Your first motorbike memory?

[idleidolidyll]

Nah... Me and Harleys dont mix well, although some of my family and friends do own them.

My mum was the one who couldn't keep the front wheel on the ground...she had only one go on the Honda 50. She opened the throttle, front came up and she fixated on the crabapple tree and rode straight up the trunk and flipped it.

ha! ha!
I was teaching my wife to ride many years ago on her Suzuki Mini Cro. Round and round the back yard she went getting ever closer to the Willow tree until the inevitable clothesline effect took her out, she hung herself on one of the lower branches.

luckily she was only winded and it didn't put her off bikes

[Lissa]

Hmm prob being 15, jumped on a friends scooter and proceeded to crash into the clothesline. but for real bikes it would have to have been when I was about 16. My friends across the road used to have motorbikes for off road, and I used to jump on the back.... but I cringe when I remember it, because I didnt wear any safety gear at all except for a helmet.

Same as goblin, my kids would have me to thank for their first bike experience.

[skelstar]

My Dad bought a Honda 50cc(ish) bike to commute to varsity when I was about 5. I have a photo of being towed around the backyard on my trolley by said bike. A short time after we went out and bought a helmet (french blue) and he took me to school on the back of his bike. I thought I was awesome (still do).

[idleidolidyll]

Nah... Me and Harleys dont mix well, although some of my family and friends do own them.

I finally figured out Harleys a few years back: I worked in a Hog shop.

It came to me suddenly while riding a customers Fat Boy: I was smoking a cigar, listening to the Radio while talking on the mobile and I caught my reflection in the mirror glass: fuck I looked cool!

[Macktheknife]

Farm bikes about 8 years old, and then my brothers 125 2 stroke at about 10, riding around the back garden at speed! (probably only 20km!)

[KATWYN]

.... but I cringe when I remember it, because I didnt wear any safety gear at all except for a helmet.

When I was 15, I had to hitchhike (cringe) home from a girlfreinds house
A guy pulled up on a Katana 1100...I jumped on the back no safety gear, no helmet (I can't remember wearing one), wearing 3/4 pants I burnt my right leg on one very hot exhaust in the process and off we went........

He dropped me off home. My goodness - scary when ya think about it.

[N4CR]

first ever was looking at a mv agusta f4 1000 in silver/blue. when i was about 10 at the secondary amsterdam airport terminal, it was parked right outside. almost lost my parents staring at it and going 'wow'. i always wondered what that bike was untill i got onto kiwibiker after getting my own and learnt more about them.

so yeah... wonder why they are my dream italian bike.. haha. all started from the beginning eh.

[vifferman]

Here's a happy motorcycling memory from WayBack(TM):
I used to fill my first bike up for 80 cents. That would last me 85 miles before it went on reserve.

[Blackbird]

A couple of years ago, I posted a light-hearted history of my biking career with some of the laughs and misfortunes along the way - reattached in case anyone is remotely interested. I originally wrote it for my wife's family history records.

I'd love to see other people's accounts - c'mon, have a go!

[idleidolidyll]

Here's a happy motorcycling memory from WayBack(TM):
I used to fill my first bike up for 80 cents. That would last me 85 miles before it went on reserve.

yeah, my first street legal bike was an RD350.
I remember petrol being 39c/gallon...........yes, GALLON!
I think the RD took 3 and a half of them: about $1.40 to fill and there was no confusion over 98/91, you got petrol or you got diesel

[Jimmy B]

5 or so years old and the kid next door started out with a briggs and stratton scooter, we used to run that thing at every opportunity. Mum of course hated it and I was hooked. First big bike experience came 4 years later and I was pillioned down the road by my mate's dad on his new CB900. I'll never forget how scared I was and how I hit the back of his lid with every gear change. Poor bloke couldnt get out of the house for years without me badgering him for a "double down the road"

[idleidolidyll]

Here's a happy motorcycling memory from WayBack(TM):
I used to fill my first bike up for 80 cents. That would last me 85 miles before it went on reserve.

be serious now vifferman, you were born in 1908 and might have started riding in 1923.
We didn't have dollars and cents back then! Altzheimers?

[vixter]

i was 19 and got a lift home from a nice copper and thought fuck this is good booked on for lessons the week after

[calmone]

I first rode down our driveway on the tank of my fathers Velocette when I was about three. I used to wait at the top of the drive for him to come home from work so I could hop on. ( I still have the velocette). As a kid in the 1950,s i went with my parents to all race meetings in the lower N I . Levin Ohakea Wanganui, Taita Speedway.
I got my first bike in 1964 a year old 175 bantam.

[Swoop]

First memory regarding bikes....?

Late 60's.
Involves 2 coppers standing in the front doorway of the family home...


The world changed for the family after that incident.