a horrific death toll (although they still got motorbikes later). However, I believe the stats say once we got to August 1977 and sports mopeds were stuck at 30 mph - many youngsters ended up killing themselves in cars at 17 instead! So the law change made no difference. I,e, the throttle goes both ways no matter what you drive, on bikes you got to learn how to keep away from killer cars and especially junctions where they do most killing. I found that getting behind a lorry, bus or 4x4 at critical junctions saved my skin, funny how car drivers do not pull out in front of a lorry!
@@cedriclynch Yes well spotted cedric I've just googled it you are right I never actually saw one close up, me & my mates all had fs1e/ss50/AP50/gilera/and garelli's good old day's 😊👍
@@trevorford9432 I had a Fantic TI for several years, that was really good. I think the man I eventually sold it to was going to restore it to fully original condition. I used to repair lots of "sixteener special" mopeds in the 1970s and 80s.
Anolbea patch pocket trousers three star tank tops lord Anthony jackets and northern soul and a Yamaha fs1 e in gold 1973 that's my memorys 19 pounds a week 10 no 6 12/half pence and a pint of double diamond for 15 p god I am old?ha ha
It is yamaha FS1E 49cc moped/motorcycle very cool bike to own in its day fizzy for short, I'm 56 and would still feel cool on one now, not sure it would hold my weight nowadays 😂😂
Powered 2-wheelers had a brief period, but it didn't last. Now it's back to kids who ride for 6 months if that before giving in to their parent's nagging about 'they're dangerous' and getting a car and people who buy a big sports bike and only ride on summer weekends and only do a couple of thousand miles a year if that.
if you can get your hands on a Honda CB125 Single / CG 125 you can realistically get around 100mpg, a 10hp engine and that can cruise at 40-50mph all day best bike for the college bloke back in the late 70s to be honest 100-250cc 2 strokes were also cool, performance is unbeatable, but fuel economy on that is just absolute rubbish the 250's get similar mpg figures as a Mini.
Yes you could ride upto a 250cc on L plates at 17yrs of age that was when you could buy a yam Rd 250 LC top speed off the shelf was quoted an amazing 104mph imagine that at 17yrs
Yes, he did say "super sports mopeds". In December 1971 the law was changed so that at the age of 16 you were limited to a moped, then defined as under 50cc and having pedals by means of which it could be propelled. From then until August 1977, when the law changed again to limit the maximum speed to 30mph, huge numbers of "sports mopeds" (aka sixteener specials) were sold; initially European makes such as Fantic, Garelli, Gilera, Gitane, Cimatti (Italy) Puch and KTM (Austria) Casal (Portugal) and Kreidler (West Germany) but Yamaha and Honda joined in a few months later and Suzuki after a couple of years. These had top speeds ranging from about 40mph to 60mph. The Yamaha was almost unburstable; reliability of the others was conditional on the rider having some mechanical sympathy, apart from the Garelli which was not reliable at all because of an error in the design of the crankshaft. I had a Fantic that I ran for several years and have happy memories of. It was extremely simple; I could draw the complete circuit diagram of its electrical system on the back of an envelope in a few minutes.
57 miles to the British gallon (4.5 litres versus the US gallon at 3.8 litres). HOLY smoke.... my van is 2.2 ton and gets about twice WHAT THESE MOTORBIKES GOT.... but I can sleep in my van, with a fridge, sink, and stove on board and I can go 120kmh easy.
Those sunglasses though.
That jacket!
was cool in the day dude lol especially the Elvis ones with chrome sides :)
Fly Jay that pink shirt tho
Good heavens.
@@bonkeydollocks1879
And the medallion dangling halfway down the chest!
I had a 1974 N reg Fantic TI as my 1st bike and a 1976 Honda SS50 which i bought brand new on 1st June 1976. I still own them both to this day.
Fantastic Ian
I had a lime green ss50 in 1980 .
I’m now 61 years old and have a 1981 Suzuki gs850g and a 1998 ninja zx9r but I miss my first bike 😀
Regards Dave from Scotland
I got my Ti in May 73. Went for scrap in 76! (3 of them in fact). I want another now if I can find one that ain't silly money lol.
If you want to see what the 70s really looked like this is it .
Old times, good times. Nowadays you cant see such beautiful mopeds, very sad.
all this motorcycles beautiful and good useful make human life happy God bless you ❤
Those glasses would shadow the entire nord hemisphere
I was part of that motorcycle boom that year myself. As petrol had more than doubled in price in the space of a year it made a lot of sense to go back to two wheels to commute. It was also a lot of fun , my weapon of choice was a CZ175 sport which cost me £285 new from the dealer.
Peter clearly wasn't prepared for those sunglasses, he had to keep checking his notes
My first bike was a brand new Honda ss50, bright green and disc front brake. £199 from Coburn & Hughes in Haringey.
I’d never ridden a bike before, they spent 5mins showing me how it all works and then just handed me the keys😄 luckily we came in a van to put it in. Great times though.
when i was 16 in the early 80's i had a second hand vespa (piaggio) Si moped from 79. A black one with red trim.
I did regret that i sold it then.
Last year i was confronted with one, while cleaning out a garage.
The Si moped was from a very old lady who didn't dare to drive it anymore for years. I bought it on the spot.
I drive it now only with good weather!
Could not afford the Fizzy so I had to have a Puch 50 ! but it never let me down and saw me through college :) I now have an R6
If you still had it you can add a couple of 0s on that price :) can still hear them now..buzzing down the road :)
hey thats fine you had loving parents,but mine were a little poorer, and I did good so can give them the great things in life now :)
Sorry to hear that my friend, my parents too are old and every day is a blessing with them, and yes I enjoyed my younger years like you, I would not like to be a teenager today its far too complicated :(
best wishes, Jeff
LoL yeah My mate from college took me to `Kings` in Brum to pick up my Puch MV50 and showed me how to change gear and then left me to it, the most frightening couple of miles ever lol, but the memories :) still wish I could have got a fizzy, nearly bought one one recently to do up but pulled out, this nostalgia thing is great aint it now we are older there is a thriving market for us :)
I was dumb and went for 'reliability' - an ss50. Bit of knowledge and the cheaper and better fs1e should've been the choice - without hesitation.
I had a GT 250 Suzuki glory happy days 👍
The glory days before they were restricted.
I used to razz about the fields on some of these , bought for peanuts in my youth . come to think of it I was a cool proper kid , motorbikes on the fields , air rifles ( never killed anything ) dens , bonfires , catapults , play on old abandoned lorries , getting chased by the coppers , dropping batteries from the top of the flats , paper rounds , jumpers for goal posts , Raleigh grifters , chippers , tomahawks , didn't go home Till dark or hungry , god those were the days ( sighs )
bonkey dollocks Northern Ireland by any chance ?
malcolm campbell no Beirut
bonkey dollocks pretty much the same thing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know it sounds old fashioned but I think us who were kids growing up in 1970s Britain had a lot of fun and freedom
@@kdri155 I am convinced it was better
Moped weren't speed limited until '78 as my dad got a 50cc honda which eventually hit 40mph, slowly cruising past all the new sporty mopeds limited to 30! Interestingly otr 125cc today can be had for around £600 - alot cheaper than in 1975.
That green CB200 was identical to the one I passed my test on in 1976! Garish clothing was compulsory!
Possibly one of the best EVER videos, not for the bikes and other classic machinery, but that fashion sense is stunning!!
wow!! weybridge station itself in 1975! never thought id see that, just up the road from it
It's 45 years but has clear video quality
I was born in 81 and remembering the mid 80s a little, and with older brothers, I remember a lot of older kids had bikes; scramblers. Older people, does this sound right?
Was true even in the mid 2000s, lots of kids where I grew up had scramblers from the age of 7 going up! police never bothered doing anything about us apart from coming to our school the once to tell us underaged driving is illegal. nobody cared
@Steve Barclay a250suzuki super six with 350 rebel barrels / pistons was my bike I used to stick Avon road runner tyres on it and smaller sprocket on the back it stopped the front from lifting but gave me 115 mph it pissed all over there triumph pi I would get home then thy would drive up on to are front drive and I would go back out on mother's vespa 90 and not go over 25 mph to the pub then out the back door jump the wall over the back Lane's then piss past them on my bike thy got me in the end picking up a bird on the vespa and not passing my test I got a years ban and sold the bike I look back now and I think them two copper's saved my life and I am grateful for their job thy had to do PS thank god kids now have to take a CBT test because back then you could take a test at 17 on your mother's vespa and then jump on a 750 Suzuki gt kettle and think you were Barry Sheene
I was born in the early 70s and can distinctly remember the 80s. There were a lot more smaller motorbikes on the road than there are now and where I live (Forest of Dean) most people bought something like a DT125 which was effectively a road going trail bike, fun on the road and in the local woods! Back then there was a lot more freedom, fewer people about and generally people turned a blind eye to motorbikes in the wood. For a short time I had a CR500, an early air cooled bike that was heavy like iron and a b'stard to start and scared the crap out of me when it hit the "power band". Yes, the 80s was a lot of outdoor fun, no mobiles, no computers much and so we did stuff.
Suzuki TS250, me in 1979...I could pop a wheelie in 4th gear
Love the jacket now that's cool and the shades , flares are well overdue another come back
i love how he has to keep looking at his notes... surely an expert in the field would know just about all
Was not sure if you were right or wrong about that, so I googled it to become an expert. How life has changed. My daughter had a pet hedgehog. She took it to the vets when it was ill. She had never observed as much googling in her life before that visit.
Didn't realise Roy Orbison did interviews
That piaggio ciao was fantastic!!!!
I love touring around E-Bay looking at classic bikes, the one that makes me laugh most has to be the one and only C90 from Honda , i remember these new were around £230 on the road but now all these years on people are asking 2 to 3 GRAND each FFS
Just for info:
My FS1-E 1975, bought second had at a year old in 1975 for £168.00
Popsicle Purple (sighs and sheds a tear) Fizzy up for sale in peak Covid times earlier this year £7,995.00
Nope I didn’t buy, the garage is full up with a BMW R1250GS. Doesn’t stop me hankering after a ride for old time’s sake though....
@@PhilbyFavourites Fizzy was one heck of a bike, quick smart and bags of fun
Yeah the good old days, the Honda c50/c70 & c90 were nick named the bogseat or bogger was that the same in the rest of the country ??.
Couldn't beat the fizzy!
I love me a good moped! Oldest I've had was a 77 batavus. It was reliable but slow as all hell.
Lots of love for these vintage bikes I'm sporting a 1969 Honda sl90
Very nice little vintage video.
Lol love the shades...groovy
Rupert the bear called. He wants his pants back.
Disc brake "Good heavens"
August 1975 - 8 weeks before my 16th birthday, standing in a small motorbike dealers in Durham putting my money down on my Puch Maxi N2 complete with proper motorbike clutch lever and 2 speed tranny that came to £185.00 on the road with helmet and insurance, the salesman was trying to get me to upgrade to a FS1E DX. Other punters were heard to exclaim the madness of a disk brake on a fizzy "you'll go over the handle bars" they said. It would have been £285.00 on the road and that extra £100.00 was out of my league - I had spent 2 whole years on my paper round just to get £140.00 (I knew I had to have my moped at age 14!) and my parents stumped up the £45.00 I was short! bless them. Others of my friends were not so lucky, banned from motorbikes because the newspapers were printing a horrific death toll (although they still got motorbikes later). However, I believe the stats say once we got to August 1977 and sports mopeds were stuck at 30 mph - many youngsters ended up killing themselves in cars at 17 instead! So the law change made no difference. I,e, the throttle goes both ways no matter what you drive, on bikes you got to learn how to keep away from killer cars and especially junctions where they do most killing. I found that getting behind a lorry, bus or 4x4 at critical junctions saved my skin, funny how car drivers do not pull out in front of a lorry!
Never lean on or talk about another man's helmet.
the only contemporary looking riding contraption in the video today is the vespa scooter..
I had a Yamaha RD250A in 75
Puch Grand prix, great times, happy days!
Yeah man! Great bike. Oh crikey, where did those years go?
Great vid puch did a black & gold JPS special, couldn't advertise like that nowadays 😊
@@trevorford9432 It didn't say JPS, it said SDP for Steyr-Daimler-Puch, but lots of people didn't notice this.
@@cedriclynch Yes well spotted cedric I've just googled it you are right I never actually saw one close up, me & my mates all had fs1e/ss50/AP50/gilera/and garelli's good old day's 😊👍
@@trevorford9432 I had a Fantic TI for several years, that was really good. I think the man I eventually sold it to was going to restore it to fully original condition. I used to repair lots of "sixteener special" mopeds in the 1970s and 80s.
"Some of which even sport disc brakes..." ... " Good Heavens!!"
Dude's shades were made for someone who's head had been Supersized
Is it me or do those crash helmets remind me of the Sweeny as the blaggers rob a bank.
wow,250 for a New Vespa.today a New Levi's would cost you more than that.
Lovely Vespa rally 200' there!
Medallions and open top shirts need to return.
Anolbea patch pocket trousers three star tank tops lord Anthony jackets and northern soul and a Yamaha fs1 e in gold 1973 that's my memorys 19 pounds a week 10 no 6 12/half pence and a pint of double diamond for 15 p god I am old?ha ha
Hahahah ! I needed that ! Thanks !!!!
Was he booked to do some welding on the same day?
I keep picturing Jim Carey on one of them step thrus...🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Brilliant
The Days Before Mopeds were Restricted.
Are they stevie wonders glasses ?
The obligatory gold medallion look has required back then
Was that Peter Sellers introducing this clip?
Ted Pennington Ha har!!
I thought it was Eric Idle.
Groovy !....
I had a Suzi A100. Cost £299 new.
A Vespa Rally. Yes please.
Welding goggles and a green jacket , what was he thinking .
I thought the video was about how not to dress, then noticed there was some quite useless info on mopeds
3:30 £115 to get on the road !!! Wow
Great times great clothes and hairy beavers
WHAT?!!... no Fizzy?!!..
It is yamaha FS1E 49cc moped/motorcycle very cool bike to own in its day fizzy for short, I'm 56 and would still feel cool on one now, not sure it would hold my weight nowadays 😂😂
Fuck!! -Those shades....
Thats a 1st -Wearing a Tieon a Magnolia shirt....
Say 3 Hail Marys...You witnessed it!😆😆
Powered 2-wheelers had a brief period, but it didn't last. Now it's back to kids who ride for 6 months if that before giving in to their parent's nagging about 'they're dangerous' and getting a car and people who buy a big sports bike and only ride on summer weekends and only do a couple of thousand miles a year if that.
What a terrible range of mopeds. Dig those strides, I think of Rupert Bear.
The 70s was such a terrible fashion era. Gives us a laugh though
😎😎😎😎
Alright! The Benny Hill show...
@ 3:00 LoL! people really didn't give a fuck about appearance back then.
size of his sunglasses f sake
ace crusader handy if you need to do some emergency welding
How much on the road with your "helmet"!!!
Is the reporter blind?
if you can get your hands on a Honda CB125 Single / CG 125
you can realistically get around 100mpg, a 10hp engine and that can cruise at 40-50mph all day
best bike for the college bloke back in the late 70s to be honest
100-250cc 2 strokes were also cool, performance is unbeatable, but fuel economy on that is just absolute rubbish the 250's get similar mpg figures as a Mini.
Yes you could ride upto a 250cc on L plates at 17yrs of age that was when you could buy a yam Rd 250 LC top speed off the shelf was quoted an amazing 104mph imagine that at 17yrs
If you had a yam 50 fs1e, you where someone.
If you have still got one now it is worth a fortune.
You can get a step through, which as the name implies, you just step through. 🤣🤣🤣 I know he meant Honda C90 but wtf?
Super. Sports. mopeds. 😂😂😂
mate, 90 pounds!
Yea
Did he say super sport moped...🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, he did say "super sports mopeds". In December 1971 the law was changed so that at the age of 16 you were limited to a moped, then defined as under 50cc and having pedals by means of which it could be propelled. From then until August 1977, when the law changed again to limit the maximum speed to 30mph, huge numbers of "sports mopeds" (aka sixteener specials) were sold; initially European makes such as Fantic, Garelli, Gilera, Gitane, Cimatti (Italy) Puch and KTM (Austria) Casal (Portugal)
and Kreidler (West Germany) but Yamaha and Honda joined in a few months later and Suzuki after a couple of years. These had top speeds ranging from about 40mph to 60mph. The Yamaha was almost unburstable; reliability of the others was conditional on the rider having some mechanical sympathy, apart from the Garelli which was not reliable at all because of an error in the design of the crankshaft. I had a Fantic that I ran for several years and have happy memories of. It was extremely simple; I could draw the complete circuit diagram of its electrical system on the back of an envelope in a few minutes.
57 miles to the British gallon (4.5 litres versus the US gallon at 3.8 litres). HOLY smoke.... my van is 2.2 ton and gets about twice WHAT THESE MOTORBIKES GOT.... but I can sleep in my van, with a fridge, sink, and stove on board and I can go 120kmh easy.
Those semi elliptical number plates.
The 70s were super gay.
Oohhhhhh matron...
The future is electricity bikes
Get real man, they're the work of Satan.....
New! Didn't see many new mopeds / bikes on the council estate I lived on in the 70's, unless they had just been "borrowed". :)