Anyone here likes mopeds?

JJEH

JJEH

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I grew up riding on 2wheels way before I got into cars. I loved it. Yeah, wind and weather can make it miserable but if that's all you have you'll make it work.

I've owned a 1989 Kawasaki ZXR 750 H1 for a long time. She was a needy thing but once she was running she ran good. I've invested a lot of money into it; engine- and carburator tuning, suspension setup, tires, exhaust, etc blah... once I was done it handled almost like a bicycle. I said almost :)

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Picture quality is low, didn't had a digital camera or a smartphone back then.

I sure miss it and after finishing up our time here in OK I'll get another moped. I've always been into BIMOTA. They are the most beautiful, top engineered, sleekest mopeds ever! Of course that's just my opinion. But in Europe they were not affordable to me when I was younger. Now they are and I really want to pull the trigger on one once we moved and get settled. Can't wait...

Show me your bikes :)
 

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I never considered a 150 HP Japanese crotch rocket capable of 170 MPH a "moped". Back in the good old days 1967 - 1970, my last moped was a Norton 750 cc P-11 Scrambler. In a 1969 road test of super bikes, my Norton had the quickest 1/4 mile time and the worst brakes. One trip on the interstate (it had just been built), I lost to a Pontiac Bonneville at about 118 MPH. It was pulling away from me slowly.
 
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Motorcycles as mopeds eh? Yeah, why not. My husband calls motorcycles "scooters".

I had a real moped when I lived in Switzerland, like almost everyone else I knew there. I gave up driving real motorcycles due to neurologic damage from chemotherapy, but have not been able to force myself to sell my last bike, a Honda 750 Nighthawk.

Still get my "fix" on the back of hubby's Goldwing.

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I always called em scooters or just motor for short. I love that Nighthawk. My favorite bikes have been a 1973 Kaw Z1 and a 1998 BMW R1100R both stock with no fairing. I've had several more but I swore I was done with em about 3 years ago and I sold my BMW. That Nighthawk makes me want one bad.
 
I still have a lot of motorbikes: BMW, Guzzi, Cagiva, Honda, KTM, Ducati, Japanese dirt bikes and dual sport bikes, and a few East European 2–strokes, Jawa, CZ, MZ, Puch.

I have had a few mopeds come through here. My favorite was a Moto Morini with a jewel-like little Dellorto carb. I likes the chopped, flamed mopeds the Blues Boys in Holland rode. One night last summer, I encountered a club of about a dozen millenials riding highly-tuned mopeds around the Twin Cities; they were from Northeast Minneapolis, but they were a long way from home, way over in St. Paul to hear some outdoor blues. Pretty cool, and they were having a lot of fun.

I have had a lot of fun on motorbikes over the years, and made a lot of friends, touring, commuting, weekend riding, road racing, vintage motocross, vintage trials, adventure touring, winter riding, ice racing, rallies, club events, trail riding.
 
Crotch rocket moped is more like it.
In high school a friend had a new Vespa model 50 moped. I believe it was 49cc and more like an automatic as I recall.
One time he and I were out riding it and we came to a fairly steep hill. It only made it 3/4 the way up the hill before I had to get off and walk to the top of the hill. I believe back in those days a motorcycle that had pedals and 50cc or under didn't even have to be licensed.
 

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Not often, but every once in a while you will see some really nice looking ones that are just a little bigger than regular Mopeds. A guy that eats at a place where I sometimes eat rides one of the old ones that looks like new.
I have watched him feed into the 40 mph traffic with no problem.
 
I had a ZRX 750 H2. The stupid belt driven alternator gave me fits and left me stranded on the road a few times. Lost patience and sold it.

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Current inventory :

1983 Kawasaki Z 1000 R Eddie Lawson replica

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2001 Kawasaki ZRX 1200 R

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2000 Kawasaki ZX 12R Ninja

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KTM 990 Supermoto R

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Ducati 1198 SP

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My son totalled the 2003 Suzuki GSXR 1000. It’s still in my heart, but the scrap pile is in the backyard

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I also had a moped when I was 16, Piaggio Vespa 50, souped up to 105 cm3 (don’t laugh)

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I have always loved bikes.Hung out with bikers in the Carolinas back in the day but I never was “affiliated “as they say.My first ride was with about 30 guys and most of them had girls on the back .One of em told me not to worry you’ll have plenty of em before we get back.We hit Myrtle Beach and I learned real quick .One of the older guys said see those honeys standing over there pull right up and just ask if any of em want to ride down the strip and back ,so I did.Suddenly I was living the dream .A 17 year old kid riding college girls up and down the guys we’re drinking beer and cheering me on every time I went by.I had about 20 phone numbers when we left of course they were mostly fake but I had em .One of the teachers at school heard me bragging about it and showing Polaroid instant pictures and asked “you mean your mother and father let you go to Myrtle beach with a bunch of bikers”I said yes mam Dad is the one with the camera Mom is sitting on his Harley in this picture.
 
here's mine. 85 hd and 2, 2003 Honda ruckus.
 

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