IceCreamMan
Remember em days when we were the manne on the 50's..Chicks loved us and we were super cool.
Anyone still got their 50 cc?
Sadly i sold mine years ago ,trying to find a 50 again to relive my youth but alas no luck yet.
Neon-Gecko
hahaha, those were the days... Moved up from the mozzie squad when I eventually managed to persuade my folks that a 125cc was safer than a 50.
I doubt if very many have survived though, and I don't think they make them anymore either, pity that.
MikeM
They stopped making 2 strokes a few years ago.. There are some relatively modern 50cc 2 strokes, with conveniences like electric starts etc.. But that does detract from the fun ?
Bob-Dubery
When I was growing up, the law in KZN was such that if you were 16 then the one legal form of road transport you could have was a motor bike with a capacity not exceeding 50cc. Once you were 18 you had a lot more options.
This is bringing back memories. Our headmaster was a man of deep medical knowledge. He knew, and he frequently told us, that the root problem when a boy wasn't doing well at school - when his marks were down, when he didn't want to play sport and/or had an attitude problem - was a sluggish liver. How did you know if a boy had a sluggish liver? The two tell-tale signs were long hair and a "buzz bike".
What I never figured out was whether the buzz bike was symptomatic of the sluggish liver or actually promoted the sluggishness.
There were cures though - canings, rugby (cricket was not a sufficiently "manly" sport) and lots of cadet drill. In those days the cadet system was used to instill the rudiments of military life into boys who would be heading for the army soon anyway.
There were anomalies too. Or the theory wasn't well thought out (which, of course, you didn't suggest out loud). I was told I had a sluggish liver although I didn't have a buzz bike and was never asked to give explanations about the length of my hair. How could this be? Neither indicator was present. I decided that confronting the beak with these facts was not going to make life any easier, so I kept shtum.
There was hope though when I started a rugby team with some other sluggish liver cases in response to the constant jibes and sarcasm. We called it the Mothers XV (we listened to lots of Frank Zappa) and challenged the 4ths to a match. We lost, but to play and lose was far better for the liver than to not play at all (I was a cross country runner, but apparently that did nothing for the liver).
That year we had so many injuries in our 1st team (who generally played against the 4ths from proper schools like Glenwood and DHS) that our 2nds effectively became the 1st, the 3rds became the 2nd, most of the 4ths got promoted to the 3rds and so the Mothers XV (most of whom didn't have proper boots) got roped in to make up numbers for 4th XV matches.
I went from having a sluggish liver to being a chap with the right sort of spirit in half a season!
guidothepimmp
Haha.. Ja with a learners at 16 those were road legal.. Only thing is the noise they made was like an amplified version of my tinnitus.. Yikes
Fish-Eagle
Had a Kawasaki AR50 that had a modified back sprocket to give it a bit more power on pull away... Hey it was wheels and the freedom that came with it was Awesome!
ratrap
I've got a 1974 Honda SS50V.
What you looking for ICM??
IceCreamMan
ratrap wrote:
I've got a 1974 Honda SS50V.
What you looking for ICM??
jeepers that should be a collectors item these days ....
I had 2 50's , an OR 50 and a TS50er so ideally one of thos so i can be 16 again.... but i spose any 50 from that era like the MB50 or MT 50 would be good. sort of the era just before water cooling like the rz50 an gamma.
guidothepimmp
Slightly offtopic, I have a 250cc kawasaki Z from 1981 which is MINT. Lol only has 3800km on the clock. Lekker bike
flatfourfan
I had an DT50 that was launched into a tree a MBX50 and then an RZ50 for 6 months, and someone stole it, apparently just loaded it up on a bakkie and robert's your mothers brother. My folks were all ready to buy me an 125 until I changed my mind at the last moment and bought a second hand RD350. I stuck 125 stickers on it and had it for almost a year before she found out from the licence papers that I was telling porkys......Bike was sold a week later.
Neon-Gecko
I had an MB 50 then upgraded to a DT 125. Both were good bikes as the offered me untold freedom and a wee bit of street cred to boot, if that is at all possible. ??? Best bike I had from that era was an RG 250 Gamma.
I had the opportunity of buying a mint RG 500 (two stroke) about 5 years ago and turned it down, I regret that now. It's was a really good bike for the time and has become a bit of a collectors item. Anyone remember what the Yamaha 500 two stroke was called?
flatfourfan
Neon Gecko wrote:
Anyone remember what the Yamaha 500 two stroke was called?
The YZR500??
IceCreamMan
flatfourfan wrote:
Neon Gecko wrote:
Anyone remember what the Yamaha 500 two stroke was called?
The YZR500??
i think RZ500 in ZA.
flatfourfan
I think you're right, the YZR 500 looks identical to the RZ 500. Badass bike........
This has got me thinking of the FZR 400 that I turned down...........total bike in a tea chest......in parts for R1500 in 1994. doh
ratrap
IceCreamMan wrote:
ratrap wrote:
I've got a 1974 Honda SS50V.
What you looking for ICM??
jeepers that should be a collectors item these days ....
I had 2 50's , an OR 50 and a TS50er so ideally one of thos so i can be 16 again.... but i spose any 50 from that era like the MB50 or MT 50 would be good. sort of the era just before water cooling like the rz50 an gamma.
IceCreamMan
ratrap wrote:
IceCreamMan wrote:
ratrap wrote:
I've got a 1974 Honda SS50V.
What you looking for ICM??
jeepers that should be a collectors item these days ....
I had 2 50's , an OR 50 and a TS50er so ideally one of thos so i can be 16 again.... but i spose any 50 from that era like the MB50 or MT 50 would be good. sort of the era just before water cooling like the rz50 an gamma.
she is a beauty man ...wow
prince
@ ICM, if you are serious about getting a vintage 50cc, I can ask around for you. I belong to another forum and there are some (bike) dealer types there or someone may still have one lying around.
Let me know and I can ask on the other forum for you.
IceCreamMan
prince wrote:
@ ICM, if you are serious about getting a vintage 50cc, I can ask around for you. I belong to another forum and there are some (bike) dealer types there or someone may still have one lying around.
Let me know and I can ask on the other forum for you.
Yebo , i am serious ..OR50, TS50 ,MB50 ,MT 50 ... Thanks Prince !!
