Your First Motorcycle Was a ............?

[nobbie48]

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First powered two-wheel ride was on the back of a scooter ridden by a friend's slightly older really cute sister. She said hold on. I did, grinning like a fiend.

Mid 1960's I rented a Honda 50cc step-through from a store on Dundas Street near the junction. Back then anything was considered a license. Lessons were "That's the rear brake. That's the front brake and that's the throttle." Helmet? You don't need no stinking helmet.

I got my license on a borrowed Honda cub and then bought a used Yamaha 125 single circa1965 and used it for transportation all year, including winter. My girlfriend had a car. At -10° the seat felt like a log. The big plus was learning to handle the bike in slippery conditions.

Then a couple of decades of life and ~ 20 years ago I got a 1200 Sportster, then GL1200, Connie 1000 followed by a GL1500.

 

[just-me]

1970 Honda CB100
bought from a high school buddy in 1972, $200
insurance was $78 a year

 

[AllistonGT]

Guessing I was about 7 or 8


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[thwak]

1956 Harley hand banger ex-metro police. Started riding it in 1961.

 

[Bobo]

It was either an '88 Yamaha DT200, or the '89 DT200R. I knew squat about bikes, and wasn't into taking pics (of anything) back then. It was the cheapest street-legal bike I could find. I vaguely recall having a friend drive me out to somewhere like Orangeville to pick it up, and I rode it home completely illegally with the seller's plate, no insurance, a fugly yellow beat up oversized motocross helmet without goggles bouncing around on my head, and smiling and giggling the whole way home. I'm pretty sure I didn't actually want a dual-sport, just ended up with one because of the price. What I really wanted was a fully-faired sport bike because of the magazines my friend brough in to school, and then I kept seeing a beautiful bike with a distinctive yellow patch in the school parking lot. So a year later I finally got the bike I really wanted:

1986 Honda NS400R

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Guessing I was about 7 or 8


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That was my first bike, same colour and everything. I think it was a ‘71 or ‘72. Got it from Sonic Motorcycles in Scarborough.

 

[Baggsy]

KZ250LTD or a DMP Trail Champ depending on what you count.

 

[AllistonGT]

That was my first bike, same colour and everything. I think it was a ‘71 or ‘72. Got it from Sonic Motorcycles in Scarborough.

This would have been 72 - 73

 

[Lash]

1970 first bike was a used Honda S90. Upgraded the next year to a brandy new Yamaha Twin Jet 100 bought at Sears in Edmonton.

 

[Dirty Frank]

A 74 CB360T. After being passed by 3 guys in an old mini it was replaced with a 78 KZ650View attachment 72888View attachment 72889

Is that a Rickman fairing that you got there?
The KZ650 was a solid ride.

 

[Gaoler]

I don't know how/why I came to the impression that GTAM is made up of mostly younger riders... I mean I figured lots of 20-somethings especially, with a respectable number of 30-40 year Olds...
This thread reveals unto me that there is also a fair number of old farts posting as well..

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