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

Enjoyed Dans thread on the first cars, so we need a thread on your first motorcycle.

Mine was a Yamaha Twin Jet 100cc street bike. Like 65 or near there. I was 14 at the time. Used it to deliever the paper route and ride to the grocery store job. No pic, but one slow (20 sec quarter mile) bike.

Suzuki 425 (1978) age seventeen.

1969 honda 90. I was 10.

Oh, well, if you're going to count minibikes, then I was fourteen. I had one of those little Hondas too. Can't remember the model or CCs.

1976 Yamaha YZ 125, I was 16.

I was 14, it was a Zundapp 250 ISDT bike much used. Moe Griffin had used it to win the old Catalina race in 1958. Awesome bike that I thrashed learning to ride in the Desert.

mike r

2000 ZX-6R at 21

1982 yamaha virago 920 hit deer with it bought another this pic is not mine bike i put 130k miles between both bikes

Murder cycle of choice back in high school were RD 400's and KZ's/GPZ's.

I resisted the temptation. A lot of friends got pretty fugged up. A few of them died.

Southern California and street bikes were a pretty rough mix.

1951 Indian Brave, I was 14

100cc Honda Dirt Bike - 19

1979 Honda XR-80- age 10.

Sitting over at my Dad's place.

80 Suzuki, I was 15

Late 50's 175 cc NSU, black & chrome.

Don't have a photo of the one I had but here's one I copied from Google Images that looks just like it.

Yamaha mini enduro.
Had 2,1 was for parts.

Had a lot of fun running coyotes on that thing.

And i was in my thirtys i think.

Indian 70cc dirt bike. I believe it was a 1970. I bought it well used in about'84-'85 from a family friend for $30. It had no spark so the neighbor kid amd I found a coil from a oldInInternational pick up my dad was parting out and hose clamped it to on of the down tubes and away I went. I was about 15 and I rode the pizz out of it when I wasn't wrenching on it.

I remember that it had a tendency to shear off the flywheel key. Learned a lot about working on engines with that bike.

Honda CL360. I bought it new in 1976 when I was 16.

JD338

4hp totegoat at 12, 5hp rupp minienduro at 13 and then my first motorcycle, a yamaha 125 at 14 !!!

I got a used yami, bout like this one. probably age... 10-11?

1970 Honda CB350, red and white just like this one. Got it at age 17.

That was a great little motorcycle; well mannered, enough power to get out of the way with great brakes and excellent handling. I really wish they made a nice small-mid size street bike like that today. All you seem to be able to find are big engines or scooters or "cruiser" styles or crotch rockets.

Not that I'd get one, I'd just go down to the Honda store twice a week to look at it...