How did you all start?

[gijoe1313]

There was this one time at band camp ....

[rachprice]

Just started, always loved the idea of them and now love the actual riding even more! Dad used to but before i was born, a lot of my guys friends have them and it got too tempting.

[Mr Triple]

Got three older brothers that all had motorbikes and the old man had them as well. My very first bike that I owned was a TM125. Had a lot of fun on that, as you do. And my first road bike was a CB200 a real mint one, till I smashed it up. But that was all along time ago.
I still enjoy it very much and try to get out as much as I can.

[Caladbolg]

Started on leg powered bikes.. My friend went on holiday and i 'looked' after his RM250 a couple of years ago and was hooked after that.. just loved the rush you get when you nail it through the gears trying to keep the front wheel on the ground. Then i scored a GSX400 and fixed it up and caught the roadbike bug. now ive had my ZXR for about a month and im loving it so far, except stupid old women and bugs kamikaze-ing my visor

[ginny]

Was looking at getting a scooter to save on gas. Then meet a cute racer who took me for a ride. Decided I prefered being in control rather than on the back. He doesn't like me riding cause he worries but has given up trying to talk me out of it

[scumdog]

On a mates brothers Phillips 'Gadabout' moped in 1965 in Nelson.

[sinfull]

I blame my father !
Wish i had his bikes !!! Sigh !

[Grub]

I got a job. Job had bike. I got hooked.

[_Shrek_]

my old man used to take me for on his cop bike (early 60's) norton commando 850 never been the same since

[martybabe]

Just after the Romans left Britain, I got myself a paper round, do you have them here, anyway kids ride bikes and deliver news papers. From the first day I wobbled onto the road my pushbike was a secret motor bike. secret engine in the downtube for when I needed to go fast. everything I did to that bone shaker was to make it more like a mobike, apehangers, front and rear lights,little things that dragged on the spokes to make an engine noise.

Don't know why ,never been exposed to motorbikes, didn't know anyone that rode at all, yet I was obsessed with em.

Years latter I got my hands on a Yamaha DT125 after much fighting with the parents. My first ride was great except every time I stopped the bike cut out? I didn't know about disengaging the clutch. and every bend was steered round, didn't know your supposed to lean em over. Yes laddies and gents, I am the reason compulsory training was introduced in the UK.

Anyway,to cut a long story short, Hitler and us had a spat, 9/11 happened and 753 years after my first bike, I'm in NZ and still riding. Still not leaning to well but that clutch thing and me are good mates now.

[avgas]

i kept kicking over a old TS185 sitting abandoned in the shed when i was about 8, its was something for me too do while "getting the damn firewood".
Long story short one day it fell off the stand.
Had to take a big HTFU and put it back on the stand so that no one knew.

[Wingnut]

Was 13 and got my paws on a Honda XL100. Oh Yea!!! Been on bikes ever since - mostly dirt though..

[marioc]

The price of petrol and the boringness of the daily peak hour commute

[Luckylegs]

The price of petrol and the boringness of the daily peak hour commute

Bwaaaahahahahaha.... Yip me too, I convined my wifie it would be "Just another form of transport" for when our kids started school and one of us needed the car for dropping the kids off etc etc. (as we both work in the city and it seemed pointless us both being late).

Who knew it would become an obsession

And has it been cheaper than running two cars, not on your nelly. After spending the dosh on the Bike (And the safety Kit) as well as the seemingly always empty gas tank from that quick "ride around the block" Im sure it aint but....... WHO CARES, The world just seems a little better now !!!

[xwhatsit]

Lying awake at night and hearing GS750s with straight pipes hooning up and down Eskdale Rd.

What? When did you live around there? As a wee tyke I probably rode my mountain bike across your lawn while you yelled at me to GTFO.

Simple economic reasons to get into biking -- Mangere Bridge to the CBD is an expensive and long bus-ride. But of course, quickly found out it's ludicrous fun.