What was your first bike?

**guzzi_nz** · 7th January 2005, 08:50

nsu mini bike

Got it at 5 years old

**bungbung** · 7th January 2005, 09:21

1987 Suzuki GSX400X Impulse, yee ha!

**vifferman** · 7th January 2005, 09:56

I was going to bullshit, and say summat outrageous like a Ducati 750 SS, but the reality is that my firstest bike was the same as Krusti's, without the megaphones. I think my CB175 was a '73 or '74. Before I got it, I used to ride mates' bikes: Kawasaki F7, Yamaha 90 trailbike, BSA 250 Star, Suzuki 50, GT185, but I spent most of my time riding a CB350.

My second bike was like MacD's, except it was the MT250, and like sels1 I used to trailride (occasionally) at lunchtimes.
And I remember all the old bikes etc. mentioned by other people, and rode many of them as well.

Shit I must be getting old.....

**Coyote** · 7th January 2005, 10:13

Originally Posted by guzzi_nz

nsu mini bike

Got it at 5 years old

Lucky bastard

**inlinefour** · 7th January 2005, 11:20

A Suzuki TS185ER and a Honda stepthrough that mum gave to me because she did not like riding to work.

**Juan** · 7th January 2005, 11:35

Yamaha RD 200, ELECTRIC start... I was the man, apart from everyone else had 250's

Followed Mike Hailwood along Douglas prom in 1978 on it and got his picture... lost it tho

cool bike tho, wish i still had it

**Madmax** · 7th January 2005, 11:57

My first was a kawasaki A7

**Riff Raff** · 7th January 2005, 12:01

1967 Suzuki B120 back in 1992.

**vifferman** · 7th January 2005, 12:01

Originally Posted by Madmax

My first was a kawasaki A7

What's that? Sounds vaguely familiar, but even though I used to be able to tell what almost every bike was in the 70s, just by ear, and was a veritable walking encyclopedia of useless bike trivia, I dunno anymore. Bout nuttin...

:spudwhat:

**What?** · 7th January 2005, 18:20

Originally Posted by Madmax

My first was a kawasaki A7

And you lived to tell the tale! Awesome! (I thought my T500 had a few hinges...)

**guzzi_nz** · 7th January 2005, 19:07

Originally Posted by What?

And you lived to tell the tale! Awesome! (I thought my T500 had a few hinges...)

:love2: love the t50o

also the gt550/3 :love2:

**campbellluke** · 7th January 2005, 19:12

1987 Honda GL145 !!

Didn't know how to ride a motorbike. But I saw that my little brother had taken them up. - So I bought the Honda for $200. With something like 55,000kms on it. Nothing about the bike was mint. Except maybe the clutch.

I guess at 18, I was a lateish starter into the motorbike scene. My brother taught me how to ride the bike pretty quickly. And I took a couple of months of constructive critisizm, to learn how to ride safely and properly. - Then in January last year I bought a 250cc Katana replica, got my learners licence. And flicked off the old honda.

Even tho im on my restricted now, I still miss the fun I had with the Honda. - You can't really complain about an excellent learners bike. Which only cost me $200

**Cleve** · 7th January 2005, 19:35

Suzuki X7. 250 aircooled 2 stroke road bike. In 1983.
First time out, left the dealer in Barrys Point Rd on the back wheel across the road between 2 cars and landed on footpath on other side...
Got up, straightened the bent bits and road home the long way, running out of petrol on the way...
Ahhh sweet memories...