Your first motorbike memory?

[Pumba]

First bike experience was the old mans farm bike, (yamaha if I remeber right) whaen I was about 4 I guess, few trips around the paddock and so forth.

First road bike was going in and out sports practices on the back of 1983 Honda CB400, man I was cool, about 10 years latter it was still sitting in the shed, derigistered, it became my first, and only, project bike getting it back on the road, after I sold my GN250. Man I wish I hadnt of sold that bike, but then if I had the choice I wouldnt sell any bikes, or cars I would just keep buying new ones.

[Fryin Finn]

It must have been around 1965 I was a St Johns Ambulance cadet and we used to go to all the sports fixtures to mend broken people. One time we went to QE2 park and helped at a MX. They were all riding CZ's, BSA's, Triumph's etc (maybe) I recall we didn't have to patch too many people up as I expected. I didn't get hooked then but 20 years later I rode my first ever MX race at QE2 park.

[avgas]

climbing up on the ol' mans xs850 while he worked on something on the bench. when i finally got on top and sat for 60 seconds.....only to have it all fall down and throw me off cos he had it on the side stand.
It felt like a juggernaught for those 60 seconds though.

[avgas]

Man I wish I hadnt of sold that bike, but then if I had the choice I wouldnt sell any bikes, or cars I would just keep buying new ones.

I hear that man - amen.
I miss every vehicle i have owned longer than 1 month.

[Hitcher]

When I was a six-year-old, my Dad employed a Massey Dip Ag student who owned a Matchless 500 single-cylinder that looked magnificent in black and chrome and sounded the goods. On a clear, still evening we could hear every gearchange Robert made between Mum & Dad's farm and Stratford -- about 16km away!

This bike was also a pig to start. I can remember Robert with all of his gear on, throwing all of his weight onto the kickstarter, eventually removing gear item by item as he worked up a sweat, and then having to put it all back on again once the British beast eventually acceded to his ministrations and burst, grudgingly, into life.

[98tls]

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

Mate that photo is priceless........good stuff.

[idleidolidyll]

As a six-year-old my Dad employed a Massey Dip Ag student who owned a Matchless 500...........................

Wow! Hitcher, I'm thoroughly impressed. Your dad must have been a child prodigy to have been able to employ someone at the tender age of just 6

[Hitcher]

Wow! Hitcher, I'm thoroughly impressed. Your dad must have been a child prodigy to have been able to employ someone at the tender age of just 6

Gahh! One hates it when one does that. Sloppy. (Spanks self)

[Freakshow]

As a teenager have a ride on a friends on the Titahi Bay hills and pulling a wheelie and falling off!

[Grub]

First memory regarding bikes....?
Late 60's.
Involves 2 coppers standing in the front doorway of the family home...
The world changed for the family after that incident.

His name wasn't Steven was it?

[Mrs Busa Pete]

wheel spinning my Suzuki x7 up the drive on the grass clippings then launching forward in to back of the olds starlet and pushing it 2 meters in to the garage .no helmet full on concussion and over night in hospital

[BarBender]

1978We'd just finish building a ramp to do jumps with our pushbikes down at Sandy Bay by the Tarawera River. My mate Antony turns up on his fathers Zook TS125.Id never ridden a bike before but told Antony I had done it heaps of times. I jump on the bike - confident like - and drop the clutch with the throttle wide open. All I see are a bunch of my mates diving for cover in front of me as I scream past and Antony waving at me to slow down. I hit the ramp and jump about 40 ft, land on the front wheel, lose control of the steering and with the bike still on the limiter in first ride straight into a tree. Have been in love with bikes ever since then.

[Blackbird]

wheel spinning my Suzuki x7 up the drive on the grass clippings then launching forward in to back of the olds starlet and pushing it 2 meters in to the garage .no helmet full on concussion and over night in hospital

What a guy We had a family X7 for a few years and I bitterly regret selling it. I know where there are 3 in bits. The guy will never part with them and all they'll do is gradually become unusable. Tragedy

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

I was about five or six.. and my dad had a suzuki 50cc (its about 4 years old and been sitting out in the shed for the last 15 years, last time i visited we got it out tinkered put petrol in it, gave it a kick and the bloody thing fired in to life... )


Anyhoe he use to take us kids for rides around the section on the back of this thing and ever since then its been in the blood... so I blame my dad, Every road trip we went on I would be looking out for bikes dreaming I was the rider... yet they both said no bloody way when I was 16 and wanted my own bike... go figure that... Soooo I joined the Navy insted... errr another story.... First pay packet went got a bike CB250n... kewl

[Lil_Byte]

First memory of riding a m/cycle on my own was the old farm bike a Yamaha CT??? 175 I think it was.

I was about 9 - 10 and couldn't touch the ground. Had to kick start it on the stand and then run along beside it until I could climb up onto the footpegs and away.

I got given a wee yamaha 50 to play with after mum saw me doing that.

Before that it was just of pillioning around the farm on an old jawa. I suppose it would have been new then