|
|
Post by domindart on Jun 7, 2013 1:53:29 GMT -5
I got a Silver Bullet Tomos Moped when I was maybe 13 years old. I've been looking for pictures but not sure I have any. I don't remember what cc the motor was but it was fun. Fun till I rode up my driveway one day and it just quit. I think there was dirt in the tank or something, but never got it going again.
I sold it for $200 years later.
My current scooter is my second. I've had 4-wheelers and dirtbikes too though.
|
|
|
|
Post by ramblinman on Jun 7, 2013 2:02:12 GMT -5
i bought a red honda spree with money i made cutting grass at 13. i wasn't legally allowed to ride it. got in some trouble with the police and had to sell it 4,000 miles later. my 2nd was at 18, another spree.
|
|
|
|
Post by domindart on Jun 7, 2013 2:07:22 GMT -5
Awesome story.... 13 then 18 hmmmmmmm  |
|
|
|
Post by Paladin on Jun 7, 2013 5:07:21 GMT -5
[replyingto=domindart]domindart[/replyingto]June, 1964, in England for the summer. My Uncle let me ride his Puch Moped. I had to pedal up Shooter's Hill. A moped is not a scooter. A scooter needs to have floorboards.
November 1964, my 18th birthday, got a new Honda CA110 Sport 50, a motorcycle. A motorcycle is not a scooter. A scooter needs to have floorboards.
October 11, 2012, I get my first scooter, a Vespa LX150. Legally and actually it is a motorcycle. But it is also a "scooter" since it does have a floorboard.
|
|
|
|
Post by lykos23 on Jun 7, 2013 7:49:49 GMT -5
I got my Honda Zook late last year, some time in the fall. (First scooter I ever saw in person)
Then I got my Great Leap in January of this year. (Second scooter I ever saw in person (unless you count the DiBlasi, which I don't.) It's my first "real" scooter and I traded a Nabi2 tablet and an HP Touchsmart laptop for it.
|
|
|
|
Post by yelloscoot on Jun 7, 2013 9:05:20 GMT -5
Got mine a couple months after I shattered my shoulder on a four wheeler.....dad's idea.....maybe he's just trying to get me killed....?. l
That was 6700 miles ago. lol
|
|
|
|
Post by scootnwinn on Jun 7, 2013 9:24:29 GMT -5
If we only count scooters defined strictly by Paladin's description I bought my first scooter in August 2011 Jonway YY150T-2 if we count motorcycles I have had a motorcycle of some sort for the last 20 years from 80cc's to 1100cc's. My Vespa though is "the one" I am loving this machine it is what a scooter should be
|
|
|
|
Post by rockynv on Jun 7, 2013 9:39:34 GMT -5
My 1975 49cc MotoBecane Mobyette which I bought new in 1975 had mini floorboards so fits Paladin's criteria sorta. Gas tank was part of the frame and it was a CVT drive. Mine had a windshield, saddlebags and even turn signals. You started it by decompressing the head and kicking the pedal backwards. My other vehicle during the gas crisis at that time was a 1970 PowerWagon W200 E20 Special with the 440 cu in V8 and the 3 ton payload which did not sip gas. The 175 mpg of the Mobyette was quite a relief making the 25 mph more tolerable.
|
|
|
|
Post by triker on Jun 7, 2013 9:40:26 GMT -5
Back in "73" I got what was called a mini bike. It had a 5 hp briggs engine. In "74" I got my first honda 50.
Been riding motorcycles of various kinds since. I got my first actual scooter in 2009, a renegade 50.
Roy
|
|
Sophomore Rider
Currently Offline
Posts: 239
Likes: 1
Joined: Mar 13, 2013 9:13:17 GMT -5
|
Post by jeffery5568 on Jun 7, 2013 10:44:06 GMT -5
I got my first scooter at 26 I got my first motorcycle at 17 forms 17 to now I have had 10 motorcycles most where sport bikes.
|
|
Freshman Rider
Currently Offline
Posts: 70
Likes: 0
Joined: Apr 24, 2013 16:58:15 GMT -5
|
Post by justputtnaround on Jun 7, 2013 10:49:07 GMT -5
My first scoot was a  Honda spree with a Hawaii parking permit I never found out how it ended up in a barn in central indiana |
|
Sophomore Rider
Currently Offline
Posts: 174
Likes: 1
Joined: Mar 17, 2013 11:51:20 GMT -5
|
Post by indymoped on Jun 7, 2013 11:04:02 GMT -5
I got a schwinn 49cc for $300.00 last spring. Drove 6 hrs round trip to get it. The kid had shoved a 125 carb on it and ran it with no air filter or mud flap. (People are such idiots). After getting the right carb and fixing it up and adding a no rev limit cdi and high output coil some worthless piece of $#!t stole it. Then I bought my second scoot a yellow peace motorsports 49cc which just needed a new cvt belt for 200 dollars. It ran and drove great. I put a bbk, high flow head and a bunch of other mods on it but it still wasnt fast enough so I sold it for 400 and built my custom 150/49cc swap. www.itistheride.boards.net/index.cgi?board=cbs&action=display&thread=1788 |
|
|
|
Post by hank on Jun 7, 2013 11:40:07 GMT -5
Hi
First motorbike when i was 6 a Rupp Roadster, first moped in 1974 a Motobecane , first motorcycle in 1979 a Harley Davidson XLCR 1000, first proper scoot in 1987 a Derbi DS50
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank
|
|
|
|
Post by PCBGY6 on Jun 7, 2013 11:46:42 GMT -5
I got my first scooter sept. of last last and I have had up to five at one time since. I think I jumped in a little to fast. lol I haven't done any BBKs yet but I'm looking forward to doing one really soon.
|
|
New Rider
Currently Offline
Posts: 14
Likes: 0
Joined: Mar 19, 2013 10:24:12 GMT -5
|
Post by puttputt on Jun 7, 2013 12:10:26 GMT -5
I had an Sears Allstate Moped in 1965....does that count?
|
|
Main Jet
Honda spree with a Hawaii parking permit I never found out how it ended up in a barn in central indiana
Main Jet
