What was your first motorcycle?

[Fumesucker]

I started at the top, 1970 CB750, I got it in 1972.

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Got this in 2004

Followed by a Kawasaki KZ400 and now a Suzuki Intruder VS800.

[Fumesucker]

2. That's cool..

I bet you learned a lot riding it..

1970's or early 80's?

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. 1970.

Sold it and the KZ to buy the Intruder.

[Auggie]

26. That Honda was my first also

Early 70's. I lived in an area with lots of open space and lots of trails. It was a blast while I waited to get my drivers licencse. Then I got a Honda 125 or 150 (lol), same vintage about, which I kept for about four years. Last bike I had, over 30 years ago :cry:

[Haole Girl]

3. Sportster XL 883 low

Hard to believe it's already been 2 years. It's a 2008 (bought new).

[Fumesucker]

4. A lot of bike to learn on..

I learned on a big bike too, not the easiest way to go.

Nice clean looking ride, it's been over thirty years since I rode a Sportster, my son in law had a Road King up until last year, I rode that a few times, it was more than I really would want to deal with every day.

[Haole Girl]

5. I love it

You are right, though, not a good bike to learn on! I nearly gave up a couple of times. But the lure of the open road, and the feel when I'm riding, always brought me back. :-)

[Fumesucker]

6. A belated welcome to the club..

Glad you stuck with it.

:hi:

[Haole Girl]

7. Thank you

I am too! :hi:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. 1968 Triumph Bonneville

Not a picture of my Triumph. Sometimes I wish I still had it, but it required a lot of wrench time to keep running right.



:hi:

[Fumesucker]

9. If you still had it, it would be worth some pretty good money..

Nice bike, that's what I was looking for when I bought my CB750 but I found the Honda first..

[guitar man]

10. Honda Z50 Mini Trail

I was 9 years old when I first twisted a throttle on a bike just like this...I never got over it :)

[Fumesucker]

11. Those little suckers are still popular..

I see them all over Craigslist..

[guitar man]

12. yes they are

probably the best teacher a beginning rider could have, I know the lessons I learned on it in my youth still keep me alive on the road to this very day.

There are some chinese made knock offs now too, haven't checked them out, but if my daughter decides she wants to ride it will certainly be the first bike she gets

[zabet]

14. Honda 185s

off/on road....rode it to death...bored and rebuilt with over and under sized sprockets...a screamin demon for what it was.

not mine but like this....


this is 1st not counting the mini bikes and some dude in the neighborhood who let us hoodlums have full access to his Garelli :rofl:

[flamin lib]

15. 1960 Sears Allstate 175

Built by Puch for Sears. What a dog, but it went places and did things that were wholly unreasonable.

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. Looks like an NSU.

Charming!

[flamin lib]

17. It went everywhere and did everything. Put knobby tires on it and

it became a dirt bike. We even used it to herd cattle on the farm. Took the baffles out of the exhaust and left the megaphones open and you could literally hear it a mile away.

It was a "twingle"; had two pistons and one combustion chamber. Two stroke and had to mix the oil and gas in the tank. Sometimes got it wrong and seized the pistons. Let it cool, rock it back and fourth in gear until the pistons broke loose and rode it some more. Can't count the number of times we re-built the top end.

It was like a rent car-- you could do ANYTHING with it . . .

[david13]

18. I started out on a Honda 90, which I always thought was a 50. No I guess it was a 50. Then I

got an old Indian. About 1970 or so my little brother got a Honda 750. I guess it was a CB, but I'm not sure. No, it must have been a CB. And it was a 750.
dc

[av8rdave]

19. I first learned to ride on an early - mid 60s Honda Trail 90...

Then graduated to a 1968 Kawasaki 120TR. Also rode my Dad's Hodaka 100 a lot (can't remember the year. '72 maybe?)

The first bike I owned was a '74 Yamaha 100 Enduro. A total underpowered piece of crap, but it was mine!

[IDemo]

20. 1977 Honda 750k

Not the bike, but one like it:

[sofa king]

21. Heh. I haven't worked up to a motorcycle yet.

But I have over seven hundred hours now on a 2-stroke Hyosung SF50 moped, which I used to commute to a part time job 35 miles away, all year round. Here's "Little Sorrel II" with a previous owner:



More recently I picked up a goofy 4-stroke scoot which purports itself to be a "Verucci," but it's really a Taiwanese job with a knock-off Honda 4-stroke motor. By comparison to the Hyo, the Verucci is a dog in town. There are some hills it just can't climb, and most of the rest are 12-15mph ordeals. It's loaded with fake chrome and fake carbon fiber, and takes itself very seriously. I can't help laughing at myself when I see my reflection in store windows.

But on Route 11 it can wind out to 45mph downhill and it holds enough momentum to clear some of the uphill sections, thus saving ten to twenty minutes from here to Robert E. Lee's back yard. (No, really, that's where I park it!) So naturally, I named that one "Traveller II."



Whenever I have the need for speed, I politely ask my girlfriend if I can have my 2-stroke back for a little while, and sometimes she lets me. Both of them get over 80 mpg.

[tularetom]

22. 1948 Indian Big Chief 1200 cc

Bought it in 1959 when I was 18 with money I earned driving a propane truck for my dad.

My brother wrecked it while I was in the Army. It sat in the garage for a few months then my dad got pissed off and sold it after he got me to sign the title transfer by promising to give me money for college. Looked similar to this one.



Wish I still had it...

[Uben]

23. I was twelve, got a Honda 50

Oh man, was I ever on top of the world. Next bike was a Honda 160 Dream or touring at 15. Since I have had a Honda CB 175, Suzuki 185, and for the past ten years, a Harley Super Glide.

[WheelWalker]

24. 1963 Honda Sport 50

[ceveritt]

25. 1969 Bultaco Lobito 100

Bought it in 1969, when I was 16.

[Wiley50]

27. 1972 Kawasaki 500 Two- Stroke, one rocket ship at that time

It's a wonder I never laid it down. I wouldn't be here now.

Now I'm in love with a Yamaha C-3 scoot.

It doesn't have to be fast to make me happy now.

[iscooterliberally]

28. My brother bought an early 80s Honda Nighthawk 650

We shared it because I had a car. Then I got a Suzuki Intruder 750 in the early 90s. I now have a Harley Davidson XL883L. It's my favorite of the bunch.