Thoroughly enjoyed watching the Fizzy Boy video . Brought back good memories of 1977 when I had my Fizzy . Rode it to Somerset and back to family home in Kent . My brother than had it and he rode it to Scotland staying at Youth Hostels along the way. Great rides !
Great to see this video,thanks for making it, I had this exact bike in 1976 it was the fastest bike in my town, I did 9,000 miles in nine months and went through one clutch and a new set of piston rings. Although I can't believe i did it, I was once following a lorry two feet behind and the speedo was bouncing off of the 70mph, how it didn't blow up I don't know, glad I am still around to tell the story. My favourite ride was coming down a hill near Southend (Bread and cheese hill) I could get it to over 60, great days
This takes me back to my school days in the 70's, when a jammy git in my class rolled up one day on a brand new Tiger Cross. He had well to do parents who pampered him & bought him the best of everything for his birthdays. The rest of us couldn't have been more envious if he'd pulled up in a Lamborghini Countach : )
I had one of the first Garelli Rekord Monza in the UK in April '72 Great little bike and fastest sport moped and I agree the best sound ! Waaaaaaahhhhhhh ! :-)
I skipped mopeds and saved HARD, buying a new 1977 kh 250. Luckily most of my mates still had fs1e's, so I had to ride at their speed . Thinking back probably a good thing for a new motorcyclist.
i always loved this bike still do! I had a few of these i can even remember the registration numbers of them off the top of my head and wander if they could still be out there somewhere? In the late 70s i restored one lol Love the look love the sound. It was great to hear you start up and ride round the garden Lovely to hear that sound again. Brilliant resto by the way all looks good and sounds ok Many thanks for making this vid and posting here to UA-cam
1976, p reg. I was 17. £110 but mine was a red garelli rekord. Fast, noisy and nice big petrol tank. No battery. Magnetto. And the smell of the two stroke. Always had to remember to mix oil in the tank. Fantastic start to my biking days. Football and gears on opposite sides to most other bikes.
nice long garden :-) Should make a drag strip. . neighbours permitting. ps. i had the Garelli Rekord and popped 80 cc head and barrel etc on. Very quick or so it seemed at 16
Hi I am rebuilding a Tiger Cross engine what is the best way to set up the gear change timing before joining the gearbox. Great video reliving my youth
Barney kills me every time. He is on the chair while you are on the floor. He's the leader of the pack. I never heard of these mopeds. My dad died when I was young, my mom wouldn't allow any type of moped or motorcycle because of dangers involved. I lived a sheltered life. I had a neighbor with a BSA Lightning. Another friend in high school had a Norton Commando. I envied them. I like these vids too Martin. Say hi to everyone at home Brian .
Cheers Brian, Barney loves like a lord lol. These were mostly sold to the European market and were very big here in the UK. They sell for silly money now as people who had them when they were young want to relive their youth. Cheers Martin
Loving these vids. We didn't have a big moped or scooter scene here in the States back in the day. Wish we had, sure looks like more fun the bicycle I rode until getting a car. Can't wait for the next installment! Thanks!!!
Mmmmmmm! Drool drool. Aaah when we were 16 .i was very fortunate too have had a good selection of mopeds when i was 16 in 1980 and had one of the best moped shops in nw london .specialiaing in italian bikes.which i was forever drooling over the fantic Gt super 6 malagutis and gileras and garellis. I owned a lovely agarati garreli tiger cross in black and red mat black exhaust and rare slide carb ,bit quicker then the tiger cross.57-60mph.then a puch monza supreme 6sl white stars and stripes. Then boring but nice suzuki ap 50 .still have photos .miss the 2 strokes.shame china dont reproduce them .they would make a killing
I still remember the reg of my Tiger,,, Romeo Victor Xray 77 Michael, heard so many times when the local Bobbie pulled me over. Lol. ZZR1400 now. There still pulling me over. Rest in peace RVX77M. 😍
Early models have the Dell'Orto UB20S 20mm with the float chamber offset to the side, later models have the Dell'Orto SHB19/19 19mm with the float chamber concentric with the main jet.
The reliability of sparking plugs in 2-stroke engines has improved since the 1970s mainly thanks to unleaded petrol. There was a problem called "whiskering" in which a filament of lead oxide would grow between the electrodes and short-circuit them, causing the engine to misfire or stop altogether. If you took the plug out,, pushed your thumb nail between the electrodes and then refitted the plug you could be on your way in minutes, but it was a right pain. With unleaded petrol, which was reintroduced in the mid 1980s, this problem does not happen.
@@g4obb It should not have been like that, mine used to be very easy to start. If you had the SHA14 carburettor (with the choke lever that latched down and was released by momentarily applying full throttle) you had to give a certain amount of throttle for starting from cold with the choke on, and you might have needed three or four kicks; with the SHB19 carburettor (with choke plunger, usually operated by a cable) you had to keep the throttle fully closed for starting and the engine would almost always start first kick.
I got to ride on the back of a caballero in Italy while on holiday back then and tuning parts were obviously available for those as I wasn't expecting much...but...argh slow down.. No one ever mentions how it was always the good safe riders who came a cropper ill prepared for a fall that got hurt and how many funerals I could have attended in my patch...
Owned one and they were lethal.. off nights I fell asleep on it at a fork in the road and that was the start of some 18 falls and one garrotting where some one put a steel wire between 2 trees as we roamed around in gangs of up to 25 in Dinnington .. If falling off was nt enough to kill you... there was always someone who wanted to just for buzzing by them ! I always fancied the fantic caballero and only saw one in the flesh, better looking but slow.....
L' avevo anch'io, era di colore rosso ed avevo messo ai lati del fanale 2 fari antinebbia, sembrava una Harley in miniatura, però tutti si giravano quando passavo per il corso. Sofia antonio
I had a Garelli Rekord 80. Or rather the a 50 with an 80cc cylinder. A mate had an SS50 4 speed with the cylinder off a C70 and the carb off a C90 and head gasflowed by Jock Kerr. That was faster than another mates TS100.
Remember , these bikes years back . Was never allowed a bike my grandad would never allow it. When dad left he was the father figure. So what he said went pretty much. Mind you he was smashed, Really bad on his bike back in the 50's . So can see his reasoning. Mind you I might have to get a 50cc Bike of some kind. As for Barney he is a great looking dog , a real gun dog . You should show him , Martin. Regards Pete.
I have fond memories on those mopeds. Young, free and king of the road lol. Barney is the star of my vids so I've been told on many occasions so I wouldn't want his head getting any bigger lol. Cheers Martin
They were rare in the day, but i bought one in1999 with 500 miles on the clock. When run in it would show 65 on the clock and the engine was still a bit tight. They had a chrome bore i believe.
....really ?....10 minute video, and the Prince Andrew lookin' guy rides it for three seconds over his lawn ?.....could somebody local please steal from his garage ?.....
Thoroughly enjoyed watching the Fizzy Boy video . Brought back good memories of 1977 when I had my Fizzy . Rode it to Somerset and back to family home in Kent . My brother than had it and he rode it to Scotland staying at Youth Hostels along the way. Great rides !
I am so glad I found this channel. How good it is to travel back in time to the days of smelly two stroke and screaming 50cc power.
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I'm restoring one of these right now. My friend had one back in the day and it went like a rocket! .. Lovely little peds.
Pebo Share They are great little bikes and worth quite a bit now. Good luck with your restoration.
Cheers
Martin
Superb moped! I had one when i was sixteen back in 1976, i was born 1960. Oh happy day's Thank you!
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same but mine was N reg. “ SCD9N “
@@steveosshenanigans Awesome bro
Great to see this video,thanks for making it, I had this exact bike in 1976 it was the fastest bike in my town, I did 9,000 miles in nine months and went through one clutch and a new set of piston rings. Although I can't believe i did it, I was once following a lorry two feet behind and the speedo was bouncing off of the 70mph, how it didn't blow up I don't know, glad I am still around to tell the story. My favourite ride was coming down a hill near Southend (Bread and cheese hill) I could get it to over 60, great days
Nice one Dave, They were a great bike and very quick for a 50cc. Nice memories.
Love the fins on the cylinder head, it reminds me of the old Maico Motocrossers.
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I had one on a 75 N plate. It was my pride and joy!
This takes me back to my school days in the 70's, when a jammy git in my class rolled up one day on a brand new Tiger Cross. He had well to do parents who pampered him & bought him the best of everything for his birthdays. The rest of us couldn't have been more envious if he'd pulled up in a Lamborghini Countach : )
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If they bought him the best of everything they'd have bought him a Suzuki AP50. 😁😁😁
@@MeYou-yz2yz they pampered him but there was limits 🙂
I had one of the first Garelli Rekord Monza in the UK in April '72 Great little bike and fastest sport moped and I agree the best sound ! Waaaaaaahhhhhhh ! :-)
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I like Brent ! 300 mile day ... Great stuff. What a fantastic memory. ( My mate Jonathan Smith in Meriden had one ..Summer of 77)
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I skipped mopeds and saved HARD, buying a new 1977 kh 250. Luckily most of my mates still had fs1e's, so I had to ride at their speed . Thinking back probably a good thing for a new motorcyclist.
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Cracking interview... thanks for filming this
Awesome. What colour is your Garelli?
took me back to thrashing around on mine .....many moons ago. nice one mate thanx
Glad you enjoyed the vid John.
Cheers
Martin
Nice mate. Just looking at it made my pimples reappear.
i always loved this bike still do! I had a few of these i can even remember the registration numbers of them off the top of my head and wander if they could still be out there somewhere?
In the late 70s i restored one lol Love the look love the sound. It was great to hear you start up and ride round the garden Lovely to hear that sound again.
Brilliant resto by the way all looks good and sounds ok
Many thanks for making this vid and posting here to UA-cam
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great memories of this bike after a while went on to honda cb 250 to pass my test great video
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Hi All, Brent here, the Bumper Book of Sports Mopeds is now on eBay. Keep the revs up! Cheers, Brent
1976, p reg. I was 17. £110 but mine was a red garelli rekord. Fast, noisy and nice big petrol tank. No battery. Magnetto. And the smell of the two stroke. Always had to remember to mix oil in the tank. Fantastic start to my biking days. Football and gears on opposite sides to most other bikes.
nice long garden :-) Should make a drag strip. . neighbours permitting.
ps. i had the Garelli Rekord and popped 80 cc head and barrel etc on. Very quick or so it seemed at 16
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Hi I am rebuilding a Tiger Cross engine what is the best way to set up the gear change timing before joining the gearbox. Great video reliving my youth
Great videos. do you still use the sony HDR xr500 for your filming?
Somtimes but mostly use the Gopro as it's got a great wide angle lens and record the audio on a zoom h1
Cheers
Martin
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Nice bike!! We had a few Garelli top tanks as we called them. Don't remember the model.
Barney kills me every time. He is on the chair while you are on the floor. He's the leader of the pack. I never heard of these mopeds. My dad died when I was young, my mom wouldn't allow any type of moped or motorcycle because of dangers involved. I lived a sheltered life. I had a neighbor with a BSA Lightning. Another friend in high school had a Norton Commando. I envied them. I like these vids too Martin.
Say hi to everyone at home
Brian .
Cheers Brian, Barney loves like a lord lol. These were mostly sold to the European market and were very big here in the UK. They sell for silly money now as people who had them when they were young want to relive their youth.
Cheers
Martin
Loving these vids. We didn't have a big moped or scooter scene here in the States back in the day. Wish we had, sure looks like more fun the bicycle I rode until getting a car. Can't wait for the next installment! Thanks!!!
Hey, thanks John. Glad you are enjoying them. It was fun times back then. Too many laws and rules now.
Jonathan Smith (Meriden ) had one in 1977, lovely guy... exciting bike (when you are 16)
I had a Garelli Rekord brilliant
I was impressed until I saw the extent of the garden then was REALLY impressed!
Hahaha, It was a long garden. Ideal for moped racing lol.
Cheers
Martin
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Mmmmmmm! Drool drool.
Aaah when we were 16 .i was very fortunate too have had a good selection of mopeds when i was 16 in 1980 and had one of the best moped shops in nw london .specialiaing in italian bikes.which i was forever drooling over the fantic Gt super 6 malagutis and gileras and garellis. I owned a lovely agarati garreli tiger cross in black and red mat black exhaust and rare slide carb ,bit quicker then the tiger cross.57-60mph.then a puch monza supreme 6sl white stars and stripes. Then boring but nice suzuki ap 50 .still have photos .miss the 2 strokes.shame china dont reproduce them .they would make a killing
Great memories Peter, I remember that era very well. I'm shocked how much these little mopeds fetch now though.
retrorestore lol cant you slèep :)
I had the fanticmotor my mate had the garelli tiger cross still remember the reg no. TYP 63M 😄
what a bike for its time it was every youngsters dream at 16
I still remember the reg of my Tiger,,, Romeo Victor Xray 77 Michael, heard so many times when the local Bobbie pulled me over. Lol.
ZZR1400 now. There still pulling me over.
Rest in peace RVX77M. 😍
What size carb does that thing have? Also, Delorto?
Don't know.
Early models have the Dell'Orto UB20S 20mm with the float chamber offset to the side, later models have the Dell'Orto SHB19/19 19mm with the float chamber concentric with the main jet.
Cool bike
Looks like your watching the whole series lol.
Yes, lol
Very nice Martin .. Thanks man !!
Thanks for watching and sharing Shawn. Cheers
Martin
The reliability of sparking plugs in 2-stroke engines has improved since the 1970s mainly thanks to unleaded petrol. There was a problem called "whiskering" in which a filament of lead oxide would grow between the electrodes and short-circuit them, causing the engine to misfire or stop altogether. If you took the plug out,, pushed your thumb nail between the electrodes and then refitted the plug you could be on your way in minutes, but it was a right pain. With unleaded petrol, which was reintroduced in the mid 1980s, this problem does not happen.
Had a Fantic 6 speed back in the 70's....a real pig to start....you would end up knackered a sweating...Jeez!
@@g4obb It should not have been like that, mine used to be very easy to start. If you had the SHA14 carburettor (with the choke lever that latched down and was released by momentarily applying full throttle) you had to give a certain amount of throttle for starting from cold with the choke on, and you might have needed three or four kicks; with the SHB19 carburettor (with choke plunger, usually operated by a cable) you had to keep the throttle fully closed for starting and the engine would almost always start first kick.
I had a " moto Malagutti Monte " .... 44 years ago.
Any chance you could put the Old skool dvd back up on Ebay so I can buy it please?
Pebo Share It's already there www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FS1E-AP50-SS50-Fantic-Garelli-Tigercross-Moped-DVD-/111694944613?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1a01899965
I had a 1976 KTM Comet Cross. Produced a whopping 3 bhp.
So the pedals double up as the kickstart.
I got to ride on the back of a caballero in Italy while on holiday back then and tuning parts were obviously available for those as I wasn't expecting much...but...argh slow down..
No one ever mentions how it was always the good safe riders who came a cropper ill prepared for a fall that got hurt and how many funerals I could have attended in my patch...
harry harry So different in the old days. There was a sense of freedom though.
Cheers
Martin
That sounds very healthy
+Scootertuner1000 Especially when you were 16 lol.
Cheers
Martin
Owned one and they were lethal..
off nights I fell asleep on it at a fork in the road and that was the start of some 18 falls and one garrotting where some one put a steel wire between 2 trees as we roamed around in gangs of up to 25 in Dinnington ..
If falling off was nt enough to kill you... there was always someone who wanted to just for buzzing by them !
I always fancied the fantic caballero and only saw one in the flesh, better looking but slow.....
harry harry Vivid memories there Harry. Yes, the Fantic Caballero looked a bigger bike but were less popular.
Cheers
Martin
I beg to differ Fantic gt super six was easily the fastest moped ever made...
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L' avevo anch'io, era di colore rosso ed avevo messo ai lati del fanale 2 fari antinebbia, sembrava una Harley in miniatura, però tutti si giravano quando passavo per il corso. Sofia antonio
I had a Garelli Rekord 80. Or rather the a 50 with an 80cc cylinder. A mate had an SS50 4 speed with the cylinder off a C70 and the carb off a C90 and head gasflowed by Jock Kerr. That was faster than another mates TS100.
Yes, remember Jock Kerr, great Honda tuner. Good days.
Cheers
Martin
retrorestore He was just a short ride away. Lived in Harlow, same as me and all of my mates.
Remember , these bikes years back . Was never allowed a bike my grandad would never allow it.
When dad left he was the father figure. So what he said went pretty much. Mind you he was smashed,
Really bad on his bike back in the 50's . So can see his reasoning. Mind you I might have to get a 50cc
Bike of some kind. As for Barney he is a great looking dog , a real gun dog . You should show him ,
Martin.
Regards
Pete.
I have fond memories on those mopeds. Young, free and king of the road lol. Barney is the star of my vids so I've been told on many occasions so I wouldn't want his head getting any bigger lol.
Cheers
Martin
Not spoken to Brent for years
77 i had the yellow dx cpl mates had mk1 and 2 garelli
The frantic get super six with pedals 9bhp 65mph would easily see off a garelli
The garelli record was quicker 🫡👍
Fact !!
The rekord were quicker as I remember
They were rare in the day, but i bought one in1999 with 500 miles on the clock. When run in it would show 65 on the clock and the engine was still a bit tight. They had a chrome bore i believe.
I walways faniced a Malaguti
....really ?....10 minute video, and the Prince Andrew lookin' guy rides it for three seconds over his lawn ?.....could somebody local please steal from his garage ?.....
just enjoy it for what it is or don't bother commenting