Real Seniority

I guess I'm a "Junior" (at 29 years old)


I got my first bike at 13 years old (in 1991)
I paid $600 (a whole summer's worth of mowing lawns) for my 1986 Honda Rebel 250

in 1997 I bought my old man's Shadow 700
and picked up my 2004 Viffer in early 06' (after "borrowing" an 02' SV650S for about a year)

 

I know guys who have rode 20 years but only get out and ride 4-5 times a year

then I know guys that ride everyday / every chance they get.

for some.... its quality of the time on the bike NOT quanity of years....


for myself I started in 88-89 riding a buddys spare 87cain I rode it all the time.. then decided I needed to "grow up" before I bought my own

 

Old fart here...35 years of riding

 

I've been riding since I got out of the Navy in 1968. My first bike was a
Honda S90.

Than came:

Honda CB350
Triumph 500 Daytona
Triumph 650 Bonneville
Honda CB450
Honda CB750F
Honda CB400F (wife’s)
Honda CBX

Started Roadracing in 1980

2 Yamaha RD400 (Race Bikes)
Yamaha TZ750D Race Bike (Raced in the Daytona 200 in 1981 & 1982)
Honda VF500F
Suzuki GS 550ES (wife’s)
4 Honda VF750F Race Bikes (National Championship AMACCS Prototype 1984)

Quit Racing 1987, Back to the streets

Honda Hurricane
Honda CBR600
Honda CBR600 F2
Honda VFR800
Kawasaki 500 Ninja (wife’s)
CBR 1000RR (Repsol)

 

Nvts!

Dang it, Ya had to bring up minibikes, should I add my two to the list also, and just for a hoot does a moped thrown in there at some point also count?

 

Yea, i've done about 400k :smile: about 500-600k plus ago :biggrin:

in 5 years commuting between Lancaster, CA. to LAX/SoCal (3 years 152 miles round trip 6 day's a week) & Phoenix, AZ. to LAX/SoCal (2 years 800 miles round trip 3 day's a week) not counting weekend rides & track day's & racing, I put 391,872 miles or more on 5 bikes.

I currently at a whim hop on a bike & ride down to So.Cal. & back on a weekend, which is about 1400 miles round trip:smile: .

 

Well, if you count the one time I rode my friend's Honda 50 in 1976 when I was 5 and fell in love with motorcycles even though I fell off the motorcycle...then I have been riding for 31 years. But, If you count the fact that I had not ridden since that day until this August...then I'm a newbie. I finally figured out that my mom wasn't the boss of me any more and I could do whatever I wanted. I am still convincing my wife of that though.

 

Geez I hate to say it but I bought my first bike in 1975 and entered my first road race June of that year. Yes I'm an old fart on the outside and just a YOUNG kid on the inside.:stickhorse:

 

Kilometers or miles may be better...if you only ride 500km a year, or 15000 a year.

 

I am 33 and got my first bike at 12 ( it was a honda cs70 ) street legal dirtbike, more for the street thoagh, unlike an enduro. Looked like a mini cb with all terrain tied ( not knobbies ). I loved that bike and have ridden honda ever since. next was a 77 cb750 SS. Fast as hell as long as you were goin straight. Next I tried a kawi dirtbike that broke down on me the first time I rode it. Next a gl1200 goldwing ( I got my class m on that bike ) and now my first sport? bike. 85 rwb 700

 

Started riding 21 years ago, bought first VFR in 1990....

 

Age 4 Homemade mini bike
Age 7 Honda Z50
Age 10 XR 80
Age 15 CR 125
Age 16 Honda FT 500 Ascot
Age 19 The First CBR an 87 Hurricane Black and RED!!!!!

The Junk years...
89 Katana 600
91 Virago
92 Vmax
various other...what ever I could afford.

Reborn at 41
03 VFR, 03 Cr250, 05 CR125.

 

Well, I just have my licence in 30 of july 2007 (2 days after my son was born) and rode for some times 50cc 2 stroke bikes (the bikes were not mine) but I gess that doesn't count...so i'm a brat...but since i bought my baby I've made more than 10 thousand K's.

I wanted to get my licence earlier but my parents said that was the last thing they would offer as they said to me that was like giving me coffin...and i think they were right, at age 18 i wasn't ready to have a motorbike, if i had one probably wouldn't be here telling this story...
So when the right moment came i went to the driving scholl in 2005 and made my inscription, but my stepfather was sick with cancer and i've delayed it, then in 2007 i had to take the licence otherwise i would loose the money i already had given (i dont know about there but here in Portugal you only have 2 years since the inscription) after getting my licence i was looking for a viffer and i found my baby with only 18000k's on the clock, and since i already had the money i bouth it without thinking twice ...and thats more or less my short ridding story...

 

Sorry some mistakes, but i gess this isn't my English class...

 

I voted Senior because I've been riding dirt since I was 5, and dirt experience does translate to road bikes. Case in point. I took the MSF with no road experience, yet I scored the highest in my class. That was with some riders who had been on the road for 15+ years. :wink: I killed the cone obstacles, and was the only rider to stay within the box on the u-turn obstacle.

On the road for over 10.

 

holy crap this is an old thread.

And only 1 year so far.

 

wouldn't you know it i'm a brat!? i would've never guessed that i think you need to refigure your scale...:crazy:

 

3.5 years for me, not counting time spent on a dirtbike in a big backyard as a kid, and a year or more on a moped as a teen.