What was your first bike?

I know, its been asked before......But I just got my first bike, well its actually my 6th bike.
My folks wouldn't even let me look at a bike when I was little. Which meant I always knew I would own a garage full. Now all I need is a garage. My boss taught me to ride in 02. Since then I have purchased quite a few bikes.
In order of purchase
01 KE100, 96 XR250, 82 XJ750, 83 GR650, 81 XR80
KE runs great, 250 is my daily rider, XJ is being put back together (cracked frame) GR under a tarp waiting for $$$, 80 needs new tires......

And then, last week, my boss gave me the 2001 XR100 I learned to ride on. I have put more miles on that bike in the last 7 years of working than I can count. It has some issues, cheaper to buy another than to fix kind of issues. So it was free and it is my new labor of love. I have often heard friends wish they could get back their first bike, some have even purchased the same make and model. I'm just glad that my first bike has finally found its way home.

 

I've had a couple bikes already. More from the yamaha stable, but usually because they were affordable 2nd hand units at the time.

SRX 250, CBX 250RS, CBR 400. bit of a gap then, XZ 400, and now XJ 650.

My bikes were slowly getting newer until after that CBR.

 

My 82 Maxim was my first bike. Bought it in '94, when I was 21. Sold it in 2000. Got married. Had kids. Bought it back again from the guy I sold it to, about two months ago. I'll not sell it again. 8)

 

My first bike was a 1945 Royal Enfield 125cc, with a 3 speed tank change & the front suspension was 3 rubber bands. My bikes have gone downhill ever since. :lol:

 

My First bike was a Suzuki AP50. Although classed as a "Moped" in the UK, to allow it to be ridden by a 16 year old, it had 5 speeds and might just do 55 mph downhill!.



By the time I was 17, it was replaced with a Suzuki GT250 2 stroke and when I was 17 1/2 A Suzuki GT550 2 stroke triple was on the drive!

 

It's in my sig.

1966 Honda CB160 Sport! (The "!" was part of the name.)

In those days, it was considered a "full size" bike.

 

In Feb. 1970 purchased a 69 Triumph 500 Daytona. Rode it until 73 when I met my future wife who hates bikes. Sold it and bought an MGB. Bought my present bike in 81. Wife still hates bikes (has ridden with me maybe a half dozen times)

 

My first bike was a Honda 50 "Step Through" in 1968 or 1969. First Yamaha was an 80 cc model without the front or rear brake option. Didn't need 'em although did eventually fix 'em.

Fitz, the pic of your Honda 160 brings back wonderful memories. Mine was the same except I had the "Scrambler" model with the high pipes. No muffler, just straight pipes with "snuff or nots". For those of you young uns out there who have never seen snuff or nots they resembled steel washers roughly the diameter of the inside of your pipes with a shaft that went through the wall of your pipe that had a round knob attached to it. Close in to the neighborhood? Turn the washer so that the exhaust had to go through the little center hole. Nice and quiet(er). Out on the open trail? Turn the washer so that exhaust went through a nearly completely open pipe. My gawd Woodrow, that bike would roar!

The SOB who bought it from me ran it out of oil and fried it.

Ahhhh. The days of our youth!

Loren

 

First bike was a Honda Super 90 purchased used in 65. PO advised that it had some "modifications". :?:

Whatever he had done to it made it capable of burying its 80mph speedometer.

Of course in those days I was slightly lighter and caught a bit less wind.

 

bought a used 1975 Yamaha RD350B in 1982. One of the orange ones. Being a two-stroke it had absolutely no power whatsoever below 5000 rpm, but when it hit 5000 you had better be holding on!!!!

i now have a 1981 Seca 550 which, from what i have read, was the replacement for the RD line when they stopped making two strokes. It is a very similar bike.

ken k (not counting the mini bike with th 4 hp tecumseh engine and centrifugal clutch i had when i was 12. it was pretty cool though, it was gold and had a gold sparkly plastic seat!)

 

Mine was an '81 Seca 550 that I bought last year (2008). I've since sold it to a friend of mine and bought a HD SuperGlide Custom.

For a 550, it was a great bike (I'm not going to say "little", cause it's fully capable of keeping up with the "big" bikes) and surprisingly uncomplicated to work on once you understood how the engineers thought. It was an excellent learning experience for me (both riding and the maintenance/repair side) and I'm actually glad I bought it.

As for wanting it back? Aside from the nostalgia part, no, probably not. But if I really wanted to take it out for a spin again, a friend of mine now owns it and has said I can "come visit" any time I want to

 

'75 Honda MT125, '81 Yamaha IT175 (I raced Hare Scrambles in High School), '82 Honda FT 500 Ascot, '87 Yamaha TW200, '78 Yamaha TT500

Would love to have the IT 175 back, and almost bought a real nice IT 465. Wouldn't mind having the Ascot either.

 

Got a 75 Honda XL 175 in 1980 sold it a year later . Fun bike but I don't want it back. My next bike was an 82 Yamaha XT 550 that I bought in 2008 I liked it much better. Almost 27 years with out riding what was I thinking.

 

my 550 maxim h, in 1991...

it was spraybombed black but i repainted it like it is now...



its for sale by the way

 

Hey everybody!!!!!!!!!!

RM 80 when I was 9 back in 1984.

Good day everyone

 

Damn it Fitz, that bike is the space shuttle compared to my first bike. :cry:

 

In '65 bought Honda 305 Super Hawk from then brother-in-law. Bored 1/3 over, heavy duty valve springs, high comp. piston, Barnett clutch and megaphone. Would run like a bat outta Torment! Got my first ticket on this bike, talked them down from LIFE to 45 in a 35 8O . Next was a '69 Bonneville that I bought right before being sent to the beautiful vacation spot of SE Asia. Went without until now 750 Seca...

skillet
BTW talk about wishing you still had something! The Bonneville would make one nice bobber...

 

first bike was an 07 kawasaki ninja 650, got it brand new in 07. had it for 11 months before it was stolen from right out front of my house about an hour before i had to leave for work that morning. after that i had an 89 cbr 600 f1 hurricane that i recently sold to buy my current 82 xj550 max and made the switch to cruisers. i dont really have a preference to either street or cruiser just yet since i haven't really taken my maxim for a real ride yet, i just need 2 wheels. there are high and low points to both types. i still have the minibike i got when i was 13 - red manco frame with a 6.5hp tecumseh and one rear scrub brake!

 

1st bike was in 1964, Rupp mini bike, chrome fenders, headlight I was cadillacin. Next was a 66 Yamaha twinjet 100, then 72 125 Suzuki MXer I raced for 3 years. After that nothing till I got my XJ.

 

I bought a 3 1/2 HP Tecumseh pull start mini with my paper route money at age 10, for $40. That seemed to cause my dad to buy a CB200. I guess he felt sorry for me, and suddenly there was a brand new Chappy 80 in the garage. Later, the semi-auto Champ.
RD 250 , XS 500 , XS 750 , XS 400 , XS 11 , Yamaha enduro 125, Suzuki 450 , Titan 500 , and I had a Seca 900 in 1985.

I missed the 900 enough to buy another. This one is better.

 

68 Honda CB450 twin,got it about 1984

Learned to ride on a Honda XL70,single,4 stroke,4 speed,street legal.The only bike I could do wheelies on till the Yama-Hauler 8)

 

Wizard, you think Fitz's frst ride was a space shuttle you should have seen the "scrambler" model with the parallel high pipes coming out on the same side!!! The snuff or nots were the creme de la creme!

I have to say that your bike was the classiest looking ride of the bunch. What year did you get it?

 

yamaha virago 250. Dad bought it for my stepmom to learn on. After she upgraded to an 1100 V star (which she then decided she didn't want to ride anymore) I was just turning 15, and my dad gave it to me.

It was an '04, had 800 miles on the clock, perfect all over, no scratches anywhere.

I regret selling it for 1900 bloody bucks.

 

Green 1973 Yamaha DT250.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6xy5K1Z4L70/R ... BDT250.jpg

 

c.1959, I was just a shaver. 8)

 

A baby Elsinore! Decided not to count the techumse powered doodlebug I had

 

First bike was an 82 Honda XL250R. Learned to ride in the dirt then progressed to the streets then quickly went back to dirt. Funny that some 20 years later I own a bike only 2 years older than my first.

 

Here's my 1st
70 Kawasaki 500 H1
bought it with 5k miles on it so this picture was probably taken in late 71.

ab

 

1970 Honda CB350 K2, second hand. Had a lot of fun on it, great little bike.(in my glowing memories anyway)It ended up smacked into the side of a car that didn't give way when they should have and I went over the top of the car, right in front of a cop shop and not a cop in sight when ya want one. I've still got the wings off the tank... 'n thats about 35years ago.

 

I had a Honda CT110. It was a really cool bike for around Gainesville while I was in college. Semi-automatic transmission. (You shifted no clutch). Rack on the back for carrying your deer (or book bag and groceries). Small reserve fuel tank (held about 3qts or 50 miles of fuel) that you could take off and poor into the main tank. Sat on the gas tank. etc. She did me well and wish I still had her to teach my son with. KO

Picks below are from a mint one (less than 500 miles) that recently sold for 1600. Mine was not mint, but worth every dollar I paid for it (150 I think). But that was 22 years ago.

Have since had a yamaha special II 400, gold wing, and now the seca. Learned the most on the seca and have been having loads of fun.

 

Yamaha FS-1 bought 1971 sold end '72 due to army call-up.



Then an SR500 'Thumper' in black. Loved it!