What was your first bike?

No , it was much older than that one.

Plasma.

 

My first bike was a Yamaha RD250LC. Loved that bike. It sounded like a 100 lawnmowers. It gave the feeling of going really fast without the breakneck speed of current bikes. Hopefully the photo will load up. The right hand indicator is smashed. I had just had an accident about a week before (1995). I ran into a pedestrian who stepped out between two parked cars and just kept coming. Oh yeah, he was an 81 year old priest. Judging by the noise my bike made he probably thought it was a whipper snipper or something. He did survive, and even got a ride in an ambulance. I didnt sleep for weeks!

 

Loved the clip on bars I put on that bike. Not good for a future Chiropractor

 

A 1975 Yamaha DT175 enduro. Lots o Fun, 4 stroke so no mixing

 

Nice dropped bars on that yamaha. You clipped a priest damn dude lucky you didnt go to hell right there. I had a pedestrian bastard cross in front of me once and I hit him with my pinky knuckle. Kept on going and the silly arse made it across the street. Must have been pretty sore cause the next morning my little knuckle was as black as my kawasakis paint job. Damn.

 

Ridevfr,
I bet that hurt!
I dont know why the right indicator smashed, I swear I hit him on the left. I didnt just clip him, I centre punched him right under the ribs. (poor bugger) I think I put it down on the right side after I hit him. Tough little bikes the RD. It was inexperience, it target fixated him big time.

 

That thing looks very cool, wish I had something like when deliverying the papers.

 

Lucky guy!!

HONDA is re introducing those again EXACTLY the same they say.

 

Sorry ...You are right that was a 1963, and the earliest model I can find was a 1958.
Probably the 1950 model is VERY rare now and maybe brownie cameras and that film
did not last this long to get it scanned into digital information.

 

My first ride was a 1975 kawasaki kz400 that i bought last summer. The motor had blown up and the fork was toast. I put a motor out of a 76 in it and a fork off a 74 that i found on ebay and rode it 4 thousand miles in a year. Fun little bike despite the terrible brakes and that it couldn't get out of its own way. The friend of mine that sold it to me bought it back cause it was his first bike, he just didn't have the capability to fix it. Now I have my 99 vfr and couldn't be happier.

 

Mine was a 1969 Suzuki AC-50, which I considered a "real motorcycle" compared to the other guys Benelli's and Honda mini-trails. I STILL can hear the ring-ding-ding of that 2 cycle pop-green dream machine wound out on the streets and trails at 55ish mph. My best friend got the exact same bike a month or so later, and those memories will never fade as we learned how to ride.

 

'81 Honda CM200T, though I rode illegaly for several year I never owned my own bike until 3yrs ago when i had to get somthing small to pass the riders test with. rode the piss out of it, still have it though i need to finish the engine work....a sock monkey was involved with the tare down. Now I have it and my VFR

 

1974 HONDA Z50 mini trail 3speed 50 cc

 

haha man oh man what great legs... and the bike is not too shabby either . the first shifty I learned with was a CBR400 around March of 2010 this year in the Philippines.
(its the one on the right) My Uncle thought I'd need a way to get around town so he just loaned me his super4 .2 weeks later when I got much stronger at riding and my auntie let me semi adopt one of her harley's for the rest of my stay there which was just a white Harley 883 Sportster( she wouldn't loan me her screaming eagle ): ) (I drove the white one)

 

1967 susuki 250 two stroke twin street bike 15 years old.

 

this was my first one.....I then graduated to this

Then came the motorized versions



then came the first true love:


then a host of others through the years to include this one that I had in Panama:
(not the exact bike pictured)

then this:
then this
and now the current VFR that is the work in progress:

 

1959 bsa c15 250cc single bought in 1963 just before my 16th birthday

 

This is my first:


She's a 1975 Honda CL360. I learned to ride back around 2004 on her looking something like this:

When I got it, it was completely stock, spray painted black, and not running.

Then I bought another CL360, and a CB750 (both 1975s)


Followed by a birthday present to myself back in 2006:

it was the first new vehicle I have ever owned... and I may not ever do that again. I put new pipes on it, bars, paint, gauge bucket, tail and who knows what else, but it was never something I could be passionate about.

Now the Ducati's sold, and I picked up a '94 VFR in somewhat sad shape (not compared to my other junkyard finds though)

 

First Ride

Mine was a 1963 Yamaha 80 (GT-1 I believe) when I was 10. Then a 68 DT1, 74 Yamaha 250 Enduro, 82 Honda XL500R (First 4 stroke), 92 Suzuki DR350, 99 Suzuki DR350, 02 Suzuki DRZ400, 04 Yamaha WR250F, 01 Honda XR400, 07 Yamaha WR250F (Still have it), 89 Honda PC800, 02 VFR800 (Still have it) Still riding after 43 years and inumerable broken bones and still loving it!! Oh yeah, and a couple of Maico's in there somewhere too!

 

My first was a 1984 Kawasaki gpz 900r.I still to this day regret letting that bike go.since then I've gone thru way too many gsxrs"86,87,96,98,99,03,05" a m109r a 97 vz800
.two tl 1000 s's a 97 katana 600 a 98 katana 1100
Kawasaki zx11 three concours 1000s.
Honda pc800,98 superhawk and now the 03 vfr800 non abs
And that's all in the last 4 years !!