lets see your first ever bike

[shane]

i thought it would be cool to see what everyone started out on :D :D
well after the last hour looking on the net this is the only picture of the YZ80c that i could find {computers hate me}
http://i4.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/80/e1/1155_1.JPG

mine was secondhand and very beat up but was blast i got it when i was 9 i think , but didnt start racing to 11 on a mighty cr80r 8) 8)

[Nerb]

What i learnt to rid on.... Mine looked in considerably worse condition that this picture though.

http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/MT50/1972_MT50J_sales_800.jpg

[MrMez]

http://w1.bikepics.com/pics/2003%5C11%5C16%5Cbikepics-81119-800.jpg

Theres my baby.
Thru twisties id nail 600s on that thing.
Crashed it twice
Had it from new for ~18 months

[dangermouse1100]

Alright dont laugh, Yamaha gtmx80, got it when i was 9.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q89/dangermouse650/gtmx80.jpg

[SM93]

http://phhauchard.free.fr/1992/gam92yz.jpg

Brought it off a mate for 750 with a helmet, rode it home on the road to my ex gf's house. needed a full re build i kept it for a week and sold for 750.

[MarkeeMark]

Learnt to ride on a Honda Z50 at age 6 or 7. Then learnt clutch operation on an XR100 at about age 13 I think.
Got an RM 80 at age 15.

http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/RM-RMX-series/RM80/1991_RM80_yell_side_450.jpg

[albonator316]

Here is my first ride, Good old 1982 suzuki DS80, mine was red, try and find a pic of a red ds 80 though!!
Trying to replece the double suspension on an 82 ds80 in the late 90's was an ordeal! i think we ended up getting two mono shocks, damn that made the ride a bit harder!!
http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/DS/DS80/1982_DS80_leftscan_500.jpg

[Muzzard]

Check out this bad boy,
This is a Kawasaki KV75 about 1972 vintage.
I learn't to crash on one of these pretty early on.
I think ours would have been around 1970 ..

http://jleibovitch.tripod.com/24830a40.jpg

The first full sized bike I would have ridden was my Fathers DT3 Yamaha 250 as a new bike in 1973 identical to this one pictured.

http://www.mutotos.com/pubs/YAMAHA250DT3.jpg

To a Factory prepared 125 Suzuki RM/RH.

http://vsmr.net/albums/non-motard/Nagambie_Speedway_1976_edited.jpg

[BEDO]

The Kwacka 75 was my first hand me down from MUZZ then I got a YZ80B hand me down from the big sister. I think everyone in my family got a new bike but me F@#K I'M not bitter and twisted by that!!!!! :twisted:

F@#k it every bike I've had has been thrashed by someone else first. :lol: :lol:

[ACS]

http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/suzuki-history/1987/1987_GSX-R250_250.jpg

Ah, now that brings back some memories! Mine was the 'limited edition' red and white faired jobbie... Was a great wee bike - got stolen about 5 weeks after I bought it! Got most of it back, in pieces, after the dumb fuck that stole it tried to sell the very distinctive fairings to the local wreckers. I'd already been in there that morning (they knew me) and warned them to be on the look out. He bought the fairings, got the guy's address (yes, he actually gave him his real address!) and the cops had him that evening!

Never found the carbs, coils, sprocket or rear disk, but the rest of it was there. Spent a couple of months stripping it right back, repainting and rebuilding - shitloads of fun!! Silver lining to every cloud eh?

Bought it for $2000
Spent around $700 getting it back on the road
Got around $1800 in reparation from the scum that stole it
Sold it for $2500!!

Reckon I did OK...

[Daws]

My first bike was a 1994 Yamaha XJR400rII. This was when the Grey Import industry was still big in the UK due to rising Insurance costs, and the ridiculous prices on new bikes. I bought it from the importer, it had Ohlins Shocks, Brembo calipers, Digital speedo and had only done 1700km! I only saw one other like it.
I was living in London at the time and that's where I learned to ride - That's why I enjoy a bit of traffic!? It died when I fell over on a roundabout outside a truckstop (who'd of thought it might be slippy?)

http://vsmr.net/albums/non-motard/xjr400rr.sized.jpg
Mine was red like this but with the standard exhaust

http://vsmr.net/albums/non-motard/XJR400R2.jpg
View on the side (of a white one) showing the headlight fairing.

[gco0307]

My first bike was one of these but in blue not red, a good old Yamaha RX125 two smoke. Did around 30000 kays on it and fanged the crap out of it.

http://w2.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C07%5C26%5Cbikepics-973908-full.jpg





Garry

[Wobbly]

In another thread, but here we are anyway :)

1979 Z250B. Not the one in this pic, one that looked much, much worse :lol2: Little baffle left, rust all over the exhaust covered up with heat proof matt aluminium paint :lol2: Used shitloads of oil as I couldn't afford to replace the valve guides after I hammered the bent valve out of them :lol2: :lol2: And brakes that seemed like they made the bike actually go faster :lol2:

http://vsmr.net/albums/nmilne_non-motard/z250_640.jpg

Couldn't believe it when I traded it in and they gave me more than a grand for it on a 6k GPZ600R :shock:

[d_kimo]

good ole' 1998 RMX250 for me :) ... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 2smoke ... ill have to scan a couple of pics of me on it :)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/kimo_181/1997_RMX250_500.jpg

[Muzzard]

good ole' 1998 RMX250 for me :) ... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 2smoke ... ill have to scan a couple of pics of me on it :)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/kimo_181/1997_RMX250_500.jpg
Or we can wait til you finish the restoration of the one you have now and we can see the pictures of you laying under it :lol:

[tambi]

My Yz250 is my first bike. No it isn't finished yet :P

[motard_mike]

i will definatly win this contest.... now to find some pics and get a post up...... might need another beer for this mission.

[devo]

Honda 50, squat little thing with fold down handle bars and fat wheels.
YZ80, circa 450BC.
Honda 125, circa 900BC, trail bike, good power between 9 and 10.5k rpm.
XL185.
KTM525

[motard_mike]

ok guys im going to give you the whole run down in some kind of order...... my first bike was a free bike from family friend.... an xs that just stoped one day.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/xs250.jpg
once i got it open( i was about 14) i found it droped a valve then a shattered a piston and had spread little bits of piston around the engine. of course with a budget of exactly 0 dolars my options where limited. so it became the first xs125. so i cut the rod with an angle grinder to maintain oil pressure in the crank and put a bolt with 2 big washers threw the head where the valves used to be and gave it a kick....... well bugger me if it didnt start! now as an xs 250 for thoese that dont know doest have the most balls in the world so a 125 is well rather slow on a good day so time for a diet! i had an early 80's dr250 in the garage waiting to be striped in the garage so i ended up with the xs engine and frame with the dr front end and rear wheel and a 3L mini bike tank all kitted up as a farm bike. id say it was the wrong side of 160kg's and well under 15hp. a good start.

then i got my L's and decided that the dr250 with the xs running gear was a good idea...... so i had an early 4 valve single cam dr250.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/DR250.jpg

with xs250 front forks,front disk and rear wheel as a first road bike, (this is before tards where cool, its just what i had to work with). i soon took a great leap forward in motorcycle evolution and got a clean rz350r similar to this....
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/rz350.jpg
i rebuilt that 3 times in 1 year and it went from a stocker 250 with 350 barrels, (sort of legal on your P plates) to a big carb,coustom pipes,ported barells,big bore monster. i loved it!
then i got my open licence and was after a 1000! enter the sv1000s

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/mikesbike2.jpg

thats her in the pits at eastern creek.. i loved that bike but just felt a little sloppy when i started to push on in the corners, so after 12 months with the sv i decided on the tard. and like all good tartders i started with a drz.

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/DSCF1118.jpg

great bike but i got over the power or lack ther of...... now i ride a K5 GSXR 750 (for sale) and i hate it. its perfect in every way but just has no sole! it is so much better bike than i am rider it is frustrating every time i ride it! my other steeds in clude a pocket bike .
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/WC_pocketbike.jpg

and the 2nd fastest postie in the country!!!! thats right it will loft the front in 3rd on the power and will light up the rear in 4th on the flat track! its also eligble for vmx races in the pre 70's class. 400 strokers eat your hart out.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/122-2270_IMG.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/Picture014.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/mikecranfield/Picture148.jpg

[Wobbly]

yea gads :shock:

[SMC690]

My first bike was exactly like the one pictured below. It was an 88/89 Kawasaki KR-1, a 2 smoke stink bike. I bought it in about 1992 with about 30,000km's on the clock (Speedo wasn't working when I bought it so god knows how many Km's it had actually done) second hand from a dealer in Melbourne CBD who I later ended up working for, lol. A week later I took it to Brighton Kawasaki as it was running like a bag of poo. $700 later for a rebuild it went much better, they tend to run a bit better when the powervalves are not all stuck in the open position and they have a little bit of compression. I later rebuilt it twice myself and I sold it to a courier with over 70,000km's on the clock. It was the first bike I flipped trying to do a wheelie, It was the first bike I crashed when hooking into a roundabout in the wet in front of a heap of Uni students in Caulfield, the first bike I did a track day on which was at PI and the first bike I modified. I did my L's & P's on this bike and also found out the dangers of front end braking on tram tracks. When the courier bought it it had GSXR750 headlights, modified straight through RGV end cans, race glass and it was painted like a Tequila Sunrise (No taste back then ;) )
I did buy a Honda XL185 a year earlier than the KR-1 off a mate for $250, it had a crack in the head between the spark plug thread and the edge of the head. I took it to a dealer in Dandenong who fixed it for a heap of coin, 2 days later it did it again and the dealer said 'bad luck buddy' so I got the shits and sold it in the Trading Post 'as is'.
I basically bought my first bike because I was sick of working on modified cars, especially after Mr Plod gave me a canary on my Datsun 1600 race car that had number plates. There was no chance of getting that back on the road. :)

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery/Kawasaki%20KR-1%2088%20%201.jpg

[Wobbly]

Some of us still have one :lol2:

http://vsmr.net/albums/nmilne_non-motard/DSC00469.sized.jpg

[Flash]

Holly shit Neil, you need to wash it more often!! I never thought it could have looked so good!!

[Wobbly]

That was just after it had its first bunnings spray can paint job. If I washed it even more paint would just flake off :D

[RohaN]

well as painfully slow a memory as it was, here's my first bike:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/rohanvenn/ZZR/ZZR001.jpg


so very slow and very crap, but at least it taught me how to ride

[d_kimo]

good ole' 1998 RMX250 for me :) ... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 2smoke ... ill have to scan a couple of pics of me on it :)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/kimo_181/1997_RMX250_500.jpg
Or we can wait til you finish the restoration of the one you have now and we can see the pictures of you laying under it :lol:

LMAO ... you are no doubt right there :) ... not too far away now ... almost got all the bits :) ... just gotta get the frame blasted and repainted and it starts going back together ...

hmmm ... then to see if the bitch runs LOL

[chocwheaton]

My first bike...a 2003 ducati monster 800Sie.

http://vsmr.net/albums/non-motard/m800_001.jpg

Sold the duc to make way for my fireblade race bike...which it about to be sold and I'll just be doing supermoto ;)
http://vsmr.net/albums/non-motard/turn6.sized.jpg

[shane]

wow what a collection of bikes , one thing i cant believe is that most of you guys never rode bikes as kids ????? i had had my third knee opp just after i turned 17 along with already breaking 9 or 10 bones {first one broken at 13}.
maybe thats way crashing doesnt bother me , i have been doing it since before i can even remember { memory cuts out around 12 due to to many times being knocked out } .
its a shame you guys missed out on riding as kids , i hope you give bikes to all your kids as soon as they can walk so they dont miss out as well .

[Muzzard]

Spins me out a bit too the amount that took up riding bikes, basically as adults.
I cant fathom not having a bike as a younger kid, every minute that it had fuel in the tank the little bike was being ridden.
All the kids in my street had mini bikes usually made by my mates Dad, and powered by 2 stroke 160 Victas, no clutch or brakes, just bump start and go.
This is where my introduction to dirt track was ;)
No brakes and fast little bikes on wheelbarrow wheels,
It was slide it or die most of the time :lol:

[Wobbly]

Not allowed to have a bike as a kid :(

Got around on a mates yz80 on occasion but that was it...

[chocwheaton]

I suppose if your dad didn't ride bikes, you didn't get to ride bikes. A mate of mine had a postie scooter and I wasn't even allowed to ride that! My parents could not have afforded bikes for 5 kids anyway :roll:

My kids (when I eventually have some) will have bikes if they're interested. I imagine it'd be a good family thing to go riding together.

Cheers

Greg

[Muzzard]

Educating Mum that its OK for the kids to have a little 'lay down' now and again while they are learning is the hardest part :roll:
Geez they worry,
Come running down the paddock screaming something about 'my baby'
and then give you an earful while the kids ride off. :lol:
I had a little 'training camp' going at Lima in my front paddock every weekend for those with and without bikes for the years Matt was at high school.
Sometimes up to 12 bikes and 16 riders/pillions 'crusty demoning' around (warming up) until I got ready after lunch to take them into the forest on a decent enduro leg (50 -75km through the Strathbogies).
Its always been either a kid doing this, or as the father doing it.
Give 'em every opportunity if its within your realm of possibilities,
Like my Grandad used to say,
You can put 'em on the start line,
But they gotta run their own race'
If they choose to fly kites instead,
Support that too. :D

[devo]

My old man used to do that for all the kids around home Muzz. Broke his back when I was a kid which cut back on it for me, but still always had a bike to blat around on. Standard after school procedure, shoot a few bunnies then burn a tank of 2 stroke every afternoon. Ahhh, good times.

[d_kimo]

not motorbikes ... just loads of time on bmx's jumping off things that i might think twice about on my motorbike now LOL ... yep ... not really allowed to get a motor bike ... rode mates ones every chance that i could though (which wasnt that often)

[Muzzard]

Doing these things with your kids keeps you young I reckon.
Dont listen to your mates when you hurt yourself doing something with the kids,
They just need an excuse why they aren't doing it, instead of sinking piss in the shed.
I was usually 'sweep rider' with the boys while in the forest, so they took delight in roosting me whenever possible, wheelstanding through mud etc on each side of me, and pissed themselves laughing if I crashed the bike.
There is a different bond between Matts mates who are now all around 21/22 years old and me, although to them, their Fathers peer but their mate.
Its because of those days at Lima,
And those dozen or so boys now recount riding experiences we had then, like war stories at the RSL.
Priceless ;)

[Daws]

My younger brother and I were mad keen on bikes from an early age (he Motocross, me Roadracing) but it was an impossible dream to get a bike, Mum could never afford to buy us one and there was nowhere to ride legally unless you had a car to get to the nearest track (20 miles). We made do with injuring ourselves on pushies.

My brother saved up enough pocket money and did enough odd jobs for the neighbours to buy an aged XR75 when he was 14? which resulted in a visit to our house by the local constabulary for riding illegally. Occasionally we managed to get the use of a fallow field from a farmer but with so much of Scotland given over to farming and the rest national parks there's not a lot of places to ride.

I had to wait until I had finished Uni and started working before I could afford to buy my first bike.

My brother has 2 kids now, my Nephew is 4 and has had a Kazuma mini quad (real easy for adults to flip!) since he was 2 and he's soon to graduate onto two wheels with an auto 50 (PW or KTM) and my niece 2.5 is getting the quad. Kids need bikes!

[albonator316]

When I got my DS80 1980ish model, my father got it for me and payed $500 for it, i used it regularly and for way to many years, my friends said i looked like a clown on small bike! i eventually sold it for a 50$ profit 8 years after getting it! i was pretty happy about that!!

[SM93]

My dad owned ducati, guzzi etc and i used to ride them on them bit as pillion. we moved to the coast and i was right into surfing. i didn't get into bike until i saw a tetsuya harade replica 125. i was 18 at the time. at 19/20 got my first bike but didn't really start till i had cr125 at 20/21. so been riding for around 5 years +.

[chocwheaton]

Standard after school procedure, shoot a few bunnies then burn a tank of 2 stroke every afternoon. Ahhh, good times.

I wasn't allowed to go near guns either :roll: God I missed out!

[DRZ-SM]

My First bike was the mighty 06 DRZ250 which i learnt to ride on and pussyed footed around my dads vineyard on till my birthday, It then hit the road with the motard wheels and pipe.. I pussy footed around making lots of noise for 4 months till my first track day then i was hooked.

Did about 6 months worth of trrack days and one motard day on that then got the DRZSM did one track day and then lost my license then did my second ever motard day dragged a knee lapped my dad multipe times then did another track day on sunday and a sweet battle with my dad for 3 laps at the start of the day and didn't seem him again all while riding badly so i didn't put a knee down.

That brings us up till today.. Trying to decide what tyre to put on ( Not Avon as i don't ever go off road) ( Thinking PP or BT014 or BT002R) and how much braided lines for the front will cost.

I've had a good life so far :) And i have had a 4 day weekend thanks to my english teacher getting me suspended

[MarkeeMark]

how much braided lines for the front will cost.


HEL braided front line will cost about $80 delivered to your door. Best investment yet.
look here http://www.helperformance.com.au/ where I got mine.

My child bike experience was on 2 different Honda Z50's from different family friends, it really was the only reason I wanted to go there. Had so much fun all the time and it took years of begging and promising to be good at school to finally get my RM80 and a 14-15 yr old. Then it was more begging to get the old man to take us to Broady MX Park. After I got my license cars took over and then a ZX6R and then a loss of license.
So its been in my blood and I know for sure my children will be on them too. Just watching Andrew(liebkneight) from on here everytime he comes over from SA with his young bloke on the 4 wheeler having a ball says that kids should just be on bikes and outside havin fun.

Mark

[dangermouse1100]

Being on farms all my life there has always been motorbikes. My old man used to dink us around the paddocks on his. My first bike, the GT MX 80, we lived about 20 km out of Yea, the property we were on was surrounded by state forests. On the weekends there would be up to 10 guys most on ag bikes but heck did we have a blast, one of the fellas was crazy, ( always one to liven things up :D ) he was guaranteed to crash/fall of at least twice every ride. He loved drowning his bike in the river crossings as well. :lol: Can't let my kids miss out on experiences like that. Teach em young, yes there going to fall off but its part of learning.

[ZuluFoot]

My folks refused point blank to get me a bike, I rode a friends 50cc Italjet when I was about 9 and knew I had found my true love, folks said when you can afford one you can have one :roll:

So I was 16 when I could afford to buy this piece of shit (PE175), the engine was in a box in a million pieces, but I put it together somehow and it ran, was the best feeling ever.

http://w1.bikepics.com/pics/2003/09/13/bikepics-66716-full.jpg

I took me 5 more Suzuki's to realise that if they were in pieces or brand new, they were always going to be shit... ;)

The rest is history.

[tambi]

I initially got my YZ because it cost me next to nothing and would be cheap way to try out bikes. Rode around a paddock a dozen times to learn to ride it, saw a supermotard, found this website and then got a bit carried away. Anyway, I'm still convinced it was a better move then buying a cbr250rrrrrrrrrrrrr See how it goes when I try riding on the road :shock:

http://vsmr.net/albums/YZ250/YZ250.sized.jpg

http://vsmr.net/albums/YZ250/CIMG0789.sized.jpg

[Flash]

Cheaper to insure as well!!

[devo]

That's the closest I've seen it to being ridable yet Tambi. :)

ETA?

[ruderbager]

wow, there's some old bike in there. i was like markeemark and started with an old honda z-50. that thing was great, until we traded it on 2 helmets.. and started on the xr200, xl185 and a mates xr75 all around the same time. on a dairy farm we were on the bikes every day, twice a day. and seemed to be constantly riding on weekends. will see if i can get a photo of the old girl next time i go to my parents. i have one with me wearing some really cool boots.. hehe, after the bike they were the next best thing around as far as i was concerned. lol..

[MarkeeMark]

Ok so we're talking ld shite now, who had a pair of Rossi boots?

[Wobbly]

Yep, first boots were some nice press studd rossis :shock:

[BEDO]

YEP Muzzards hand me downs I think were Rossi :lol: :lol:

[Muzzard]

YEP Muzzards hand me downs I think were Rossi :lol:
Sure were Bro ;)
Everyone had them in those days,
Or Sidi if you had a quid and MX meant leather pants at least then too.

[tambi]

That's the closest I've seen it to being ridable yet Tambi. :)

ETA?

It's done now except for hooking up the brake light which is being a headache. Then on the truck up here. Plus I need to do my license again cause I never finished it in Adelaide.

[devo]

Very cool Tambi! :D

I'd recommend going and doing QRide. It's $250 for a day's course or something like that, but you won't have to worry about subsequent P's tests or any of that rubbish and you can ride an open capacity bike if you ever need to.

[Flash]

Have you sorted the tank out?

[tambi]

Cool, I'll organise that post haste, that is a much better system then in SA. Nah Flash the tank is still yellow, I'll sort it out once it is up in Qld.

[WOOLO]

Dont bag the Rossi's,I'm still wearing them and so are my two boys.I've had them about 20 years and still going strong.I sure look the part on my old IT 490.

[Doogs]

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc210/450Doogs/Firstbike.jpg

Seriously this was my first bike,
made of wood.

Funny because sometimes when I dream about riding
these are the handle bars I see in front of me!

[albonator316]

Did you fit a motor to it down the track ;)
what was your first motorbike Doogs?

[Doogs]

Did you fit a motor to it down the track ;)
what was your first motorbike Doogs?

It was a pedalpower motor,

no my first bike was an 1986 CR250, it was way too powerfull for me
but a good learning curve.
Although this is not my one.

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc210/450Doogs/1986CR250.jpg

[Doogs]

YES! I got the picture to display proper. LOL

[kembro]

These were the first wheels at 7. http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2006/06pics/81-Yamaha-MX80.jpg

[Woolf555]

Like Doogs, my first was a 1986 CR except I knew my limits and went for the 125. Still remember riding it for the first time and being too scared to hit "powerband" for fear of this massive mythical surge of power putting me on my arse. :lol:

http://www.motodacross.com/cr125/1986.jpg

Followed this with a 1993 CR125, 1993 CR250, 1998 KTM200EXC, 1999 YZ125, 2001 YZ250F, 2002 RM125 and current 2004 YZ250F.

[Doogs]

Like Doogs, my first was a 1986 CR except I knew my limits and went for the 125. Still remember riding it for the first time and being too scared to hit "powerband" for fear of this massive mythical surge of power putting me on my arse. :lol:

http://www.motodacross.com/cr125/1986.jpg

Followed this with a 1993 CR125, 1993 CR250, 1998 KTM200EXC, 1999 YZ125, 2001 YZ250F, 2002 RM125 and current 2004 YZ250F.

It was one of those]
" I got it because the neighbours son was selling it deals"
I had it for 8 months then went to a 200kdx at age 15.

Problem was other bikes seemed so under powered compared to the
1986 CR250, So after 6 months I went back to a 250cc (KX)