The age you started biking and why...

[nudemetalz]

Mine was when I first turned 12....(errr...25 years ago...)
My parents bought me a motocross helmet and boots.
I said "cool riding gear, I can go on the back of the Katana with Dad"
He said "oh, and there's one more thing, come out the back", there was my Honda CR-80 motocross bike !!!

Have never looked back.

[rphenix]

not counting riding dads 4 wheeler when i was even younger I started at the age of 9 on a honda XR100

[Draco]

I was the tender young age of 30! Had ridden on the back of them all my life and loved them. Dad wouldn't let me ride cauz I was a girl, (ex)husband wouldn't let me ride cauz I was a girl, so got divorced and thought f*@k the lot of ya i'm gettin a bike. Walked in to a bike shop and looked around for the smallest looking bike (not knowing a damn thing about bikes), slapped $2,000 on the counter and said "I'll have that 1 thanx!" Then came the tricky part of figuring out how the hell to ride it home doh! Dropped it at the petrol station trying to kick start it off the stand, but haven't looked back since, am thoroughly addicted now! And plan to own many many more of them before i'm too old to swing a leg over. (And then I intend to make someone build me a trike I can park me wheelchair next to and just slide on over)

[R1madness]

First ride with me at the throttle was a Vespa 110 in 1975. Hell. the grass was slippery hehehehe.
Why because my neighbour had one and he was cool. (i was 6)

[the mouse]

First beasty was built up from mail order with after school monies a Tru Test mini bike at age 12. Had a new tchumsi (spelling?) motor and went real good.
A ride on the back of a greasy, oily and smelly old 650 BSA a mate of my brothers owned about a year later, gave me the biker bug. A Honda elsinore trail bike and then two CB 175 Hondas got me to 18, when i got my first decent road bike, a mint Triumph Daytona 500. Shitte that was a while ago, always been two tyred since.

[Kittyhawk]

Can't be bothered typing, read my blog its all in there.

[swbarnett]

First year of University, age 17. My father had ridden in his youth and suggested it as good cheap transport that you could actually park at Auckland Uni (even back in 1983 the parking was at a premium in the city). Picked up a second hand CB125T from Bill Russell on Mt. Eden Rd. (where House of Knives is now) and never looked back.

[Hawkeye]

First rode at 17 on a 'nifty fifty' back in the UK. That was 34 years ago. Finally got around to getting a bike at the tender age of 48. (2 years ago) It was a little CBX250 which I paid $100 plus $250 to get it road legal. Spent many a happy hour trying to keep up with the group rides over the Taka's. At 49 I progressed to the current bike after getting my full. And the rest is history....

[trump-lady]

At 29. Went to Daytona bike week, thought hmmmm always wanted one, better get one before I think about having kids. Had one in a week...... Im kinda like that however this has stuck and kids have gone out the door and so did the father to be...now Im just old single and ride......... and loving it.

[trump-lady]

I was the tender young age of 30! Had ridden on the back of them all my life and loved them. Dad wouldn't let me ride cauz I was a girl, (ex)husband wouldn't let me ride cauz I was a girl, so got divorced and thought f*@k the lot of ya i'm gettin a bike. Walked in to a bike shop and looked around for the smallest looking bike (not knowing a damn thing about bikes), slapped $2,000 on the counter and said "I'll have that 1 thanx!" Then came the tricky part of figuring out how the hell to ride it home doh! Dropped it at the petrol station trying to kick start it off the stand, but haven't looked back since, am thoroughly addicted now! And plan to own many many more of them before i'm too old to swing a leg over. (And then I intend to make someone build me a trike I can park me wheelchair next to and just slide on over)

and u do it so well
and race.....
Awesome

[Chad]

First started when I was bout 19 cos my dad had bit of a cricis and bought an XL250, a XT500, a CB100 and a Yamaha 350 road bike of some sort. And cos heap of my friens all rode aswell.
Didn't get own bike till now (23) though.

[Jantar]

17, as the cheapest way of getting to and from Uni. One year later I was hooked.

[stify]

I started road riding at 34-always wanted to get my own bike but other things and people got in the way,4 yrs later am well hooked on the lifestyle, I'm going to start racing later this year, and going to do a spot of touring and visit the South Island and maybe hit a rally or two in the future, have met some cool people along the way and have no doubt I will come across a lot more.

[The Lone Rider]

8yrs old or something - Honda C90, uncles farm.

[fireball]

apart from being on the back of the quad and mustering on the back of the old CT125 from the age of 5 with the old man i started riding myself at the age of 8 on the quad (couldnt reach the gears and sit on the seat)
then onto my first bike the mighty DS80 at age 12 was hooked and havent stopped riding since....

...and wont even drive a car they are piles of crap.