What was your first bike?

[Ghost Lemur]

'81 CB250RS.

She sure was a babe... *sniff*sniff*

[bluninja]

Got a Suzuki A100 (blue) in 1980....Once rode it from Doncaster to Morecombe via Cumbria (187 miles) to my cousins 21st and engagement party then Morecambe to Portsmouth (290 miles) the next day. Had a blow out of the rear tyre near Manchester (on a Sunday); luckily it happened outside a house where some bikers lived. They gave me an inner tube to get it fixed and I was on my way....'sniff' them were the days.

[NC]

TZZZAH!!!

[gav]

I had a mint 1976 XL125K3 with the orange tank, course by the time I'd finished with it, it was crap....
Can still remember my first dealings with a bike salesman. He had a 1977 Yamaha DT175 that I thought was so hot, parents came to look at it. "Can I test ride it?"
"Sure, hang on, its got a flat tyre. Tell you what, come back tomorrow and it'll be already for ya" cool, go back next day, again with parents in tow. "Ah, the DT175, sorry just sold it this afternoon!" What a fucken wanker.... 15 years old, should told him to get fucked and gone off and bought a car, so nah, ended up with a slow arse XL125 (I paid half.....)

[Bonez]

TZZZAH!!!

Interesting model. Did Ya stop taking the meds yesterday?

[Mongoose]

Interesting model. Did Ya stop taking the meds yesterday?

I am still trying to work out if its stopping the meds or starting them that causes these out bursts

[magnum]

a 1980 xr200a back in 1985,shit im getting old. :cool2:

[Bonez]

I am still trying to work out if its stopping the meds or starting them that causes these out bursts

Maybe she needs to be let out more

[avgas]

an old school suzuki ts185er...
and was i the man or what takin it to and from school,
all those other kids on the push bikes....
suckers..

Same here. Man those bikes were cool.
God know how many times i fucked up riding it round the orchard - then having to fish it out of the trees a good 4ft above ground

[Sniper]

Honda CG125. Great bike

[Joni]

Mine... Kawa ZXR 250. lol, why? why I ask you??......

[Magua]

2000 GN125, damn that was an awesome first bike, just so gutless! I put something like 4000k's on it in the few months I owned it just traveling around Auckland.

[Krayy]

I learnt to ride on my dad's CB100. I got laughed at sometimes on the way to/from school.

My first bike was going to be an RD400, then my dad found out what it was (f*ckin' HOT, that's what is was!) and vetoed that one (damn being underage) so I had to settle for a 1980 Yammie XT250. Not great top speed (it'd push to get to 105), but the limit was 80 then and I bought it for the off road more than on, plus I had seen them in the James Bond movie "For your eyes only" and thought if I chucked some spiky tyres on it, I could ride it in the snow like they did.

Anyone else ride the Albany business parks when they were being built? Way fun.

[riffer]

1979. 2nd form Taita Intermediate. Built a minibike.

Old British two-stroke self-powered lawnmower engine with centrifugal clutch. Throttle grip from bike store in Lower Hutt. Wheels from a couple of old wheelbarrows we scrounged from Silverstream tip. No brakes.

Graduated aged 16 (1983) to a Suzuki 1980 GP125 that was my dad's but took pity on me and said I could have it, as long as I learned to maintain every aspect of the bike as I was not allowed to have it serviced in the shop.

Incidentally, that was the first bike I learned to rebuild a front end on after a crash, but that's another story...

[Biff]

A Puch 75cc. I think it had three gears and was a semi auto.