How many bike's & year's riding

**Juan** · 28th September 2004, 07:29

27 on the roads...(how many laps must I have done?) as for bikes, well erm er lots more than my wages really should allow me to have

somewhere in the region of 40 i think.

**Cajun** · 28th September 2004, 07:44

riding on the road for 11 years, off road about 14 years.

Personall i have owned 5 bikes, riden a ton(use to store and fix up friends bikes)

**What?** · 28th September 2004, 07:52

I legalised my road riding 27 years ago. Started riding on the farm at 8 years old. Dunno how many bikes I've owned, but they include Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Triumph, Royal Enfield (not for long- I came to my senses and got rid of it) and Kawasaki (quad - does that count??).

**vifferman** · 28th September 2004, 07:57

Originally Posted by Sensei 509

Right now: Let's see how many bike's people have owned
Myself 53 Bike's counting the 3 in the shed at the moment & 32 year's riding SENSEI NP

WHAT?!!?!! FIFTY-THREE bikes?!? You greedy, greedy, bastid! So that's why some of us had to go without from time to time....

Well, I've been riding for nigh on 76 years, Sonny, and I done had me a whole posse of bikes, but nowhere near enough.

**riffer** · 28th September 2004, 08:10

27 years since I rode my first motorcycle, but 12 years away from '91 to '03.

I've had my full licence since 1986.

in order of ownership:

GP125, CB350, TS185, IT400, KZ400, GPZ750, FZR750R.

I also used to tool around on Dad's Vespa's, GS550, and GT750 kwaka.

On Oct 23 I will have been back on bikes a whole year!!

NC · 28th September 2004, 08:19

Er - Have been riding for 6 years and I have owned 4 bikes.

Taught myself how to ride on my first bike, which was a TZR250
Then I had a 89' ZXRtwofitty, and then a 93' ZXRtwofitty.

**TonyB** · 28th September 2004, 08:32

Six bikes, 14 years of road riding during which I had maybe 2-3 bikeless years.
RZ250, FZ400R- gap- GPX750R*- gap- RZ350**, VFR700***, FZR1000W
Did about 10 years of riding various farm bikes before I started road riding.
* Decent bike, did about 20,000k in 6 months. Died a horrible death under a Holden Kingswood- I was on it at the time
** Bought as a box of parts in desperate attempt to get back on a bike (terrible addiction it is!). Rebuilt the engine meself, put it back together and it actually worked!
*** This could count as two bikes. Bought it as 'LePig'- God only knows why. It'd had a major prang- no fairings at all, not even the tail piece. Eventually I got tired of other bikers looking at it thinking 'what the fuggen hell did you do to it?', so I found all the bits, painted it up and it looked pretty good.

Does anybody else reckon that riding is more of an addiction than a sport/ hobby?

**Fryin Finn** · 28th September 2004, 08:35

I've been riding 33 years (I am quite old) and had 16 bikes - one of which I owned twice (RD 350) I tend to keep my road bikes a long time - I've had my SRX 10 years and it was born in 1987. Dirt bikes get turned over every year or 2.

1973 Yamaha RT3 360 (73)
1974 Honda CR 125 (75)
1973 Yamaha RD 350 (76)
1976 Honda XL 350 (77)
1975 Suzuki TS 125 - swapped for CR then swapped for Nikon camera body (77)
1977 Yamaha IT175e (77)
1977 Suzuki GS 750 (78)
1977 Honda CG 110 (79)
1977 Honda XR250 (79)
Bought old RD 350 back
1980 Suzuki PE 175T (1980)
1980 Yamaha XJ 650 (1981)
1978 Yamaha SRX 600 (1994)
1996 Yamaha TRX 850 (1996) wrote it off in prang 2004
2000 Honda XR 650R (2001)
2003 Yamaha WR 450 (2003)
2001 Yamaha XJR1300SP (2004)
My bikes have been growing larger to compensate for my expanding waistline

**vifferman** · 28th September 2004, 08:40

Originally Posted by TonyB

Does anybody else reckon that riding is more of an addiction than a sport/ hobby?

Of course we do, Tony.

Now just keep taking the pills....

Seriously - yeah, you're probably right. At least I've got that out in the open with Mrs FS (that it's a toy, it's expensive, I'm obsessed, etc etc), so I don't have to play games.

Originally Posted by FryinFinnnnn

I've been riding 33 years (I am quite old) and had 16 bikes - one of which I owned twice (RD 350)

How did that come about? Did you sell it, then miss it too much? (And I'm quite old too, or at least I'm starting to feel it....)

**NordieBoy** · 28th September 2004, 09:20

28 years or so since I first threw my leg over my grandfathers TS125 when I was 8 or so.
The occasional ride on that bike until I got my bike licence when I was 15.
Mum had a QT50 and an SR185 so I had a choice of which bike to use - You could bunnyhop the QT and it went well around the BMX track but I didn't tell you that ok?

I've had 7 bikes.
SR185 (gone).
VT250F2F Integra (Nice bike) (gone).
Savage 400 (gone).
Gilera Nordwest 1 (Traded the Savage in on it).
Gilera Nordwest 2.
1981 XL250s (Swapped the VT for it) (Gone).
1979 XR250z.

Ridden every day since I got the VT 8 years ago as my bikes are my work transport.

**Pwalo** · 28th September 2004, 09:22

Isn't it scary how old some of us must be! Almost 30 years since I got my bike licence, but had a few years off with marriage, house, kids, kids sport etc.

Only owned 13 bikes so far, but have had a chance to ride a lot more (even better when you don't own them).

**Eddieb** · 28th September 2004, 09:24

Had my license for 13 years, including a 2 year enforced break due to non motorcycle related injuries. Through that I've had 13 bikes, including the 3 in the garage at the moment.

**Blakamin** · 28th September 2004, 09:32

20 years riding all up, had a licence for 10 years and then it expired. about a 5 year break then had to start again last year.
probably owned about 14 bikes in that time. will buy a better one after christmas so that will be 3 in six months