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What was your first bike you ever rode. What was your first bike you owned?

Honda CT70 dax/ Yamaha CT1-175

First Bike i eva rod was a qr50 and rod it till i was about 12?

first bike i owned was a xr 100 (dam thing never started) lol

First bike I ever rode was a Hodaka!  I don't even know if that's how you spell it.  I have no idea or recollection about anything to do with it except it's name.

First bike I ever owned was a DR 200.  Still get misty eyed at the thought of it..... comfy seat, low seat height.  Ah, those were the days!

DP.   How about a 1938 ariel 500 single with solid back end and girder forks.
Those were the days.
Phil r.

First bike I rode was a BSA Bantam. First bike owned was a mini bike (home made) with a cut down push bike frame and Villiers 98 mower engine. Those were the days. You could ride all day in the park across the road from home and no-one even complained!

Can't remember what the first bike I rode was, think it was either a TAS minibike or a QR50 Honda.  Eventually managed to get my own bike which was a TS250 Suzuki when I was about 15 or 16.

Hi all,

first bike ridden (I guess an 80cc Vespa scooter doesn't count :wink: ): Kawasaki GPZ 305.
first bike owned: Honda FT500

cheers
Oliver

hey all

frist bike owned/ridden was a 1985 Z50R bloody tank of a thing

For me, it was a Yamy DT100.
It got me around & did what I neededit to to until some BASTARD stole it then burnt it !!

First bike ever ridden was some kind of pee wee 50 (Too long ago to remember).
First bike ridden regularly was a XR 100 and first owned a trusty old 1983 XR200R. That XR coped a lot of punishment and just kept on going without skipping a beat.

First Ride (and crash) Yamaha Farmbike. P.O.S. 80cc two smoke disaster.

First Owned Honda Z50 Minitrail. 75' compliance plate model cost $200 worth about $1500 now.

That was more than 30years ago so it's ANCIENT history.

Since then - the one year that I went without a bike in 2003 was the worst ever.

:roll:

P.S. Ollie - scooters are like ugly sex partners. Fun to ride but you would not want your mates to see you on one !

There was an assortment of bikes, that went through out yard in the early 50's, hard to say which was the first, as they came and went a bit. My elder brother and his mates sort of attracted them. There was one with a gear lever on the side where the petrol tank should have been.  We didn't know the make, and as we never managed to start it, I can't claim that I rode it .  It had a belt drive to a large vee pulley on the rear wheel, and with a helping of molassis we got enough friction to spin the engine, but allas, no start.  The Exelsior, AJS and Vellocete all caused us a similar load of grief, with no money for spares or registration, and licences were also thin on the ground, its probably just as well.  Now the JAP was different story, they were produced as speedway bikes, and had little more than the engine and frame. Someone produced a boat propellor about 800mm diameter. It was all duly mounted in this flat bottomed, square fronted boat, direct drive from the engine. Pretty simple really, stand in the boat and kick over the engine, engine starts, motor down river, wave to girls.  Well, with  an 800mm propellor at about 2000 rpm, the front of the boat stood up, the carburetor was now horizontal, the engine stopped and the boat dissapeared backwards into the deeper water. It was retrieved of course, for further modifications, but we never did get those waves.
All for now   Phil R.

P.S.   Did I say 800 mm, sorry, about 8inches in the old scale 200mm.
 I am back from India.
 Phil R.

first bike i ever rode was a 1977 honda xl100,i went all the way from yarraville to croydon by train to get it,bought it home by train,then when i rode it  home the exhaust engine pipe fell off,i didnt even know it was gone!i found it on the road a few days later!

Hi all,my first bike I owned was a 250cc Suzuki TS250,my brother inlaw arrived at our house one day on his new TS250 and said he was going scramblin'so we went to watch and had a ride and thought it was fantastic so not long after I bought one and joined Amtra unfortunately it caught fire and needed a few bits but I got it going again, cheers Nev

Not sure if this thing counts as a motorbike, but, the first petrol powered bike I rode was a thing called a Solex in Holland in the late 70's (it was an antique then allready). It was like a bicycle to get moving & then you lowered the engine down onto the front wheel with a lever to get it started & then you could accelerate. Black, very old & heavy from memory, but fun to ride as a kid & went quick enough thru the bush tracks from memory.
First bike I owned was a Honda CT Trail 70 - worth heaps $$$ now.

Cheers - Martin

1995 yamaha pw50 i think waas the 1st bike irode, and the 1st 1 i owned was a 1997 kx65

1980 XR80 was my first bike and now its a 2008 KLX450R.

Yamaha GT80, first bike I learnt on, it was my brothers and was used on the farm.  Probably saw about 10 learners in it's time eventually handed down to my cousins.  First bike I owned, (sold 20 fat lambs to put towards it) was a Yamaha MX100 (really just a DT100 with knobs).  Pretty average, nearly had mum talked into an RM80 until she found out it was a race bike and wouldn't be very suitable for moving sheep.

My first bike was a Lambretta TV175. It was better than ugly sex, 75mph, went around corners OK - once correct lines were introduced, stopped well except for once when a car in front outbraked me - he obviously was not looking at the mini skirt. Looking back it was one of the few bikes I didnt drop. Lots of fun and all with dry feet. First trail bike was the mighty DT1. Rode it to work and home down the beach from Sth Melb to Frankston and it wasn't illegal back then. It also wasnt illegal to scoot thru the bush on the Seaford foreshore, or try to ride up and down under the Arthurs Seat chairfilt. I also rode the DT in a trial (never done so much damage to a bike in 1 day before or since) And we gave it a punt in road racing clocking up 9 wins in 3 meetings and was quickly moved from C to B grade where the need for more HP retired the already heavily modified DT. Now those were the days.

My first bike ride was on a late 60,S  mini bike called a Gemini 50 I think and not long after that my parents bought a red devil mini bike from Geoff Taylors in Dandenong when he first opened, It had a villiers stationary engine in it a red home made frame with a crome fuel tank and 2 pogo sticks as front forks and a pivot seat with springs , No rear suspension and a centrifical clutch direct drive ( NO Gears)

Mine was a 12th birthday present and was a stripped down second hand Suzuki U70 scooter. It was repainted green and heavy as I pushed it allot when it ran out of fuel having a small tank.

first ride was some sort of kawasaki mini bike first owned was a xt 200 yamaha

My First ride was a lovely girl named Toni, probably could also been classed as my first bike but that was actually a DT175 I bought in pieces and put together. Was ok once you got it started but boy was it hard to start.Will

First Ride: Yamaha YZ80H 1981.
First bike: CT175 THEN RGV250 89,XL500s 85, XR250 89, KX500 87, KTM300 91, DT200 91, KDX250F 94, XR400 96, KLX650 88, KLX650 88, WR200 97, RMX250 98, RMX250 99, YZF1000 88, DRZ400 00,KTM525 03, FE550 04, WR250 96(HUSKY), RMX250 99, FE570 09, DR750 87, DR750 88. And at this stage that's all i can remember.


CARS:     Escort van 76, Escort Van 76,Datsun 1600 70, Toyota Carolla KE10 70, Mazda E1600 81 converted to 13B Rotary 16.2 Sec Q/mile at calder, XE Ute 83, VP V8 Ute 91, Pajero 93, Toyota van 98, Toyota Hilux SR5 99, AU V8 Ute 02, Pajero 04, Merc Van 115 06.

Wives: 1x Joanne 1966 mod still weighs in at under 52kgs." This one must be good cos she's been around for years" they don't make them now like they used to.