Post a pic. Your first bike...

**Bren** · 30th September 2009, 22:45

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** · 30th September 2009, 23:20

She deserved a better owner than me.

**rainman** · 30th September 2009, 23:27

Here ya go...

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But blue.

**CHOPPA** · 30th September 2009, 23:35

everyone had a QR50!

**EJK** · 30th September 2009, 23:53

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

**FiBee** · 1st October 2009, 00:04

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!)

and the minimal plastic bits meant that when it did go down, no damage was done!

**shafty** · 1st October 2009, 01:24

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

**LBD** · 1st October 2009, 01:31

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

**Toaster** · 1st October 2009, 01:49

Suzuki GSX250K3 great first bike.

**Number One** · 1st October 2009, 06:20

Hahahahaaa them were the days...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!

Love the Purple and Orange colour scheme too

I did however manage to find perfectly matched nail polish to infil the small scratches

**zahria** · 1st October 2009, 06:24

Originally Posted by 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!)

and the minimal plastic bits meant that when it did go down, no damage was done!

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** · 1st October 2009, 06:24

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:Me** · 1st October 2009, 06:32

cb250n (pic taken about 1986)

before that I rode every one elses bike...

**pzkpfw** · 1st October 2009, 07:34

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...