Post a pic. Your first bike...

**aahsv** · 2nd October 2009, 19:14

Suzuki RV90

**blackdog** · 2nd October 2009, 19:36

Originally Posted by 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

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

**fridayflash** · 2nd October 2009, 19:36

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** · 2nd October 2009, 19:40

no oops i meant this one

**Coldrider** · 2nd October 2009, 20:35

TS125K, paid for by jobs in the school holidays.

**bsasuper** · 2nd October 2009, 21:55

Originally Posted by 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!).

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

**Coldrider** · 2nd October 2009, 21:58

Originally Posted by bsasuper

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** · 3rd October 2009, 09:26

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** · 4th October 2009, 15:47

Kawasaki AE 50 from 1982

**Bardman** · 5th October 2009, 15:23

I had one of these, loved it

**Warr** · 5th October 2009, 19:28

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** · 5th October 2009, 19:52

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

It was 50cc cruiser styled bike. Raked front forks, tear drop tank, our one was lime green

This would be new release mid '70's.

**dwnundabkr** · 5th October 2009, 19:55

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

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)

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** · 5th October 2009, 19:56

Originally Posted by 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

It was 50cc cruiser styled bike. Raked front forks, tear drop tank, our one was lime green

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....