How did you get your first bike?

[cave weta]

was it a donated old shitter, did you do a paper round to pay for it, sell the jetski? did your parents buy it for you? was it new or second hand?


To start the ball rolling, I stole mine! - beat that

[Headbanger]

First bike I purchased cost me $100 and I saved up money from my paper round.

100cc farm bike if I remember correctly.

[MSTRS:Me]

I worked 3 jobs for tuppence a month, and finally sold my grandmother into slavery to get my first bike...and then some prick stole it.
I wonder...

[cave weta]

I worked 3 jobs for tuppence a month, and finally sold my grandmother into slavery to get my first bike...and then some prick stole it.
I wonder...

Was it a 100cc kawasaki farm bike? Shit - two posts and I can see myself getting in the crap here!

[Squid69]

was it a donated old shitter, did you do a paper round to pay for it, sell the jetski? did your parents buy it for you? was it new or second hand?


To start the ball rolling, I stole mine! - beat that

i was playing grand theft auto 4 and i hit in a cheat code.
Now i have a gsxr 1000

[vifferman]

I was waiting to cross the road at the traffic lights, and I thought, "Fuck this walking everywhere for a laugh!" Just then, this girl pulled up at the lights, so I pushed her off the bike, and pissed off while she was still groveling on the ground, wondering what was happening.

My third bike was more interesting. My bro-in-law was driving along, and picked up a hitchhiker carrying a helmet, who said, "You wanna bike? I've just dumped mine in the bushes there. I'm sick of the f'kn thing!"
So, he went back with a trailer, checked with the cops that it wasn't stolen, and took it home. He gave it to me in return for painting his roof and helping him fit some guttering. I think the previous owner was pissed off with the handling (it had a race take-off on the rear, that had either been crudely shaved on the sides to fit the swingarm, or had been rubbing on it, and the engine not running right. It needed the intake valves and seats ground and seated (cost me $0), and a larger idle jet (~$5). I spent another $600 on paint, oil, a new chain and tyres, and that was it. Sold it for $850.

[Blackbird]

Grandparents bought me a Suzuki 50 for passing the UK equivalent of my School C's. Bit embarassing really because it had leg guards and a screen with the frontal area of a house but bless 'em; it was what got me into bikes 45 years ago

[MSTRS:Me]

Was it a 100cc kawasaki farm bike? Shit - two posts and I can see myself getting in the crap here!

Tell me the frame and engine numbers - then I can let you know

[megageoff76]

My Mum bought my first 3 bikes, (and a few top end rebuilds as well)
- CB125T, X7 and RZ350K...after that i was on my own.

[TLDV8]

I worked 3 jobs for tuppence a month, and finally sold my grandmother into slavery to get my first bike....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo


First bike was a brand new RM 125 S (still have it in box's )
Saved the $300 deposit as a first year apprentice,got it from Coleman's mid 1976.
The salesman wished me luck when i told him i had never ridden a proper bike with a clutch and gearbox
Only thing ridden prior was a Puch scooter (3 speed left handle bar shifter) which i rode off a big dirt pile and a Motobecane moped which had a pedal fall off and go in the back wheel at speed.

The piston port 5 speed RM was whole new ball game after reading the owners manual on how to ride it,the learning curve was vertical.

[ajturbo]

i paid for mine

[Beemer]

Went into the bike shop to sell the guy who worked there some photos I'd taken from the weekend's racing at Manfeild and walked out with a new bike...

I had just learned to ride and didn't have anything to practice on so he said an RG150 would be perfect - it was, eventually! Paid for it myself, like everything else I like and want.

[vifferman]

Actually, I was lying about my first bike.
I sold everything I could to come up with some cash (my bicycle, my sister's, my train set, etc.) and borrowed the rest from my parents. I had a job after school and in the holidays, working in a furniture shop and doing deliveries. Took me nearly a year to pay it off ($600, but I only earned 80c/hour, and later $1/hr).
Wrote it off after 15 months or so, and bought another bike ($750) a couple of months later.
I bought my fourth bike with money left to me when my grandmother died. Caused a few maritals (bedroom suite, or newer bike?? hmmmmm.....)

[TOTO]

i sold my car. next day I had the bike in the garage

[yod]

I sold my 1974 Capri and bought a 1987 NS250R - fookin minta it was too, til i biffed it down the side of the road at Little River five days later