palanski
Member
Hello all!
Glad to find such a vibrant community of two-wheelers here in the GTA.
I started out on an '86 125cc Yamaha scooter that I bought for $50 and spent four months restoring after it sat in a farmer's shed for 10 years. It was a lot of work, but I know that little thing inside and out. It's been good to me and I have taken it pretty far. I rode from Windsor to Toronto on it, in fact. Hugged the eastern border of Ontario for the entire trip.
The scooter was a stepping stone to my eventual desire of getting a more powerful machine. I knew it'd be foolish to start out with something I didn't respect, and so the scooter filled that void perfectly: taught me the rules of the road from the perspective of a two-wheeler. Even have a nice scar to show for it because of a dick cell-phone-using SUV driver who changed lanes into me.
When I felt myself confident enough to do so, I bough my '83 XV500, also in a non-running state. It was a much simpler job to fix up the bike than it was the scooter (new pipes, fixed a header, starter needed rebuilding), and now I'm the owner of two 80's Yamaha machines.
I'll give myself another few years of riding the 500 before investing in an R6.
Hope to add to the conversation and learn a thing or two along the way.
Thanks!
Glad to find such a vibrant community of two-wheelers here in the GTA.
I started out on an '86 125cc Yamaha scooter that I bought for $50 and spent four months restoring after it sat in a farmer's shed for 10 years. It was a lot of work, but I know that little thing inside and out. It's been good to me and I have taken it pretty far. I rode from Windsor to Toronto on it, in fact. Hugged the eastern border of Ontario for the entire trip.
The scooter was a stepping stone to my eventual desire of getting a more powerful machine. I knew it'd be foolish to start out with something I didn't respect, and so the scooter filled that void perfectly: taught me the rules of the road from the perspective of a two-wheeler. Even have a nice scar to show for it because of a dick cell-phone-using SUV driver who changed lanes into me.
When I felt myself confident enough to do so, I bough my '83 XV500, also in a non-running state. It was a much simpler job to fix up the bike than it was the scooter (new pipes, fixed a header, starter needed rebuilding), and now I'm the owner of two 80's Yamaha machines.
I'll give myself another few years of riding the 500 before investing in an R6.
Hope to add to the conversation and learn a thing or two along the way.
Thanks!
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