My Early bikes, from the 70's                      

               

 This was my very first bike. It was the Honda SS-50 5 speed single.

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A car driver decided to open their door as I was riding along, I did an up-an-over and landed on the bonnet. As the chassis was pressed steel, it was a writeoff! So sad.

 I then had my first car, a 1965 Lotus Ford Cortina Mk1, this came with a duff engine,so after the mechanic put another duff engine in!  I  scrapped it and put a deposit on a bike. It was to be 34 yrs before I had a car again                                                                     

 Then came the Suzuki TS-250, a fantastic touring machine, which I went to Scotland and back on.  However, after losing  5th gear onm a local run, I put it into a garage run by a con man and he absconded with the bike, leaving me to carry on paying it off. I found it yrs later in a back garden rusting away.  He eventually landed in jail for other offences. Poetic justice, I guess.

                                                                                

 After a break of some years I got a scooter, until some mate borrowed it an came off. It was wrecked, but he paid back what it was worth. Then I had a Yammy scooter, which I took to Caldicot on a cold snowy day. My hands were beyond freezing by the time I got there. Never had any money for it. Hmm.                     

 So then I bought a Honda 500 single. This was my last bike until 2005 when I started again.  With much better results this time!"