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

I got a Yamaha DT-100 Enduro when I was about 12 in the 70's. Being in the rural U.P. of MI I went about everywhere on it. A brother & cousin had similar bikes.

The next 2 were a DT-250, then a CB-750F Honda.

I have stopped riding now since having bad knees but here are the 4 last bikes I had befoe stoping riding. HD Electra glide classic,Yamaha FZ1,Yamaha roadstar 1600, and a Kawasaki Nomad. I didn't have the Nomad long it never got ridin so we sold her. Sometimes I wish I had one of them back. I am not sure why the other 3 pics wont show guess I did something wrong.

Honda 50cc Mini Bike to a Yamaha MX100 to a Yamaha DT 250 Enduro to a Yamaha 650 Special to a Yamaha V-Max. Still got the Max.

1975 Yamaha RD 350B very similar to this one, with chambers and some other slight mods. I bought it when I was 14. It was impounded one fair night while I was busy having a, uh, uh, an administrative constabulary time out for some perceived impropriety or other...

Less than 72 hours later I was fighting for my life as two emergency trauma surgeons cut me apart and put me back together over the course of a 15 hour session. I awoke in intensive care some ten days later, with virtually no recollection of what had happened. After being brought up to speed, so to speak, some three weeks later, I demanded that my brother get my bike out of police impound lot. Unfortunately, when he called to see about it was told my Demon Pumpkin had been sold at auction the day before. Fuggers.

a old 500 triumph

Parents were totally against bikes so I hadda wait till I was out of the house and on my own. Then I got a '70 Triumph Trident 750 at age 23..

1986 Suzuki GS700E. Great bike and it was my daily driver for over a year while in college. I was 22 when I bought it.

Old Naval Frogman Uncle of mine came home in '72 with a Triumph 650 Bonneville, black and chrome, I loved that damn bike, I was 9.

Gunner

71 or so was my first bike-Honda XR75. More than I needed at 8-9 years old.
First actual motorcycle was a mid 70's Honda Elsinore CR175. More than I needed at 14-15 years old.
But both were damn fun!

Rode a Yamaha XL650 on the road at 18 and didn't care for rode riding at all.

I was 13 and got a Suzuki 100, I believe it was a TC model, street legal with lights, etc. but also had clearance, shocks, tired that allowed it to doe some moderate off-road stuff. Had a lot of fun with that bike. Even after getting my drivers license and riding on streets some of my friends asked why I didn't get something bigger. For what I did it was fine.

I swapped a riding lawn mower [pos] and 50 bucks for a Suzuki RM 250 when I was 12 or 13, that knee busting sombitch ran like a chainsaw on hillybilly crack. damn

Gunner

I had a Yamaha 125 enduro at 11, at 13 I got a 250 enduro that weighed about 400 lbs. Then my father got me a 250 can am that weighed half as much with twice the HP. I used To pull right up to the sunoco pump and fill it with a dollars worth of their 260 grade.

I had a real nice clean 1970 Bonneville I sold for 600 bucks around 1981 or so.

That was my second ('77 RM 250 ) & third ('80 RM 250)of 7 motocross bikes from '76 to '85.
Most street enthusiasts can't know how aggressive and powerful a racing 2 stroke motocross bike can be despite it's comparatively small displacement.

Amazing what a YOUNG body could withstand!!

Yeah, that's it Salmonella, never drew that kind of air, the bike certainly had the balls to do it, but I didnt.

And 10-Roger on the 'teen insta-repair' Raeford, I could heal up from most anything quick in those days, where'd they go?

Gunner

I quit riding dirt bikes a long time ago. I get on. Count to about 8. Then go to the ER. Two strokes on the street though are a different story

W

I was either 19 or 20 when I got a 1981 model year Honda XL250. On/off road bike I had a blast with for a couple years before I bought my last one, a 1983 Honda CB650.

I kept the wifey!


Just bought this 1973 Bonneville, original condition,just like the one I bought back in 1973 in Rota Spain.

Very similar to this one only an early 60's model.



Jumping terraces in th pastures and fields with that was a damn poor choice for a nine year old ...moved to other bikes better suited

Honda 100 dirt bike when I was 19.