I used to ride but had to give it up about 5 years ago when my neck was giving me gyp. I'm afraid years of nursing have not been kind to my joints My favourite of the bikes I owned was the Honda Babyblade, I loved that bike. I sold it and bought a Suzuki 800cc cruiser and hated it. Much preferred the race bike.
My very rarely used fireblade. I was shocked to discover that my MOT in July showed I had covered less than 700 miles in 4 years so I reckon it may have to go next year.
I have owned a couple of GSXR 750's the first was the 750L oil cooled upside down fork model, great bike but sadly that was stolen my replacement was a brand new GSXR 750 SRAD I managed to write it off with 514 miles on the clock
Sunday toy's by lloydie1963, on Flickr
I remember the Hayabusa's coming out, weren't they the fastest road bike at the time? Other son had an R1 that was seriously scarey. My first bike was the Suzuki SV 650, then the Babyblade, Marauder 800, and finally the Kawasaki ZZR. Still miss the freedom of the bike especially in the summer but I think I would really struggle to ride now. My next bike will be a motobility scooter I think 
My son had a Thundercat, lovely bike but I found it too high for me.. most bikes were as I'm a shortie
Some nice bikes in here!
My last big bike and the only pic I have of it:
And the reason I can't handle a big one now
(The meccano's been removed, but so has the radial head)
Mandy, those YBR's go forever. No-frills, solid tried and tested build. I have a (much) older one waiting for some winter work on it. Not a lot, just the expected of brake shoes, chain/sprockets and I might as well put in a new clutch while I'm there
OH has a honda650 deaville and a honda cb400 with a cb250 engine and 450dx body (think thats all the right way round )
Not a rider but an enthusiastic pillion here
If anyone is south wales area join up to our fb group https://www.facebook.com/groups/562487250466235/ it says 125cc owners but not all in the group are, its not been running long and is rather quiet but we hope to sort out a meet/ride out soon
This was my last bike:
Sadly it was the wrong bike at the wrong time, and turned out not to be comfy for long distances. I found that I was travelling everywhere at 100mph despite the iffy handling and brakes, and in the end it was better it went before I did.
Our son, now 25, took his test last year, bought a Fazer 600, which was fine until someone turned right in front of him & wrote the bike off. He walked away from that, but the crash he had 3 weeks later on the insurance loan bike broke his left leg mid-femur and both tib & fib at the ankle. He's also had grafts to replace the missing skin & flesh on his shin and knee. He's a fighter though, and is climbing again, having just come back from a 2 month road trip across the US.
He still wants another bike, and for that matter I'd quite like a Triumph twin.
don't modern 125's look bigger nowadays
it looks like a nice bike though
i went through my biking phase during the 80's but havn't ridden a bike for some years now
unfortunately when i was riding bikes i took very few photo's and havn't got so many of the bikes i was riding at the time but here's one of em that is sitting on my HDD for some reason
don't see many of these about now probably due to the dodgy wastegate on the turbo not many of them survived
my main passion at the time was 2 strokes and had a few including the rg 125's , 250,'s and 500's i used to love the rg 500's had a couple of those fantastic fun but real heavy on the pocket
Thanks for joining, feel free to post up on there, someone will reply soon enough (very quiet atm) We both love the deauville, went to london and back in august and didnt have a single problem, very comfy bike and amazingly economical. Its just been put back on the road for the winter as the screen/wind deflectors etc make winter riding much more comfortable. The cb is his "toy" but is likely to be replaced with a zzr or zxr 400 next year sometime, which will take me on the back much easier than the cb does
