What was it that got you into bikes?

[Dave-]

practicality.

then i got bitten and want more.

[homer]

remember riding a yamaha 50 scooter
remember an rv 90
remember a rv 50 that didnt go and then a rv 125 that did felt like power band
i do recall a yamaha ag90 which at 45 kph felt like a space shuttle and you think youd never go faster than that ever .
What about those mini motorbikes like they have at QEII in chch

I guess it all started long ago
Honda c 50 still even a cool bike today (fuck id even buy one today )

SL 125 and klr 250 and ag 200
shit ridden a lot of bikes really
had an xt 400 had a gpz 750 had a gsx 600 got a bandit 1200

Now i forget what im posting this for but who cars

[Manxman]

Grew up next to the TT course. Used to play TT riders on push bikes with my mates, trying to get our knees down

...only took another 35 years to get my own real bike. Now it's all on and in the midst of my mid-life crisis, I harbor semi-determined ambitions to do club racing and then enter the MGP , then maybe TT...

[Wiki Drifter]

at the beginning..60% practicality & 40% peer pressure, became a bike addict after getting my first bike..

[shafty]

1971 and I was 11 when oldest Bro comes home from Ak for the weekend on his metallic gold CB500/4, with his Mate on a red CB750/4 (I was just about pulling myself by this stage) plus a Chick on a CB360, - and I WAS ALLOWED TO CLEAN THEM! Wow, I was in heaven. My second older Bro bought a near new Suzy T350J for $800 off a Girl who unexpectantly fell pregnant, (few people on this site would recall that bike I'm sure) - a 315cc 2 Stroke twin, so when I finally made licence age of 15, Mum ( decision maker in the house) said it was fine for me to fork out $650 for my near new GT125 - WOW, Ram Air cooling, front disc brake; So thanks Brothers, for paving the way!!

[Kittyhawk]

Its written in my blog on how I got into bikes....

It was ride on mowers which got me into them .....and my cousin

[puddytat]

Riding my Dads A100 round & round the backyard,after finally getting the hang of that clutch lever thingey...
Then my mate got a SL70,& it only took about a year of me naggin' my folks before i got on for Xmas....

[Krusti]

Poverty..........

[Kiwifire72]

Brought up on a dairy farm
Honda Trail 125
then knocked my mother off at 35 for her money and bought not one but 3 bikes lol
well 2 then wife didn't like hers as the ash try was full and trade hers in on a new one
thats how we got into bikes
easy way kill family members off for heaps of cash

[DUCATI*HARD]

dont know about you guys,but i was "BORN TO RIDE"

[klyong82]

I was 14 and my uncle took me on a ride on his brand new 20th anniversary Goldwing. He told me not to tell my mum or my aunty. They soon found out when I got crazy and started talking about motorcycles since.

[EJK]

I err......
Someone gae me a "Motorbike roadcode" for a gift. (Wander if it was a part of his plan? lol)

Then I looked at the BRAND NEW FXR150 in the book
drooled it till I got my Scorpio

[HungusMaximist]

the promise of freedom and girls

Yup, was one of the reasons...

But also I had the urge to take up a skill which I knew it will come very handy later in life, especially if I was involved in a situation that was a matter of life or death and there just happens to be a motorcycle at my disposal.

Just imagine the disappointment and regret if I didn't know how to ride...

Same concept of learning how to drive a manual car!

[McDuck]

saw an rg150 on TM and asked if i could have one at 15. Mum said NO NO NO NO NO NO NO so i now have a 250 katana....

[wide chicken strips]

1971 and I was 11 when oldest Bro comes home from Ak for the weekend on his metallic gold CB500/4, with his Mate on a red CB750/4 (I was just about pulling myself by this stage) plus a Chick on a CB360, - and I WAS ALLOWED TO CLEAN THEM! Wow, I was in heaven. My second older Bro bought a near new Suzy T350J for $800 off a Girl who unexpectantly fell pregnant, (few people on this site would recall that bike I'm sure) - a 315cc 2 Stroke twin, so when I finally made licence age of 15, Mum ( decision maker in the house) said it was fine for me to fork out $650 for my near new GT125 - WOW, Ram Air cooling, front disc brake; So thanks Brothers, for paving the way!!

" near new Suzy T350J for $800 off a Girl who unexpectantly fell pregnant, (few people on this site would recall that bike I'm sure) - a 315cc 2 Stroke twin'

A lot of ppl of a certain age will certainly remember the T350J. Between my brother & I we owned thres T350J's plus the odd T250 over a 15 year period starting from around 1972. Wonderful bike...gave away a few HP to main rival RD350 but oddles of ground clearance & an 18 year olds endless belief in their infallability meant you could easily catch up with the faster bikes around the corners. You may recall Joe Eastmures classic victories over theoretically much faster machinery in the Castrol (?) 6 hour races in Australia in the early 1970's. The occasional T350J still pops up on Trade Me and their are some nice prisitine examples occasionaly for sale in the UK.