Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What was your first "Motorcycle" and your AGE at the time?

Got a Cushman Eagle when I was 14, A Harley Sprint H at 16 and bought a '52 Harley pan head when I was 18. Had a few Harley Duo-Glydes and Electra-Glydes since, wish I could still Ride.

not my first by any means but my wife on an '84 XL200 we had for a few summers to put around the neighborhood on



Those Honda 200cc motors from the 70's and 80's are bulletproof - and heck, new carbs are like $25 on Amazon for 'em.

I don't even bother to buy the kits anymore.

Honda Mini 50 at age 10. Then a mighty Suzuki 80 at 12, then a mightier 90 at 15, then a PE 200 at 18 and a KZ 750 E at 21.

Honda SL350...I was 18 at the time...a Force to be reckoned with!

11 years old, traded a model 60 Winchester for it. bike is long gone but I got the 22 back and still shoots like a dream.

Cushman (base model with pull start,,, not the Eagle),,,, 12YO
I could only ride it around in the desert though.

You could get a MC license at 14 back then (80CC max) so when I turned 14 I got a Yamaha 80.
Paid for it with my paper rout money.

1972 Honda SL100 13 years old.

First street bike 1976 Honda CB 550, 16 years old.

First was a 1980 Honda XL 250. I was 9 years old. Second was a 1987 Honda XL 600 (last year of the thumper). I was 13 then...

Like others, honda CB350, for my senior year in HS.

Kent

1967 Triumph 650, 16 years old. Cur grass and was a paperboy for two years to pay for that bike. I loved it, my parents hated it. Ha. Now 66 and still have three bikes...1998 HD Dyna Wide Glide, 1999 Triumph Trophy 1200 and 2006 Honda 450.

Is that a 440 Victor thumper?

Sorry to be so late. 1964 Honda Sport 90. I was a hoodlum.

Since I missed the "First Car" thread, my 1932 Ford Roadster!!

Original vintage pictures!




DMc

Special Thanks to all the guys that posted pics!!!

Great thread!



DMc

My dad got a Honda Sport 90 when I was about 11-12. At 14 he bought a couple Honda Trail 90s for me and my two younger brothers.

When I was 11 in 1971, I got a blue Honda Trail 70 for Christmas.

1970 Honda CT-70H, 4-speed with a manually operated clutch.

1972 Suzuki 185 Sierra

1971 Honda SL-350

1974 Penton 175

1970/72 Norton 750 Commando (basket case rebuild)

1974 Honda MT-250

1972 Kawasaki S3-350

1976 Honda MR-250

1974 Penton Mint 400

1975 Kawasaki KH-750

1978 Yamaha IT-175

1987 Kawasaki KLR-250

My CT-70H was green.

Still have one! (Sorta) I gave it to this little guy, but he still rides as a passenger.

Altho he does have another bike!




DMc

Wish I had a picture. Mine was a late 60's Harley shovelhead 74 with a high rise sissy bar behind the seat and 8" extended front forks.....think Easy Rider and the Captain America bike. Bought it in 1972.

Loved that bike and wish I still owned it.

First was a 68 z 50 honda.
I bought it with my lawn mowing money my 9th summer.

spring after next I traded it in for a brand new 1972 Indian 50, unassembled in box, that had a clutch, 4 gears, and shocks on back instead of hardtail.

I took third place that fall in nebraska state grass track championships, 80cc and under, loosing to a 75xr honda and a yamaha 80, with a crowd of eight or so bikes behind me.
Still have the trophy but wish I'd have sold it and kept the bike
Classic little Italian machine.