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by Rex_tulips - 30/07/25 07:59 PM
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I never had any experience with Yamaha 50's, but spent many an enjoyable hour on a "Kermit Green" Suzuki AC50 Maverick (or perhaps it was an AS50?) My first "real" motorcycle, modified with knobby tires and a smaller front sprocket for some modest off-road capabilities. Most interesting thing about it was you could get the engine to run backwards if you popped the clutch while rolling backwards down a hill. It didn't run great, but it certainly was firing in reverse. Don't recall what antics I was up to when I discovered that... Must have been some interesting rotary valve timing on the thing. This one was not mine, but it's exactly like it: 
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Nearly 70 on push bike size tires how terrifiringly fantastic !! and flat on the tank and squeezed in for best aerodynamic stuff, the only Ok part was when they sieze the engine is so tiny and normally just top end goes it won't throw you off... but just ruins piston and bore, I ran a dt250 with a ported barrel and head and then on castrol R and that seized at 75 and after I had wrestled as much as possible with a locked rear end it finally threw me off into a hedge! much to the amushment of the other lunatics I was trying to keep up with on gt250/rd/kh
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I never had any experience with Yamaha 50's, but spent many an enjoyable hour on a "Kermit Green" Suzuki AC50 Maverick (or perhaps it was an AS50?) My first "real" motorcycle, modified with knobby tires and a smaller front sprocket for some modest off-road capabilities. Most interesting thing about it was you could get the engine to run backwards if you popped the clutch while rolling backwards down a hill. It didn't run great, but it certainly was firing in reverse. Don't recall what antics I was up to when I discovered that... Must have been some interesting rotary valve timing on the thing. This one was not mine, but it's exactly like it: really pretty, all two strokes going up as well in value, some more than others but they will never make them again due to emissions etc
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My experience of 50,s was a Honda 50 SS that I bought in 1965 for commuting while saving up for an MG Midget. Flat on the tank with feet hanging over the rear light I could get the best part of 60 mph in the airless Rotherhithe tunnel 
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My experience of 50,s was a Honda 50 SS that I bought in 1965 for commuting while saving up for an MG Midget. Flat on the tank with feet hanging over the rear light I could get the best part of 60 mph in the airless Rotherhithe tunnel crikey in the tunnel, I did try to go quick late at night in the blackwell tunnel, very nearly regretted that..
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