Your first bike

[bazz20]

shit big t thats some serious air on the k2 

[Big T]

shit big t thats some serious air on the k2 

Lets just say that the suspension bottomed out big time........ 

The soft sand landing helped.... A bit...... 

But I did enjoyed nothing better than to twist the grip in the sand and throw up a nice sandy rooster tail on all who followed me......    [moto]

[wayne800]

Great shots of all the old bikes.

G'day Bazz, nah mine was the last of the T series, a 1972 T250J. I think the ram air models followed. I did have a later GT250 from around '77 that I used (would you believe) as a "track bike".

Those little two stroke Suzuki's & RD Yamaha's were amazing bikes in their day.

The old Suzuki models are all on this web site:

http://www.suzukicycles.org/

[DarkMonster620]

Well,

My first bike was a Suzuki RM80, way back in '84/'85? Wouldn't start, I had no idea what I was doing, bouth new spark plug, cable, put some gas mixed with oil, kick it a few times, it started...had fun, dad sold it, I made profit, I got it fro free...

Now, some 20+yrs later,  I've got this:

[bazz20]

Great shots of all the old bikes.

G'day Bazz, nah mine was the last of the T series, a 1972 T250J. I think the ram air models followed. I did have a later GT250 from around '77 that I used (would you believe) as a "track bike".

Those little two stroke Suzuki's & RD Yamaha's were amazing bikes in their day.

The old Suzuki models are all on this web site:

http://www.suzukicycles.org/

yes they were my dad got squashed so i left school at 14 and went falling trees for 4 years while he recovered i rode that bike every where rain snow hail and shine in some very horrible places the only thing i changed was the tyres to knobbys no rego and the police just gave you a motor bike licence for ten bucks  those were fun days 

[desmoquattro]

1973 Honda CB175...

I was 18 years old, lived in a trailer, and had a mullet. This is the bike that saved me from a life of white trashdom. Oh, wait...you guys call it bogan.

[Dockstrada]

Nice mullet Trev, and some serious air going on there in the dunes.

I new they breed them tough those in days........ yet the jerry can of ESSO fuel with a rag on it near the bath tub has me stumped, you must have got plenty dirty back then in the dunes 

[Big T]

....... yet the jerry can of ESSO fuel with a rag on it near the bath tub has me stumped, you must have got plenty dirty back then in the dunes 

The ESSO can was actually full of oil.

You see the CB750 had this unique oil system. There was an oil tank that not only fed the engine but it also oiled the chain. Like a chainsaw oiler.

So you had to keep the oil tank topped up and of course it had bad bad bad bad "fling" so the rag was to wipe the rear wheel and chain.

Thank goodness for drum brakes. Any disk in that area would have been coated in a nice film of oil.... 

I loved that bike......  [moto]

[Rowdy]

first bike in 1987, Yamaha TY175, then DT200, TT600, BMW R65, CR500, VT500, GS1000, FZR1000, YZF1000, ZX12R, S4R and now the 1098S.

[ducmeister]

First bike was a 1976 Yamaha YZ125C.  Inherited it from my older bro and my younger bro still has it in his shed in Tom Price.

Would you believe it was mono shock (no, not because I took the other one off) !  It handled like a tractor and seized more times than I can remember. 

Geez, those were the days, fanging around the bush out near the local tip being chased by the Ranger in his Landrover ...  [moto]

[mattyvas]

Hey there is a few newbie's in here nice to see.
Why don't you introduce yourself in the intro thread.

[Two dogs]

First road bike was a Honda XL 250s, my brother and I had the same bike, we went everywhwere on those things,
dirtriding, great ocean road, scratching round the Kew Boulevarde, even raced mine at winton one weekend.



and you ain't lived til you've scraped a knee while on one of these babies...

Hay brimo this was my first bike also , had a great time on mine thought it went like stink 
It sounded like it did with aftermarket pipes , cops would always pull me over and give me a hard time.
Maybe thats why I like my monster without its termi DB killers 

[Super T.I.B]

It was something like this one.



Geez, it pulled the sheilas'. 

[Betty]

Hmmm first motorbike .... a 2005 S2R 800, some of you have probably seen it it had a few subtle mods 

S'pose it helps when your fiancee teaches you to ride on her bikes  but she obviously hasn't taught me everything  [moto] or I'd be able to keep up.

I miss my Monster 

[Jukie]

hey trev you look sexy then as you do now WOW