On the opening day of the new James Bond film I thought this was apropos
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/3029441059_90ed0ca687.jpg)
That's me in the front.
It was 1971. Plaid pants were making a come back. The family piled into the station wagon and headed south after my dad finished med. school. We stopped one night on the highway in California and watched the new Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever 1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(film)) which debuted the ATC in the All-terrain chase scene. (http://www.imcdb.org/thumbnail.php?pic=056-955.jpg)
The next day driving down the road, we passed a Honda dealer that had one of these in the window. We skidded to a stop. They came in a box, deflated, which was shoved in the back seat with me. There began my long love affair with racing across dirt, ...& snow, grass, wind, sand, water, mountains, roads, highways...
I grew up riding a Hando 110cc trike back in the early to late 80's.
Can't believe my brothers and me are still all alive after all the stupid shit we'd do on that thing.
(http://www.wenga.net/ellingly/kid_pillion/ts250_1.jpg)
I wasn't even 3 (2.75 or thereabouts). I learnt to ride on that bike, too, a late 60s Suzuki TS250 trail bike.
Funny you mention the TS... a 1977 TS185 was my the 1st motorcycle I ever rode, as well as the 1st motorcycle I ever crashed...
Here it is after some light restoration:
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/TS185-001-1200.jpg)
Somewhere there's a picture of Dad, me and my sister on it [thumbsup]
JM
Didn't have cameras then ;D
Quote from: Capo on November 17, 2008, 11:04:18 AM
Didn't have cameras then ;D
So, you rode Penny Farthing with a "whizzer" motor [laugh]
JM
Didn't grow up w/motorcycles. Heck, I was the first in my family (at least all the cousins & such that I knew) that ever got a bike.... Now there's like 6 of us.
Anyways, I was 20 in the pic on my '83 KZ750ltd. WAY too much bike for a kid of 20....
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=12775.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=12775.0)
First street bike - collage days in Santa Cruz, Ca.
1967 Honda CB450 "Black Bomber"
(http://www.hondamuseum.com/motorcycles%5Cregular%5CCB450%5Cimages%5CCB450_06.jpg)
I was going for the 60's nostalgia thing.
A twin carbs, pipes, seats... It was SO much fun until I had some *#__f_^*!# Honda Dealer "tune it up."
It never ran right again.
Here is my first street legal.
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/Woodrow_07/Nortonin76.jpg)
Kilgore
First bike I ever rode. 1987? Honda 50cc
At least 14 of my family members learned on it. Still works. And I still fit. [laugh]
(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v182/18/50/20012271/n20012271_33077371_7164.jpg)
Quote from: Desmostro on November 17, 2008, 01:11:03 PM
First street bike - collage days in Santa Cruz, Ca.
1967 Honda CB450 "Black Bomber"
(http://www.hondamuseum.com/motorcycles%5Cregular%5CCB450%5Cimages%5CCB450_06.jpg)
I was going for the 60's nostalgia thing.
A twin carbs, pipes, seats... It was SO much fun until I had some *#__f_^*!# Honda Dealer "tune it up."
It never ran right again.
one on ebay right now... belongs to jason lee...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motorcycles___1965-CB450-Black-Bomber-Japanese-Domestic-360-Crank_W0QQitemZ220313639665QQddnZMotorcyclesQQddiZ2283QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item220313639665&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A317%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motorcycles___1965-CB450-Black-Bomber-Japanese-Domestic-360-Crank_W0QQitemZ220313639665QQddnZMotorcyclesQQddiZ2283QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item220313639665&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A317%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308)
Quote from: Kilgore Trout on November 17, 2008, 01:42:35 PM
Here is my first street legal.
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/Woodrow_07/Nortonin76.jpg)
Kilgore
Napoleon Dynamite?
[laugh] just kidding of course [beer]
Great suit and pose!
(http://www.seaies.com/Motorcycle/hondaNX125.jpg)
Napoleon Dynamite goes to traffic court,
KT
This is the earliest picture that I have scanned. I think this was taken in the summer of '83 when I was 14 years old.....
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d32/Kramer_Krazy/squid.jpg)
My first bike:
(http://www.oldhonda.com/qa50frnt.jpg)
My first motorcycle, a 1966 250 Monza after mods; Sebring 350 motor, scrambler cosmetic parts painted Candy Apple Red and a genuine reverse cone open megaphone.
It could wake the dead. ;D
(http://www3.sympatico.ca/kschill/images/Ducati/My_Ducati_350.jpg)
One of my favorites, if I could only keep one bike this is definitely on my short list.
(http://www3.sympatico.ca/kschill/images/Moto/ken_and_triumph_sm.JPG)
Quote from: Desmo Demon on November 18, 2008, 05:21:58 AM
This is the earliest picture that I have scanned. I think this was taken in the summer of '83 when I was 14 years old.....
That’s awesome - all the “riding gear†in these pics. In the 80’s I wore goggles
sometimes. That’s about it.
I got my first helmet after 10 years of riding. [laugh]
Nowadays I’m strictly
All The Gear All The Time!
First actual bike I could ride legally on the road:
(http://ellingly.customer.netspace.net.au/gt250.jpg)
1977 Suzuki GT250.
I haven't moved so far from those days. 12L effective fuel tank capacity on a twin that revs to 8000 rpm.
Then again, I bought the GT for the price of one minor service at a dealer for the Monster...
When I was little, dad had a Honda CB125 the he used to take me out on. Don't have pictures of it any more but it was a late 70's/early 80's model. Should be close to the picture inserted. Can't remember if it was navy blue or black. But I can remember being 5-6 yr old out riding with dad. I would sit on the tank and grab on to the inner part of the handlebar, pretending that I was riding the bike. Good times. These were the few memories I still have of him... Riding in cool summer evenings would bring me back :)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/Honda_5.jpg/800px-Honda_5.jpg)
My very first motorized, two-wheeled vehicle was one of those 5-HP Briggs & Stratton powered minibikes. My father pulled the minibike, minus engine, out of a trash dumpster. Since it had no rear suspension, the frame had broken, and the previous owner just chunked it. My father had a guy at work weld it up and bought an engine for it. I rebroke that frame at least once while jumping the thing off of ramps. After that, I moved "up" to a 1974 Honda Z-50A that my father bought for $50. It lived a rough life, was repainted about eight times, and my father rebuilt the minibike with new red paint, new seat cover, new tires, repainted wheels, and several other things were freshened up. After that, when I was 12 years old, I wound up with my first street bike. It was a 1972 Yamaha LS-2 motorcycle that my aunt had bought new. It was a 100cc, twin cylinder, 2-stroke motorcycle with almost no power. I rode it around the dirt roads in our subdivision and often would take little jaunts on the paved roads out in the country....two years before I would ever get my license. ;D
Here's the little Yamaha...
(http://www.desmodemon.com/yamaha_ls2_100.jpg)
Here's a little something that I wrote about the bike...
http://www.desmodemon.com/first_street_bike.html (http://www.desmodemon.com/first_street_bike.html)
After selling the Yamaha after I got my driver's license and never legally riding the bike on the road, I wouldn't get my first legally ridden motorcycle until I was 25 years old....my '85 Harley FXEF.
My first bike is a 1982 yamaha virago, i'm trying to get it running again as we speak, i was 18 and fixed it up all on my own;D
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/GreenLanternLCD/BentheBike.jpg)
Sorry guys i have no photo's but imagine the years 1957 i'm 14 years old and me and some of my mates club together and raise 25 pounds, plus 2pounds 10 shillings to buy an ex army BSA M20 from a store in London and have it delivered to Liverpool by train. Bike arrives still covered in grease and wax from being mothballed after the war and we still had to get it started and learn to ride the bloody great lump. Well learned to ride and am still under the greatest addiction known to man at the age of 65. [moto]
Quote from: geoffduc on November 22, 2008, 11:26:10 AM
Sorry guys i have no photo's but imagine the years 1957 i'm 14 years old and me and some of my mates club together and raise 25 pounds, plus 2pounds 10 shillings to buy an ex army BSA M20 from a store in London and have it delivered to Liverpool by train. Bike arrives still covered in grease and wax from being mothballed after the war and we still had to get it started and learn to ride the bloody great lump. Well learned to ride and am still under the greatest addiction known to man at the age of 65. [moto]
Nice story [thumbsup]
How about this:
(http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ahum/index.jpg)
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ahum/ (http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ahum/)
Thanks Desmostro most apprecitated but here's a better one.
The years 1948 and it's my first year in school [i'm 5 years old], well every tuesday my aunty comes to pick me up after school's over on her Scott with sidecar,[she even has a moustache] to take me home. After a few weeks i've had the crap fightened out of me one time to much so when i hear the yowl of the Scott i go and hide in one of the air raid shelters which were still in the play ground and wait till i hear her leave and when walk home. [moto]
The air raid shelters were left over from the war as Liverpool got a good drumming by the germans.
Hope this tickles your fancy. [thumbsup]
First ride and still in service to work everyday (when the weather permits)
1971 SUZUKI TS125R
My parents had it since I was born and I bought it from them a few years ago, it has 2677 original miles (my commute is less than 2 miles...) and runs like a top !!! I LOVE IT !!!
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/21/l_9cc59eff8bed46e881dd7b4ae849d476.jpg)
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/52/l_32b1b47654274069baf948cc7ba269ba.jpg)
~DaVe
^^ looks like you need a tail chop [laugh]
j/k of course, cool bike!
Well, I will sheepishly say my first moto was my Vespa GTS this past May. Since then, I own a 1958 Vespa Allstate (totalled now :( ) and my M696. Here's a pic of my Godsis and me. She was scared to death, but loved it! ;D Wait till she rides my M696! [thumbsup]
(http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/qq89/sfarchie/briannaandme83108.jpg)
Quote from: Desmostro on November 17, 2008, 01:11:03 PM
First street bike - collage days in Santa Cruz, Ca.
1967 Honda CB450 "Black Bomber"
(http://www.hondamuseum.com/motorcycles%5Cregular%5CCB450%5Cimages%5CCB450_06.jpg)
I was going for the 60's nostalgia thing.
A twin carbs, pipes, seats... It was SO much fun until I had some *#__f_^*!# Honda Dealer "tune it up."
It never ran right again.
Still a winner in my book ! Dolph
Don't have a picture but it was the Summer of '65 and I had a Honda 50 Sport. Had more fun on that bike since 2 friends had that model as well.
No helmet or any kind of protective gear. Dolph
My first brand new bike ;D
(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/jacopansegrouw/YamahaYSR50.jpg?t=1227516281)
Same colors, ala Christian Sarron circa 1987
Hey Dolph
No helmet or any kind of protective gear.
In those days you were alot younger and bounced well [bang] didn't we all [moto]
No pics, but here's the story.
My first motorcycle was a Harley, which will come as a surprise to those who know me. The story goes like this. Many moons ago, the US govt, in their infinite wisdom (and desire to place US products around the globe) bestowed upon the tiny African nation of Dahomey, a bunch of H-D police bikes, for use by their crack gendarmes. Only one small fly in the ointment: the average Dahomian stands about five foot nothing. Needless to say the HDs spent a good deal of time on their sides, or zooming away from their riders. So Dahomey decides to sell the H-Ds at auction, whereupon a family friend picks up two. They are complete basket cases and after a few years sitting in the garage he decides to give them to me, figuring I'd make one rideable one. Of course, at that point I was about 5 foot nothing myself, and completely unencumbered by any mechanical skills. But I dutifully ordered the shop manual, full of pictures of guys in white lab coats holding immaculately clean parts. None of this bore any resemblance to my corner of the barn where the reassembly was going horribly wrong.
Finally, in disgust, I realized things were not going to improve, and I traded the pair to a friend for a rideable Suzuki 150 smoker. Sort of like this:
(http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/T/T125/1967_T125_Japan_bw_side_450.jpg)
When I got her
(http://gallery.me.com/skunkmonk/100088/17-20--20850/web.jpg)
When I let her go :'(
(http://gallery.me.com/skunkmonk/100088/DSC00209/web.jpg)
Wow I loved the pics of the Suzuki TS (both the 125 and the 185). I had a 185 in the early '80s but it was my second bike. My first was a '75 Kawasaki KD100. My dad got it for me used in '76 right after my mom said she didn't want me to have a motorcycle. She told me that a little bike might satisfy me now but as I got older I would want bigger and bigger bikes until I wound up on some Monster of a motorcycle... [laugh] Man, my mom sure knew what she was talking about!
Quote from: KEH on November 18, 2008, 05:52:46 AM
My first bike:
(http://www.oldhonda.com/qa50frnt.jpg)
Mine too! I think I was 5 when I got it. Only first gear worked, but I didn't care.
None of me on it...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/3072129271_2b0542eceb_m.jpg)
Didn't end up much like it started.
Denco pipes...
Kevin Cameron and I modified the motor.
Thing was like a friggen light switch...
that was horrifying to go around a corner...or try to stop.
It was a fun bike.
Quote "that was horrifying to go around a corner...or try to stop."
(big slow grin)
K.T.