How did you get your first bike?

[Big Dave]

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I rode a four fifty- they were DOHC eh? - it had less power than my stolen Kawasaki 100.

A complete more blue smoke than a 2-stroke shit box.
Waiting for the great leap forward.
As soon as I started full time work I traded it on a new SR500 with a Bikini fairing and drop bars which made way for a hopped up XS1100 and it was all over rover.
Estimate more than a million KM and over 200 vehicles tested since.

[Harvd]

Found it! someone dumped it so we collected it and took it to the cops and they had it for a wee while until one day they said take it away from us. (it was a horrible rusting peice of shit) never got it working and threw it in the dump lol.

About a year later i had saved up enugh from working at mitre 10 to go buy a running bike. Xt250 wrote it off it a month later...

[gatch]

Got my first bike (1989 rg50) from my brother for a bag of pascalls milkshakes, was a year behind in reg, he though it would be too expensive to get it up to date, cost me about 150 buck to get it current and I was laughing, he was whinging..

Got my spada from my bro too, had it for about 5 years, 50-60,000km on it, killed the motor and now I'm planning on a re-power with a xr650..

[Spyke]

dads boss had two old ts185's sitting in the farm shed in a sad state. dad got me them for free. I made a good bike out of the two and now tootle around on it.

[YellowDog]

Mine was a French Mobylette moped. It was at my grandad's house after he died and I recon it was from the mid to late 1950s. I found this photo on the web, which is exactly how I remember it (same colour too).

I spend many weekends replacing bits and pieces before eventiually getting it going (with a little help). It wasn't powerful enough to get up hill without peddling to assist, however it got there in the end

[glice]

OMG! I had one too! in the 70s when they gave cars glue on vinyl roofs- honda gay-ve the CB200 a vinyl strip down the petrol tank..... Styley eh!

haha, yea it was pretty cool. I miss that bike. only cost 300. although anytime I went somewhere on it, I got there with grease on me and smelling of petrol, with a big grin on my face and thinking, yea this is what bikings about.

[MarkH]

OMG! I had one too! in the 70s when they gave cars glue on vinyl roofs- honda gay-ve the CB200 a vinyl strip down the petrol tank..... Styley eh!

I wonder if that was when the Honda = gay thing started? Either due to looking gay or maybe the vinyl strip appealed to gay men and they started buying Hondas.

[Oakie]

It was April 1978 and was another Kawasaki 100 dirt bike. (A 'G5' to be precise). I got it because a guy I worked with offered it to me for $450. I thought "sweet, if I get a motorbike I won't have to pedal my pushbike anymore". A real chick-magnet too! Oddly, it was. I was trying to start the bastard outside the Oamaru Drill Hall one day when this little 15 year old girl noticed me and felt sorry for me. As I type this 31 years later she's a couple of metres away cooking my tea.

[Pedrostt500]

I worked my arse off weekends and holidays for the old man on the farm, brought a brand new Suzuki TS 185 ER in 1982, the previous bikes had been dads farm bikes, The mountain Goat and a Suzuki TC 185

[BM-GS]

Kinda inherited dad's Mobylette 50 at 16, then after a bit I looped a workmate's Yam DT100, arsing about after work. I bought it and he helped me fix it and rebuild the Moby. My interest in bikes are all his fault, really.

Then I got a Kawa KMX125 learner in UK with the remains of granny's legacy and was bunged the difference between savings and cost of a spanking new (but well marked-down) Yam RD350 YPVS F2 by dad - I'd never have trusted a 2nd-hand one.

Now have a wife to buy me new bikes... trouble is that she wants a turn too.

[sunhuntin]

my first bike was a family hand me down. the olds bought it for the brother, who had both sidecovers stolen off it. then dad had it, and finally me. i replaced the side covers, and a few weeks after that, it got hit by a car. lol.

[Mr Triple]

My first bike was a Suzuki TM125 which I brought off one of my brothers for $100 even sold it for $150 so I was happy.
Next bike was a road bike and my old man helped with buying it, but I did pay him back. It was one of those Hondas with the vinyl down the middle of the tank

[cs363]

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!

From the accurate description we've received from the victim, I'm confident we have our man!

[cave weta]

It was April 1978 and was another Kawasaki 100 dirt bike. (A 'G5' to be precise). I got it because a guy I worked with offered it to me for $450. I thought "sweet, if I get a motorbike I won't have to pedal my pushbike anymore". A real chick-magnet too! Oddly, it was. I was trying to start the bastard outside the Oamaru Drill Hall one day when this little 15 year old girl noticed me and felt sorry for me. As I type this 31 years later she's a couple of metres away cooking my tea.

Awww man- that is just beautiful.....


actually - mine...well my brothers bike was a G5 too

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

A paper round, worked every holiday on a farm and begged my parents to top up the rest to get a cool 'as' Yamaha FS1E in high speed purple of course at 16yrs old. Prior to that had had a go at school boy scrambling on a old RM Suzuki paid for by the old man.
But it was the awesome FS1E that got me started on the road.