Author Topic: The first bike you ever sat on? (Read 3865 times)

wowbagger · « **Reply #25 on:** March 26, 2014, 07:47:58 PM »

1979 Puch moped was mine. My son's was my 1971 CB500.

Bootlegger56 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 26, 2014, 08:07:00 PM »

I fell in love with my first Honda in the mid 60's when my uncle bought a C50 short seat complete with a windshield that he used to ride back and forth to town on a rural NC highway. Boy did he have nerve. I was turned loose with it on the highway when I was ten. Nobody in rural NC cared whether you had a drivers license or not back in those days. I had my first car on the road when I was 12. Boy those were the days! I would love to have one of the old cubs to ride back and forth to town now but I am afraid I would get run over.

SOHC Digger · « **Reply #27 on:** March 26, 2014, 08:54:39 PM »

My dad's KZ1000 chop.

David B · « **Reply #28 on:** March 26, 2014, 08:57:52 PM »

First that I can remember is on the back of my father's Yamaha XS1100. I was in 4th grade so it must have been about 1980. I think the bike was a '79. I can still hear the sound of it starting and settling into an idle when he fired it up.

750K · « **Reply #29 on:** March 26, 2014, 10:21:15 PM »

Quote from: SOHC Digger on March 26, 2014, 08:54:39 PM

My dad's KZ1000 chop.

Oh hell yes, that's great.

MrGardman · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2014, 03:35:43 AM »

Not sure of the year but it would have been a 61 or 62 Norton.

Muckinfuss · « **Reply #31 on:** March 27, 2014, 11:38:04 AM »

First ride was on the back of a 58 Triumph Tiger. First bike owned after I had a license was a two year old 66 BSA Spitfire MKII.

JimJamerino · « **Reply #32 on:** March 27, 2014, 12:54:09 PM »

My folks told me a story about my mom being taken for a ride on some kind of Harley when she was 8 months pregnant with me.

gregripko · « **Reply #33 on:** March 27, 2014, 06:43:50 PM »

Cb550 is the first full sized bike I sat on....

Got on a 50ccc motorcycle and a small four wheeler... Wasn't really into it until I discovered these old gems

Hon3ybadger · « **Reply #34 on:** March 27, 2014, 07:04:13 PM »

My first time I was clinging to the gas tank of my dads 1972 CB 750. I was two then. At 14 I started riding it on my own.

Eleven years later I have my own and rebuilding her from scratch.

Stev-o · « **Reply #35 on:** March 27, 2014, 07:09:01 PM »

Quote from: hillcountrymac on March 26, 2014, 07:29:08 PM

Triumph Daytona 500 back in probably 66 or 67.It was my brothers and I was hooked.I think the Boneville had one carb and the Daytona 2.I can hardly remember.I do remember it was cool.

I think the Bonneville had 2. Either way, very cool.

jas67 · « **Reply #36 on:** March 27, 2014, 07:13:06 PM »

Some generic Briggs-powered mini bike when I was about 12.
The first street legal bike I was on was a "General 5 Star" moped:

David B · « **Reply #37 on:** March 28, 2014, 07:19:44 AM »

Quote from: JimJamerino on March 27, 2014, 12:54:09 PM

My folks told me a story about my mom being taken for a ride on some kind of Harley when she was 8 months pregnant with me.

That's just bad parenting. Not that she was 8 months pregnant, but because it was a Harley.

Sami1987 · « **Reply #38 on:** March 28, 2014, 09:35:41 AM »

My uncles 1964 Rokon Trail Breaker!
I was hooked from then on! He still
has it in his barn!

tool14 · « **Reply #39 on:** March 28, 2014, 09:44:42 AM »

yamaha 400

Lostboy Steve · « **Reply #40 on:** March 28, 2014, 09:57:38 AM »

Quote from: jas67 on March 27, 2014, 07:13:06 PM

Some generic Briggs-powered mini bike when I was about 12.
The first street legal bike I was on was a "General 5 Star" moped:

I had one of those, but I adapted a puch 2 speed 70cc to it.

rb550four · « **Reply #41 on:** March 28, 2014, 10:03:10 AM »

CT 70 was my first butt planting on any motorized 2 wheeler. Tried others and still come back to Honda.
I sat on a Harley for the first time a couple years ago at a museum just for fun...still not interested.

Lostboy Steve · « **Reply #42 on:** March 28, 2014, 10:04:22 AM »

The first bike I sat on (and rode) was my 68z50. Shortly thereafter I sat on and rode a Lambretta GP150. The first full sized bike I sat on was my uncles pre-77 550k. Not sure of the exact year. A bike that was promised to me, and was subsequently sold by my uncles brother-in-law (my other uncle by marriage) after he used it as a daily for a year or two. Something I was fairly sore about until I bought and built my current 550.

SohRon · « **Reply #43 on:** March 29, 2014, 08:14:50 AM »

1965 Montgomery Wards Riverside, built by Benelli and sold through Wards. Belonged to a friend whose dad had two, so we both learned on them together. Probably in '66 or '67, IIRC.

Magpie · « **Reply #44 on:** March 29, 2014, 08:41:27 AM »

1960's Triumph 350 Twin. Went for a ride, scared the hell out of me and I was hooked deep and hard. Bought a Honda CB77 Super Hawk not long after that, summer of '66. Cliff.

dusterdude · « **Reply #45 on:** March 29, 2014, 11:10:36 AM »

Xr75 i think

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Green1 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 29, 2014, 01:38:28 PM »

On the back of my dads red and gold Suzuki T500 Titan at about 8 just about able to reach the pegs.Wearing a shell suit and lid that was far to big.

jtb · « **Reply #47 on:** March 29, 2014, 08:37:06 PM »

Butch Cox's Cushman Eagle

Stev-o · « **Reply #48 on:** March 30, 2014, 10:22:32 AM »

It was a mini-bike that my neighbor, Mr Thomas, had, he'd give us kids rides on it. Like this:

Cool guy, he also had a '63 split window Vette in his garage that was his baby.

MaaseyRacer · « **Reply #49 on:** March 30, 2014, 10:29:19 AM »

I think there is a photo of me at a very young age on my Dads 1964 BSA Spitfire Hornet, or His 1960 BSA Goldstar. I need to find the photo and see which one.

Not long after that I had a Z50 Honda.

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