What was the first motorbike you ever rode?

CB100N in 1979

 

A suzuki 250gt, in gold........ I can see and smell it now!

 

the classic honda 50cc step through when my dad wasnt at home..(he used it to get to work on)>>Then it was a CG125 for my lessons and test, then i went to a ZXR750...fkn stupid probably but i never binned it, so it was all good.

 

It's a YDS7, the fore runner to the RD250, before the coffin tank and the reed valves, great grandad to the RDLC 250. Along with the Kawasaki S1 and Suzuki GT250 they were the quick learner bikes, the Honda didn't really cut it as the weight and lack of power of the 4 stroke compared to the oilers. Passed my test on a CB250 though and then straight onto an H2 750 triple.

 

Had a go at a repair and just learning the software, but happy to receive help.

 

A cb 125 Honda single around the parade ground of HMS Collingwood

 

First time on a bike, pillion on my mate's XS1100.

First ride, CB250N in 1978

 

BSA Bantam 175

 

Sr125 complete pile of shite!!

 

My brothers Honda Z50A aged 5 :biggrin:, then got my own at aged 6 , still had that bike until it was stolen about 5 years ago :frown:, I'm now 45.

 

1960 BSA C15

 

Triumph T90

 

Royal Enfield 350 Bullet

 

Puch Maxi in mates garden...:biggrin:

 

First bike I rode, my mate Burnsie's Z650

 

Royal Enfield 250 GT Continental (if you don't count an NSU Quickly)
The Enfiled had a 5 speed gearbox, but my memory is that I rarely went successfully through the box, without missing one of them.

 

B.S.A 250cc C11, that was permanently stuck in 2nd gear around a scrambling circuit that some of the local kids who had motorcycles used to ride around on. I think I paid sixpence for my fuel contribution. I remember it like it was yesterday, the incredible feeling of movement without having to pedal, It got me hook line and sinker, couldn't believe that this much pleasure was possible.

Was a while before I got my first bike though, a B.S.A Bantam 150cc 1953 D3 that I paid £10 for, and the guy delivered it to my house in Sussex from London. What I really lusted after was a Royal Enfield Continental GT, and then later the B.S.A Lightning, still get strange fluttery feelings when I see either of them now. Happy days!

 

I bet you wish you still had it now...

AL

 

There was a new one in the show room at Wilf Greens in Sheffield when I was a lad and I couldn't stop looking at it. stunning bike at the time.
Steve

 

1981 Suzuki TS100E. Bought for £125 as an apprentice back around 1987/88. Spent half its time in the back yard, and half stripped down in my bedroom after I kept blowing holes in the pistons after doing everything possible to the engine with an apprentice school full of lathes, milling machines, grinders, etc