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1951 Indian Chief, paid $50 for it in 1966,i was 14,ran it around like an oversized dirt bike. Don

Suzuki TC 90 @ 14 years

Loved that little bike and rode it for years, until I finally burnt up the piston. Wish I would have kept it around to restore

A red Honda 50 Sport,I was 14(I think)! memtb

1970 Kawasaki Trail Boss 100 10 speed. I was 12.

Yamaha 80 Sport. Had to mix the oil/gas . No oil injection.
I'd buy a quart of bulk oil, and mix it with 5 gallons of gas.

I was 13. Traded a 10-22 and $35. cash for it.

Put a LOT of miles on that bike!


Virgil B.

Honda 90 age 15 - I road that thing down every road in Phoenix Az in the late 60's -- ride all day for a dollar or 2 - taking it fishing to Bartlett Lake was always an adventure - lol

I got a Honda 90 trail in the shed right now - man I need to get it running

parting out the old Honda 55

I trashed several 50 cc mopeds between 12 and 16, including Zundapp and Puch, but my first street bike was a 50 cc Kreidler. Looked just like this:



Learned a lot about hopping them up and dodging the authorities with that thing.

Mine was a 1954 BSA model C-11. I got it when I was 14 and paid 125.00 for it. Hasbeen

I was 11. Yamaha YZ 80

Honda XL 175, I was 12. Used it to ride to/from the truck farmer's fields that I worked for during the summer. Went a lot of places on that bike.

looks like two gauges up there - was one of them a tachometer?

'77 Harley Low Rider when I was 20. I totally rebuilt it as a 90" stroker at the ripe old age of 21. Never wretched on an engine once before that but it ran good and it ran fast. I was a lot pleased and a little proud.

At age 18 I purchased a 1976 Honda CB360 for $440 dollars. I barely knew how to ride it, and kept killing it during the test drive while trying to get used to the clutch. I purchased it from a co-worker, who said it could be my "chin grinder" (apparently he noted my inexperience on it.) Kept it for about 10 years, and never did grind my chin with it.

1974 Yamaha SC500A one lunger, 4 speed. I was 25. Bought to rip around the family farm. Then the gas crunch came and I had the local dealer install a lighting kit so it would be street legal. Two problems with that: with no battery, the headlight would really dim at idle and it didn't like running at a constant speed on highways. I seized 2 pistons doing that. Thankfully, 1 two stroke piston and a head gasket cost less than $10 for the rebuilds.

Gradually all my buddies sold their dirt bikes and it wasn't any fun riding alone so I traded it for a '74 Yamaha 500 twin street bike with double overhead cams and a counter-rotating balance shaft. I finally graduated to H-D and been riding my '98 Fatboy ever since.

Yes, speedo and tach. Max legal speed 50 KPH. With a few mods, 90 KPH was fairly easy.

64 Bultaco Metralla. Bought it in 1970 for $200. I was 17.

Back then Metrallas were cheap because you had to mix the oil in the gas and the electrics were abysmal. Everybody wanted Japanese bikes with oil injection and decent electrics.

Now they're collector's items worth thousands.

Not much power, but the handling was absolutely superb.

Honda CB360, age 17. i had been riding for 5 years on friends bikes. first 4 wheeled vehicle came at age 34.

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This is the one that started it off for me . . .


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At age 16 I got a Honda CL360,

Yamaha Twin Jet 100 at age 14