What was your first bike?

[Krusti]

What was your first bike and when?

Mine was a 70's CB175 with megaphone pipes to make it sound FAST! :scooter: I thought I was way cool riding with my flares and Afro :niceone:

Too long ago to remember but 1975-76?

[DEATH_INC.]

A '82 Yamaha YZ125j,'83ish

[crashe]

Awwww gee now do I count the automatic Benali (sp) mini bike that I got my full license on way back in 1975.... or should I say the bike that I now own... hmmmmm...... :scooter:

[jonnyrr1]

an old school suzuki ts185er...
and was i the man or what takin it to and from school,
all those other kids on the push bikes....

suckers..

[Hitcher]

A Yamaha FZX250 Zeal. An outstanding ride. I enjoyed greatly every one of the 16,500km I travelled on it (in nine months).

[Bonez]

'76 CJ250T. Learnt a lot about strapping a load on correctly, top up the battery after a fall and a lot of good m/cs stuff. Actually owned it twice. Same as this -

[Coyote]

CRF150. Very nice bike

[Sensei]

Honda Z50 Still have it boy ride's it now & me down to the letter box some times. SENSEI :sly:

[onearmedbandit]

A Honda SL125!!

[Hooks]

Honda XL125, closely followed by a GT380 !! Both good bikes for their time ...late 70's !! I really wanted an RD 350 tho....

[What?]

T500J with Ace bars and Basani's - late 70's.

[Jantar]

In 1971 I was the proud owner of a 1963 CZ175. Also known as an NZeta.

For those who have never heard of this terrible piece of machinery, imagine a JAWA175 engine in a scooter type body with the large fuel tank over the front wheel, and weighing about the same as a 1975 Honda Goldwing.

[Skunk]

KR250A tandem twin. Followed by another one. :( And another. :weep:
Yeah. I know. :moon:

[Jackrat]

A 90cc Yamaha something.
Don't know what it was, but it was Blue an white an had a gas tank you didn't sit on.The gas tank was the most important thing,,,,it wasn't a scooter,Yaaaah.
1972.

[ching_ching]

90 ZZR250 from Motorcycle City in Uppers.

[Hitcher]

90 ZZR250 from Motorcycle City in Uppers.
Lowers. Now a bottlestore...

[Skunk]

Lowers. Now a bottlestore...Do they sell good whiskey? :niceone:

[ching_ching]

Lowers. Now a bottlestore...

Yeh sorry, lowers. Bit sad really.
:weep:

[R6_kid]

1976 Vespa Super 150, which makes it ten years older than me....

[sels1]

70ish Yamaha DT100 which was ridden to College every day in sch uniform (remember those grey shorts?)and all weather. A couple of mates had SL125 Hondas and we used to go trail riding at lunchtimes

[Paul in NZ]

15.5 years old so 1973 I think.

1954 AJS 500cc single bought as a running wreck and reprayed, recover the seat, rings etc and find all the bits. Loved that bike! Wonder where 855YR ended up?

Paul N

[Krusti]

70ish Yamaha DT100 which was ridden to College every day in sch uniform (remember those grey shorts?)and all weather. A couple of mates had SL125 Hondas and we used to go trail riding at lunchtimes

Bit of a rough rugby field was it? :whistle:

[GSX'er]

Honda H100 but it was thrashed by my mate who had a GL145... :no:

[MacD]

70ish Yamaha DT100 which was ridden to College every day in sch uniform (remember those grey shorts?)and all weather. A couple of mates had SL125 Hondas and we used to go trail riding at lunchtimes

70ish Honda MT125 also ridden to school every day in school uniform (we had dark blue shorts however)...

[Pwalo]

'73 Suzuki T125 2 stroke twin. My mate had an SL125 as well. Great bike but the Suzuki was much quicker.

Ahh the old grey school shorts, oilskin parka, open face helmet with goggles, and ski gloves. Brilliant on a windy, wet Wellington day.

[MSTRS]

A Triumph Tigress scooter to get my license on (in 1973), a brief flirt with danger via a TS125, then into it with a T500J. Incidently, you could get 7 teenagers sitting in a row on those things and still do 60mph. Mind you, no helmets meant less wind resistance :killingme

[mattt]

I got a Kawasaki 88 GPX250 - didn't even know how to ride. My mate dropped me out in the sticks and I had to figure it out from there. Didn't even know what 1 down & 5 up meant. :cool2:

[Monsterbishi]

Late 70's Honda ST70 minibike

[Zapf]

02 Honda VTR 250... it was a good all rounder

[Jantar]

.... T500J. Incidently, you could get 7 teenagers sitting in a row on those things and still do 60mph....

Damn. I thought we did bloody well with 5 uni students, and 3 of those were female.

[Ghost Lemur]

'81 CB250RS.

She sure was a babe... *sniff*sniff*

[bluninja]

Got a Suzuki A100 (blue) in 1980....Once rode it from Doncaster to Morecombe via Cumbria (187 miles) to my cousins 21st and engagement party then Morecambe to Portsmouth (290 miles) the next day. Had a blow out of the rear tyre near Manchester (on a Sunday); luckily it happened outside a house where some bikers lived. They gave me an inner tube to get it fixed and I was on my way....'sniff' them were the days.

[NC]

TZZZAH!!!


:eek:

[gav]

I had a mint 1976 XL125K3 with the orange tank, course by the time I'd finished with it, it was crap....
Can still remember my first dealings with a bike salesman. He had a 1977 Yamaha DT175 that I thought was so hot, parents came to look at it. "Can I test ride it?"
"Sure, hang on, its got a flat tyre. Tell you what, come back tomorrow and it'll be already for ya" cool, go back next day, again with parents in tow. "Ah, the DT175, sorry just sold it this afternoon!" What a fucken wanker.... :2guns: 15 years old, should told him to get fucked and gone off and bought a car, so nah, ended up with a slow arse XL125 (I paid half.....)

[Bonez]

TZZZAH!!!


:eek:Interesting model. Did Ya stop taking the meds yesterday?

[Mongoose]

Interesting model. Did Ya stop taking the meds yesterday?


I am still trying to work out if its stopping the meds or starting them that causes these out bursts :whistle:

[magnum]

a 1980 xr200a back in 1985,shit im getting old. :cool2:

[Bonez]

I am still trying to work out if its stopping the meds or starting them that causes these out bursts :whistle: Maybe she needs to be let out more :eek:

[avgas]

an old school suzuki ts185er...
and was i the man or what takin it to and from school,
all those other kids on the push bikes....
suckers..
Same here. Man those bikes were cool.
God know how many times i fucked up riding it round the orchard - then having to fish it out of the trees a good 4ft above ground

[Sniper]

Honda CG125. Great bike

[Joni]

Mine... Kawa ZXR 250. lol, why? why I ask you??...... :wacko:

[Magua]

2000 GN125, damn that was an awesome first bike, just so gutless! I put something like 4000k's on it in the few months I owned it just traveling around Auckland.

[Krayy]

I learnt to ride on my dad's CB100. I got laughed at sometimes on the way to/from school.

My first bike was going to be an RD400, then my dad found out what it was (f*ckin' HOT, that's what is was!) and vetoed that one (damn being underage) so I had to settle for a 1980 Yammie XT250. Not great top speed (it'd push to get to 105), but the limit was 80 then and I bought it for the off road more than on, plus I had seen them in the James Bond movie "For your eyes only" and thought if I chucked some spiky tyres on it, I could ride it in the snow like they did.

Anyone else ride the Albany business parks when they were being built? Way fun.

[riffer]

1979. 2nd form Taita Intermediate. Built a minibike.

Old British two-stroke self-powered lawnmower engine with centrifugal clutch. Throttle grip from bike store in Lower Hutt. Wheels from a couple of old wheelbarrows we scrounged from Silverstream tip. No brakes.

Graduated aged 16 (1983) to a Suzuki 1980 GP125 that was my dad's but took pity on me and said I could have it, as long as I learned to maintain every aspect of the bike as I was not allowed to have it serviced in the shop.

Incidentally, that was the first bike I learned to rebuild a front end on after a crash, but that's another story...

[Biff]

A Puch 75cc. I think it had three gears and was a semi auto.

[guzzi_nz]

nsu mini bike :confused: Got it at 5 years old :eek:

[bungbung]

1987 Suzuki GSX400X Impulse, yee ha!

[vifferman]

I was going to bullshit, and say summat outrageous like a Ducati 750 SS, but the reality is that my firstest bike was the same as Krusti's, without the megaphones. I think my CB175 was a '73 or '74. Before I got it, I used to ride mates' bikes: Kawasaki F7, Yamaha 90 trailbike, BSA 250 Star, Suzuki 50, GT185, but I spent most of my time riding a CB350.

My second bike was like MacD's, except it was the MT250, and like sels1 I used to trailride (occasionally) at lunchtimes.
And I remember all the old bikes etc. mentioned by other people, and rode many of them as well.

Shit I must be getting old.....

[Coyote]

nsu mini bike :confused: Got it at 5 years old :eek:
Lucky bastard

[inlinefour]

A Suzuki TS185ER and a Honda stepthrough that mum gave to me because she did not like riding to work.

[Juan]

Yamaha RD 200, ELECTRIC start... I was the man, apart from everyone else had 250's :bash:

Followed Mike Hailwood along Douglas prom in 1978 on it and got his picture... lost it tho :doh:

cool bike tho, wish i still had it :2thumbsup

[Madmax]

My first was a kawasaki A7

[Riff Raff]

1967 Suzuki B120 back in 1992.

[vifferman]

My first was a kawasaki A7What's that? Sounds vaguely familiar, but even though I used to be able to tell what almost every bike was in the 70s, just by ear, and was a veritable walking encyclopedia of useless bike trivia, I dunno anymore. Bout nuttin...:eek: :spudwhat:

[What?]

My first was a kawasaki A7
And you lived to tell the tale! Awesome! (I thought my T500 had a few hinges...)

[guzzi_nz]

And you lived to tell the tale! Awesome! (I thought my T500 had a few hinges...)

:love2: love the t50o :2thumbsup also the gt550/3 :love2:

[campbellluke]

1987 Honda GL145 !!

Didn't know how to ride a motorbike. But I saw that my little brother had taken them up. - So I bought the Honda for $200. With something like 55,000kms on it. Nothing about the bike was mint. Except maybe the clutch.

I guess at 18, I was a lateish starter into the motorbike scene. My brother taught me how to ride the bike pretty quickly. And I took a couple of months of constructive critisizm, to learn how to ride safely and properly. - Then in January last year I bought a 250cc Katana replica, got my learners licence. And flicked off the old honda.

Even tho im on my restricted now, I still miss the fun I had with the Honda. - You can't really complain about an excellent learners bike. Which only cost me $200

[Cleve]

Suzuki X7. 250 aircooled 2 stroke road bike. In 1983.
First time out, left the dealer in Barrys Point Rd on the back wheel across the road between 2 cars and landed on footpath on other side...
Got up, straightened the bent bits and road home the long way, running out of petrol on the way...
Ahhh sweet memories...

[mini_hooks_]

i had a little huffey flat bed....that was a great little bike...about 96/7ish
(push bike of course...)

[TLDV8]

First Roadbike..a 1974 Kawasaki 250 Triple (S1B) from Laurie Summers in early 1977...first dirtbike,a brand new 1976 RM125S from Colemans K Rd :blah:

[Motu]

1954 AJS 500cc single bought as a running wreck and reprayed, recover the seat, rings etc and find all the bits. Loved that bike! Wonder where 855YR ended up?


I just loved the DA chain guard on those old Matchy and AJs.That's about all,I still remember that damn G9.

I got my 1st bike in 1970 when I was 16 - a BSA Bantam Major,with a chook on the tank.That was 150cc,the D3,swing arm model.The chook had a fish tail,but I lost it and made my own out of an oil filter.It cost 50cents to fill it - the fuel cap had an extention that you filled with engine oil and poured into the tank,then filled it up and shook the bike to mix it all up.

[Motu]

What's that? Sounds vaguely familiar, but even though I used to be able to tell what almost every bike was in the 70s, just by ear, and was a veritable walking encyclopedia of useless bike trivia, I dunno anymore. Bout nuttin...:eek: :spudwhat:

One of these,this one belongs to Eric Bone who still races the triples.

[PhilBilly]

Loads of fun on that thing till the engine blew lol. Outside porirua as well so i couldnt leave it there over night. :wavey:

[toads]

a honda mb 100, went all over the north island on it, had it from new and loved it soooooo much

[JohnBoy]

my first and second bike was a 1980 CB250RS...
i brought one to only crash it into a culvert then i brought another one from a guy in levin for 50$ and built a bike from the good parts.
best week of study leave ever!!

:2thumbsup

[pete376403]

I just loved the DA chain guard on those old Matchy and AJs.That's about all,I still remember that damn G9.

Then you must also remember Matchie megas, jampots, and that shithouse 3 bearing crankshaft with roller outer and plain inner mains. Mine was the same year as the one pictured, but never in a million years would it have been as pretty. Mine was a POS, and kept running long enough for me to sell it and buy a new 1972 Kawasaki F9 (which was also a POS, but thats another story)

[Motu]

Yep,that's the exact same model as my G9,but I think mine had an earlier gearbox,and never,in the life of the universe would it look that good.I ditched those monstrous guards,those tool boxes and that headlamp nacelle,just threw them out like...I also found those beautiful megas cut what horsepower it had,so they went too.Painted that chrome tank primer grey...um,how do you reckon they would look with apehangers? Yeah right,it looked bloody stupid so I cut them down into big pullbacks.I could write pages about the problems that horrible bike gave to me,I bought it off an unemployed nuclear physicist,maybe I needed his brain - but let's look at the positives...

I thought the motor was an engineering masterpiece,three bearing crank aside - if you want to do something better than the opposistion to show them up,atleast make a success of it.The breather through the center of the crank (filling my chaincase with oil) Roller? and finger cam followers,seperate barrels and heads,wire wound pistons,big meaty seperate oil pumps,and the best part of all - eccentric rockers for tappet adjustment,such a great idea,but seldom done.The easiest motor ever I've set the valves on.Still the worst bike I ever owned,even after my ''improvements''.

[Redstar]

Honda SS50

It had Pedals and an upswept exhaust and was mustard yellow and was 1.5hp and could do 70klm/hr and was four stroke with a speedo only kick start and the pedals were for decor only and locked down to form foot pegs it has a very good seat and back pegs for pillions and bridgestone nylon tyres that never wore out and it had a governer on the throttle slides to prevent me from going to fast. and I four speed box and I thought I was shit hot and the only Bike to surpass it was the Yamaha FS1E or FIZZY as it was known but other choices were the PUCH 50 stepthrough just as quick but looked like shit or a Gillera 50 not they could Mambo twas 1974 and ABBA won the eurovision song contest with Waterloo and I had Stax shoes not good for gear changes but made me 6 foot 3 and I must have looked a right pillock
but the Girls thought not, I think bugger I had the spots and we were the lesser spotted 50cc gang and it was the best time of my life, how sad!

[bear]

Honda GB250 (1985), into a wind had to cange down to 5th to stay at 100km/h. Loved it, good learn to ride bike, be hard to go back to now though.

[Madmax]

One of these,this one belongs to Eric Bone who still races the triples.
know eric
and another eric as well
eric sheppard
used to run an H2 pro stock bike
bloody A7 split a fuel line one day
filled my doc with fuel
(removed all the skin off my foot)
Damn thing would be worth some money now

[bevsta]

Suzuki GN 250, it was born in 1983, I was born in 1985, we came together in 2004 and we're still going strong!

[NecroNom]

First bike 2000 KR150 then just brought a rooted gsf 250.....dnt know why. The KR handled better, was faster....only thing it lacks is torque. But good to get used to weight of the bigger 4 cylnder. Big things on the horizon. :2thumbsup

[Lou Girardin]

'57 T'Bird with no WOF, no front brake and the patented Triumph self-disassembly option.
We didn't have to wear helmets either!

[Mooch]

An 88 Kawa Kr1 , Advise at the time was get a "GN250" as the two strokes are to powerful.... Learnt to ride on it and kept for 13 years !.

[Jonty]

198ish XL 185, complete with blue smoke, knobbly on the rear, road tire on the front, and even a trailer!! I can say that learning to ride as a 10 year old with a trailer stuck on the back makes for some interesting cornering. :eek:

Mind you the upgrade to an electric start Auto AG200 after the blue smoke turned to red flame didn't improve the situation greatly!

[loosebruce]

One vicous 1976 Suzuki GT50, that got a re bore out to 90cc with a 100cc A100 carb bolted, would've bucket raced it if it didn't have shonkey rear suspension that would high side you off the thing.

Made for good days at the softball diamond in Wainui, with Trashy and few of his family and Johan for some head to head racing against an A100. Now that was some funny shit with a reasonable amount of piss involved.