Your first moto pictures

[Desmo Demon]

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.....

[KEH]

My first bike:

[kenthecarp]

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.





One of my favorites, if I could only keep one bike this is definitely on my short list.

[Desmostro]

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. 

Nowadays I’m strictly All The Gear All The Time!

[ellingly]

First actual bike I could ride legally on the road:

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...

[Goat_Herder]

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 

[Desmo Demon]

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.   

Here's the little Yamaha...



Here's a little something that I wrote about the bike...
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.

[GLantern]

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

[geoffduc]

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]

[Desmostro]

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 
How about this:



http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ahum/

[geoffduc]

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.

[BumpaD_Z28]

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 !!!





~DaVe

[Evil_Ductator]

^^ looks like you need a tail chop  

j/k of course, cool bike!

[sfarchie]

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!  Wait till she rides my M696!

[DoubleEagle]

First street bike  - collage days in Santa Cruz, Ca.

1967 Honda CB450 "Black Bomber"


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