The age you started biking and why...

[Nasty]

33 cos i always wanted to but outta respect to the parents after my sisters accident (when she was 18) didn't.

I got an fxr150 and got grub back into riding .... was one of the best things we done lately!!

[oldrider]

We used to ride a war surplus army Indian around the paddocks and back roads.

My age group had to get the bigger kids to start it because it was too big for us to kick.

We used hang around the occasional bikes that were parked at the pub, drooling over them. (these were very old bikes by today's standard)

Two older boys, who had left school, were bought motorbikes by their father for all the work they had done on their farm while they were at school.

They were both brand new Triumphs!

The older boy got a 650 Thunderbird and the younger boy got a 500 Tiger 100.(or speed twin, I can't quite remember now)

That was the day I was smitten by the sheer beauty and sleek design of the "modern", magnificent motorcycle!

I had to have one.

My first was a bit short of the splendor of those two Triumphs, it was a James 50cc two stroke with a hand change gearbox.

I was fourteen and proud as if it was one of those Triumphs, I was on my way and have ridden motorbikes ever since.

I got my car licence the day I turned 15 and my bike licence a few days after.

That was 54 yrs ago.

In February this year I bought my first brand new Triumph, a Tiger 955i and it is just as exciting as those two new ones were way back then.

I will be seventy years old next year, so I guess my passion for motorcycles will have begun and will end with Triumph.

It has been a rocky path for both of us but we have made it in the end, well done Triumph, it's been good to know you. Cheers John.

[Monsterbishi]

I was 15yrs old when I got my licence and first bike, because my cousin took me for a ride as pillion the christmas prior, amd couldn't get over the freedom that came with being on two wheels.

[avrflr]

I got my first bike when I was 4. Before that I just wasted my life.

[riffer]

Dad always had bikes, and I was on the back at 7 or 8. Pestered, pestered, pestered Dad to get me one. But Mum always said no.

I started riding at 12 (29 years ago) on Dad's Vespa scooter doing deliveries for his customers around Welly.

[vixter]

19 got my first bike an rgv 250 never looked back!!! bloody awesome bike but bloody expensive to insure in the uk..

[Oakie]

A month short of my 19th birthday. I thought a motorbike would be better than my push bike solely as I wouldn't have to peddle any more. Then a guy I worked with offered me his Kawasaki G5 (100cc) and the rest is history.

[bikerboy011]

17. always loved bikes and i prefered them over cars.

[terbang]

Age 14 because my mother wouldnt let me ride any earlier. That was in 1974 and I rode all over my old mans 1000 acre farm on his Yammie AG100. Killed the poor thing, much to dads angst, but a good way to learn. Survived a 750 (H2 Kawa) at 15-16, but maybe that was just luck.

[huck farley]

That was 54 yrs ago.

In February this year I bought my first brand new Triumph, a Tiger 955i and it is just as exciting as those two new ones were way back then.

I will be seventy years old next year, so I guess my passion for motorcycles will have begun and will end with Triumph.

It has been a rocky path for both of us but we have made it in the end, well done Triumph, it's been good to know you. Cheers John.

I can relate to your story John. I first bought my first MC when I was 13 rode it around the paddocks and fields with a bunch of other guys. All honing our skills for the big day when we could sit a licence.

I bought a bike as that's all I could afford. Used it right through my apprenticeship. I to started on Triumphs first was a 1948 speed twin 500cc with sprung hub that didn't work. I would like to add in the days I learned to ride there were no Jap bikes around. Mainly British, I to will spend the rest of my riding days on a Triumph as unlike most bikes they have character, a soul, and over a hundred years of British engineering and tradition. Long live the Trumpets. Oh yes the new Hinckley Triumphs as they are called don't leak oil like the old Trumpets. But hey that's what give them part of there character!!

[sAsLEX]

when I left home as I wasn't allowed one under mums law.

[vifferman]

Fifteen. It was the '70s and everyone rode bikes.
Actually, it was because a couple of my friends rode bikes. Once I got involved, I was hooked.

[T.W.R]

Been around bikes all my life, the old man had bikes (road bikes, race bikes, & for work) when I was a baby. Started riding bikes by myself at around 6yrs, dad brought me a YZ80 just short of my 10th birthday & raced that for a few seasons then once I got to 15 it was no looking back the road beckons

[99TLS]

dad rode a bike and when my neighbour got a shitty scooter i was 10 we used to cruise to the local yacht club and take turns on it then got my first bike at 13 a it175 for $150 in 1983 havent looked back since then prefer bike to car and have owned 20+ bikes since then also did a couple seasons as sidecar swinger at speedway

[Winter]

20, because I wasn't getting laid often enough.