How did you first get your taste of motorcycling?

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alexmac

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I got my first taste of motorcycling when I was 10 years old.
There was a tomboy who lived next door who took me for a ride on her Honda CB350.
She took me through a local canyon road. I still remember that ride like it was yesterday...
even though it was 30 years ago.

How about you? What was your first motorcycle memory?
 
I was 4 at a local school fair, they had a haybail track with little suzuki 3 wheelers, did a couple of laps then realised that the brakes didn't work! So I put my feet down (bad move) pulled a fair amount of skin off the back of my legs but I was hooked and have continued to have bikes pull bits of skin off me ever since Lol.... ;D love em!
 
This is my dads t500 and me when i was 5 or 6. i use to go to the bar with him and watch him kick the guts out of harleys drag racing
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all night while i ate french fries and drank soda

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With my Mum on the back of Father's pre war BSA sloper ...........8 week's after conception.

MY first ride [ as the rider ] aged 11 in the woods near our house - haven't stopped since [ 56 years later ].
 
Where I grew up, there were lots of woods behind our houses, so many of us had dirt bikes. Not me, of course, so I learned to ride every one else's bikes. Have loved riding since.
 
Receiving a generic twinshock kawasaki plastic dirt bike when I was 4. (It could fly) then being about 8 and attempting to ride a neighbors cr125... not a pretty sight. Been hooked ever since
 
Racing my Evil Kenevil "BigWheel" down my grandparents' driveway as a post-toddler. All up and down dirt hills from there.
 
When. I was three and four years old, my Dad would put me on his "Bonnie" between him and the tank and take me for quick rides around the block.
 
When I was about 5-6y/o my Dad bought a Honda 305 Scrambler, completely disassembled. It was a frame and wheels. Everything else was in boxes and mason jars. I watched and handed him tools while he rebuilt it.
 
When I was 8 my Dad brought a old 3.5HP minibike home. I rode the piss out of every chance I got, blasting through cow pastures WOT. I remember grabbing the centrifugal clutch for some reason and burning the hell out my hand, good lesson. Also managed to dump it on landing after jumping a ditch and being pretty sure I was dying.
 
On a family camping trip when i was 11 yrs old. No one taught me what that lever infront of the left hand grip was for.Damn near blew that poor little CT70 (I think that's what it was anyway!)up. No one explained the therory behind the term transmision. They figured I had decent balance,and could pick it up I should be able to ride. After i got the whole gears/torque multiplication thing down. It was all down hill from there. With various types/displacements/brands,in close pursuit usually.....
 
I started early. In 1947 an upside down wheelbarrow had to suffice. The first real ride was on a pre-war 500 Triumph single that belonged to a cousin. That was 1954. I was eight and my feet touched the ground so I was deemed OK. A quick lesson on what was what and I was sent off down the road. Turn right and straight into the barn! Hadn't a clue what I was doing. Still not sure what I'm doing today. I didn't ride again until I got my learners permit in 1960.

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By weslake at 2009-12-17
 
When I was 4, Dad brought me home a '69 Honda Mini Trail. I had a dirt path around the house I rode it so much.Had a couple bad crashes. I just picked up a pretty nice one last fall for my daughters. I have to clean the carb and get a seat cover. I hope they like it as much as I liked mine. I got to get it running before Mid-Ohio for my pit bike. 8)
 
1953-Zundapp 125 for paper route,1954-Zundapp 250 for paper route,1956-Zundapp 601 for chasing women.Been hard at it most of my 73 years and will prolly die wrenching on some damn old bike. Current stable 1982 Kaw 1000 J,1986 Yammy 600 Radian ,1972 Bonnie, 2008 Bonnie Black.bj
 
Redbird said:
When I was about 5-6y/o my Dad bought a Honda 305 Scrambler, completely disassembled. It was a frame and wheels. Everything else was in boxes and mason jars. I watched and handed him tools while he rebuilt it.
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Coolest story yet Redbird.
Parents bought me a suzuki JR50 when I turned 4, went to a CR60 then a RM125. In college I bought my CB550 nighthawk. My dad always had a bike around. At one point my mom, dad and sister each had a bike and we would go camping and trailriding North of Lake Ponchatrain. Those were the days! I did continue to race motocross up until 2004 but eventually the dad life caught up and I had to tone it down :)
 
It was today for me Almost a year ago I bought a 1972 honda cl350 barn find Ive spent the last year reading the manual, watching at least a couple hundred youtube videos, a couple hundred google searches, a few internet orders for parts, taking off stuff I didnt want on the bike wrenching it and getting my hands and garage really dirty.... making the house smell like oil and gas..... started it up a couple days and have been toying with the tuning.... took it out for my first ride today..... 1972 honda CL350 completed all done by me.... priceless
 
cafenoir said:
It was today for me Almost a year ago I bought a 1972 honda cl350 barn find Ive spent the last year reading the manual, watching at least a couple hundred youtube videos, a couple hundred google searches, a few internet orders for parts, taking off stuff I didnt want on the bike wrenching it and getting my hands and garage really dirty.... making the house smell like oil and gas..... started it up a couple days and have been toying with the tuning.... took it out for my first ride today..... 1972 honda CL350 completed all done by me.... priceless
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Nice! thats the stuff :D
 
cafenoir said:
It was today for me Almost a year ago I bought a 1972 honda cl350 barn find Ive spent the last year reading the manual, watching at least a couple hundred youtube videos, a couple hundred google searches, a few internet orders for parts, taking off stuff I didnt want on the bike wrenching it and getting my hands and garage really dirty.... making the house smell like oil and gas..... started it up a couple days and have been toying with the tuning.... took it out for my first ride today..... 1972 honda CL350 completed all done by me.... priceless
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Woo! That's an awesome story too. We are 72 CL350 bros ;)
 
Back when I was in college...went and looked at bikes for the first time.....didn't actually ride one til I bought my first one about 4 or so years ago. Been hooked ever since
 
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