The age you started biking and why...

[Chill]

Was just having a little think (an unusual occurence),
and I though to myself.. I wonder if it's unusual that I was on trademe one day, aged 18, 2005, had never really though about bikes before, but saw one on there and though 'shit, I want one of those'.

Bought a GN a week later.

Never looked back.

So I'm interested: When did you getting in motorcycling, and why?

[Hitcher]

45. Because the voices told me to.

[mstriumph]

7
'cause it was THERE .... [and unattended ........]

[Dave-]

19 because it was cheap, cool and fun.

[Ghost_Bullet]

When I was 10, cause the old man had a ct 90. then later when the car craped out in 95/6 bought a cm200t, and fell in love with the road... it started there all over again.......

[200BUSA]

First ride as a 7year old,first bike at 10 and always had a bike since i was 13,Had 80 bikes over the years and turning 45 soon.Its in the blood i love bikes.The freedom of getting out riding and seeing the sights.

[Renegade]

age 10, cos the old ladies boyfriend had two, and i wanted a ride on the back

[onearmedbandit]

Religously read roadbike magazines from a young age, but realising that I was too young to ride a road bike (about 7) I hounded my big brothers to let me ride their dirtbikes. My actual first ride was on my brothers Honda C90, bunking school one day and rocking it in gear back and forth on the centre stand, waiting for the enivitable to happen (hop off the stand), and when it did I spent the rest of the day riding the bike around our house. That convinced my brothers to get me my own bike.

[Delphinus]

Brother convinced me to go for a ride on his FXR150 (He took dads GS550E) when I was 20. Thought hey how bad can it be... We just kept going and going and didn't come back home till 2 hours later. The grin on my face didn't disappear for days, and 3 weeks later I bought a zxr250... and promptly blew it up 2 months later

[discotex]

Rode scooters and stuff at high school but one thing led to another and I never got my own bike. Always checked them out whenever I saw any though. Watched the odd race on telly etc.

Then at 28 a mate at work took me out on the back of his CBR at lunch time. 2 months later I had my L plate and first bike

[Taz]

started at 12. first road bike at 15. Cause it's in my blood even tho none of my family rode bikes. I was without a bike once and that was the worst 3 months of my life.

[miSTa]

...So I'm interested: When did you getting in motorcycling, and why?

Aged 17 (many moons ago now) because it was a cheap way of getting around between the dairy farm(s) I worked on and town. Now its so much more, it became a way of life.

[Conquiztador]

And never looked back.

[Taz]

And never looked back.

Is that because you had mirrors?

[banditrider]

Played around on some farm bikes as a young fella until the old man found a TS185 in the paper - seized but only $120. I was about thirteen and that was a lot of money for me but the bike was running in no time and I was hooked.

First road bike at about 17 - again the old man was the bad influence and located the mighty 250.

We're both still hooked....