JUST A THOUGHT...................

When i was a lad some 30 + years ago me and my mates were running around the village on fizz,s and ap50s !!! one of them wanted a bigger louder sound and decided to drill through the exhaust baffles !! but you know what it worked ! the sound was like having race cans on it
Now here,s the question has anyone tried ths on there st70 ?? could it work????? what about the performance ?? does it sound naff ?? big holes little holes?? Or just leave the damm thing alone i must be getting a bit bored maybe in need of a new project but i am tempted to try ???

Well I wouldn't drill holes in my exhaust.at the price the originals are! Anyhow there's so so many aftermarket ones that can give u a sporty sound as well as look so it's nor really worth it to drill. Just get a yoshi copy zorst that should do!

Yea your right fella... Must have a moment of madness!!!!!!! i even got the drill out with the bit ready to go.. what the hell was i thinking ???? just harking back to my youth in the seventies RD E ,and KH,s oh what TIMES

Have you noticed what the main difference is between the FS1E, AP50 & ST70?



I ran an SS50 back in those days while everyone else was on the Yam's & Suzie's and I had the edge on them every time.
The trick was to fit a 72CC conversion (grind the 72cc off the barrel so no-one noticed) so while they were thrashing around flat on the tank top sounding like a swarm of bee's in a tin can I could edge past with ease. Along with the bigger bore, a big carb and uprated gearing made it a much better bike.

NICE.... Mind you the bog standard ss50 was pretty shit compared to the other 2 stroke peds around in the seventies

In standard form it was a bit of a plodder but very reliable, I did 14K miles on mine between my 16th-17th birthdays and it rarely failed due to mechanical problems (punctures were the thing that gave me the most grief). Most of the 2-stroke boys rarely went out of the village whereas I went all over including down to the coast and similar long(ish) trips.

Bloodly hell 14k in a year !!!! wow,ya your right we never went more than 20 mile round trips,mainly showing off in front of the lasses in the village.. But what i really remember most was when on my birthday at just 17 i went out and bought a second hand yamaha rd250e (on hp) WHAT A BUZZ !!!!!!!! from a ped to a real bike that would do 100mph + with no prior training AT ALL i have to say it scared the pants off me for the first HOUR or so been able to do wheelies and actually overtake anything on the road felt just amazing......... this was an era that will never return,the young of today will NEVER experience what we did.............

ps What about the bike test back then

I did my silver "Star Rider" training when I was 16 and then did my moped test which meant I was the only person in the village who could (leagally) carry a passenger.
When it came to taking my bike test at 17 I was one of the first people in the country to do the new 2-part test. The first bit (around the cones) was done at a DOT site and I was the only person to be tested that day, as soon as I had that under my belt I could apply for the second part which was carried out on the road as normal. I bought myself a nice shiny new CB250RS-D for my 17th birthday and managed to cover 30K miles in the next 17-months before I sold it for a new Honda CBX550.

I was never into 2-strokes, even riding bikes on the track before I was 16 they were always Honda 4-strokes so when I was old enough to ride bikes on the road it was natural to stick with them. Plus Honda were always a 4-stroke manufacturer whereas the other big-3 were more into 2-strokes.

Well the first legit legal bike I had was a yam tzr 125 ( the previous ones were pulled out of the local marl hole yes daxes too dried out n thrashed round the fields) Had to work shifts to pay for the yam I was 19! I did some miles on that and never had it rebored had an allspeed exhaust! still love the smell of 2 stroke! Sadly now being lost to history. Love my daxes though my first encounters with them were not legit! It was the 70s n I didn't think they were nicked jus dumped or unwanted Oh well naivity of childhood.