The age you started biking and why...

[madandy]

6, 'cause my folks friends had a pw50 or somethingorather for their kids & I hogged it. Got my first road bike at 17 cause they made my blood race more than cars & funds were low, of course (SR250). Now 31 & still scared to trust myself on a litre bike

[mowgli]

played around on dirt bikes as a teenager. Twenty years later floated the idea and wife said yes!!! A week later I had a licence and a Hyo GT250R. That was four weeks, 1200km and a heap of fun ago.

Best thing to happen to me since meeting my wife and having two beautiful daughters.

[Sharry]

19, that must have been when I woke up. I just 'had' to. I had a Suzi 175 and six months later in July I had 6 pairs of wet jeans and no way to dry them so hopped on my bike (with the 7th dry pair on) and rode to K' Rd to buy leggings. I rode out with a HondaCB400F (and leggings).

[FJRider]

Age 16 (just) Kawasaki 100 (5 speed with hi/lo ratio) cost $300 and cost $2 to fill the tank (mid 70's)

[DougB]

I learnt to ride on a farm on a 1934 Harley (Never ridden a Harley since) I was 14, this was in 1946. First bike was a 1950 AJS 500cc single, single seat. (The dual seat came with the 1952 model)

I needed the transport at weekends to go from Auckland,
where I had an apprenticship, to my home in Paihia. Cars then were primitive, dear and uncomfortable. This was just before the VW beetle and Morris Minor came on the market. Bikes were more reliable and cheaper and heaps more fun.

[FJRider]

I learnt to ride on a farm on a 1934 Harley (Never ridden a Harley since) I was 14, this was in 1946. First bike was a 1950 AJS 500cc single, single seat. (The dual seat came with the 1952 model)

Wish you still had both ???

[disenfranchised]

29, cause I'd always wanted to and *had to* get it done before I turned 30.
Turned out it was fun and saved heaps of $$$ in petrol...so I haven't looked back

[Chickadee]

Aged 30, always wanted to and figured - sod it - life's too short to regret.

Love it, never regretted fufilling a childhood dream....

And the kids love the bikes too, guess the bike bugs contagious

[awayatc]

83, sick of walking, and my cane snapped in two...

[zxcvbnm]

I was 7-8 years old and my oldest sister brought a CT90* home from the post office. She lost interest and it became mine.

It was a pile of crap and was traded in on something worse a few years later (ER100)

(*She was sacked for stealing money)

[klyong82]

15. Best thing that ever happened to me I reckon...

[TOTO]

22 yo. 4 weeks ago

[toebug]

Started riding dirt bikes early 80's owned by friends. First road bike 1990 GSXR250 bought in 91 which I wrote off within 6 months. Next was a RZ350 2 smoker, it was my only transport for 3 years. Held my learner licence for 15 years before getting my restricted then full. Now I have 3 bikes, 2 road 1 dirt and I have admitted my addiction! The cure? Ride, ride and ride some more.....

[Owl]

I always loved bikes but was a late starter at about 25. I spent time riding mates CB750K, GSXR750 and YZ490 (dirt) and decided I had to buy a bike. First bike was an 88 FZR750 I bought in 93-94.

[DEATH_INC.]

Got my first at 16 ish '82 YZ125j . Rode a bit from around 13 (my cousins KL250, and an old yammie 100 of some sort...). My cousins and their mates who I hung out with all had trailies, and I'm doomed to ride by genetics, my dad, uncles, grandfather, cousins and even my aunty has/had bikes....