Your first bike.

[TheDemonLord]

BSA bantam

1949 Competition model with a 1963 125cc engine - I had to strip it and rebuild it before I could ride it ..

Was that each and every time you wanted to ride :P

Mine was a 1996 Honda Hornet - great fun.

[Reckless]

First vehicle and only brand new bike I've owned LOL
1974 Kawasaki 250 F11 road trail.

Thrashed it, road daily to work on it, rode dirt ( Newlands/ Horokiwi dump to start with), crashed it, lost my licence on it - Demerits.
Sold it for a Honda CB500 four, more bikes??? then a GPZ1100B
We thought we where bullet proof in those days LOL

[Banditbandit]

Was that each and every time you wanted to ride :P

Mine was a 1996 Honda Hornet - great fun.

Cheeky whippersnapper ..

[Cosmik de Bris]

My first bike was a Greeves Challenger motocross bike. I learnt a lot on that thing.

Cheers

[OddDuck]

CB250N, purchased for the princely sum of $500 circa 1998. Yeah it was fucked, no, I didn't know better. We're all young and dumb once right?

[nzspokes]

81 I think it was xl185s.

[F5 Dave]

81 I think it was xl185s.

I leant to ride on my sister's xl185s in Palmy.

[Daffyd]

1st time around: Victoria Vicky 3, (while still at school).

2nd time around: Suzuki A50. Traded on a Yamaha YB100.

3rd time around: Yanaha SRX400, then Yamaha Virago 550, then BMW F650CS.

[Old Steve]

2005 Hyosung GV250, I think the next year they named it the Aquila. It was a copy of the Suzuki Intruder. Hyosung manufactured Suzukis under license in Korea for 25 years. Pretty reliable, I did have to replace the sprockets and chain at 9000 km, soon after buying her, as I don't think the first owner knew anything about chain lubrication. Top speed was 135 km/hr, downhill with a following wind. Drilled the four holes in each exhaust to make her a little louder, the main problem with her was that Hyosung's muffler was a little too efficient.

I put about 20,000 km on her in a year and a half until I moved on to the first of my Suzuki Boulevard M50s, then a Honda ST1100 in Queensland, then my last Suzuki M50 back here.

I arrived home on her the first time and my wife said, "Are you going to give her a name? What about GLORIA?" She knew I liked old time rock 'n' roll. So all my bikes have been named after women's names in rock 'n'roll songs - GLORIA, Angie (number plate ended in letters which would have sounded like '-íque' so Angelique-Angelina-Angie), Norma Jean (white ex-police ST1100 made me think of that photo of Marylin Munroe standing over the subway vent) and Layla (my Blues Lady).

[rastuscat]

CB250N, purchased for the princely sum of $500 circa 1998. Yeah it was fucked, no, I didn't know better. We're all young and dumb once right?

Mine couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

[Reckless]

Mine couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

Talk about lack of power.
I remember a trip one xmas we did. A bunch of us - Me on the Kawasaki 250 F11 and one of my mates on a Honda SL125.
Well there was this bus and every hill the SL125 would pass the bus and every straight he'd catch and try or pass on the passing lanes, as the SL was too gutless to keep 60mph up.
That damn bus driver was fuming after an hour or so of it - LMAO

[WALRUS]

Reminds me of the last time I took the Scooter to a local track day. Pass everyone through the corners, get passed again by everyone on the back straight.. for best results, rinse and repeat

[peanut]

Yamaha DT175 of indeterminate age. Key features:

* Eleven owners before me.
* Frame broken in multiple places and welded back together with welds that looked like tumours.
* Muffler fell off after a week of ownership.
* Kick starter broke off after the second week. Got good at bump starting.
* Clutch cable snapped as I was coming up to a compulsary stop sign. Police officer driving behind me in a mufti-car was particularly unsympathetic.
* Engine used to periodically rev out of control. Couldn’t afford to fix it and would flick the kill switch to keep it under control.

I don’t understand how I’m still alive. I feel bad for the person who bought it from me.

[PrincessBandit]

GN250 which got “handed down” to my husband and then my son. It wasn’t without its quirks including issues with the rev counter and odo cable but it was a little sweetie. The first bike I actually rode though was my brothers Kawasaki (*) back in something like ‘80 or ‘81


(*) yes I do know the difference between Kawasaki and Katana for those who know his two wheeled obsession

[granstar]

First few were a Trutest Mini kitset bike I built with a 5HP motor, it could really fly, I was 12. Onto trail bikes a Honda Elsinore 125 was a bit gutless compared to mates Suz TC, then I hit the road on a Honda CD175 which I blew up, to follow almost the same a CB175 which was also pretty knackered after I finished flogging it and cutting my teeth. I then got a mint 1971 Triumph Daytona T100R (which did hit the road and was written off and near myself with it-not my fault as being pillion on my own bike), so that had me at 18 get a 650 ex cop Triumph Saint, and on, and on it goes ...…..