Anyone got a Yamaha FS1E?

[Ihavenojob]

Dork has probably got a dozen, in crates, unused and mint, but I'm on about in the real world. I had one, 'kin fast it was an' all. Should have kept it.

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[mcprinter]

Should have kept your <Insert 80's car here>
Cav SRi for me

Colleague bought a FS1E cheap to do up in lockdown.
Did a fair bit to it. Sold on uncompleted.
College mate had one (late 80s). I had a Yamaha DT with a 60 kit and noisy exhaust. We were about matched for speed.

 

[transam]

Yep the fizzy def worth a few Bob if you have one

Also them Raleigh chopper type pushbikes are sort after

 

[Dork Lard]

I like that you think I have a dozen in crates. You don't know me & you can certainly never understand me.

A fizzy was was my first ever legal road bike & it is because of the likes of me that they fetch so much money today. I tracked down my old fizzy a few years ago to discover that she's had 38 owners so far, I was the 4th.

Do you have a motorcycle ihavenojob???

I have a collection of over 100, only a few of 'em are still in their crates & only 5 of 'em are regularly ridden.

I like motorcycles & I like the people who genuinely like motorcycles. But, because motorcycles attract people who are like me, they also attract people who want to be like me. You might not be like me & you might be the type of onanist who thinks that buying a motorcyle elevates you to the status of people like me.

If you do own a motorcycle, is it for the right reasons or are you just another onanist seeking an identity to conform to????

 

[Ihavenojob]

Do you have a motorcycle ihavenojob???

Last bike I had was a Yamaha Vmax. Now that was an interesting ride. Had several dozen bikes, starting with a fizzy in the late 70's up until about 2010. I did buy a Suzuki X7 shortly after the VMax, with a plan of doing it up. Ended up as a garden ornament. sold it a few years later for a small profit.

 

[Dork Lard]

Last bike I had was a Yamaha Vmax. Now that was an interesting ride.

Only because it produces more power than you could control.

It is a great bike if travelling 3mls from your base to a pub car park somewhere to 'strut your funky stuff' is how you get off.

It is NOT a great bike if you actually like riding a motorcycle . . . . .

 

[Dork Lard]

Best bike I have ever owned was a RD 350 LC (Elsie).

Never had so much fun at exactly the right time in my life as I did on my Elsie's.

Would I buy one today & contribute to the humongous prices they command . . . . No I would not, I'm all grown up now & get my fun on (mostly) a Z900RS.

 

[Ihavenojob]

the type of onanist who thinks that buying a motorcyle elevates you to the status of people like me.

are you just another onanist seeking an identity

I don't own a motorbike now, wouldn't want to be like you, too many w@nkers about.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Only because it produces more power than you could control.

It was a full powered Canadian import, not that fast really compared to the Firestorm I had.

 

[Mottie]

they also attract people who want to be like me.

What exactly are you like then?

 

[Nige F]

or are you just another onanist seeking an identity to conform to????

Blimey, last time I heard that expression was in the 70's - I had a Triumph Thunderbird @ 16 and a half years of age. I did feel sorry later for the guys stuck with fizzies.

 

[Mottie]

I bought a fizzie from my mate who had fecked it up by cleaning the throttle slide with a file! I remember paying £7.50 for a brand new carb. I think I sold it for £45 when I got rid of it. I remember they were so easy to hot-wire if you had a mind to. Just unscrew the left side panel and simply disconnect the single black wire behind there. A few years later I bought another one but it was a later restricted one with a disc brake. Pile of crapola.

About 16/17 years ago, I bought a mint Puch Grand Prix for a bit of a laugh. It was before I even took a CBT or a bike test but as it was a moped and I had a full car licence from before 2001, it was also classed as a full moped licence and I could ride it with no CBT, no L plates and could carry a passenger, which I did. I took my son to his work on it. We got some strange looks in it! One night, I was coming home from work on it and it was screaming along the A13, possibly topping 50mph when it suddenly died on me. Got it recovered back to my workshop and tried everything several times over. Spark, fuel, compression. It had the lot. All the signs of life were there. Just couldn’t get it to fire. In the end I sold it on eBay to a Puch specialist/enthusiast that travelled all the way to London from Wolverhampton. He said he'd soon have it running. I contacted him about 6 months later to find out what it was and he said he too couldn’t get it running so passed it on and as far as he know, it still wasn’t running!



Just checked. It’s on a SORN so someone is probably still trying to start it.

 

[Dork Lard]

What exactly are you like then?

There is no truth to the rumour that I'm in the last 5 for the next James Bond.

 

[Dork Lard]

I bought my daughter her first horse & the moment probably felt like my dad did when he bought me my first bike.

Horses are very dangerous. A bike will only do what you tell it to, a horse will do whatever it damn well feels like.

If you don't understand then you can never understand. If you love someone then set them free.

 

[Mottie]

There is no truth to the rumour that I'm in the last 5 for the next James Bond.

That’s the first thing you’ve said on here that is completely true. Wasn’t so hard, was it?