The "My First Bike" thread.

[brimo]

Post 'em up if you got 'em
I think we had a thread on this before, but a search didn't turn up anything, may have been on TOB, anyhow here's my Yamaha 100 picture taken circa 1979. Had a lot of fun on this little machine.

[stopintime]

I started a thread, but it didn't go very far.
http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=11038.0

This was my first real bike, Honda XLV 750 R, after mini Garelli 50cc, Vespa 125, Tempo 50, Suzuki 380 ..

[brad black]

Post 'em up if you got 'em
I think we had a thread on this before, but a search didn't turn up anything, may have been on TOB, anyhow here's my Yamaha 100 picture taken circa 1979. Had a lot of fun on this little machine.

waaaahey!  i had one of them too.  altho yours looks much better than mine did.  got it in 1981 i think, maybe 82.  mine was the original burgundy i think.

[GK]

Just like my first bike!

Cost me $120 bucks. Was a paperboy for a number of months to save up for it. My parents wouldn't buy me a bike so at the age of 13, I got myself one.

My brother and I took the Falcon wagon to pick it up. Thank God it fit in the back, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to take it with us.

We took it to my mate Stu's place to stash, as my folks would have gone crazy if we'd gone home with it.

Good times! 

Thanks for helping me to get started on bikes bro! 

GK

[10/10ths]

I still own my first motorcycle:


MonsterFirstTestRide by Shooter158, on Flickr

My 1997 Ducati Monster 750.  They only imported 500 to the United States. 400 were California bikes, 100 were 49 state bikes.  Mine is one of the 100 forty-nine state bikes.

I will never sell her.

 

[ducpainter]

Mine was like this one...for a while.

It ended up with clubman bars and Denco expansion chambers.

[pitbull]

another one here who's monster is the first bike.


I rode alot as a kid, but never owned a bike. Many of my boyhood buddies had dirt bikes, but my parents didn't have the money for one. My next door neighbour had a couple of dirtbikes and let me ride his little yamaha mx80 which was the bike I learned on.

As a teenager one of my good buddies had a mid 70's honda 450 street bike (cx 450?), but I can't remember the exact model. He ended up living with us awhile due to some family problems at home. I learned to ride on the street on that bike and rode it for a couple years whenever he was working or not using it. I also rode various friend's and roommate's bikes through my university years and during my 20's.
  
 I always knew I would have my own bike one day, once I had paid off student loans and put myself in a stable, financial position.  It took till my early 30's to buy my first one when I picked up the 01 cromo, in 2002, very lightly used. I will never, ever sell it. It's got way too many miles (100,000+km's) to be worth much and it fits me like an old pair of leather gloves. While I don't believe much in getting attached to inanimate objects, that bike is a part of me.

[Jarvicious]

Walked nonchalantly into the bike shop, kind-of-sort-of-but-not-really shopping for a bike and saw the old girl sitting in the corner waaaay back in the back of the shop.  I sat on it, the guy hit the starter, and I told him to go write up the papers. 

[DarkMonster620]

Well, it depends, "My first bike" purchased by me is, my '05 M620 Dark,


Gina

but, my first bike was a Suzuki RM125, if not mistaken, vintage '83, it looked like this,



it was a gift from a friend who had moved to Kawasaki . . . don't ask me how I am still breathing or in one piece . . . I don't know

[koko64]

Just like my first bike!

Cost me $120 bucks. Was a paperboy for a number of months to save up for it. My parents wouldn't buy me a bike so at the age of 13, I got myself one.

My brother and I took the Falcon wagon to pick it up. Thank God it fit in the back, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to take it with us.

We took it to my mate Stu's place to stash, as my folks would have gone crazy if we'd gone home with it.

Good times! 


Thanks for helping me to get started on bikes bro! 

GK

I remember that day, you were a kid and I must have been barely twenty. You were  so determined to get a bike. Remenber the Z250? Our first road bike.  I dont think I have a photo of it.
My first big bike was '73 Bonneville 750.

[the_Journeyman]

My first?

1978 Suzuki TS185.  It was Dad's, he used to put me on the tank, my sister on the rear half of the seat (she was older & bigger and could old on) and ride through the woods with one hand on the throttle and the other arm around me so I didn't fall off.  When I was 10, I took my first solo ride and was hooked.

When Dad brought it home in 1978.  That's me on the tank ready to ride.  I was hooked from a young age.


Me, Dad and sister about 1980:


As it sat back in about 2005 with a seized piston that seized sometime in the early 90s from a faulty oil pump:


Mid top-end rebuild winter 2005 in my dining room (I was a bachelor at the time if you can't tell from me rebuilding a motorcycle in the dining room)


After a top-end rebuild (seized piston) and cleanup:


I still have the TS185, but it is in need of a full restoration or a donor bike that I can rob the electrics off of so I can inspect & title it for the street!

First road bike:  1981 Suzuki GS650 in the color pictured.


JM

[JohnEE]

I didn't get the chance to ride till i was 23. We didn't have dirtbikes growing up and my Mom would have had my head if i brought one home. So this year when i graduated and moved out of the house I bought my 07' 695 and never looked back. I put 7228 miles on it this riding season and loved every one of them.  

[Two dogs]

First motorised bike 1976 Puch moped




First real bike XL 250 Motorsport

[ab]

In 2003 I bought for about $500 a 1982 yamaha 400cc special and proceeded to crash it within 3 months.  Then In 2004, I bought my 620cc monster 2004  that i still own.

[malamikigo]

My first bike was a typical uneducated noob bike.  I loved it though.