Passed my test in 1998 on a Honda C70 and immediately went out and bought the above, shit myself but I soon got the hang of it...
It wasn't mine, but first time I was sat on a bike in Morecambe at the funfair...bleated to my old man for months after to get one, but the next thing I got on the back of was a z200 ( I think)....
Wish id kept pictures of all my old bikes.This is back in the day when we finaly went legal by racing in AMCA.Im on the right 15 yrs old racing KX500 two stroke.Before that it was the old air raid shelters,lime hills or school fields on everything from chicken chasers ,superdreams ,dt175 and yz 125's. 9/10 ending in goading the local constabulary and laughing at them getting stuck in the mud or falling off there Pan Europeans chasing us off road.Oh a misspent youth lol.
Luckily, I never bothered photographing my bikes, cos having owned well over a hundred I could easily bore you all into an early grave. Strangely, having owned some really fantastic bikes over the last 4 decades, this is my favourite to date. No, not the black one...
ZXR H1, first bike I did 150 on, obviously on closed roads, on the demo at North Coventry Kawasaki when I worked there, remember putting them together out of the crate. Had a later J1 but loved the early ones