What could you do on the first bike you had and can't do on your current one?

[pritch]

Could instantly recognise the other motor bike riders in a group, because we all had acid holes in the inside of the right leg of our jeans.

[GrayWolf]

UK Law is a little different.. at 16 you can only ride a 'moped' 50cc with pedals.. Had a Raleigh runabout (automatic) then a Suzuki AP50

First 'actual' Bike?? a Suzuki K10-- 80cc
Bout as fast as an FS1-E yammy (80kph)
What could I do??
Fill the tank with 'pre-mix' (no auto-lube)
Be amazed at the 'power' of a 6v lighting system that ALMOST rivalled the 'Prince of Darkness" Joe Lucas
not have to worry about 'cleaning the chain' it was fully enclosed, with a 'rubber bung' in the casing so you could oil it.
chuck it round bends at what are ridiculous speeds, if tried on my 'big bike'
travel a week to and from work on a tank of gas...
think 80kph was damned fast when lying over the tank at full throttle

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I could hit the redline at legal speeds on my old bike.

[DJSin]

Tight turning circles

[schrodingers cat]

Less than 6 hrs into the ownership of my XJ550 back in 1983 I had scraped the footpegs, two-up wearing gym shoes and jeans.
I shudder to think on it now

[HenryDorsetCase]

ride it offroad.....

[Katman]

Well I could carry a full carton of Lion Red on the tank of my C15 back in 1962

Do you mean a crate?

[pete-blen]

Fill it up for 85 cents..
Mow the lawn for $1 sat morn... then down
to the servo with a petrol can...
Then I could ride that little Benelli cut down scooter
mini bike thing all week..

First bike I ever rode was a Benelli minibike....straight into the clothesline.

No clotheslines... but it did get locked in the shed once or twice for rideing though mums flower gardens..
growing flowers next to my MX track.... not cleaver...ever tryed to get flowers to stand up after they have been flatened

[Kickaha]

Do you mean a crate?

You're old enough to remember it coming in cardboard boxes, used to be a bastard picking one up if the bottom had got wet

[Katman]

You're old enough to remember it coming in cardboard boxes, used to be a bastard picking one up if the bottom had got wet

I must have been a later starter than I thought.

[PrincessBandit]

Holding onto the handlebars fully leaning back in my seat with the throttle wide open. Somehow I don't fancy doing that on the bandit.

[Chooky]

Do you mean a crate?

Err nope... it was a cardboard "carton" with 1 dozen big bottles in it.
Sat on the tank on the 2 chrome strips that covered the joins in the tank, never marked the paint.

[fireball]

My first bike a Suzuki DS80 used to be able to muster sheep in the high country, I wouldn't dare do that now I would scratch up my chrome and you can't jump a cruiser over an irrigation race

[Swoop]

Fill the tank for f*ck all (back when there were only 3 rotating dials on the petrol pumps so the price of petrol was limited to 99.9 cents per litre!).

Start the bike, put into gear and ride off... with the side stand still down.
It made the first left hander interesting!

[manxkiwi]

Drag the leg sheilds everywhere! (Honda C70). What a hoot, some of the faces I saw ('cos of the racket it made), makes me laugh still when I think about it.