Post a pic. Your first bike...

[vifferman]

Post a picture?
Can't.
Well... I can, but probably won't, as the only picture I have is a B+W photo of it after I wrote it off. Not a pretty sight.

everyone had a QR50!

Not me.

I had a 250RS aas well, loved it.

Me too!
Well... mine had an XR500 donk in it, so it wasn't Egg Zachary a CB250RS; more like an XBR500RS.

1974 Honda MT 125 Elsinore - notable for frequently allowing a bit of carbon to bridge the spark plug gap at inopportune moments, (like when managing to get 120km/h out of it downhill with a tailwind!).

I had a '74 Elsinore too! The 250 though.

EDIT:
What the heck; I may not have a nice pic of my CB175, but it looked pretty much like this before I fukted it.
173cc, SOHC, twin carbs, points ignition, 5-speed gearbox, drum brakes, but a lot of fun.

[davereid]

Here's a list and piccys of the entire fleet, going right back to the dark ages.

With the exception of the TGB and the CZ, which for some reason I havent added.

http://www.eslnz.com/motorcycles.html

[YellowDog]

http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/galle...V44%201962.jpg

[zahria]

Me too!
Well... mine had an XR500 donk in it, so it wasn't Egg Zachary a CB250RS; more like an XBR500RS.


So, yours would do more than 60kph into a head wind?

[vifferman]

So, yours would do more than 60kph into a head wind?

What do you think?
It didn't have a very impressive top speed, as it was fairly low geared, but made up for that with pretty good wheelies.

[vifferman]

Here's a list and piccys of the entire fleet, going right back to the dark ages.

I think I've owned WAY too few bikes over the last 35 years.
I've missed out on so much fun.


I guess it's a bit late now to try to make up for it.

[light]

This was my first bike

[Drunken Monkey]

This is the one...

[bungbung]

May win "most ugly" award, but I have a firestorm now...

[nudemetalz]

My first bike back in 1982 was a 1980 CR80R Elsinore.
Bit of a weapon for a 12 year old not used to nasty powerbands. The amount of times I crashed.......

[mansell]

Was actually my second bike but a A100 is harder to find and I still wish I had this one

[batboy]

mine...a yamama XT500 '79 i think it was....the shin killer she was called
dickie compression lever and dodgy compression window let to many a sore leg trying to start it

[Ender EnZed]

1989 Honda VT250 Spada. Then another one the same after I crashed it.

[vifferman]

Was actually my second bike but a A100 is harder to find and I still wish I had this one

Quite different to the 200 "Electric" that preceded it. My friend's brother had one, and it was a trendy (for the '70s) purple paintjob, with a rounder tank than that, and one of those friction steering dampers atop the triple clamps.

mine...a yamama XT500 '79 i think it was....the shin killer she was called
dickie compression lever and dodgy compression window let to many a sore leg trying to start it

I reckon in some ways the 500 singles would have been better off without those. My XBR500Rs was for some reason (lack of space under the tank??) missing the decompression lever, but was easy enough to start: fold up the RH footpeg, kick it over to TDC, then give it a kick. Started first or second time, every time, with no wrecking of shin or spraining of ankle.
There was a trend for a while in '75 or thereabouts to fit a decompression release to the spare sparkplug hole of two-stroke dirtbikes, to give them some engine braking. Made a sound like a chicken when the lever was pulled.

[KiwiGs]

My first road bike was a red white Honda MB5 but there is already a picture, so here is my second road bike
'cept mine was blue