Your first moto pictures

[DoubleEagle]

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

[Big Troubled Bear]

My first brand new bike



Same colors, ala Christian Sarron circa 1987

[geoffduc]

Hey Dolph
              No helmet or any kind of protective gear.

             In those days you were alot younger and bounced well   didn't we all [moto]

[Michael Moore]

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:

[factorPlayer]

When I got her







When I let her go   

[Desmo_Profundis]

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... Man, my mom sure knew what she was talking about!

[TJR178]

My first bike:

Mine too!  I think I was 5 when I got it.  Only first gear worked, but I didn't care.

[ducpainter]

None of me on it...



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.

[Kilgore Trout]

Quote   "that was horrifying to go around a corner...or try to stop."

   (big slow grin) 
K.T.