just thought id start a thread about peoples first bikes, what were they and do you still have them at the back of your garage!?hehe.
mine was a bright yellow honda vfr 400rr NC30, looking back it was a complete shed!lol. paid well over the odds to someone i thought was a friend.guess not!lol. ahh well wouldnt be who i am today without it!
A BSA bantam, brought it off me brothers mate when i was eleven, and then watched me dad take the engine apart in the kitchen sink! sadly i sold it to make way for something else.
First bike I owned was an MZ125 (don't knock em, sort of Germanic commie Bantam), but I did my first riding on a Dutch Broemfitse on a school exchange trip when I was 15.
Matt, do they still do Broemfitses? Or are they cult machines among middle-aged Dutchmen a bit like Yam Fizzies?
I always played the dum blonde when the police looked at my fizzie, "sorry officer I bought it as a moped, don't they all go that fast?" (((Sticks out chest , flutters eyelashes)))
First bike was the worlds most popular (in sales terms) Honda C50. Had it when I was 14 and used to sneak out on the roads on it. then on to the venerable FS1E in 1977-ish and then a nice Honda G5, the CB250.
And did it work Scary , wouldnt of worked with our local bobbies right bunch of miserable b,s,a,rds , hated cheeky kids on mopeds and it got even worse when we all got yamaha RD125LC
SS50 four speed flat bars (pedles welded up so tec a bike not a ped) sadly sold to make room for my XL250s when I was an apprentice sheet metal worker a lad at the training ctr was deeply into tuning and I built him a power pipe for his AP50 fatest 50 in Hull till he blew it up lol 85mph
Do I have to admit to my lil Puch moped when I was 16....? FAB for racing me mates round the local country park tho!!
First non-hairdryer-proper-bike was a GPZ550 which was great but scared the pants off me at times!
mine was big beautiful gs400, learnt to ride it with my boyfriend on the back always was too big and had a few hairy moments then downgraded to a far more sensible superdream which was even more fun cos i was actually legal and much safer!