So how did you get into this lovely sport?

**Pierce** · 19th December 2008, 10:59

Just curious as to how you got into the sport of off road biking. Who do you take your hat off to for introducing you to the sport?

For me and my bro it was our Crazy trail riding grandfather. Bought and did up a couple of bikes for us when we were probably 8 and 10yrs old. XR100 and XR200. Rode them for about a year then didn't ride for another 14yrs. Bought a near new bike in August last year and have been going "kinda" hard ever since (minus the 9months I had off due to injury haha).

So Hat's off to Bill for getting us bikes as kids and also a mate who let me on his brand new CRF250 back in August last year cos without riding a bike recently i'd still be dreaming bout bikes.

**barty5** · 19th December 2008, 11:58

My parents split up dads new bits kid had a bike so as to even it up he bought me a RM80 twin shocker bit of a shocker to learn on but it was way quicker than his and my mate bike down the road ( ever since i have had nothing but shit from my father in a good way though re my choise of sport hell he started it). That was 23 years ago

**cheese** · 19th December 2008, 13:27

Dad rode so I did. I stopped when I was 16 cause my IT175 was a heap of shit, only ever went to the river in Napier and mucked around really. Got a RM that was a heap of shit about 3 years ago. now have a CR and love it.

**B0000M** · 19th December 2008, 13:56

it all started when i was about 7, being at a country school most of the other boys had bikes of some sort or lt50s or just dads quad lol, i nagged the old man a bit and one day an old honda Z50 showed up at home, the good old 3 speed!

that lasted about a year of hooning around then onto an xr100, started getting my hands on old mx magazines, out grew the xr,
dad again sorted me out a CR80 and it all began from there, racing mx, tt & beach racing in gisborne and whakatane and the occaisonal trip to hawkes bay
went from there to a CR80 big wheel - 1997, the 2nd year of the big wheel CR80, progressed to 8nz on that in whatever the class was,
then out grew that, onto a 125, got the hang of that progressing to 10nz in that class - (even beat the famous b.t a couple of times!),
then got bored with mx, did a couple of cross countrys, then kinda lost interest in bikes for a good 6-7 years and probably did about 2-3 hours riding in that time.
then jan 07 decided to get back into it so bought a 06 cr250 and am currently trying to work back up to where i was speed-wise as well as trying to get out in the trails and enduros as much as my credit card will let me. meanwhile my sideaffect is providing scott411 a living

so really the biggest person to thank would be my dad. cheers

on that note, id like to thank my sponsors of today:

if only i had some...

**TLDV8** · 19th December 2008, 13:57

I saw Gaston Rahier,i caught the train into Auckland then a bus up to Colemans Suzuki $300 deposit in hand.

**BM-GS** · 19th December 2008, 14:03

Lived in a place where everybody got a moped at 16, then a mate at a holiday job got me into bikes - and I always thought cars sucked...

I got the Mrs into bikes 10 yrs ago (not that she needed much convincing) and we've ridden roadbikes for ages, then moved we here & had kids and thought we could all do this together, so the kids got quad/50/etc. Just hope the kids don't get really into something which stops "playtime"!

My mother said she'd disown me if I ever got a bike in the UK and that was a PITA, shifting the thing round to a mates, having to work out how to get to work, etc, on occasion! Dad was the one who slipped me the difference between purchase price & bank-balance for my first big (350 YPVS) roadbike.

**scott411** · 19th December 2008, 14:06

my Dad (who was a motorcycle shop owner) brought me a JR50 with training wheels when i was 2, have ridden drit bikes ever since,

**B0000M** · 19th December 2008, 14:07

Originally Posted by scott411

my Dad (who was a motorcycle shop owner) brought me a JR50 with training wheels when i was 2, have ridden drit bikes ever since,

every father should take that leaf from your dad's book!

**Ride it till the red** · 19th December 2008, 14:16

It's all the old mans fault aswell....

He raced a million years ago, on and off road and wasn't too bad I hear. Some of my earliest memories are of being on the front of his 500 smoker through the Aka's (on the back wheel climbing out from Norm's crossing especially).

At four years old I decided I should have one! But allas the "other parent" stepped in.... apparently "you have to be ten to ride dirt bikes so you can have one then". And that was the end of that, dads bikes were sold shortly after and i went on with riding my bmx.

About a month before my 10th birthday much to mothers disgust I bought home a motorbike catalogue....

A brand spankers DS80 was outside when I woke up "double digits" and it spiralled out of control from there.

Thanks Dad!

**vazza** · 19th December 2008, 14:55

Big ups to my dad buying me a PW80 back in the day.. Was so awesome

Never stopped riding after that pretty much.

**chop** · 19th December 2008, 14:55

trying to live the dream... oldman was a top enduro rider (isde's etc) so thought id give it a crack also it kinda explains the huskies his last sponcered ride was a husky and got talked into mine.. Mates with scotts oldman too... Did some cool things with kx250s together

**scott411** · 19th December 2008, 14:57

Originally Posted by B0000M

every father should take that leaf from your dad's book!

he turns 60 next year, and we still go riding together, best family sport thier is,

**Pierce** · 19th December 2008, 15:23

Originally Posted by scott411

he turns 60 next year, and we still go riding together, best family sport thier is,

Yep my grandfather sold his bike a few years back at the ripe OLD age of 73

**telliman** · 19th December 2008, 15:28

iv raced bmx all my life so was always gonna play the hole dirtbike thing at some stage, came home from living on the gold coast a couple of years ago and some mates from the beach talked me into getting a bike so i did,problem was they all decided to sell theres shortly after and i was stuck with this addiction i now have! its thanx to this cool KB community that we have here that iv been able to learn how to ride, where to ride, and how to fix and maintain my ride

now i live for the day that me and my son(or my daughter) are hitting table tops together like you guys and your dads!!!

all i wanted as akid was "one of those green bikes with that power thingy".