What was your first bike?

My first motorcycle was a 1979 Suzuki TS 125 2-stroke. It was street legal and I rode it everywhere. I went trail riding with a co-worker who had a 1984 CR125.(first year for liquid cooling) He left me in the dust of course, but I tried my damndest to keep up. I eventually traded it it for a Suzuki PE 175, blew that up and ended up buying above mentioned CR. Sold the CR, bought an 85 XL 250. I learned a lot of lessons on these small bikes.(cornering, don't drink and ride, etc) and am glad I didn't have a high horsepower machine to learn on.

 

I learned on a KZ440. My first bike owned a year after riding that for the first time was a KZ1000 - heavier and more powerful but very familiar to what I started on. I'd have to say my first real bike that learned to really ride rather than operate was my Honda 919. That's alot of bigger displacement to start on, but the KZ was great in a straight line and the 919 was a puppy, totally neutral handling, comfortable, no big spikes on the power band. Now I ride a VFR800. So much time on bikes over 600cc's makes me now want a smaller bike to play on having realized that handling has more appeal to me than power. I swear I'm gonna snag an EX500 someday from someone having learned to ride and now wanting bigger power. I guess I've sort of gone backwards. Thank god I've used my head all that time (luck is more likely it).

 

BullTaco 360cc and a Honda Scrambler 305cc at age 14.

 

BSA Starlite 75 cc. Top speed was 39 mph if I sat upright, 43 if I laid down on the seat in superman mode. Then a 42-year (!) break until two summers ago when I got a Suzuki SV650. Sweet bike; lovely engine but pogo stick forks and no wind protection so traded it for the 07 VFR.

 

My first bike - and my all-time favorite bike - was and is Charlotte, my 1986 Honda Interceptor VF500F. I put about 40k miles on her in under 2 years by riding every single day. I'd commute, pleasure ride, go the the store, pleasure ride, visit family, pleasure ride, lather, rinse, repeat.

My plans (if a suitable place can be found) is to be laid to rest on that bike. But that's for another thread...

 

My first was some sort of a mini bike that I don't remember the name (about 6 years old). It actually had a 2 speed tranny that required you to shift gears, but I don't recall there being a clutch??? This would have been mid 1970's.

Next up was a Kawasaki KE 125 (if memory serves me correctly). Couple years on that, but learned most of my riding on a YZ-125.

First Street Bike was a Kawasaki GPz750 - 1984 or 85. Once again, can't remember shit.

 

1978 honda CB500T, i think it weight 997LBS, no lie and was a kick start on top of it, owned it when i was 15, after learning to ride on that bike anything else out there is a breeze

 

1st road bike at age 16 was a '86 Honda Magna ... 2nd bike at age 17 was my brother's '86 VFR750 he sold me before heading off to the Marines (1991 at the time)...

 

Learnt to ride on Suzuki RM50, then Honda CR8o

First bike I bought was Honda XR200 and first road bike was the Honda MVX250 two stroke.

 

i started on.. a 92 CBR 600 F2...


then came my project bike a 97 900RR which yall know i had to swap the engine in.. got it as this literaly


ended as this


then briefly.. TILL i found it twas almost 7 grand a year to insure had



and now i have

 

1988 honda shadow 800cc. very well made. i dropped it 4 times in the first month and yet hardly any scratches. added saddles and windscreen. rode for about 6 months then i got a katana and sold the shadow. since then i've owned a vstar 1100, and a pc800. now i just got my one and only vfr...

 

My very 1st was a Suzuki step trough 50 (think Honda Cub). After much begging and pleading, my 2nd was a '67 Yamaha 180 twin jet. Rode that thing all over, including a road trip from Jax, Fla to Leesberg VA and back! In those days I thought a "big bike" was anything over 100cc's. That bike was eventually traded for my 1st "real" bike, a brand new 1971 Norton Commando Roadster, black & gold. After a few days with Mr. Commando, I no longer thought of my 180 as a big bike. One thing I do know.......it was on that 180 on a moonlit night, that I knew I would always have a bike, and ride until I could no longer throw a leg over!:biggrin:

 

I can see why the guy in the truck was scoping out your girl,punisher,those are some nice legs

 

Lambretta 125 when I was 11, mini bikes and a gocart before that. Trail 70 then CL175 when I was 12/13.

 

First bike I learned to ride was a 1973 Kawasaki 90, only had for about 2 months but that was enough when you're 14. First bike I bought in 1987 was a 1986 Kawasaki KLR 600 Enduro.

 

How do you know it`s not him , on the way to a DRAG race ;-)

I started on a little honda 50 (then 125 dirt), but first street bike was a new 75 Yamaha 500 enduro single (aka wheelie machine)

 

Eh..nice threas...mine first bika was polish brand bike ...komar... 49cc...then had couple of that kind of bikes....was young 7-8....then I had...bike called.... simson... german scuter.. max speed maybe 60mph..next bike and I think I steal had that simson was.... wsk125..and wsk175..polish..bikes had couples of those wsk...lol oldest was from 1969 .. then I had another german bike MZ 150 and MZ 250..nice bike for young...kid..thx dad!..and mine last bike in poland was czech republic bike called jawa350..only bike with 2 pistons that I ovned...in poland....in United States..when I'm right now...had vfr 750 ...parts bike rigtht now. Recently I got vfr 700..almost done...hope will be on roud soon.

 

My mom was dead nut against motorcycles of any kind. (She just turned 80 this year and she still thinks it is a phase I am going through.) Bikes were anti social and the people that rode them were obviously destined for poverty and early graves. This made me want one all the more. I purchase an SL 125 Honda from Carl Jannon by empting out the entire content of my college saving account, the princely sum of $90. The bike was crap, with a bent valve and cracked piston. It was the only way I was allowed to keep it. It was a non runner. Through much toil, and trial and error, I got it running and that bike was my friend all through high school. My first real street bike was a Triumph TR25 that I pushed further than I rode. It had a total loss electrical system. I could ride until it started to sputter and then I would ride as fast as possible back to the house.

 

1987 vfr700