Credit where credit is due (Who/what got you in to bikes?)

[Blair-SV]

It was my girlfriend that got me into it, when I met her she had an SV400 and took me pillion once. Said I was too heavy to do it again. So long story short I thought I better ride myself around, got the GSX250, got the licence...then got the big bike. 2 weeks later she upgraded to an SV1000 as well. The pair look awesome in the garage together.

[Keystone19]

Well, I'd like to say I've been riding since I could walk but my story is recent... a couple of years ago a friend took me for a ride on the back of his VTR1000. Two rides later I was hooked. Went and got my learners license, a week after that I bought a VTR250 in Wanganui, pillioned down from Auckland to get it and rode it home.

The other defining moment was about 6 weeks after I got my VTR250 when Frosty gave me a ride on his SV650 at Pukekohe.

The rest is history...

[Edbear]

If at first you don't succeed...! Thanks a lot, Pete!

[Mom]

Met a boy when I was 15, he was a bit older and into bikes. Friday nights were hanging out at the bike shop when my Mom thought I was ballroom dancing........ooops, needed transport when I left home.....bike was cheap to own, cheap to run.....PERFECT! The end.

Stopped riding for years while raising kids, as you do.....must thank that boyfriend really *shakes head*

but best thanks goes to Maha man for having his mid-life crisis......

[pritch]

Waay back before I even want to remember, like in the fourth form at Avondale College, a guy called Phil Holt who later did a m/c mechanic apprenticeship in Auckland got me interested in bikes. I last saw him on a bus in Wellington one Friday night in 1965.

A very trusting man, he let me have about my first three rides, all on different steeds of his: a 1955 Speed Twin, 1959 T110, and a similar vintage T120C. A nice start.

Have looked for him in the Whitepages on occasion in recent years thus far without success.

[roadracingoldfart]

My sister was dating a guy from a bike shop called Whites Yamaha in Wgtn and my mum made her drag me to the bike racing at Porirua street circuit. I saw Greame Crosby on a Kawasaki Z9 come round the last corner on the last lap and he ran wide into the crowd .
He kept it up and nailed it for the finish line, he was 1st and 2nd, 3rd , & 4th were the 44 gallon drums he dragged the last bit of track. I was hooked from then on. I got a AG100 and stuffed that , got a G5 kwaka 100 and an ashole stole that a KE 250 Kwaka and that was just a shit cart .So i got road bikes from then on. I had a CB 400/4 i covered over 250.000 kms on and rebuilt the motor 3 times lol, i finally sold the engine for that bike 2 yrs ago as a runner.
Ohhh the good old days. Dont get me started.
Robert Holden got me into road racing and he was my hero RIP matey.

[Sanx]

My inspiration came from my dad and then the shame of having my kid sister get a bike and a licence before me. I knew how to ride a bike (practicing on my dad's old CX500 when I was about 15), but hadn't got on one in about 14 years.

Then, some *searches for the correct phrasing* scum-sucking mutant tea-leaf fuckwit wanker (hmm, that'll do) went and stole my car. My lovely turbo-charged Mitsubishi GTO, that cost a fortune to run and went wrong every other week. So ... with the pittance the insurance company paid out, I went and bought a bike. And then another. And then another. And the rest is history.

Now I've got the 'Blade, it's amusing I used to consider the GTO a quick vehicle.

[SARGE]

i was conceived on a Cushman and born on an Indian

[tri boy]

Trumpy's going flat out, up the GT NTH RD outa Wanganui. I was about ten yrs old........Its all your fault

[jumma]

Went for a pillion ride on my flatmates bike not long after he got his full. Was all the convincing i needed plus he managed to convince 2 others to get their license/bikes as well. A rather successful weekend for him

[Deviant Esq]

Went to Rarotonga, hired a scooter to get around the island. Spent the week buzzing around the place two up (girlfriend on the back), t-shirt, shorts, jandels on a good day, no gloves, no lids. At the time it didn't seem dangerous... Changed my thinking quite drastically since then!

I decided before we left Raro that I'd be getting a bike once I got back to New Zealand. I wanted a Honda Cub or a CG125 or something... boy am I glad I wound up with the NZ250 instead! KB has taught me much and helped me meet so many people I'd have never otherwise met... and I'd have never got my licence and bike so quick or easily if it hadn't been for KB. In fact it might have never happened.

[N4CR]

this ****in *** called john lmao. he's on here sometimes real occasionally.

he got me into bikes cus i couldnt be ****e dwaiting 5 motnhs for a car restricted. ****in glad i didn't get a cage, i woul d have got an r32 skyline and put a **** can on it and put a loud bov and thaught it was fast. lol..... 10r for the win.

[Karma]

When I was younger I pillioned on the back of my dads bike from London to Exeter and was interested in the brothership with the waving and that.

As I got old I caught the speed bug and moving to NZ meant I needed new transport so used it as an excuse for a bike.

[skidMark]

Loosebruce got me onto 250's before that i was on a 50cc commuter and the shear thought of riding a 250 gave me the shits, he told me to stop being a pussy LOL

[justsomeguy]

Bikes go fast.