What bike did you learn to ride on?
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Scooter trash
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Like many of you, I learned to ride on a multitude of borrowed bikes, belonging to friends foolish enough to let me on them. 
;D Mostly dirt bikes back then. It was the late 60's early 70's and I can't remember the makes or models I got to ride. I was a young punk enthralled by the sounds, smells and the freedom!! 8)
Also, like many of you, I was forbidden to have my own bike. Later in my late teens, I managed to get my licence on a friends kz400.
I was engaged to be married at the ripe old age of 21 and started planning to buy my first street bike. Bought my first bike in March 1977. It was a '74 Kawasaki h2b 750 Triple. I know. : That explains a lot. I kept it at a friends house and finally got to ride it to our own place a few months later when we got married that May. Never looked back!
Traded the h2b for a new kz1000 in Sept '77 and still own that one.
I always wished I still had the h2, so finally in 2006 (the kids were all growed up and on their own!), I bought another one and still have it! 8)
;D Mostly dirt bikes back then. It was the late 60's early 70's and I can't remember the makes or models I got to ride. I was a young punk enthralled by the sounds, smells and the freedom!! 8)Also, like many of you, I was forbidden to have my own bike.
Later in my late teens, I managed to get my licence on a friends kz400.I was engaged to be married at the ripe old age of 21 and started planning to buy my first street bike. Bought my first bike in March 1977. It was a '74 Kawasaki h2b 750 Triple. I know. :
That explains a lot. I kept it at a friends house and finally got to ride it to our own place a few months later when we got married that May. Never looked back! Traded the h2b for a new kz1000 in Sept '77 and still own that one.
I always wished I still had the h2, so finally in 2006 (the kids were all growed up and on their own!), I bought another one and still have it! 8)
Armadillo_Rancher
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First ride: 1972-ish Honda 350. Actually learning to ride: 1983 Gpz 550. The Gpz was a love affair.
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1sttimer
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When I was about 10, my pop bought me a DS80. I broke about 13 clutch levers getting the hang of the clutch. It's was amazing and pulled hard for an 80.
I bought a running 73 CB175 two years ago when I was 23 to build a cafe. I'm 25 now and am just finishing it so you could say I just got my first street bike! Haha
I bought a running 73 CB175 two years ago when I was 23 to build a cafe. I'm 25 now and am just finishing it so you could say I just got my first street bike! Haha
andrewlk
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1978 YZ80 in 1983. We raced the perimeters of my buddy's horse pastures and the service roads around Brighton Twp and Beaver, PA. I've gotten wound up in an electric fence more than once.
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My first ride on a bike was on a 1935 Triumph 500. Promptly crashed it. The learning process continued on 1954 C11G BSA. That turnip truck nearly put me off motorcycling. Thank God it didn't.
Soltesjoey350
21 years young, 1972 Honda CB350.
Heres a pic actually of the first bike I rode and I still have it 5 years later. A little cr80 when I was 16.. Got my cb350 at 18 when this picture was taken. Still trying to get my dad to give me his 750 interceptor
biker_reject
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guernz said:
Same here. I still have the bloody thing, Needs a top end rebuild and the rear straightened.
Here she is after I had her repainted and replaced all the crusty parts. The seat is off a Deltek Rockhopper.
After that I moved on to a '71 XL250 to learn clutch control and the likes. Still the best dirt bike I have owned.
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My first 3 wheeler ride and first broken bone go hand in hand !! Learned to ride dirtbikes on a 1978ish Suzuki RM80 and street bikes on my dads 1977 Suzuki GT380. That bike might as well been a rocket ship as far as I was concerned!
My first 3 wheeler ride and first broken bone go hand in hand !! Learned to ride dirtbikes on a 1978ish Suzuki RM80 and street bikes on my dads 1977 Suzuki GT380. That bike might as well been a rocket ship as far as I was concerned!
pn2501
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Yeah i jumped on a family friends 70's 250 road bike relegated to paddock basher it was way too big for me i couldn't control it and rode it through a fence and smashed one of my front teeth in half, only person pleased about that was the dentist.
Yeah three wheelers are crazy, when we went and picked the 3 wheeler up from the guy we bought it from, his reason for selling it was he flipped it and the brake lever went up his nostril and tore his nose up.. 11 year old me was like eewwww groosssss........ let's buy it!
Yeah three wheelers are crazy, when we went and picked the 3 wheeler up from the guy we bought it from, his reason for selling it was he flipped it and the brake lever went up his nostril and tore his nose up.. 11 year old me was like eewwww groosssss........ let's buy it!
