I so wish I’d bought a FS1E back when I was 16. At the time the only real advertising medium was a local weekly paper delivered on a Thursday evening, so every week I’d head straight to my then girlfriends house, as her mum got it every week unlike mine, to scan the ads. Week after week nothing came up that I could afford, I’d turned sixteen and still nothing. Until one week a Fantic appeared….£170 with helmet and belstaf jacket, and not far from me. So I bought it, without telling mum or dad. I got the obligatory £30 rider policy from the one broker in town that did just about every 16 yr olds insurance. And then had to ask my mum to run me over to the seller to collect, which rather surprisingly she did without to much grief.
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This isn’t my one, but is exactly the model. Mine was a heap, and repeatedly dropped its top piston ring. After about 10months it’s eventually dropped the big end too, and that was it. A few years later I upped it into a skip. How I wish I’d waited for a FS1E
Now after such a crap start to my riding life, How come I really fancy one of these…….?
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