What bike did you learn to ride on?

[JustinLonghorn]

Rode it straight through the barbed wire fence on my Uncle's Farm. Still have some scars on my knuckles. Been hooked since.

 

[pn2501]

ha we got a 3wheeler terror crew up in this b!@#

We used to chuck a 6 x 4 trailer on the back of our's load it with neighbourhood kids and go over real small jumps on it trying to make them bail out... the late 80's were a wondrous time.

One of my riding buddies at the time had a 250 with the smaller wheels on it like this

i was jealous

 

[Maritime]

Ha, my buddy had one of those too. we tried to rebuild the motor, first kick it blew up LOL. Was scrap after that.

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

ha we got a 3wheeler terror crew up in this b!@#

We used to chuck a 6 x 4 trailer on the back of our's load it with neighbourhood kids and go over real small jumps on it trying to make them bail out... the late 80's were a wondrous time.

One of my riding buddies at the time had a 250 with the smaller wheels on it like this

i was jealous

DANGER! Will Robinson... I still prefer the 250R over any quad on sand or trial riding. 2 for speed and agility 3 for sand and perfect pitch bump and run trail tag and 4 wheels is for mud and hunting!!

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

Rode it straight through the barbed wire fence on my Uncle's Farm. Still have some scars on my knuckles. Been hooked since.

I kid you not... my sons name is Justin and when he was 6-7 I had the bright idea to let him "cruise" the gravel road on the farm on my Tri Moto and damned if that kid didn't hit a bump or something, grab a death grip "on the throttle" and wheelie into a barbed wire fence. The thing that saved him was the tail dragin wheelie... when we got to him he was sitting on the ground holding on still in full wheelie hahaha... went on to race MX and SX locally so those times burn the addiction right in.

RD

 

[krafty]

I learned on a Yamaha TW200 like this one. Well, not quite like this one - mine was missing one thing that this bike has.

 

[DoTheTodd]

I learned on a Yamaha TW200 like this one. Well, not quite like this one - mine was missing one thing that this bike has.

The luggage rack. Yours was missing the luggage rack, right?

 

[Quintin Snell]

A gs550e, not sure what year it was, late 70's, i think, it had spoked wheels. I rode it for about 3 months until it died in a huge cloud of white smoke. It went back to the shop i bought it from, and i never saw it or the supposed refund again, long story, but the moral is: never let a "friend" oversee repairs to your bike. ..

 

[PLAZACYCLEJOSH]

It was a honda ct70, here is a version of the old trail 70 with a little extra umph

 

[mikeinnh]

5 hp Sears minibike. This is me around 1971. I was the terror of the neighborhood. : My first real motorcycle was a Honda MT125 Elsinore when I was 18.

 

[Ease]

Started Here: (Blown engine replaced with 125)

Then lost a wheel:

Then gained a clutch: (Hit by a car on this, bent frame, stopped riding for a while because of $$$ to replace)

Images are not my actual bikes.

 

[krafty]

The luggage rack. Yours was missing the luggage rack, right?

OK, two things.