That’s when i first got mine i was 16 April 30th1977 Happy days I’m still riding now

I have 1977 in my garage Kawasaki ke250

September 1975 😃😃

June 1997 for me 💙

Have my Puch Maxi still

I am the expert in fiddling to make my bike go slower.

I could have written your post word for word but change to Norfolk! special times for a fantastic machine!

they did'nt riders weight determined top speed a fairer comparison and more accurate🤪🤪

the best

Did you f*ck! AP's were always faster, keep telling yourself that - dreamer!

Fantic Cab was the fastest…I had both…huge difference

Was it yellow by any chance? It might have been me.

My older brother had a ss50 4 speed in 1977, and did everything he could to try and make it quicker ( as you do) but the thought of swapping top ends with a c70 or c90 never came up - that would have been a whole different ballgame! 😎

Your mates were feeling sorry for you and letting you go in front ;)

My friend had an ap50 and it was much faster than my fizzy, I tried to buy an ap50 but I turned 17 and got a CB 125 twin.

I did the same thing with my SS50, there was an article in Motorcycle Mechanics about fitting a C70 barrel and piston, they said shave 10 mm off the base of the piston skirt which I got the metalwork teacher to do at school. Certainly gave it more go.

He would have gone a few mph faster if he had removed the mirrors !

I think so too!

I had a Puch VZ50 loved it at the time but when my mate let me ride his TS125 (illegally as16) thought I was on a rocket!😅

Yeah. We didn't know at the time that life would never be any better. We have bigger, more expensive toys today. But a lot less pure fun.

Haha those were the days eh.... what mods did you make to the mt5? My dt50 did 47mph during my CBT, but then as far as I recall, it would only ever pull to 40 on a flat. Maybe it would go over a bit downhill. There was a rumour that the old DT 50s were capable of 50-55+ fully deristricted. Not something I ever tinkered with though sadly. Big regret. Was still the fastest of all the 50s round my way. Apart from a lad who went to the same college who had a Derbi Senda. That would do 50 on a flat all day out the box. But they were very pricey.

@@itzajdmting I must admit I've cheated a bit!...Its running a 66cc big bore kit although that on its own would not make all that much difference. I've modified all the ports which was pretty tricky as the bore is so small. The head has had a lot of work, it has been totally reprofiled and now has a working squish band with 0.6mm clearance. The CR is 13.5:1 (uncorrected). I've cut open the exhaust and removed the restrictions, it also runs a proper baffle cone inside the exhaust, it looks stock from the outside. I'm running fibre reeds with the reed stop bent back, the carb is up from 13mm to 18mm, it has had to be extensively re-jetted, the inlet manifold has been opened up to match the new carb. The restriction in the air filter has been removed. The standard ignition starts to misfire at around 7500 RPM, its a spare spark system which means that at 7500 RPM the CDI is sparking at 15000 RPM, I've modified the ignition trigger system so that it now fires only once per revolution, the engine runs to 9000 RPM now. The last 'big' mod that I've done is to fit an MTX80 six speed box in place of the 5 speed box. The bike is a 'sleeper', it looks immaculate but stock but goes much better than stock. I recon it can hit 60+ down hill but I've geared the bike so that it will pull 55 all day long, I don't like 'over-geared' bikes. Looking back I think that I got a bit carried away with all of this but it does make me laugh when I'm out and about on it, more so than my Triumph 1050 Speed Triple!

My mate had an MB5 and couldn't believe how fast my fizzy was when he had a ride

The Puch Grand Prix was available in a colour scheme that looked like a packet of JPS cigarettes but the letters jumbled together were actually SDP (for Steyr-Daimler-Puch, not the political party formed several years later by among others William Rodgers who was the minister of transport at the time the 30mph restriction was placed on mopeds in 1977.)

@@cedriclynch Ha Ha - yes indeed not too many of them around!! It was a good looking bike!!

Lol, my FS1-E seized up on me at 45 mph.

Up to July 1977 there was no legal restriction on the top speed of mopeds in the UK. They had to be under 50cc and have pedals by means of which they could be propelled. The FS1E would usually do about 45mph (72km/h) without modification. The one in this video is going remarkably well and sounds as though it has its original exhaust system. Mopeds registered from August 1977 had to be designed not to exceed 30mph (48km/h) but were no longer required to have pedals.

sat navs are 2mph out of sinc dont have any delosions

You made me laugh 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Always the one kid whose Dad had told him he was going to get something “sensible”

Phil B yes i think you are right they where bloody slow and sensible 😂

Everyone used to take the piss out of my ss50 but with a c70 top end and carb none of them could keep up with it, they had no idea, it also did twice as many mpg as the 2 strokes and it never failed to start and didn’t heat sieze. My mates nan lived in hazelmere so we decided to ride our peds there, about 220 miles, if my memory serves me right it took about 12 hours to get there with at least 2 hours waiting for his fizzy to cool down. Got back a lot quicker though, his uncle felt sorry for us and loaded the bikes in his van. Really pleased I had the opportunity to have little adventures like that though.

Sam Brooks yes I had good time feet on pillion pegs lying over tank down hill trying to get 50 mph on the Speedo mine never quite managed it but carried on trying it till I got my 250

@@kevrussell5972 God yeah I remember doing that. I was a lot lighter then, about 11 stone, and with the c70 upgrade it would do a genuine 50, in fact if the wind was behind you a bit more, the first time I got stopped for speeding the copper told me I was doing 56 in a 40. I was nearly doing back flips I was so pleased, the copper obviously had a sense of humour and I didn't get nicked.

Press down to go up a gear.To get back to neutral click up.

@@chrisbullock613 thanks Chris ✊🏽

Have you still got the FS1-E? Seen how much they're selling for these days?

pre 1977 mopeds if having pedals were un-restricted

mark tats I was looking at getting a 1984 without pedals. But it’s restricted you say?

@@MxMax-iu9dt As Mark says - Registered Pre 01 Aug 1977 must have ability to be propelled by pedals to be classified as a moped, but not restricted - post 01 Aug 1977 no requirement for pedals but restricted to 30 mph... from a pedant for detail who was there at the time with a Fizzy DX 1976!

MxMax2003 yes it is

@@SimonNoina Hi yep I had a Dx bought brand new from Bognor Regis Motorcycles £249 😀

I bet you never had that profile beard either 😎😎😎😎😎😎

You are right lol

Any cop worth his salt would pull him over, take a selfie with the bike, and then send the rider off on his merry way.