How did you all start?

[James Deuce]

I grew up in Glenfield. All the hoons lived in Birkdale and Beachaven on the other side of the reserve.

[fireball]

daddy gave me a DS80 for xmas one year after seeing i loved the quad
never looked back really plus i hate cars they are scary like clowns

[Chanak]

Seeing as I never did get around to doing anything with my car license, my friend twisted my arm to get my bike one...


... so he could sell me his bike.

[LilSel]

I used to ride Quads & go-karts as a kid... wasnt allowed a bike... hounded mum & dad when I was about 12 to let me have a go-ped ... got one... All was ok for a number of years... then I started going out with someone... who rode a firestorm... & all it took was one ride as pillion... & I was hooked... I bought my own bike shortly after that lol...

[Ripperjon]

I've wanted a bike as far back as i can remember.

Noone in my family has a bike.

The only time i remember getting on one when i was a wee lad was as a pillion on my brother's friend's dirt bike which stood about as tall as i was at the time. Scared the shit out of me as i remember but it was fun!

My first go on a two-wheeler (which probably doesn't count) was on a rental moped thing in Rarotonga , which i managed to bin giving myself a good case of road rash up both arms.

Since then, nothing til i bought my first proper bike 18 days ago. Yay

[T.W.R]

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

Think you find it was actually a Atlas not a Commando

My Old Man used to do exactly the same to me when he came home from doing his shifts for the ChCh City Council Traffic Dept & that was pre school days. Plus was around bikes all the time with him restoring Pommy bikes.
Then when I was around 6-7 he let me use a D3 Bantam to learn to ride on, then for my 10th B/day got me a YZ80 & got me into racing MX ( #129, zone 3) and since then it's been

[Guided_monkey]

Started with a high school mate with an old Suzuki DR125, going up and down his drive way.

Have been riding ever since.

[DEATH_INC.]

Genetics...My grandfather, father, uncles, aunties, cousins etc. etc.... all ride/ rode...I kinda had to....

[BarBender]

1979
My mates PE175
We were in the Tarawera forest
There was a girl
I had to do it.

You guessed it - I binned it....badly.

[klyong82]

I was 14 and my uncle bought a brand new 20th anniversary Goldwing. He asked if I wanted a ride and I said yes. He also told me not to tell my mum or my aunty. No one in the family nor my cousins were allowed to ride motorcycles as they were deemed dangerous. Well they soon found out when I got crazy and started talking about motorcycles day and night since.

[glice]

always liked them. It just took me a while to get one and now its even worse.

[Reido]

I've just started riding, dont even have my license yet..
Brand new bike did my 100th Km just this afternoon

we moved house and i refused to catch a bus to school..
Dad "we'll get you a moped"
me "Fu#k no!... I'll get a motorbike" (spur of the moment decision)
Dad "ok"

a month later tada

[munterk6]

Back in the early 70's my older brother and sister both had bikes, my brother bought a new Suzuki AC50 Maverick and I would ride it round the back lawn when he was watching TV....I was 13 then! Now Im 49 and have been riding every single day since then!!! Well......almost every day lol!
I now have the pinnacle of motorcycles, the mighty GSX-R 1000K6 and I ride it to work everyday and have toured the South Island on it as well.
Riding my bike keeps me sane in this insane world we live in

[smoky]

Just like a whole bunch of others - started when I was a kid, we'd visit, spend the holidays on fiends farms and got to ride thier bikes. I remember my brother and I riding a step thru honda 90 bringing the cows up to the shed.
Spent most my teenage life on bikes TT250, IT250, Bultaco750, TT550, CB500, RD350, Yamaha 750 Specail, some ol 500cc Indian, Triumph Trident 750, katana 650, GPz900, GSX400, VX800, GSF1200S
Not sure about some of those names - but they're close.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

How did everyone start riding, what made them want to ? what did the ride ?

Well, first the earth cooled, then an atmosphere formed which forms water and oceans. Minute 1 cell life forms developed, which formed some sludge, then plants started to grow then eventually dinosaurs, mammals and then humans...

Humans became intelligent and built machines... I like machines, they developed one with two wheels, called a motorcycle, it was an odd but technical machine and requires some skill and intelligence to tame. I remeber as a young lad saying cool thats me, and being taken for rides on one of these things. However after many years training and patience, I am now capable of riding any of these machines.