Manky Monkey Motors

just thought id ask if anyone remembers the garelli tiger 50 cc moped . i had one as my first feild bike when i was 12 and i remember it went like stink ( i was only 12 ) it had been fitted with off road nobblers and the gears and brake lever was on the opposite sides to regular bikes i use to race my mate who had a ss50 and another who had a fs1e , i have seen an ad for a garelli for £3500.00 . god if only i knew then  what i know now and kept it my bro would say the same he had an  ap50  and i seen an ad for one of them for £3200.00.  ???
 god am i that old

Yep remember them and the Fantic Calibalero 50, Fantic Chop thing, Suzuki AP50 but never owned a 50 until the other week when I was given a Honda Camino 50 "Chicken Chaser" smallest bike I owned back then was the Honda 90. 

yes i remember all them ,and yes we really are that old. my first bike was a gilera tourer. There was a load of mopeds from the mid seventies that had been restored and was up for sale at the stafford county show ground classic bike show a couple of weekends ago,and they was all over 2 grand and upwards. :o

There's a local guy here who shows up at all the local shows on an immaculately restored purple Fizzy. Must admit, it is kinda cool in a quirky, retro kinda way, but looks a bit odd with a 6 foot 4 bloke riding it.
I bypassed the whole moped thing -my first bike was a tatty little CB200 Honda, which I luvved & rode to death. A truly wondrous machine. :D

You think 6ft 4" on a fizzie is odd, my mate Pluto was about that size but about 18 stone on a CB200 and rode it till it died

Not very long then ;D

I went through a spell of wanting to restore a Fizzy.  Now I can't decide what to do about my RXS100 - whether to restore it to its original looks, or whether to attack it with a can of mattblack!

i remember all them but i had a casal sports there wasnt many of them about but it was fast for a 50cc and the best fun i ever had on a bike