6'6" on a Honda CG125

Did my CBT today :)

John

Well done JK.

Must be easy gettin your knee down.

Perhaps thats how the cones went over :eek:

was it you knocked down the bollards then?

OMG! ...clear the fkkn roads, quick!

Been nice knowing you John......

I started biking at 31... now 44 :D :D Sold my car cause the traffic in Dublin is shi*e and ride all the year round. No going back once you try it.

GS 1150 adventure now.... two wheel hummer ))) ))) ))) ))) :bow:

I started biking at 31... now 44 :D :D ride all the year round. No going back once you try it.



Agree,I was "born again" about 5 years ago,currently honda cbr600 commuting and pleasure riding.
Also cycle sometimes which is still 2 wheels and traffic beating

started at 16 and been a kid ever since, bikes are so much fun, trouble is because of your lankyness you are restricted to which bikes you will find comfy,


my mate (oops who do i sound like now!!) is a similar build and he has a R1 which he finds comfy but i strongly suggest you work up to that style of bike or you will get yourself into all sorts of probs and will have a few moments! as no amount of cbt can prepare you for a pocket rocket.

Nice one John. Be careful, those cg125's are bloody awful... 'Interesting' brakes...

Now that's a funny picture... :D At least it gave me a good laugh on a dreary Monday morning. I would have paid to see you going 'round the cone, O Lanky One....... :)

Now that's a funny picture... :D At least it gave me a good laugh on a dreary Monday morning. I would have paid to see you going 'round the cone, O Lanky One....... :) I only really posted the picture for your personal amusement. Tight figure-of-eights were interesting due to the knee-handlebar interface :eek:

Actually the little bike wasn't anything like as cramped as I thought it would be. I expected to hate the fckin thing, but we actually got along quite well. Don't think I'll be buying one though.

And no, I didn't knock the cones down. A big boy did it and ran away . . .

John

Welcome to the biking fraternity JK ... are you doing the full test .. do hope so! :thumbs:

No, I've decided that bikes are horrible scary dangerous antisocial things and I'll not be having anything more to do with them. :mad:







































Not really! http://a23.org/ride.gif

Got a DAS course booked after Christmas and I'll be sitting amongst the spotty oiks doing my theory test next week! :D

John

Well done JK.past my bike test when i was about 35 you could pass on a 100cc then and go out and buy the bigist bike you could afford absolutely stupid when you think about it still it didnt stop me going out and buying a CBR 1000 in black and grey sh!t me self first time I opened it up then I sold it and bought a nice sensible VFR 800 in bright red :thumbs: youll have so much fun :D

Can you still go out and buy a 1000cc bike and fit a luggage carrier 3rd wheel thing on the side and drive it on a car licence???

Seems alot of us have bikes -

I have been riding all my life (bikes that is) started with a Yamaha PW80 as child and progressed to a KX250 MotoCross and a CR500 Honda. Have sold those now and have an R6.

Can you still go out and buy a 1000cc bike and fit a luggage carrier 3rd wheel thing on the side and drive it on a car licence???

if you are a nobbur

Seems alot of us have bikes -

I have been riding all my life (bikes that is) started with a Yamaha PW80 as child and progressed to a KX250 MotoCross and a CR500 Honda. Have sold those now and have an R6.

Now I feel old...... when someone says "started with a PW80 as a child" and riding all my life"... and you realise that when he was a child bombing round the fields on his PeeWee (early/mid eighties?)... you were probably trying to date his mom.... :D Shit... I'm off to take me Sanatogen, drink me cocoa and tuck up in bed with a nice book... :(

but you are only 42 ish arnt you? Now I feel old...... when someone says "started with a PW80 as a child" and riding all my life"... and you realise that when he was a child bombing round the fields on his PeeWee (early/mid eighties?)... you were probably trying to date his mom.... :D Shit... I'm off to take me Sanatogen, drink me cocoa and tuck up in bed with a nice book... :(

but you are only 42 ish arnt you?

Yeah...but with the growing number of "students" posting here I feel about :( 142.... :(

we can pull up a sandbag one day and chat about ap50's fs1e and other stuff haha Yeah...but with the growing number of "students" posting here I feel about :( 142.... :(

Seems alot of us have bikes Hmm. Anyone fancy a RIBnet bike rally? How about, say, Inverkip in May or June next year? :D

John

we can pull up a sandbag one day and chat about ap50's fs1e and other stuff haha

AP 50s.. Pah! My Fizzie'd see 'em off any day!...Purple it were... :)

To all the rest of you "old duffers" who were lucky enough to ride Mopeds before our dear Government neutered them.. I was lucky.. I inherited my older sisters 'ped which was still unrestricted.. read this book and smile..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904788114/qid%3D1134114703/203-1093566-7367967#product-details

Then think about what you're saying when you complain about groups of young "hooligans" whizzing about the shopping centre estates on twist'n go scoots.... :D

Funny photo! Hmm. Anyone fancy a RIBnet bike rally? How about, say, Inverkip in May or June next year? :D

John

Sounds like a good alternative activity at the RIbnet meet. Hubby has an impressive scar from his biking days in Zimbabwe :eek:

missus

Yamaha FS1E :D Happy day's

I wrote of the first bike I ever owned Bennelli 100cc bet not many peps had one of them what a piece of junk used to die everytime it rained so I was always late for work after stopping to dry the spark plug cap which allowed me to travel another half a mile up the road before the same thing happend again :mad: then I did the decent thing and smashed it to pieces going round a corner and getting it completely wrong :eek:

Nice one JK. When you've had a bit of practice you can get one of these. My trusty Honda Blackbird is now an Osprey Viper :D Actually it can be seen around the Pompey area Mon-Fri when the weather is good, cos a man from the navy bought it :thumbs:

Martin

If some of you lot feel old starting to ride on Jap bikes, I don’t know what that makes me! :eek:
I started on a BSA bantam off road but my first road bike was a Matchless 250 CSR, now lets see if anyone knows what one of them is. :D

If some of you lot feel old starting to ride on Jap bikes, I don’t know what that makes me! :eek:
I started on a BSA bantam off road but my first road bike was a Matchless 250 CSR, now lets see if anyone knows what one of them is. :D

Whoa! I had pictures of the Matchless on my bedroom wall, and the AJS equivalent. Christ, I feel old now. Ended up buying a Royal Enfield Crusader Sports and then a Gold Star 500. Real bikes - nearly killed me though, I spent 6 months in Croydon General Hospital after an unfortunate meeting with a Mk 1 Consul.

Biking days - over, period, but the '60s's was a great time to bike, no speed limits, very few cars and plod couldn't catch you until they got the Daimler Darts.

Nice one JK. When you've had a bit of practice you can get one of these. My trusty Honda Blackbird is now an Osprey Viper :D Actually it can be seen around the Pompey area Mon-Fri when the weather is good, cos a man from the navy bought it :thumbs:

Martin

do you miss the bike or is the boat a better bet!!

i shall have to keep an eye out for robert wadlow making his way round on a honda 125 :eek:

Whoa! I had pictures of the Matchless on my bedroom wall, and the AJS equivalent. Christ, I feel old now. Ended up buying a Royal Enfield Crusader Sports and then a Gold Star 500. Real bikes - nearly killed me though, I spent 6 months in Croydon General Hospital after an unfortunate meeting with a Mk 1 Consul.


Remember the Aeriel square 4 - what a piece of engineering./
My only two wheelers were an NSU Quickly and a Vespa

jonathan

we can pull up a sandbag one day and chat about ap50's fs1e and other stuff haha


AP's and Fizzies were for wusses! The only reason that they were remembered with fondness was because they lasted into the restricted era. The kiddies were the Italian stuff :D. Fantic TI6 or Gran Turisimo, Garelli Rekord or Tiger Cross. These things would do a genuine 70mph and last about 6 months! The dog of dogs was the Honda SS50 four stroke :eek:

the first bike i road was a ss50

none of us working class could afford the posh italian stuff, my first bike was a mobylette in yellow for 75 quid, funny thing was it was just as fast as all my friends restricted bikes, just looked crap.

been looking for a picture on google but cant find one....very rare

AP's and Fizzies were for wusses! The only reason that they were remembered with fondness was because they lasted into the restricted era. The kiddies were the Italian stuff :D. Fantic TI6 or Gran Turisimo, Garelli Rekord or Tiger Cross. These things would do a genuine 70mph and last about 6 months! The dog of dogs was the Honda SS50 four stroke :eek:

I mate and I had an NSU Quickly which we used to ride up and down a farm lane, now that was a bloody ridiculous looking thing!:D NSU is a fanny disease I gather now.:)
Well I'm "bgrd"!! Look what I've just found!! :D

so you had nsu at an early age then?

well my mate had a chicken chaser that we use to race round the farm on which was great, my mate had it for a few years and did 60,000 miles on it!!!!!! then he upgraded to a old yam 100 which he did over 100,000 miles on. funny thing is the bikes were old when he got em!!

the unfortunate thing was he was not a bright chap and was stuck in the mental age of around 15 for many years and probably still is, he just rode those old bikes round all the time and never really progressed on to anything proper so to speak. Might still have the yam for all i know.

I mate and I had an NSU Quickly which we used to ride up and down a farm lane, now that was a bloody ridiculous looking thing!:D NSU is a fanny disease I gather now.:)

We had a guy like that in Falmouth, we used to call him "Mike the Bike". He used to hurtle around on a RD250LC with "L" plates on. Silly sod couldn't ever pass a test. He used to dish out all the advice to us youngsters on our 100's. When the 2 year test law came in he was buggered. He's still around, he's known as "Mike the Pushbike" now!! :D

do you miss the bike or is the boat a better bet!!

I dont miss the blackbird so much, but I do miss the GSX-R600 I had before. That was madder than a bucket load of frogs!!!!!

That said when im out on me rib I dont miss two wheels at all and there aint no gatsos at sea :thumbs:

we know of someone like that, could be known as fish the rib but i think he will be known as fish the sib going forward as the rib aint turned up yet :rofl:

i had a rd350 ypvls thing that was superb, better than new condition, good rich hoses, allspeeds, tuned to hell and superb bike to look at but hated riding it , only got it cos i fancied one and got at a good price, sold it cos i thought i would kill myself on it......had to bleed air into the brakes to soften em down, power was on/off, skinny tyres, etc etc...i also had a cbr 600 so was a bit chalk and cheese, worse thing is the friend i sold it to and he took his test etc killed himself on it on lyneham camp some 6 months later which leaves a bad feeling...poor sod

We had a guy like that in Falmouth, we used to call him "Mike the Bike". He used to hurtle around on a RD250LC with "L" plates on. Silly sod couldn't ever pass a test. He used to dish out all the advice to us youngsters on our 100's. When the 2 year test law came in he was buggered. He's still around, he's known as "Mike the Pushbike" now!! :D

Only a true saddo laughs at their OWN jokes!!!

quite possibly true, but what kind of saddo hides behind a computer, never meets anyone, talks about getting a boat that never materialises, comes up with excuses time after time, never meets up with other ribbers to go on cruises, etc etc etc is the fountain of all knowledge etc etc, that is the true sad person in all of this.....missing out on a lot of fun in my book

mind you i am a bit sad spending so much time on here tonight exchanging posts with you,

but

i have had a good laugh iwth the sw ribbers and they posted some fun stuff so that was good, mollers, roy, richard, keef and the crowd are the boys:D

missing out on a lot of fun in my bookDon't get me wrong - I'm not sticking up for Codprawn - I too think the guy/girl is "a few friends short of a party" but...

Maybe this is what he/she does for fun and is not missing out at all - it takes all sorts to make this weired old world turn round.

I happen to know a load of people that think everyone on this Forum is "SAD" just for chatting to other people on it.

Its all relative - lets face it chatting on an internet forum to a load of "virtual" people isn't the coolest thing in the world... In fact its quite Geeky.

There are even people on this forum who like cricket for god sake - now how sad is that. (that bit was a wind up (http://www.rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11328))

quite possibly true, but what kind of saddo hides behind a computer, never meets anyone, talks about getting a boat that never materialises, comes up with excuses time after time, never meets up with other ribbers to go on cruises, etc etc etc is the fountain of all knowledge etc etc, that is the true sad person in all of this.....missing out on a lot of fun in my book

mind you i am a bit sad spending so much time on here tonight exchanging posts with you,

but

i have had a good laugh iwth the sw ribbers and they posted some fun stuff so that was good, mollers, roy, richard, keef and the crowd are the boys:D

Never meets anyone??? Actually I am quite choosy as to the type of people I meet!!!

Never meets anyone??? Actually I am quite choosy as to the type of people I meet!!!

Yep...anyone with a rib!!

Hugh Jardon, any more Cod-baiting and you'll have a week in the sin bin.

Codprawn don't rise to the bait, you only encourage him!

John

Hugh Jardon, any more Cod-baiting and you'll have a week in the sin bin.

Codprawn don't rise to the bait, you only encourage him!

John

Sorry just trying to stick up for myself.

oh my god the sin bin, better be on my best behaviour now then. a fate worse than death :eek:

codders i love ya:p
Hugh Jardon, any more Cod-baiting and you'll have a week in the sin bin.

Codprawn don't rise to the bait, you only encourage him!

John

I happen to know a load of people that think everyone on this Forum is "SAD" just for chatting to other people on it.



My ex wife for one!!! :)

My ex wife for one!!! :)

my mrs thinks she is a Rib Widdow or Ribnet Widdow ha ha

the allure of it all

a Rib Widdow or Ribnet Widdow
I used to be one. Then I decided 'If you can't beat them, join them'. Now we're a pair of saddos together. :D

Hugh Jardon, any more Cod-baiting and you'll have a week in the sin bin.
There's £50 available for your favourite charity John, if you make it two weeks.. :thumbs:

:D :D

Nice one JK. When you've had a bit of practice you can get one of these. My trusty Honda Blackbird is now an Osprey Viper :D Actually it can be seen around the Pompey area Mon-Fri when the weather is good, cos a man from the navy bought it :thumbs:

Martin

Hey Martin!

We'll look out for that !

Us :D

P.S. just saw your post Tony!!! :D :D A Sponsored Break! Go on go on Hugh !:D

We'd also be happy to donate to a nominated worthy cause. :thumbs:

will be well worth going in the sin bin for charity, very happy to do that

any other takers for a childrens charity.......

i guess it means sponsor me to give codders some grief to get in the sin bin and raise some money for a childrens charity, nice gesture i think

post your pledges here...

i guess it means sponsor me to give codders some grief to get in the sin bin and raise some money for a childrens charity, nice gesture i think
nope.. you guessed wrong.. :rolleyes:

There's £50 available for your favourite charity John, if you make it two weeks.. :thumbs:

will be well worth going in the sin bin for charity, very happy to do that

OK Tony. You now owe GAFIRS (www.gafirs.org.uk) £50 :D

Hugh Jardon can spend the next couple of weeks being sociable with his family rather than gobbing off on RIBnet. His suspension expires at 4pm on Christmas day*, so he'll be able to really piss his wife off when he fires up the computer between the mince pies and the sherry :rofl:

John

* Edit: That's just changed (http://www.rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=12364) to 8pm on 11 January 2006 :yawn:

:D

An excellent charity choice John.. Will pop down there tomorrow and hand a cheque over..

Nice one all :bow:



Us :D

Martin (O.V.) I think your ex-bike pulled up next to us in Pompey today!!!!!!
If it was the one, it's in very good nick: shiny/shiny :cool:
missus :eek:

OK Tony. You now owe GAFIRS (www.gafirs.org.uk) £50 :D


The cause seems charitable, the deal well struck, so I'll add a tenner to that in the morning.

ITS NOT FAIR ON POOR CHRIS??................ Jonathan

will be well worth going in the sin bin for charity, very happy to do that

any other takers for a childrens charity.......

i guess it means sponsor me to give codders some grief to get in the sin bin and raise some money for a childrens charity, nice gesture i think

post your pledges here...

Hugh was a bit miffed that JK, did not allow enough time to gather some sponsorship pledges for a worth while charity as it's XMAS, before being sin binned. That is why he created "JKisanob" profile :D .

As he cannot speak for himself he asked me to put his point across and he is happy for "JKisanob" profile to be deleted. :thumbs:

So Hugh can get on with some jobs around his house, and get his rib finished in time for next season as his Rib will only take 2-3 months to complete as supposed to 2-3 years :yawn: