shrinathrao

Hey friends it was in my mind to start this thread on scooters, as i have my age old horse my dad's old scooter Bajaj Priya. i grew up with my scooter i can say, i use to remember my childhood days when i used to hold my luggage carier stand of my scooter and stand up, sleep on my moms lap when dad use to ride it. Came my teenage days, learnt to drive her when i was not confident of riding a bicycle also, had lot of falls with her but got up again and moved ahead, she taught me how to bear with fatal pains in life, she taught me how to be confident in my life though my parents were not confident of my exam scores but were confident of riding her, waiting for dad in the evening so when he comes from office to take her out for ride after washing her.

Fixing her tyre punctures, saving money for petrol from pocket money so i can buy fuel for her.

Mum used to shout come for food where i was learning to handle her, today years have gone together i have upgraded myself to bikes, have my family but i have still kept my dads ageless beauty in my garage at my home in goa. dad still loves riding her though he has a car. she is already 30+ years old but cares for me the same way she cared when i was a kid standing in front and she used to care for me.

today we have 1500 +cc bikes in front of which she is too small but still she is the best for me.

Its difficult to explain the relation i share with her as people think machines dont have feelings, but i have pride in saying she is my first love and i will keep her with me till i die.

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@shrinathrao: Nicely expressed there. A few pictures of your age old beauty would really be nice.

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Sarvajit

You are reminding me of my 1st bike-a 2nd hand Kinetic Honda Campus Chill. I really loved that bike, customized it to my requirements&wanted to keep it forever, but I had to let go when Dad told me he would not buy me a geared motorcycle if I don't sell it!

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velociraptor13

This thread reminds me of my scooter KiHO marvel.I call her smokee.Learn't riding and did all sorts of kede kandi on it.Still have it in my native place in kerala, though in a sorry state.Got the reg changed from mh-02 to kl-09.Planning to restore it this december.I have already modified the clutch.Now to go for fibre reeds.Heres a pic of smokee

Best of luck for the rebuild.

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ripper

Nice Thread, Please post pics of the beauty. I too will be restoring a '93 Bajaj Sunny next summer, learnt riding on it and obviously moved on to better and faster bikes eventually but this one scoot i somehow cannot part with, its fun, small, and yes Noisy but on the whole just another pocket bike for me. Would require help for the team to make it move a lil faster when im at it.

BANDHAV

I have no history at all with any scooter, but i do intend to procure a used Bajaj Priya and make it look like like a Classic Vespa.

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moeed

I learnt riding on my grandpa's Bajaj Chetak 1988 model. I still use it whenever I give my bike for servicing.

gurveer

I think most of us have learned riding a two-wheeler on a bajaj super/chetak/priya or may be some of us on a LML. Many may also wolud hae startd on an ungeared one, even i startd with a Kinetic Honda, then my dad's bajaj super, then LML NV and now a 180.

Though we had yezdis, rajdoots n enfields, Bajaj was quite a liked two-wheeler among our fathers ! I miss my dad's bajaj super now.

Sandeep_K_Ram

aah , what nostalgia !

Now I miss my dads Lamby 150.

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balajidiwakar

my dad owned a 1990 model Bajaj Chetak.....it was a wonderful vehicle.....we had toured once from my hometown to a near by place called Thiruparappu on that, I was a lil kid...... I learned to drive in LML Vespa which came to us in 1999, had it till 2005.

agree with u sandeep, scooters are nostalgic

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