First Motorcycle

[François Pugh]

We have a first cars thread. Let's have a first Bikes thread.
The first bike that you owned outright in your own name. Optional, the one you learned how to ride on, even if it wasn't yours.
I'll start: my first bike: a used and abused '84 750 Interceptor like the one below (mine had the stock exhaust, but newer cams tuned for more overlap)

Learned to ride on a modified air-cooled CB750 as an adult a decade or two after spending a little time on CT70 minibike as a kid. (like the one below) I don't know everything that was done to the CB750 (besides the obvious cylinder head (original head hanging on garage wall), carbs, exhaust, clutch, tires), but it weighed a ton and felt like wrestling a dinosaur trail braking. In its favour, it did a much better job of pulling my arms out of their sockets when it hit the power band in 3rd gear than my Interceptor ever did.

 

[DesmoDog]

This is what happens when your mom won't let you buy a bike, so you don't get one until after you move out of the house and get your first engineering job.

 

[teejaywhy]

First and only. Some sort of Honda 350 that the previous owner has modified with ape hangers, a back rest and a different exhaust. Circa 1975. I was twenty years old. There may have been substances involved when this photo was taken.

 

[Bad Bob]

A 196? Yamaha DT-1 250. They were a classic dirt bike and mine was truly an unpolished turd.
After it dying out near the top of a really big powerline climb in the Chugach foothills, for the umpteenth time; got it pointed down the hill started and let it go off a cliff ( I murdered it before it could murder me). Got a noise pollution ticket with this bike, in my garage!
It was a very long walk home but smiled most of the way.

#2 was a 198? Honda 125 scooter in C d A, ID. That toy was so much fun. Could go anywhere and nobody would take me seriously. Sadly the kids killed it.

 

[scott43]

1985 Yamaha RZ500... Not mine..

 

[graham418]

First was a 1968 Honda CT90. What an awesome bike Nearly(!!) indestructable, it took me everywhere when I was 14. I got it from a friend of my fathers who was getting a new big bike. Lots of trails near my house including some steep long hills. With the transmission in low range it would climb everything. On the road, going down a steep hill hill , with a tailwind, it would hit 62mph.

 

[Heiusa]

My first bike;

My first street legal / off road bike - 1975 Suzuki 125 Enduro;

My first real road bike - 1982 Honda 750 Nighthawk;

 

[Bill Miles]

Don't know if it qualifies as a motorcycle, but a Sears moped in the early sixties. Had pedals, but they could not be usefully used to propel it.

 

[Snowfan]

Honda SL 70

 

[Tom Co.]

My first bike was a 1974 Yamaha RD 350, a sweet little two-stroke, but I did learn to carry an extra plug.

 

[Joby Graham]

My first was a '65 Honda Super 90 that I proudly rode to high school on the first day of my senior year. Later had a Yamaha RD-350 cafe racer that was just a bit cooler.

 

[Scruffy]

250 Suzuki Enduro

 

[Bill Miles]

My first was a '65 Honda Super 90 that I proudly rode to high school on the first day of my senior year. Later had a Yamaha RD-350 cafe racer that was just a bit cooler.

I had a regular Honda 90 as the Super 90 had not come out yet. A friend got a Super 90 and I was jealous because it would go 65 instead of 55.

 

[Tony Storaro]

Still a huge fan of Hornets although perhaps not the latest versions as they made them less comfy (for me).
Sold my last one 3 years ago but more and more thinking about getting a NC750x.

 

[Atomicman]

1st 1966 Honda 305 Scrambler! Current 2009 BMW R1200RT

 

[JCF]

First was a 1968 Honda CT90. What an awesome bike Nearly(!!) indestructable, it took me everywhere when I was 14. I got it from a friend of my fathers who was getting a new big bike. Lots of trails near my house including some steep long hills. With the transmission in low range it would climb everything. On the road, going down a steep hill hill , with a tailwind, it would hit 62mph.

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Mine was a ‘72
Still have it in my garage

 

[Tony Storaro]

There is something about motorcycles, dunno perhaps it is just me but I find all of them so…beautiful…

 

[graham418]

Mine was a ‘72
Still have it in my garage

Keep it. Apparently they are quite sought after collectibles. Who knew??

 

[Tex]

My first bike was a 1974 Yamaha RD 350, a sweet little two-stroke, but I did learn to carry an extra plug. View attachment 199276

Sweet, I used to have an RD400, below is the only picture I have of it, my high school girl friend. I think it was a 1976, this pic was taken with a polaroid, probably 1980.

My first bike was Honda SL 100. Used to also have a Yamaha YZ 100. Pix below is 1986 Australia, after ski bumming for the winter, me and a buddy bought yamaha 500's and built surf board racks on them, traveled up and down the east coast surfing and camping....

 

[Atomicman]

When I graduated from the '66 305 Honda Scrambler!

1969 Kawasaki Mach III 500