Post a pic. Your first bike...

[Bren]

Sourced off the internet....My first bike was an '80 Kawasaki Z200

Loved that wee girl...even if it was only a piddly 13hp

[PirateJafa]

She deserved a better owner than me. :(

<img src="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/picture.php?albumid=660&pictureid=6389">
<img src="http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/picture.php?albumid=660&pictureid=6390">

[rainman]

Here ya go...

144711

But blue.

[CHOPPA]

everyone had a QR50!

[EJK]

Good bike. Photo taken when 4 days old from purchase.

[FiBee]

honda cb250rs... the best learners bike IMO... my toes could touch the ground (bonus!) and it was light enough to pick up when dropped... (after those times when my toes couldn't touch the ground!) :doh: and the minimal plastic bits meant that when it did go down, no damage was done! :2thumbsup

[shafty]

Here's my beauty - paid $650 with only 3000km on the clock!

[LBD]

First I need to find the old box brownee images and convert to digital.....

[Toaster]

Suzuki GSX250K3 great first bike.

[Number One]

Hahahahaaa them were the days (http://www.tradebit.com/usr/manuals/pub/9002/rg150.JPG)...I'd love to pop a leg over one again now actually - would feel like a pushbike now and I can remember thinking it was HUMUNGOUS! :lol:

Love the Purple and Orange colour scheme too :puke: I did however manage to find perfectly matched nail polish to infil the small scratches

[zahria]

honda cb250rs... the best learners bike IMO... my toes could touch the ground (bonus!) and it was light enough to pick up when dropped... (after those times when my toes couldn't touch the ground!) :doh: and the minimal plastic bits meant that when it did go down, no damage was done! :2thumbsup

I had a 250RS aas well, loved it.
Took it to Auckland from Wellington for a wee ride, and commuted from Kapiti to Wellington for a couple of years.
Great bikes.

[MrZxp]

1974 Honda MT 125 Elsinore - notable for frequently allowing a bit of carbon to bridge the spark plug gap at inopportune moments, (like when managing to get 120km/h out of it downhill with a tailwind!).

[NighthawkNZ]

cb250n (pic taken about 1986)

before that I rode every one elses bike...

[pzkpfw]

RD250LC. Which had had the 350 barrels and pistons put on. And the oil pump taken off (making it a pre-mix). Didn't try to get my license on it because of the 350 thing (should've tried anyway). Mine was rough as. It was the colour of "road-side bushes for camoflage" when I bought it, so I painted it blue with several cans of spray-paint. By the time it was sold out from under me while I was overseas, it was dripping oil from a half-arsed fix of a cracked engine case (from an incident involving a very loose chain).

Such a nice bike to ride. Comfortable, easy and "went" pretty darn well enough.

Couple years later when I came back to N.Z. I saw it outside a bike shop in town (Palmy North). Someone had fixed it up, it wasn't dripping and an oil pump had been put back on). It was still painted my blue. I nearly cried, and if I'd had any money at all...

[jaymzw]

Where are all the Ginny pix guys:girlfight:
Here's mine. Well not really mine. Just one off Google. Mine was so cool it was made in China and started rusting out :2thumbsup

Ahh those are the days i dont miss

[vifferman]

Post a picture?
Can't. :no:
Well... I can, but probably won't, as the only picture I have is a B+W photo of it after I wrote it off. Not a pretty sight.

everyone had a QR50!
Not me. :no:


I had a 250RS aas well, loved it.
Me too!
Well... mine had an XR500 donk in it, so it wasn't Egg Zachary a CB250RS; more like an XBR500RS.


1974 Honda MT 125 Elsinore - notable for frequently allowing a bit of carbon to bridge the spark plug gap at inopportune moments, (like when managing to get 120km/h out of it downhill with a tailwind!).
I had a '74 Elsinore too! The 250 though.

EDIT:
What the heck; I may not have a nice pic of my CB175, but it looked pretty much like this before I fukted it.
173cc, SOHC, twin carbs, points ignition, 5-speed gearbox, drum brakes, but a lot of fun.

[davereid]

Here's a list and piccys of the entire fleet, going right back to the dark ages.

With the exception of the TGB and the CZ, which for some reason I havent added.

http://www.eslnz.com/motorcycles.html

[YellowDog]

http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/gallery/motobecane/images/Mobylette%20AV44%201962.jpg

[zahria]

Me too!
Well... mine had an XR500 donk in it, so it wasn't Egg Zachary a CB250RS; more like an XBR500RS.


So, yours would do more than 60kph into a head wind?

[vifferman]

So, yours would do more than 60kph into a head wind?
What do you think? :shifty:
It didn't have a very impressive top speed, as it was fairly low geared, but made up for that with pretty good wheelies.

[vifferman]

Here's a list and piccys of the entire fleet, going right back to the dark ages.
:blink:

I think I've owned WAY too few bikes over the last 35 years.
I've missed out on so much fun.
:weep:

I guess it's a bit late now to try to make up for it. :confused:

[light]

This was my first bike

[Drunken Monkey]

This is the one...

<img src="http://www.rddecals.afegraphics.com/images/1986gsxr750-red-iso-shot-300.jpg" height="225" width="300">

[bungbung]

May win "most ugly" award, but I have a firestorm now...

[nudemetalz]

My first bike back in 1982 was a 1980 CR80R Elsinore.
Bit of a weapon for a 12 year old not used to nasty powerbands. The amount of times I crashed.......

<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/turbo_NZ/?action=view&current=1980cr80r.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/turbo_NZ/1980cr80r.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[mansell]

Was actually my second bike but a A100 is harder to find and I still wish I had this one :wacko:

[batboy]

mine...a yamama XT500 '79 i think it was....the shin killer she was called
dickie compression lever and dodgy compression window let to many a sore leg trying to start it

[Ender EnZed]

1989 Honda VT250 Spada. Then another one the same after I crashed it.

[vifferman]

Was actually my second bike but a A100 is harder to find and I still wish I had this one :wacko:
Quite different to the 200 "Electric" that preceded it. My friend's brother had one, and it was a trendy (for the '70s) purple paintjob, with a rounder tank than that, and one of those friction steering dampers atop the triple clamps.

mine...a yamama XT500 '79 i think it was....the shin killer she was called
dickie compression lever and dodgy compression window let to many a sore leg trying to start it
I reckon in some ways the 500 singles would have been better off without those. My XBR500Rs was for some reason (lack of space under the tank??) missing the decompression lever, but was easy enough to start: fold up the RH footpeg, kick it over to TDC, then give it a kick. Started first or second time, every time, with no wrecking of shin or spraining of ankle.
There was a trend for a while in '75 or thereabouts to fit a decompression release to the spare sparkplug hole of two-stroke dirtbikes, to give them some engine braking. Made a sound like a chicken when the lever was pulled.

[KiwiGs]

My first road bike was a red white Honda MB5 but there is already a picture, so here is my second road bike
'cept mine was blue

[vifferman]

May win "most ugly" award, but I have a firestorm now...
So, you have a thing for ugly bikes?
Did you ever own a Ural, or one of those commuter bikes with the fully enclosed chain?

[Chooky]

1961 I think........
Worked at Westfield one school holidays, earned enough to pay cash for a brand new C15.... Cost 315 pounds.

[Edbear]

1961 I think........
Worked at Westfield one school holidays, earned enough to pay cash for a brand new C15.... Cost 315 pounds.

Bet you wish you'd kept it.

I haven't got a pic handy of my first bike but it was one of these, '51 BSA B31 350.

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/Edbearnz/B31BSA.jpg

[Bren]

There are some interesting rides there...I believe you always have a love of your first bike. I would love to get my hands on a Z200 again just for nostalgia sake.

First bikes from 50 cc to 750 cc's, heck Drunken Monkey...what a bike to start on!!!::argh:

[captain_andrey]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/71396325@N00/1959572300/" title="My Hyosung GT250R by captain_andrey, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/1959572300_de18b894ab.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="My Hyosung GT250R" /></a>

And it was featured on the 2008 KB calendar too :P

[avgas]

It was the bike that got me riding....then put me off bikes.....the got me riding again.
Great bike - I wish i could buy another for the commute now.

Years back in an aussie bike mag they did an article about how you should "Lie, cheat and steal" to buy a TS185 to learn to ride on. One of the best articles ever

[BMWST?]

10,000 rpm top gear was about 130 km hr...me and my mate on a yamaha 200 had some great top speed duels...he had the acceleration but i could hang onto him in top speed....

[Oakie]

Kawasaki G5 (100cc).
I met my wife riding this bike. Well to be honest I was at the bottom of a hill trying to kick start it and failing. She watched and felt sorry for me.

[T.W.R]

Here's my beauty - paid $650 with only 3000km on the clock!

:laugh: My 1st road bike was the same but my one was a silver with blue pin-stripe 76 model, even paid the same price for my one.

My 1st bike of my own was a YZ80.

[aer0]

still got it and very much for sale.

CBR250r MC19, given to me as a 21st pressie.

awesome bike that has taken me to some awesome places

[slofox]

Mine was the 1953 - this is 1952. Pretty much the same mind you.

Solid iron, heavy as lead. Needed a crane to pick up when ya fell off it...which I did a few times.

Raced it at Ruapuna in the first ever one hour endurance race. Finished third in the 350cc class believe it or not...probably because the brakes faded out totally and I couldn't slow down even when I wanted to...

[yachtie10]

Mine was a Honda XL100
was a great bike till I traded on a 175. Dealer was pissed as when he serviced it he found part of the main bearing race in the sump. I genuinely didnt know

[been_there]

As above mine was a Honda XL100... feel the power

[Dan Mapp]

It was the bike that got me riding....then put me off bikes.....the got me riding again.
Great bike - I wish i could buy another for the commute now.

Years back in an aussie bike mag they did an article about how you should "Lie, cheat and steal" to buy a TS185 to learn to ride on. One of the best articles ever

Me to brought it brand new (the only new car or bike ive owned) in the begining of 82 from Underwoods and Wilkins. then sum bugger went and stole it :angry2:

[Matt Bleck]

a 1974 Honda MT250!!!

[glanvillejon]

Here's another Ginny!! She was a beauti, I was so proud riding it home for the first time, man so many things to think about! Acceleration, Braking (2 brakes!!), Clutch, gear change, indicator FAR OUT THOSE WERE THE DAYS! Note my kids climbing onto it, they find it a bit tougher to get up on the Bandit! and they aren't allowed without help anyway lol :Oops::argh::calm::calm::calm:

[SPman]

It's in this thread from 2004.........http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=2585

[Str8 Jacket]

Here's a pic of the funeral of my first Road Bike... You cant tell from this side but I had just wrapped it around a pole and the whole engine was bent out on one side. Best thing that could've happened to the POS!

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[mossy1200]

The days of grunt.XL185s and Hilman Hunter.Cost me a g back when I earnt $4 per hr so it was a poo load then.Many weekends market gardening and still at school.

[Swoop]

Oooh yeah!:2thumbsup
100cc's of raw power. 1979(?)

[dangerous]

RD250LC. Which had had the 350 barrels and pistons put on....
funny that... that is not my 1st bike but my latest bike :wacko:



It's in this thread from 2004.........http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=2585 haha, shit we been farking around here that long now :beer:
Heres my post from that thread... oddley nuff, it still applys.



When I was 14 two weeks before I got my licence at 15 I brought my first, to my step fathers discust...... cos it had no kick starter, 'SO WHAT' it was a Yamaha G5 an 80cc two stroke....you know the sort, blue with crome sides with a rubber pad to rest ya knees on.
Any one know what year that would have been?

And I have never looked back and ridden continusly since for 27yrs :rockon:

[NewRob]

Here is my 1st bike in the early 90's.... Yamaha RX100

[Sidewinder]

yea boi!!
<img src=http://www.thaisecondhand.com/view/productpic/p5953255n1.jpg>

[Mom]

Not my first, but close to it, will keep hunting for a pic...

Even the same colour too :love:

[Sidewinder]

Not my first, but close to it, will keep hunting for a pic...

Even the same colour too :love:

they have pics from the 1800's???

[Del Fuego]

1985 Honda NS400R mean!

Posed and touring spec (7000km around the other island)

[Mom]

they have pics from the 1800's???

No, but I can draw you a picture :girlfight:

[tommygun]

Something like this. 50cc's of Suzuki's finest!:2thumbsup

[cs363]

OK, first bike I actually owned - Yamaha FS1E, but it wasn't quite as tidy as this one and was used mainly on my mates farm and round the 'burbs and to get my licence. Once the licence was obtained it was ditched in favour of that most sensible of learner bikes the Kawasaki S1B..... (couldn't have been too bad, I'm still here and still riding...)

(Note both pics from net but same colours etc)

[StoneY]

TS185, 80 if I recall- I got her in 84 for my restricted, is file from net not my bike but I had this exact one in this exact colour

[stu_dog]

Suzuki GSX 250 E

27.00 HP (19.7 kW)) @ 10000 RPM
175.0 kg
top speed 148.0 km/h
good times!

[vifferman]

a 1974 Honda MT250!!!
Not my first bike, but I had one of them!
Bought it in 1976, sold it in '77 when I was a poor uni student and ran out of money.

[98tls]

Such fond memorys as a 9 year old.

[xgnr]

A classic in that it was one of the first ones (I think) to have the nice tail end.

This is not my old bike I might add. Mine was a stunner.

Gutless scrape everything type bike but it was my first real bike sigh...

[I'm motarded]

144946 This was my first, awsome bike

[nothingflash]

Here's mine...Honda NX250 still have it (need it for my full test soon) but have progressed to a 650 Dominator...

Did a trip in Feb on this bike Welly - BOP - East Cape - Waikaremoana - Ohakune - Wanganui - Wellington. Good times.

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[MacD]

1974 Honda MT 125 Elsinore - notable for frequently allowing a bit of carbon to bridge the spark plug gap at inopportune moments, (like when managing to get 120km/h out of it downhill with a tailwind!).

Same first bike, and same problem!

[Indiana_Jones]

:beer:

-Indy

[jamiey]

My first bike was a Kawasaki AR50 1984, in Kawa Green. Loved it. 16yrs old and 40mph downhill with a tailwind. Evebtually saved enough money and got a licence so upgraded to a Kawasaki KR1-S. Happy days.

[klyong82]

My first bike XR80. Not the real pic of my bike but same colour scheme.....we could not afford cameras back those days ;)

[McJim]

On the day I bought her....*sigh*

[sleemanj]

First bike, PW50.

First road going two wheeled motorised machine, Nifty Fifty.

First road going motorcycle, Suzuki A50.

(All photos shamelessly stolen from Google image seach, I doubt I have real ones)

Others I can remember which I spent considerable time riding in rough chronological order...
LT50 trike (this was fun on mud!)
Z50
I think there was a YZ80 or 50 in here somewhere
Vanvan, I think we had 2 of these, a 50 and a 90 from memory
Motocompo (look that up)
DR80
225DX Yamaha Trike or something like it
Famous James (stretching the definition, I didn't ride it much, it spent most of it's time in storage, originally dad bought it intended for me (you can guess my name), but it wasn't really going to be very suitable for University etc :-) so unfortunatly it had to go, in favor of...)
Honda Gyro Canopy with a mega huge box on it
CBX250 (brother's, borrowed on many occasions when mine died)
GN250 (x 2 more or less)
XV250 (first bike purchased with my own hard earned money)

Dad being a second hand dealer, has made for a somewhat unusual line up.

[sAsLEX]

M c 2 2

[Edbear]

Mine was the 1953 - this is 1952. Pretty much the same mind you.

Solid iron, heavy as lead. Needed a crane to pick up when ya fell off it...which I did a few times.

Raced it at Ruapuna in the first ever one hour endurance race. Finished third in the 350cc class believe it or not...probably because the brakes faded out totally and I couldn't slow down even when I wanted to...

A mate of mine had the Red Hunter. He loved it.

[dangerous]

My first bike was a Kawasaki AR50 1984, swet... never seen one, but look the mutts nutts for a 50 of that era.



A classic Honda CJ250T in that it was one of the first ones (I think) to have the nice tail end cool, as a Honda liker I have to say never seen one nor knew they were built, rather modern style for the year and looking at the engine Id guess early to mid 70's ???

[aahsv]

Suzuki RV90:2thumbsup

[blackdog]

My first road bike was a red white Honda MB5 but there is already a picture, so here is my second road bike
'cept mine was blue

Was waiting for 1 to come up. ME Too!!...

[fridayflash]

not my first bike...id had four or more dungers/riverhack/stripped back commuter type bikes to hack around on at our local river (dustys trail!)
but this was my first on-road bike and a ticket to freedom! that sounds
like a cliche but it really was ahhh......( fades into a haze of halcyon memories)

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[blackdog]

no oops i meant this one

[Coldrider]

TS125K, paid for by jobs in the school holidays.

[bsasuper]

1974 Honda MT 125 Elsinore - notable for frequently allowing a bit of carbon to bridge the spark plug gap at inopportune moments, (like when managing to get 120km/h out of it downhill with a tailwind!).

So I wasnt the only person with style, I only managed 110kmh before the exhaust exploded.

[Coldrider]

So I wasnt the only person with style, I only managed 110kmh before the exhaust exploded.Flat on the tank, 68mph indicated, my sparkplug used to break down, till it cooled off abit.

[MarkH]

Mine was a 1979 Suzuki GT250 X7 - Air cooled 250cc 2-Stroke.

These are pretty much a good representation of what she looked like.

[Baldyman]

Kawasaki AE 50 from 1982

[Bardman]

I had one of these, loved it:woohoo:

[Warr]

Erra .. we are talking 1972 when I was still at school, 3rd or 4th form !!
I had something slightly resembling this. But mine was a few neglected years old.
The rear seat didnt have any vinyl or foam so I wired a cushion onto it!
Mind you the only person I would be pillioning would have been a mate to help me push it when it broke down ... often :(
Tis a 75cc DKW Hobby, no idea what year mine was either.
Notable engineering advancements included : Pull Start, automatic utilising a variable speed belt drive arrangement. note pic #2
Apparently similar to some ?? modern-day-car using a steel belt.
Somehow managed to swap it for something amazingly superior an electric start Puch 150!
It was all wheels and I didnt care so long as it was an improvement over a push bike!

[Mom]

Shit we were the bees knees back then for sure! What a cool bunch of bikes! Does anyone have a pic of a Suzuki JR50. Now I am not so sure of the JR as it is not off oroad/motorcross at all. It was the cutest friggen bike I have ever seen, and or ridden, first bike I broke actually :o

It was 50cc cruiser styled bike. Raked front forks, tear drop tank, our one was lime green :yes: This would be new release mid '70's.

[dwnundabkr]

heres mine
mate and i used to fang it out to Piha or Muriwai in the weekends he had a dr250 the 1st of the pro-links, we used have a wheel stand competition all the way there and back:innocent:
My Xr had a supa trapp exhaust it was bloody loud
got pulled over for doing a 130ks on the northwestern lane splitting, nearly got away with it but one of the cars was a plain cop car (bugga):Oops:
had a bloody ball on that thing
never had bike boots but at the time i was doing my apprenticeship, work would supply us with white gum boots these become my bike boots for a couple of years until a family friend (biker cop) gave me a pair of his ex boots to wear
traded it for a road bike after falling off a few times on the road, bloody knobbly's no good in the wet

[cs363]

Shit we were the bees knees back then for sure! What a cool bunch of bikes! Does anyone have a pic of a Suzuki JR50. Now I am not so sure of the JR as it is not off oroad/motorcross at all. It was the cutest friggen bike I have ever seen, and or ridden, first bike I broke actually :o

It was 50cc cruiser styled bike. Raked front forks, tear drop tank, our one was lime green :yes: This would be new release mid '70's.

I think you mean the OR50 Mom, the JR was a 2 stroke dirt bike which was updated a few years ago.
See pic....

[Mom]

I think you mean the OR50 Mom, the JR was a 2 stroke dirt bike which was updated a few years ago.
See pic....

Far OUT!!!!!

Yes, OR50!!

Now that was the berries I can tell you :yes:

The stories I could tell :o

[cs363]

The stories I could tell :o


There's not much on TV..... :psst: :laugh:

[Beemer]

I don't have any digital copies of my first bike, but here is an image off the net of the same colour scheme I had. I loved that bike, wish in some ways I still had it!

[MrZxp]

Same first bike, and same problem!

What was with them?? Maybe cos being a 2 stroke they were a bit foreign technology for Honda? :blink:


So I wasnt the only person with style, I only managed 110kmh before the exhaust exploded.

One of the first things I did to it, (my mate worked in a garage), we ran a blow torch down the pipe to burn off all the carbon that had accumulated over the years - talk about a war zone quality smoke screen! :yes: