First photo I could find of my first bike…2008 CBR125 with my buddy’s Hornet 919
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Post your first motorcycle!
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Not mine but it’s the same as my first bike
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My brothers buddy got too scared on his '72 Kawasaki 750 H2 so stupidly I bought it.
I still don't understand how I didn't die on it. I got a ticket doing a wheelie on it in 1973 and with my luck I got the Etobicoke 'hanging' Judge. He indicated that he never had a similar charge before him so he couldn't rule on it and dropped the charge.
Today, I'm sure it would come up as a stunt driving charge.
I still don't understand how I didn't die on it. I got a ticket doing a wheelie on it in 1973 and with my luck I got the Etobicoke 'hanging' Judge. He indicated that he never had a similar charge before him so he couldn't rule on it and dropped the charge.
Today, I'm sure it would come up as a stunt driving charge.
Mad Mike
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Tuned right I get about 120kmh @ 8000rpm. In low, it pulls like a tractor.
I have one of these, the TC version with high and low transmission. Finished the mechanical overhaul last winter, working on finding a few cosmetic parts. Prices on all vintage 2 strokes are getting stupid, particularly the Suzukis. Parts getting hard to find too. A fair price for a restored bike is still fair, you can pick pick them up for about $2000. If you search western Canada the prices lower and selection better.
Tuned right I get about 120kmh @ 8000rpm. In low, it pulls like a tractor.
Mad Mike
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Looks like a Rupp scrambler.
1982 Honda Nighthawk 450.
Bought it for $800 with 30,000km on it and it also had 18 previous owners! Fun bike for inner city riding and I often rode this bike in no gear asides from my beanie helmet and a cigarette in my mouth. Rode it for 3 years until it became the hood ornament of a van who hit me head on, while wearing said beanie helmet, t-shirt, shorts and flip flops. I wore gear from then on! This thing was a treat, riding up to Georgian Bay every other weekend to visit my folks.
I'd buy again!
Bought it for $800 with 30,000km on it and it also had 18 previous owners! Fun bike for inner city riding and I often rode this bike in no gear asides from my beanie helmet and a cigarette in my mouth. Rode it for 3 years until it became the hood ornament of a van who hit me head on, while wearing said beanie helmet, t-shirt, shorts and flip flops. I wore gear from then on! This thing was a treat, riding up to Georgian Bay every other weekend to visit my folks.
I'd buy again!
nochickenstripsforme
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87 Radian 600. First of many bikes i've owned
, not the best one by far but one of my faves!
, not the best one by far but one of my faves!1980 DT100. Bought new when I was 15. Picture is not my bike. I beat the hell out of that little bugger and enjoyed every second of it.
Surprisingly fast, not the YZ80 I desperately wanted at the time but probably a better choice.
I frequently consider picking up an old Yamaha DT125 or 175, or XT250 to restore & putter around on/with down memory lane . It would have to be red though.
Surprisingly fast, not the YZ80 I desperately wanted at the time but probably a better choice.
I frequently consider picking up an old Yamaha DT125 or 175, or XT250 to restore & putter around on/with down memory lane . It would have to be red though.
This exact motorcycle, right here. I was about 5 or 6 and my feet could barely touch the ground, but I rode the wheels off that thing.
When we got out of the RV park we were at during that era, my dad sold it to a friend in the park. I would have been around 18 or so at the time and had my first street bike around then, a Seca 900.
Low and behold, decades later, we go back to visit the park again....and he still has it. It was a little rougher around the edges (Ok, a LOT rougher) and ran like a sack of crap, but it was the same bike. So I loaded my daughter on the back and took her for a ride on the bike I had grown up riding myself. I tried to buy it back but he wanted to give it to his grandkids. I'd have restored it and put the damn thing on the road and rode it around....I loved that thing.
I do have a photo of myself with my first real streeet bike (Seca 900) somewhere. It's a Polaroid. Haven't seen it in years, I'll see if I can dig it up.
In unrelated news, I wish I was that slim again. Damn food.
Karfanatik
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1984 Romet 50cc with a 2 speed transmission. Didn't look even close to as nice as this one
Nice bike, MT 250. I had one too.I don’t remember the model year, 197x…
It was a Honda Elsinore 250 enduro, 2 stroke. I rode that thing everywhere and year-round.
Priller
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Don't have many pictures from my late teens and early 20's, was too busy whooping it up and chasing the next party. So no pics of the bike, but this looks pretty much identical to what I had:
1988 Honda Hawk GT NT650 (Bros in Japan and Europe). Such a good looking bike and so far ahead of its time. Not many bikes from 1988 would look at home on a showroom floor today...
1988 Honda Hawk GT NT650 (Bros in Japan and Europe). Such a good looking bike and so far ahead of its time. Not many bikes from 1988 would look at home on a showroom floor today...
Good choice. That was mine too. It was fine but I dont lust after it. Subsequent bikes were better at almost everything (except jumping, that bike was a great jumper). It was close to 20 years old when I bought it and I doubled the mileage on it in a year. Kept it for a few more and traded it for a beautiful k75 (that kept trying to kill me).1982 Honda Nighthawk 450.
Bought it for $800 with 30,000km on it and it also had 18 previous owners! Fun bike for inner city riding and I often rode this bike in no gear asides from my beanie helmet and a cigarette in my mouth. Rode it for 3 years until it became the hood ornament of a van who hit me head on, while wearing said beanie helmet, t-shirt, shorts and flip flops. I wore gear from then on! This thing was a treat, riding up to Georgian Bay every other weekend to visit my folks.
I'd buy again!
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