Topic: What was your first motorcycle?

[ofreen]

1965 Honda S90.

[DammitDan]

Well no wonder you didn't want to show her face, Gordon 

[TwoTired]

The girl's face is blacked out to protect myself, not her.   Hey, I was young and desperate, and this is the only picture I have of that bike!

Hey Gordon,
 Pretty tacky using that black box.  You could have at least found a paper bag Icon.  Unless, of course, that brings back too many feelings of arousal.

 

Cheers,

[Gordon]

Hey Gordon,
 Pretty tacky using that black box.  You could have at least found a paper bag Icon.  Unless, of course, that brings back too many feelings of arousal.

 

She actually refused to wear the bag for the picture!   And then started mumbling something about respect, and being able to breathe.  

Normally I had her wear two bags, in case one fell off!

[Rocking-M]

1st bike, 73 SL350. a few weeks later,
71 750 k1. Wish I had them both back.

[okie]

1959 Cushman Super Eagle(8 HP) in a box.  OK, so it was several boxes.  It took me about a month to put it together and then another week to get it started.  I still have scars from riding it.    It is best to learn when you are young and heal quickly.

Next was a '64 Honda 305 Dream, a couple of Parilla 98cc's, then my first new bike, a 1968 CL350, and many many more.  It is all just a blur.  If I could have any of them back I think I would just keep the Transalp I have now.

[seaweb11]

I bought a 1969 Yamaha street bike off a friend. I think it was a 250 or so?   It had been his grandfathers and the dude rode it till he died at 69 years.  I bought it in 1979.  1st thing I id was put on clubmans.   

What I sight I must have been.  I was 17.....lying on the tank and given er all the time   It had a bent cam and I ended up going through brushes every couple of months.  I Finally bought out all the stock of brushes in Vancouver and sold it

........And like very bike you wished you hadn't sold....I wish I still had it.

Going to Vancouver tomorrow to look at a Honda 185 Twin Star. Thought it might be good for people who visit us here who want to get around. Should be able to buy it for $250-$300.00.  Who needs a licence on a little Island

[boatsdickson]

My first scoot is a 78 750k8 that I got in 1992. Well maintained by a previous in line 4 enthusiast friend. Pretty well stock cept the aftermarket 4-1 and the metallic green krylon job. I think this picture was taken in 93...

[Steve F]

A 1974 HONDA CB360 twin.  Too slow for me, would barely do 65 mph.

Why didn't you fix that broken bike, Steve?  My older 305 Super Hawk would do over 90 with two aboard, and 98 (indicated) in a "speed" tuck with one on board.  It was in stock trim.

Cheers,

Well, I'm not really saying it COULDN'T go any faster, but at the time, I had no place to work on it, (I lived in an apartment), and was scared to death to touch anything on it, since I wasn't too mechanically "confident".  I probably could have made it run better, but I had it less than 2 seasons, and then bought a brand spankin new '82 CB650C "Custom"  Miss that bike   

[Uncle Ernie]

"The girl's face is blacked out to protect myself, not her.   Hey, I was young and desperate"

So Gordon- You started out as a girl? ! 
How's that working for you?  Well- you know what I mean...

[gar]

I'm enjoying these stories!  I started out like many here: an old dirtbike.  I started riding on a '70 or '71 Yamaha 125 enduro when I was about 12y.o.  Used to chase the cows around and jump the rail road tracks for fun.  When I was 16, I got my first street bike...a 1973 Kawasaki 2-stroke triple. I'd race the other kids home in their P.O.S. cars when classes ended during High School.  It cost $200, ran great, noisy as heck, and when I drove it home on that first day, my mother took one look at it and said I had to return it.  It was too big.  Needless to say I did not...

[techy5025]

My first bike was a black '65 305 dream which a friend gave me to repay a debt. I rode
it to the Honda dealer in 1969 to look at getting a dirt bike. He kept trying to get me to
ride the new bike....a 750.  To appease him, I rode it around the block.  That bike is the
one in back in my avatar....still have it. 

Jim

[kettlesd]

Rode friends' trail bikes through the 1970's lots, but the first i owned myself was an '82 CM450.

It was two years old when i got it and a great working bike. Cracked the magic 100mph mark a few times on it. Once, it went into a wicked tankslapper that miraculously smoothed itself out before i ate asphalt. One and only time thats ever happened to me - I still get the shivers when i think about it.

[Brent C.]

Great stories!!

[ProTeal55]

First bike was a 1980 Yamaha XS650 That had 5,000 original miles which I bought in perfect shape for $400 ! I learned how to ride on that beast, and then I got into HD's. Me being into CB's now kinda makes things go back full circle so to speak..

[ledbetter]

My first bike was 1986 ninja 250R,man I loved that bike ,even if it did try to kill me once or twice.
Wish I had a pic of it .

Ledbetter

[jabbadeznuts]

My first was an '82 Suzuki GN125. That thing topped out at 50 mph going down hill. On a good day.

[DammitDan]

I had to update Gordon's girlfriend since I got rushed yesterday.

I think she's beautiful.  On the inside.  Or maybe not if she spouts off the way her twin brother does...

[DarkRider]

First bike ever i ever had was a little Yamaha 50 cc scooter that i beat the living hell out of then came along the Yamaha 80 cc Motocross bike..followed by a Suzuki RV125 cc dual purpose. Got out of offroad bikes for about a year after a bad lay down with the RV..started motocross racing on a Suzuki RM250. Got out of motocross in grade 12 bought a 93 Honda CBR 900 RR track bike and restored it to street legal status..as well as a 92 Kawasaki Ninja ZX7 rode the CBR from summer of 01 till spring of 02 when i traded it off on a new Yamaha R1. kept the kawi for stunting then got rid of both after a lowside on a buddys Yamaha R6. Fast forward from 02 when the accident occured till late 06. First i bought the K4 i have now then the VF i have now..and now im looking at a twin VF i may buy in the early summer if its still there.

[xtalon]

First bike was a CHOPP'A!!!

















This isn't it, but it looked almost identical.  Mine was a very pale green.  Somehow I managed to get it caught on the chain link fence that surrounded our back yard with both tires about a foot off the ground.  I was 4 or 5.  My dad had to come pry us both off.  No harm, no foul, so pull the cord, crank her up and off I go.

Next came the Honda 50, ran that one into the back of our 'brick' house and broke off the water spigot.  Both the bike and I were fine (except for my red butt - no spare the rod, spoil the child here).  It would have been a nice wheelie if I wasn't flailing off the back of bike with my legs dragging the ground.   

Then the Honda SL70... some good stories there too.

First real street bike was my dad's '77 CB550 which I started riding when I was 15.  Didn't want a car when I turned 16, so rode the CB to and from school, work and also 'Freddie Spencer'ed' it all over town.  Damn thing had crash bars (hated) and I 'Freddie Spencer'ed' one of them into the rear quarter panel of a station wagon.  Only knocked off a little trim molding off the wagon, but bent the crash bar like it was coat hanger wire, but somehow I stayed upright.    I also remember being let out of school due to snow.  Everyone's getting into their nice warm cars and there's me rolling off on the five-fifty.  That bike is responsible for me buying my current CB750 and finding this awesome forum and great group of people!

--xTalon

[tramp]

1974 350 4
smoothest motercycle ever built

[mrbreeze]

Honda super 90(don't remember the year)....68 Kawi 120.....Honda 305 scrambler(don't remember the year) Honda 500 twin...I think 75 or 76 (Clean bike but a POS!).....74 Kawi 900 Z1(nice!!!!!).... 77 Kawi 1000 LTD (also nice)....and finally...my 750 K5.

[Jeb]

Moto Morini 50cc (it was really larger) I had in Italy at age 14.  A really cool bike - fast too - clipons and most importantly freedom!!!

[xtalon]

Let's hear some stories with some of these bikes.  I know there has to be PLENTY!!! 

--xTalon

[Glenn Stauffer]

My first was a 1977 CB550K.  Bought it off my friend, Andy.  The Andy stories could go on forever - this is the guy who bought every car (a Fiat and two VW Fox's - great cars, eh?)  I owned up until he disappeared - either to Jail or Colorado best I can figure.   

The bike was something he bought a few years earlier because someone talked him into it.  He hardly ever rode it.  Sold it to me when he was in one of those 'need money' moments which were often.  I had never ridden a motorcycle before that time; took it out first day I owned it and almost wrecked it, so signed up for the MSF course, learned to ride and got my license in the same four days.  I still own that bike even though I sold it back to Andy 8 years ago; he kept it stored in my garage after the sale and we never got around to officially transferring title - though I did get the money - then he vanished and left the bike behind.

My second bike was a Yamaha RD400 which I still own.  My third bike (running - there is a non-running RD350 [also sold to Andy and also still in my garage] and CB550K in the mix somewhere) was a 1975 CB750K which I still own.  Then I got married again and had a kid late in life and, well, guess I'm stuck with what I have.  Not a bad group of bikes to be stuck with.