Originally Posted by
Pigmy Pony
My first bike was a Suzuki GT250, blue P-reg one with a 150mph(!) speedo. The bike fell over at every corner, largely due to my incompetence, and it never stopped suffering. Sometimes it would start in the morning and take me to work, but during that winter it got more and more unreliable. and when the following spring I took it to the dealers for the last time (to trade it in for a minty X7) it died on the dealer's forecourt.
I have many happy memories of that first bike, but I seem to have mislaid them.