The worst first ride ever

[Brayden]

I wondered about that myself. My AN125 makes its own fuel, or appears to. I occasionally put $11 worth in it, then ride it for another few weeks.....

Yeah an125's have amazing fuel economy.. I swear it can run for a couple of days just of fumes. Just screw the cap on tight and your set.

[MSTRS:Me]

... I was on my new VT250 Spada...

Just so you know for future reference (just in case you haven't learnt the lesson!)
Spadas will do about 200/210 on main tank with another 40 or so on reserve. Of course, that's if you ride them like they should be...

[ellipsis]

...reminds me of a puncture on an ss90 honda..20 miles from home and the echoes in my head of the owners last words...a bigger boy than me...dont be long and dont break it...million years ago now...a long terrifying push home, I seem to remember...

[Ender EnZed]

Spadas will do about 200/210 on main tank with another 40 or so on reserve. Of course, that's if you ride them like they should be...

I'd rarely get over 180km on mine before needing reserve but of course it does depend how you ride.

[Blackshear]

My first motorbike ride involved an over-enthusiastic 7 yearolds throttle hand, my father, my collar and a fence.
In that order.
Had 4 motorbikes since, and that was my last significant crash

[unstuck]

I started riding bikes on the farm when a kid so had a few wee offs before going on the road.One of my first rides on the road was on a husky 350,came up to a big corner and the throttle got stuck open,panicked didnt grab the clutch and ended up in the ti tree scrub. Its all about learning.Glad you had fun and didnt put you off.

[Headbanger]

Great yarn.

[86GSXR]

Brilliant read, reminds me of me about 30 years ago

[DrunkenMistake]

I love the great game of petrol roulette,
I have it easy as I can do a trip from my home to the servo within my reserve a couple of times, and 95% of my riding is done between home and work, but I have had a couple of cases where the old wallet has spit out dust instead of money.. luckily for me, there is a bogan who works at work that has never herd of a fuel cap door on his car... this is where the 1m length of garden hose under the seat of my bike comes in.. This is why I love early morning starts haha.

[ducatilover]

Sounds like you can look back and piss yourself over that one!

I'd rarely get over 180km on mine before needing reserve but of course it does depend how you ride.

Just so you know for future reference (just in case you haven't learnt the lesson!)
Spadas will do about 200/210 on main tank with another 40 or so on reserve. Of course, that's if you ride them like they should be...

Yeah, mine was getting 220 on the open road (Like the shit straight run to Napier) and 180 when I rode it like it deserved, which was almost a tank a day for my commute .

[MSTRS:Me]

...180 when I rode it like it deserved...

Yeah, that's what Zac said too.
Somehow, I don't think the OP is at that stage yet.

[Paul in NZ]

Far out - that took me back and made me smile...

Sounds like a great day out mate. Its what make motorbiking special - its just a bit trickier than a car eh?

[ducatilover]

Yeah, that's what Zac said too.
Somehow, I don't think the OP is at that stage yet.

Probably not

Far out - that took me back and made me smile...

Sounds like a great day out mate. Its what make motorbiking special - its just a bit trickier than a car eh?

Reminds me of my first "big" ride on bike number two (number one exploded so fast it doesn't count...) it was heinously boring, GN250, Eketahuna to Palmy Nothing exciting happened, it was a rush though in a sense, the freedom and grin inducing wind in face (Gentle breeze on a GN).
I wonder how you can re-gain that feeling? I might go for a ride!

[Old Steve]

What I remember about my first ride is being terrified. Picked the bike up at the shop where I'd had it delivered and given a service. The owner told me she wouldn't let me go out onto the road without my having done a couple of dozen laps around the industrial area behind the shop under her eagle eyes, then headed out onto Takatimu Drive in Tauranga to get the bike back to work. Had my BHS and 6L, never been on a bike on the road before.

Got back to work and my heart eventually slowed down from around 200 beats/minute to it's normal rate. That night I took off for home, and about a kilometre down the road it all clicked and I've been grinning ever since. Done about 15,000 km in the year since that first ride.

Like the others said, you'll look back in the years to come and crack up about this.

[rustyrobot]

Turns out my fuel line was on reserve, It had probably been like that when I filled up

Argh! Stink one Brayden. I really didn't think I had left the tap on reserve, in fact I almost NEVER used reserve as I always kept the bike topped up. As I said earlier, I only ever got 180kms from the main tank on that bike, but others have said that they got more on their Spadas.

So - apart from the ride with no gas, and the puncture - how's your ride going?