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blinkey501 · #1 Post by **blinkey501** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:47 pm

When i was the grand age of 17 i got my first bike a honda mbx 80 water cooled in rothmans racing colours, and it did 200 miles per hour or so it seemed. i am not sure if this has been asked before but what was your first bike.

The Mad Hatter · #2 Post by **The Mad Hatter** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:11 pm

Suzuki GSXR 600 SRAD. Bit of a handful initially but soon got used to it and bought a Blade.

tommy · #3 Post by **tommy** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:22 pm

An aprilia SR50. A wee scooter
Then:
Yamaha TW125
Yamaha XJR400
Suzuki SV650 (2nd best bike I've owned)
Kwak ZX9R (Scared myself shitless on that, I was only 21)
Suzuki GSX1400 (Great bike, heavy as fuck though, im only a little bloke)
Then finally my Falco

Dropped all of them. Crashed one

Willopotomas · #4 Post by **Willopotomas** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:36 pm

Had a few 'firsts' but my first road legal bike was an 89' CG125.. Trusty old dog.. Went everywhere on it.. Including Bridport in Dorset. By the time it came to take my test, I'd pretty much worn it out, so bought a CB125.. The slightly bigger in stature twin. Flew the test and went on to a CB250N "Superdream" which I bought from a mate for £60.. I was working for a well known motorcycle spares dealers at the time, so got all the parts I needed at cost price..

After two years hard graft on that old nail, I upgraded to beyond the 33bhp limit to a BMW K100. The difference in size and power was quite astonishing at the time..lol. Since the BM, more have come along and few have flown the next. I still have the CG, CB250N and the K100.. The CB125 was sold to the training school where up until recently it was seeing people through their tests.

MartDude · #5 Post by **MartDude** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:53 pm

'57 Triumph Thunderbird 6T, with sidecar

DavShill · #6 Post by **DavShill** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:05 pm

1972 Honda CB250 K3 - bought when I was 19 in 1977.

Samray · #7 Post by **Samray** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:29 pm

Had a variety of bikes before I gave up biking when lids were made compulsary. I think the first was a Bantam but the favourite was a Matchless.
Took my test and got another bike when I realised all five sons were riding.

back_marker · #8 Post by **back_marker** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:45 pm

Fizzy first, then wrote off a mate's x7 that was planning on buying. 15 years on it's still in my dad's garage in many, many pieces awaiting some attention.

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:06 pm

blinkey501 wrote:When i was the grand age of 17 i got my first bike a honda mbx 80 water cooled in rothmans racing colours, and it did 200 miles per hour or so it seemed. i am not sure if this has been asked before but what was your first bike.

Yes we've done it before - but so what !

Mine was a Honda C50 step-through .... on which I passed my full motorcycle test

#10 Post by **mangocrazy** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:24 pm

A Honda C200 (90cc). It was a 'proper' motorbike (i.e. not a C90 step-thru) with a pushrod OHV engine (same as the C90, probably) but with a manual clutch and gearbox, spine frame and leading link front forks. In black.

I bought it as a non-runner with a seized big-end for £9 (!) in 1966, after having spotted the poor thing sat in someone's garden with the con-rod poking out of the crankcase mouth. My Dad said I could have it as long as I fixed it myself and paid all the bills.

I probably learned more about motorcycles having to completely rebuild the engine myself than I could have done any other way. Dad, you did me a favour...

flatlander · #11 Post by **flatlander** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:15 pm

BSA C15 broke down pretty much the day I bought it so I left it at someones house for the week and they got posted to germany and I never saw it again

Puch free spirit loved it for buzzing round didn't love it when it got stuck at only going exactly 12 miles an hour all the way from Birmingham to Crewe in fact I was seen doing a Basil Fawlty jumping up and down on it at the roadside somewhere near stafford

CB100 drove that into a builders yard gates after cleaning out the carbs of some green gunk and the power boost caught me out

It was then taken of me by the plod as the guy I bought it off had stolen the engine. I then got it back as I was an innocent party and can't recall what happened to it then but I know I didn't get to ride it much if at all

Shared an R80 in fact pretty much what i really got to grips with riding a bike on

cx 500 what a nail don't even want to recall what was wrong with that bike

so kind of bitts of a first bike on each one really

D-Rider · #12 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:23 pm

flatlander wrote:BSA C15 broke down pretty much the day I bought it so I left it at someones house for the week and they got posted to germany and I never saw it again

Bet they went airmail.
If they'd gone recorded delivery you could have traced them and got the bike back.

BikerGran · #13 Post by **BikerGran** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:27 pm

My first bike was a Yamaha RXS100 2-stroke - brilliant little bike, more actual fun to ride than anything else I've had! Rode it for 3½ years as I couldn't afford anything else, even went camping and touring in Normandy/Brittany on it!

I don't count the step-thrus I had at 16, they weren't bikes just transport - but for the record, a BSA Dandy 75cc horrible thing, followed by a much more sophisticated (but not much quicker) Honda C50.

Aladinsaneuk · #14 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:37 pm

I think her name was Sophie.....

flatlander · #15 Post by **flatlander** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:38 pm

D-Rider wrote:
flatlander wrote:BSA C15 broke down pretty much the day I bought it so I left it at someones house for the week and they got posted to germany and I never saw it again

Bet they went airmail.
If they'd gone recorded delivery you could have traced them and got the bike back.

I could still see it in the house after they left

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