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

**Conquiztador** · 4th July 2007, 18:59

This is where you have the chance to praise the ones/what got you in to bikes.
Who was it that made the difference and got you on the right track?
What was that deciding moment when you knew where you belonged?
And was it mum and dad who paid for it all???

So I start:

It was 1969 and I had been riding mopeds. Fun. And I had some of mine doing 80K+. But they were only a way of getting from A to B witout pedalling (and I was young).
Then I did see Easy Rider at the movies. And it changed everyting. I wanted a Panhead. No, I NEEDED a Panhead. I did see that movie over 10 times. And that was before I got it on Video (for those of U who remember a video..)

My first real bike was a Royal Enfield. Then a BSA, then a Triumph and THEN the 48 Panhead. I did some "minor" modifications. Extended the forks to 21 inch over, fitted a proper "leaver" to them. Modified and painted the frame, and did my first wheel by fitting a VW 15 inch rim to the HD hub.

As much as you will always regret selling any of the bikes, she is the one I can still shead a tear over (when properly un-sober).

And no, I never had a help re paying any of my bikes, re fixing them or re wrecking them... I am solely responsible for it all.

Attached some pics of the Panhead. Sorry re quality, but my scanner is limping.

**Big Dave** · 4th July 2007, 19:05

The grandfather built me my first mini bike at 2 years old - he was an engineer at the Steelworks - to young to remember anything about first getting it but burning myself on the exhaust and the exposed centrifugal clutch.
Had it till he bought me the Deckson 125 when I was 8.

Bought my first bike on newspaper money, a CL90 when I was 14.

a CB450 was first road bike at 16 at school. Already been riding 14 years.

**babyblade250rr** · 4th July 2007, 19:10

my best friend Geordie (who now lives in Canda)

got me into the luv of bikes at 15 after he let me test pilot his nsr250r mannn i'll never forget it!! was just the best feeling ever!! absolutely no idea how to ride a cycle he gave me the basic clutch breaks throttle gear pattern and away i went in utter stupidity.

One of the Kodak moments of mylife

never really looked back!

**Mr. Peanut** · 4th July 2007, 19:18

Originally Posted by babyblade250rr

my best friend Geordie (who now lives in Canda)

got me into the luv of bikes at 15 after he let me test pilot his nsr250r mannn i'll never forget it!! was just the best feeling ever!! absolutely no idea how to ride a cycle he gave me the basic clutch breaks throttle gear pattern and away i went in utter stupidity.

I know what you mean, the first time I rode my NSR is burned into my mind, like a drug it was never the same after the first time. The power, the utterly incomprehensible feeling of acceleration.

I've always wanted a bike. Ever since I could ride a bicycle.

I taught two of my friends to ride my NSR, and they're both into bikes now. Nightstalker and Smokey Moe. I may or may not have influenced Chrislost, and he in turn probably made his friend Alex get into bikes!

**JimO** · 4th July 2007, 19:18

i went and saw "on any sunday" when i was a lad

**chanceyy** · 4th July 2007, 19:23

brother got into motox .. even let me ride it when he was too stuffed to go round the track anymore (when i was about 15).. friends all had road bikes .. other freinds had harley's .. on the back of all of them(from about 18 -30) .. it never occurred to me to get one ..

the sugi introduced me to this site .. AJ pillioned me to welly two days in a row .. & she was all over .. I had to have a bike ...

**phantom** · 4th July 2007, 19:27

Mum and dad both rode bikes , dad competitively and he instructed at weekends at the motorcycle training school in Palmy in the very early 60s so it was a foregone conclusion. It was Sarah, the love of my life

, who professes to hate bikes that encouraged me to get back into bikes a couple of years ago

**Zuki Bandit** · 4th July 2007, 19:27

I remember as a young fella (five years old or so), my dad taking us on family outings and eventually ending up looking in motorbike stores. Mum was bored shitless and would stay in the car but I remember being blown away by the rocket ship like lines and shiney bits on the bikes.
Another thing that really sticks in my memories is seeing my older brother riding down our drive on a rumbling untuned sounding matt black gsx1100.
I think my family planted the seed when it came to bikes, but it was just a matter of time before I had to have one.

Cheers All

**breakaway** · 4th July 2007, 19:33

I decided on a Monday, that I wanted a bike. A few searches later, I found KB. I then found the Online Trading section. Then on friday @ 11:09PM, I had a filty two smoker in the garage. I still miss it

, but I see the guy that I sold it to every now and then at uni.

**Oakie** · 4th July 2007, 19:48

A guy I used to work with (Stephen Parker) told me he was selling his bike (Kawaski G5 ...100cc off road type thing) and asked if I wanted it. I thought "sure beats peddling my pushbike" and that was it. No real pre-thought. Then I just head to learn how to ride.

**jeremysprite** · 4th July 2007, 20:00

yeah, i was looking for transport, then I looked at bikes, saw a KR250 i think it was, $1600 in white and red. I wanted that soooo much.
Probably a good thing i never got that though - they're like 45 hp, and i'd never ridden a bike before!

**Skunk** · 4th July 2007, 20:25

Originally Posted by jeremysprite

yeah, i was looking for transport, then I looked at bikes, saw a KR250 i think it was, $1600 in white and red. I wanted that soooo much.
Probably a good thing i never got that though - they're like 45 hp, and i'd never ridden a bike before!

Ahhh, my first bike! Black and red. My wife (girlfriend then) was bored with it (not enough power) and I decided to give it a try.

She taught me to ride as well.

**Edbear** · 4th July 2007, 20:31

Can't perzackly remember when, (late '60's?), but my Mum had a BSA Bantam 125, black, and I fell in love with it the first time I saw it! Eventually, at 12, I was allowed to ride it around the section.

First vehicle was a 1950 Bradford then a '59 CA Bedford before getting my first bike, a '51 B31 BSA 350. The pic is of a later model, mine had the plunger rear suspension, (and was definitely not in this condition!). Next was the T500 Suzuki, ('73), and was a revelation compared to the BSA! Mum loved to ride it, too! (And sometimes I even washed it..) Sold that to get married in '77.

Can't load the Bradford or the BSA pics as I'm told I've already posted them in the threads, "What was your first bike?", and "My best ride ever". How can I repost them?

**RantyDave** · 4th July 2007, 20:41

Whoever nicked my scooter. I moped around for a few months, caught the bus, made people's lives hell. Then I decided I had to get another one, but wanted a 125 and had to get a learners ticket to have one.

So I did the one day learners thing and though "Hmmmm, perhaps I get a bike instead, no".

Dave