What was your very 1st bike.

[bear]

1955 started with an N-ZETA (go look it up!)
Then a Norton 500 (model 88)
Triumph 750 (T150)
Suzuki GSX1100 (first one in 1980)
Suzuki GSXR600
'99 Busa (still got that one!)

[DjPete]

come on bear ...pics...lol

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my brother had a 650 lightning and I was on the back quite a bit. The sound and thump of that bike is still embedded in my brain today. Paradise.

[pete]

this was my old dexon i bought
as a 10 yr old.

   

   

[Batfink]

hey pete... didn;t I see Fred Flinstone ride one of those in the Flinstone Movie?

[pete]

hey pete... didn;t I see Fred Flinstone ride one of those in the Flinstone Movie?

hahaha more than likely it was that old. :-)

[ballsybusa]

hey pete... didn;t I see Fred Flinstone ride one of those in the Flinstone Movie?

hahaha more than likely it was that old. :-)

I can't believe someone was making them

[Buhjones]

1st saddle was on a Honda C70e. Knew bugga all about bikes so when the throttle stuck on I jammed it into gear completely destroying the gearbox, whoops. I am sure the neighbours got a good giggle out of my 6"2 120kgs on a 70cc scooter with bits falling off.

[DjPete]

Hey admins you should have a thread of the week award and give away some stickers or something. tHIS THREAD IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OR CANDIDATE FOR IT. :-) Sorry caps lock

[revhead]

geeezz Pete ,lol i though this was a good idea of breaking the ice,lol as im a newbieeeee!sort of

[Camel]

My first dirt bike. Methanol powered GPZ1100 with Milk-Bar cams ('they stay open all day!').


Nah, just gammin' it was a 1962 Bridgestone 50 step-thru. The GPZ came later.

Mate and I were gullible 14 year olds who bought it in good faith from the local Arthur Daley for five bucks. Couldn't find a throttle tube for the shitbox anywhere so we fitted a pushbike handbrake to act as a throttle. Took the LHS cover off to clean the points and didn't bother to put the cover back on. The flywheel was covered in curved fins to aid cooling..... Pile of shit still wouldn't start so we pulled the carby apart and refitted it. Unfortunately, I refitted the slide 180 degrees out.

At this stage I bet you're thinking that the holes in the swiss cheese are starting to line up.

It was a hot tropical wet season Saturday. We'd pushed that shit heap four times around the house trying to start it. Just as we were about to give up through exhaustion the cunnava thing fired and took off like a scalded cat. To make matters worse I grasped the handlebars to hang on, pulling the handbrake/throttle all the way in and making it rear on its hind wheel. It pirouetted around and, like a trebuchet, flung me across the front yard, but not before shredding my jeans and about a centimetre of skin as I dragged my leg across those screaming curved cooling fins.

f*** it hurt.

Even worse was the pain of doing it in front of a girl I was keen on. It didn't help that the neighbours were hosting a barby for The Bodgies MCC and they had a front row seat to the whole debacle. They were rolling around the lawn pissing themselves with laughter. This only increased when I lost my temper and called them all manner of foul things. It got worse for them when my Mum, on hearing the cursing, came outside and hauled me into the house by my ear. Between blows to my scone I could see grown men in pain gasping for breath before continuing on, roaring with laughter.

That was my first experience with motorcycles, travelled all of ten foot and was scarred for life as a result. That's all it took. I was hooked from that moment on.

Camel

[ROD]

Hey admins you should have a thread of the week award and give away some stickers or something. tHIS THREAD IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OR CANDIDATE FOR IT. :-) Sorry caps lock

Ok Revhead send me your details and i will post out a goodies bag

[DjPete]

haha On ya Rod!!

[revhead]

haha On ya Rod!!

i also had one of these ,lol
sorry its a hoonda

[Dale]

My first ride was a yamaha xt250, first bike was a Honda 500-4. The throttle cable broke soon after I bought it, so we changed it around so the return cable was now the throttle .. Winding off to accelerate took a bit of getting used to

It also had an issue when it rained that the fuses would blow .. foil cigarette paper wrapped around the fuses fixed those suckers ..

[ballsybusa]

1st bike was a kawasaki km 100, Santa got it for me when I was about 8, had it out in the backyard at 6am doing laps, dad convinced mum to have a go,she jumped on and went straight though the side fence,ended up with a broken wrist