What was your first motorcycle?

[cobb]

honda ct90, also got a cd90, yz 100 and ct 75. I rebuilt a few using the high school shop- class and resold them to the students.

 

[83Venture]

1st 78 Suzuki GS-450E
2nd 80? Honda Silverwing
3rd 83 Yamaha Venture Royal XVZ12

Still have the Venture, bought it new and I only have about 14K miles on it, 26K is the first scheduled tuneup so I figure at this rate that will be in 2025. Once I got married and the kids came my riding time flatlined. :sigh:

 

[Lightmeup]

Yamaha 350. Pretty quick for light bike.

 

[smokinbasser]

A new (then) 1964 Honda S90 the 1st of around 12 bikes. One CB160s life span was 6 hours before being totalled (not by me)

 

[InfidelCastro]

1978 Yamaha Enduro 125cc.

Good takeoff and had a top speed over 70mph in 6th gear. I beat a 250cc with it easily once. When I took it in for service, they said it had better compression than the new bikes they were selling.

It redlined at 10K. It saw over 10K quite often.

 

[LowBat]

1978 Suzuki 550 which I owned in '83. Funny, I still remember the license plate (9P4677). Totalled at 36th and ECR in San Mateo on an early January morning. When the car hit me my bike went right and I went left over the hood before gravity pulled me back to earth.

 

[DUQ]

1976 Honda XL250.

 

[Bright Scouter]

Well, if you consider it a motorcycle, it was a 1969 Honda 50 Mini Trail minibike. The next one was a Yamaha 100 trail bike that had a dual range gearbox and 3 (or 4?) gears in each range.

In fact, I still have the Honda Mini Trail. It runs well yet. Has many parts broken and repaired or patched. But it runs! I probably should sell it someday to some one that would fix it up right.

 

[Lightmeup]

1978 Suzuki 550 which I owned in '83. Funny, I still remember the license plate (9P4677). Totalled at 36th and ECR in San Mateo on an early January morning. When the car hit me my bike went right and I went left over the hood before gravity pulled me back to earth.

I lost my fascination with them when one of my friends laid down his Honda 450 on a wet curve one night and scraped off half of his face on a sign pole. He looked like Freddy Krueger even after numerous plastic surgeries.

 

[senecaripple]

my first was a new 1976 cb360T, my second and current is a 1980 cb 750c, also purchased new. both hondas.

 

[LowBat]

I lost my fascination with them when one of my friends laid down his Honda 450 on a wet curve one night and scraped off half of his face on a sign pole. He looked like Freddy Krueger even after numerous plastic surgeries.

Yes, these machines can be hazardous to your health. I had another motorcycle years later, and after riding it accident free for a year I decided to sell it. I figured I beat the national average (2 accidents a year) and wanted to quite while I was ahead.

 

[Knight Lights]

Kawasaki 500 Triple Two Stroke. The original Crotch Rocket.

Fast as sin once it was on the pipe. I regularly dusted 750cc Hondas and Kawasaki's in the early 80's, but the Kawasaki had a wicked head shake about 85-90 MPH that I was forever trying to tame and having NO luck with!

Laid it down once when it came on the pipe once while I was in the middle of a turn and found some gravel. It wheelied out from underneath me.

FUN, but a death trap if you screwed up!!

Bill

 

[larryk]

My first bike that actually ran was a 1957 C-Zeta motor scooter made by Jawa in Czechoslovakia. My cousin and myself chipped in and bought it for $ 75.00, this was in 1966. It had a 175 cc 2 stroke motor with twin exhaust. The thing was huge, able to carry 3 persons on that long seat. The gas tank was right in front above the front wheel. Had a lot of fun with that ugly thing until we smashed it up. The photo is not the one we owned, but close.

 

[Bogie]

Dirt was 70 somthing Honda XL100

Street 66 Trimuph 650 that I buuilt with a Ridgid frame & HD front end that I rode for about 2 years then sold for a 79 sportster

 

[fnmag]

An Indian 500cc twin. Even though it bore the Indian marque it was in fact a Royal Enfield. The last attempt to continue the proud Indian tradition. It loved to kick me over the handlebars!

 

[Lightmeup]

The gas tank was right in front above the front wheel.

That would certainly make for some interesting front end collisions.

 

[frosty]

Suzuki DR350 dirt bike, quickly followed by a Kawasaki ZX6R.

 

[nirad]

My first motorcycle was a Honda Twinstar 125 when I was about 14 years old. It was a great bike to learn to ride on. I later graduated to an 86' Honda V-65 Magna. Boy that bike would boogie!!

 

[PlayboyJoeShmoe]

I started out on Briggs and Stratton mini bikes.

But my fondest memories come from my first "real" motorcycle, a Yamaha Mini Enduro 60!

I also had a Suzuki 90 with a dual range gearbox later on.

And about two dozen bikes since then!

 

[G1K]

My first street bike was a 1992 Suzuki Katana 750. I've graduated to better handling bikes since then.. but I still kinda miss it.

Current street mount is a 2000 GSX-R 750 which I have owned since new (excluding a few days when the ins . company owned it after it was "totalled")

and a 2003 Honda 600RR for the track as seen in my avatar.

**Edit for spelling


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