What was your first bike?

[thunderlad]

My first bike was a Yamaha DT50 in red an black....

[lady clara]

Originally Posted by harley66

i was 8 ,and my grandad gave me a BSA D14/4 175 bantam..ex gpo model ( thats the post office for all the children) similar to this, but not so pretty
3 weeks later, me and my grandad chopped it, and painted it matt black

What a cool grandad!

[davethemonkey]

i used to use my stepsons baotian BT50QT9 scooter after he scared the crap outta himself on it and refused to ride it my very own first bike is to be collected tomorrow night - 1997 kawasaki gpz500s may not be as shiney as some of the others but hell am i excited!

[AndyR]

The first bike I ever went on was a Honda CB125. I'd stayed at a mates and it was his bike but he had nothing in for breakfast so I offered to nip back to my mums to nick some food.

"Can you ride a bike?" He asked

"Sure I can!!" I said only ever been on the back of one.

The ride home was interesting to say the least.

I bought the bike off him having been bitten by the bug and prompty binned it into a ditch after steering straight on a bend and hitting the verge twisting the forks.

Then I had a couple of Honda 250 Superdreams, a 2-stroke Suzuki GT250 before getting my first 'proper bike' a 1986 Kawasaki GPZ1000RX which I binned within 3 months of buying it.

Then I spent 20 years off a bike only taking mates bikes out for a ride every now and then until I bought my Triumph Sprint a year last June, (just in time for all the rains), and my latest bike is another GPZ1000RX, this time a Jap import 1986 model.

[Reborn]

This is my first and second bikes.

[Madshorty]

My first bike was a Piaggio NRG50. I got it on my 16th birthday and I loved it. It was blue with green wheels.

[harley66]

Originally Posted by lady clara

What a cool grandad!

he was.. i still miss him. 14 years on..
the one big influence on my life,

if i end up half the man he was, then i will be happy that i,ve made an effort.