Your first motorbike memory?

[Steam]

Mine was standing next to my dad's 125cc bike, my face was about level with the cooling fins so I must have been really little. Maybe three years old? It seemed like the hugest bike back then. I remember it being way more interesting than the family car because it was something boys did, mum didn't touch it.

And your first memory?

[98tls]

Well cant remember much but the old man used to put me down the front of his swanny with a pair of goggles around my head and take me for a ride on his.......one of........Nortons.......have some great old pics.

[Jantar]

My earliest Motorcycle memory was at the age of 9 or 10. On the back of my brother's BSA 650 travelling from Dunedin to Mosgiel and we got stopped by a cop for speeding; 42 mph in 30 mph area. My first speeding ticket was in 1970 at the exact same spot for the exact same speed, only I was on a Suzuki T125. Might even have been the same cop, but I can't be sure about that.

[Mr Merde]

6 years old, dad bought a scooter. Put me on the back to take me to cricket.

one of the very few times I went anywhere with dad.

BTW No helmets in those days.

[T.W.R]

Very 1st memory would be as a pre-schooler being lifted up onto the bike by my dad when He came home from work then being taken up the drive to the garage.

1st memories of on the road are being on a PVMC club run on the back of a B31 dad had restored with my feet struggling to touch the foot pegs & hanging on to the old man for dear life grinning like a Cheshire Cat

[Meekey_Mouse]

First memory of any bike at all... being on the front of my dad's bike with my brother behind him hooning round the farm

First memory of my own bike.... picking up a little 50cc 4wheeler in Cambridge, I was about 6 or so.

First memory of a two wheeler... not being able to touch the ground

[Fub@r]

My earliest motorbike memory is watching my grandfather clothesline a biker chasing down my brother on the footpath outside our house with a 4x2

Scumbag family in the neighbourhood used to enjoy terrorising everyone........that was until the 4x2 was used

[_Gina_]

My first memory of a bike was pillioning on my Dads CB something-or-other (pretty sure it was a 600) to my soccer training and stuff.
I thought I was sooooo cool!

My first memory of having a go on a bike was a Triumph Bonneville Thruxton.
Rode it down the 2km loose metal driveway and nearly dropped it trying to turn..... lol Was only 15 years old at the time.
(the owner was running alongside me at the time and stopped the whole drop thingy...)

My first memory of riding a bike properly (that was my own) was on the ZXR400. I still laugh thinking about it !! Bloody thing, took me three or four attempts to take off without stalling and then couldn't figure out how to cancel the indicators so had to pull over.
Yup, you guessed it, stalling the farking thing again before taking off.
The whole ride I was coaching myself to remember that up = up a gear and down = down a gear.....

Haven't looked back since !

[Trudes]

Riding a friends dad's farm bike around their orchard, but as for a REAL bike, when I was 15 my mum owned the butchery in Coromandel and one of the butchers there had a bike (no idea what) and due to having no mates there as I'd just moved, he offered to take me for a spin! So my first experience of road bikes was riding about around the Coromandel roads, was very cool and I subsequently fell in love with the bikes and the butcher!

[elle-f]

I was about 6 and a guy came to the Children's Home and took us all for a spin around the netball courts. I remember thinking I wanted a motorbike back then - twas about the best thing that had happened in my little life. I think it was a cruiser but then it could have been a little putty 100 for all I know cause I was little then!

MrsK - *blinks*.......is MrK a mad butcher?!

[idleidolidyll]

all dad and grandad eh

where are the mums and nanas?

[slinky]

Dads Kawazaki 750z - no idea how young i was. he had it many years before me,
19 years later..........its still in the garage.

[unhingedlizard]

Firing a PW50 into a pile of bricks cause dad forgot to tell me about neutral.
Explains a lot really...

[Blackbird]

Sounds like a lot of people had pretty much the same experiences at the same "impressionable" age! I know i'm setting myself up for much mickey-taking but I actually have a photo which recorded the event. Here's me (in the helmet and goggles) aged 5. Ahem..... 54 years ago . Dad had a 250cc 2 stroke. I guess Mum thought he had a lot to answer for and I had a lot to thank him for

[KATWYN]

First motorcycle memory? How does someone forget!

I was 12 Years old - at 15 I road a trail bike - at 16 I rode my boyfreinds
Katana 1100 a few times.

Then didn't ride again until I was 29.

I remember at 5 years old the exhilarating feeling of
freedom and independance when I first rode a bicycle (on the road too....)
that may have something to do with the whole motorcycle thing now