first ever bike!!

droid · Post by **droid** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:40 pm

'Well Zipper you surprised me there I thought most if not all on here would not know what a BSA 250 C15 was'

Look at the thread on 'ages' from yonks ago!

There's some right old gits on here!

Post by **sirch345** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:57 pm

droid wrote:'Well Zipper you surprised me there I thought most if not all on here would not know what a BSA 250 C15 was'

Look at the thread on 'ages' from yonks ago!

There's some right old gits on here!

Thanks for that Droid. you've definitely got a way with words

droid · Post by **droid** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:36 pm

I speak from experience Chris!

slim_boy_fat · Post by **slim_boy_fat** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:20 pm

Suzuki RG250 gamma.

What a great bike, "I love the smell of a 2 stroke in the morning."

Pete.L · Post by **Pete.L** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:55 pm

CB100N

Sorry No Picture, couldn,t afford a camera back then

Came off it 9 times in 18 months Sometimes twice in same week

But I've persisted and (touch wood) I haven't had an Off in the last 19 yrs.

Pete.l

Pete.L · Post by **Pete.L** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:22 pm

Found One

Mine was in Blue but this is close enough

Pete.l

nobby50 · Post by **nobby50** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:19 pm

mines was a honda mtx 80trail bike.

Post by **sirch345** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:25 pm

droid wrote:I speak from experience Chris!

Yeah it shows

SILVER ZIPPER · Post by **SILVER ZIPPER** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:57 pm

My first real bike was a G5 too droid. Bought it brand newÂ£580 Orange.
While ridding in Ireland a bloke in a Austin 1100 turned right in front of me and wrote it off, he was pissed as a newt.
Yes an Austin 1100

there's more old git's on this site than you think

barrioplano · Post by **barrioplano** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:19 pm

Moto Morini Corsaro Country, bought used, (sort of) metallic green, travelled 20.000 km, drove from Milano to Tuscany, Verona, Switzerland, carried around my first girlfriend... aah, nostalgia...

tony.wilde1 · Post by **tony.wilde1** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:44 pm

barrioplano wrote:Moto Morini Corsaro Country, bought used, (sort of) metallic green, travelled 20.000 km, drove from Milano to Tuscany, Verona, Switzerland, carried around my first girlfriend... aah, nostalgia...

now that s rare!!!imagine now what that would be worth?

barrioplano · Post by **barrioplano** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:58 pm

now that's rare!!!imagine now what that would be worth?

I guess so... while looking for a good pict I found a bulletin board crammed with people looking for all sorts of spare parts to restore their Corsaro's -- amazing!

Mine was still running when I scrapped it because would not pass MOT; its papers were saying it had four gears (while it had actaully five) and the wheel sizes were different (the papers actually described the road version, while mine was the "scrambler" version).

Anyways my father would have never allowed me to store it in the garage for 20 years a bike I could not use... aaah...

This is where I got the pict http://digilander.libero.it/gipp1/motor ... nni-60.htm

tony.wilde1 · Post by **tony.wilde1** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:41 pm

always interested in rare bikes, my mates brother has 3 moto morinis...he has a 500 v twin and 2 350(3 1/2).they are quite clean .but not used very much...i will forward the picture of yours to him and see if hes ever heard let alone seen one..thanks.

Zer0Zer0 · Post by **Zer0Zer0** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:16 am

isn't there a modern corsaro ? made by cagiva or moto guzzi?..

barrioplano · Post by **barrioplano** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:53 pm

Zer0Zer0 wrote:isn't there a modern corsaro? made by cagiva or moto guzzi?..

There is indeed a modern Corsaro:

http://www.motorbikes.be/en/Moto%20Mori ... ro%201200/

http://www.iwan-bikes.de/morini/corsaro ... ochure.pdf

It is manufactured by a somehow resurrected Moto Morini (i.e. someone bought the brand name); however Mr. Lambertini, who designed the engine, used to work for the Morini of the golden days.

tony.wilde1 wrote:he has a 500 v twin and 2 350(3 1/2)

the Morini 3 1/2 was a pretty decent seller around 1980; at that time in Italy VAT was 18% for bikes below 350cc (38% above!) so that engine size was rather popular. Alas, I never had the pleasure to ride a 3 1/2.