My first bike…

Biker by nick3216, on Flickr

i passes my test and got a zzr110 a sa first bike, early one with 125bhp restriction.
wobbled off it at about 45mph the day after my test going round a corner that can be taken by a 1.6 escort at 70.
(real cause of accident, i was fatigued and under a massive amount of stress as my gran was dying)
sharpened me up tho, ive never driven tired since, and i was lucky, only injury was a 1cm scratch on my pinkie.
bike was ok ish, needed a brake lever and some paint.
my clothes, on the other hand . . . . . .
enjoy yourself mate, and stay safe.

Well I thought I should update this thread to say that I have survived my first weekend of ownership. Have riden about 350 miles since Friday and burnt through 3 full tanks of petrol 😯

Here’s a couple of photos for good measure.

SRAD1 by le_grande_momo, on Flickr

SRAD2 by le_grande_momo, on Flickr

Druidh – That looks like a Mk2 gamma, certainly tank is Mk2 colour and from that pic it looks like 4 pot callipers on the front?

Also owned a RG 250 back in the day and several 350 LCs and orignal slabside GSXR 750

We tour Europe on the big v4

CBR6 and 1150GS for me. 35k miles and 100+ different passes since ’99 😀
(ticking off passes became a bit like munro bagging)

CBR on the Stelvio pass

GS on the Gavia pass

Nice purchase – congrats!

This was my first bike, ideal for a noob – heavy, high seat and high CoG 😯

Great fun though 🙂

Cheers, Rich

A Doctor Big ha ha they were excellent fun. My mate Dazzle had a rat one that made the cover of Back Street Bozos 😆

Indeed, many happy moments with that bike, although I must admit that its replacement was a bit quicker 8)

Cheers, Rich

Mate of mine recently converted one his bikes to a track day special. Not sure what it is, but he keeps banging on about it. It’s a Ducati Desmond-something or other.

Since it’s now no longer road legal, he had to replace it with another Ducati. This ones a Ducati Panetino I think. Odd that it’s named after an Italian muffin.

He’s obviously pretty minted – those Desmosedicis are about £40k new. Even used they are over £30k.

he’s got to be well minted, even has park allen keys!

Desmosedicis are about £40k new

I think they’re a bit more than that, and that’s before you add in the after market exhaust they can’t sell as OEM because it’s too loud.

I think he affords all this by modesty in other areas; doesn’t have a flash car, house is relatively modest etc.

momo – nice one on enjoying your first weekend and very nice bike BTW. Hate to be boring but I’d echo those who have said above re training/refresher course, as that’s an awfully long time since you passed your test.

Late 90’s / early noughties sports bike rock

Not quite ‘sports’ but bloody quick and about to have a spin in the sun 😀