What was it that got you into bikes?

[James Deuce]

Not true - motorcycles have laid you out on several occasions....

Fucked, more like.

[steelphoenix]

Been watching motorsports since I was kneehigh to a grasshopper, lusted after bikes in college (there was this blue bike that always zoomed past me on my way to school), but never really had the opportunity to get one. Last year a friend leant me a bike and gave me a couple of lessons, and I was hooked...

Then again, I recently discovered that both my parents rode bikes when at Uni, so perhaps it's in the blood?

[Banditbandit]

Way way way back ... I come from a very violent domestic background ... at around the age of 12 or 13 I was standing on our front lawn at night saying "Fuck the World ..." repeatedly over and over ... shortly after that I started to notice motorcycles ... and they looked like fun ... and back then they were rebellious fun ...

Then I discovered there was a whole group of people who thought Fuck the World .. and lived it ... the Bikers usually known as the 1%ers ... Sonny Barger was my hero ... fuck ... rebellious fun with people who shared my view of the world ... and lived it ...

That was me ... I was sold. Been 39 years since I bought my first bike and I've never been without one since ...

I took the FTW patch of my leathers about eight years ago ...

[ducatilover]

As I already said, it didn't and it works even less now.

'Tis unfortunate isn't it? I have found the same thing...
I actually just decided to buy a GPZ400R on a whim, was a pile of shite, but, damn cool nonetheless. Then the bug bit me.... I hate times without bikes. Cars are so big and vulgar!

[simpy1]

Inheriting one of these got me into motorbikes...

[tommo8ball]

Was thanks to my dad who was a spanner spinner. He decided it was time to get me riding.So dad being dad he persuaded someone he had just replaced a head gasket for to give him their unused peewee 50 as payment, he tided and fixed it up for my 4th birthday needless to say i was a happy chappy and after an hr or so of falling off etc i was out terrorizing everyone at our local park and haven't stopped since

[porky]

A per the OP, years pretty much the same. Location Greenpark Canterbury. Beast was a Laverda. Used to rip up Hudson Road, dusting off the Ford Anglias and Consuls... yup i was hooked.

[neels]

7 years old , little honda 80, never looked back

Much the same, a bit older and a mate's little benelli trail bike, I was hooked from there. I remember my dad asking why I wanted a motorbike when I bought my old TC100 a scary number of years ago, the reply being

"Because they're fun"

[monkeymcbean]

midlife crisis

[beatswalkin]

Must have been 1955 or '56 seein' a bunch of !%ers going up 101 in SoCal and thinking how cool they looked. That and seeing Pacific Telephone's servicemen riding around on H-D Servicars back in the '50s...

I hung with !%ers some four decades ago but decided that the violent side of the lifestyle wasn't for me. (Admittedly, the ridin', partyin' and women were, however!)

I never forgot the sense of freedom that jammin' on a sickel gives me, and I'll keep riding for as long as I can.

[hellokitty]

I used to go on the back of my brothers bike - check out the gear - bikini, tshirt and jandals, I think I was about 10?
I had a horse and my brother had a bike. My Dad got back into riding about 5 years ago and I decided 3 years ago that he would teach me to ride.

edit - why won't my pic work? Grrr

[taff1954]

Absolute necessity... Lived about 4 miles outside Cardiffs' city limits, first bus was at 7:30, and I started work on the far side of the city at 7. One year too young for a car licence, so I bought a 3 month old Honda C50 from a guy who's wife had banned him from riding because she thought it was too dangerous. 4 months later, completely hooked on being on two wheels, I traded it in on a CB125, and the rest is history.