Your First One

[BajaRon]

My 1st Motorcycle. 350 Kawasaki Avenger A7 SS. 40hp. Nobody could touch it in those days.

 

[PGDoug]

Rupp 5 horse minibike , I was 10 .

 

[pegasus1300]

Since many of us have made the transition from two wheels to three it may be interesting to know your first motorcycle. Year, make and model would be great, a picture would be even better. I googled the year and make and found this one;

1967 Bridgestone 90
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My first cycle around 1970. Actually, two years before I had a drivers license. You guessed it, I got caught, Dad paid the fine, and I was grounded.:gaah:​

I love Bridgestones. I had a 1967 350 GTR. However my first bike was a 1956 AJS

 

[pegasus1300]

My first was in 1959....it was a 1949, 500cc, one lung, Royal Enfield thumper. I was 16 years old. Sorry, I don’t have a photo.

Did it look anything like this?

 

[65cabriolet]

Mine was a '75 Elsinore

 

[Revalden]

Holy Crap Batman, You are a bunch of older than dirt geezers. My first bike was a 1973 Yamaha 250 Enduro 2 stroke. No matter how long I let it sit it would always start on the third kick.

 

[Eredding]

Mine was a Yamaha 1977 DT100. I still a have it original condition.

 

[bigbadbrucie]

Did it look anything like this?View attachment 180887

Yeah, kind of....no shark fin on front fender, bike was all black. Even though it was a single cylinder it had pipes on both sides with megaphone ends. Of course it was kick start, had spark advance lever, and had a mind of its own. I was the original 98 lb. weakling, and the jocks at school always wanted to show me how to start the bike. I’d inadvertently flip the spark advance, and they would always walk away limping. I’d then adjust the spark, kick it over and happily ride away. Ahh, all the fond memories.

 

[bigbadbrucie]

Holy Crap Batman, You are a bunch of older than dirt geezers. My first bike was a 1973 Yamaha 250 Enduro 2 stroke. No matter how long I let it sit it would always start on the third kick.

Damn straight. Dirt was still healthy back then!

 

[ozarkryder]

First 2 wheel motorized vehicle was a Sears and Roebuck Allstate mini bike, followed by an Allstate moped - heavy, stamped frame and slower than the mini bike if not pedaled but town street legal for a kid not quite old enough for a driver licence, and my first real motorcycle, as Grandpa worked for Sears and Roebuck, a 1969 Sears SR250 Twingle.

 

[johnsimion]

I learned to ride a "real motorcycle" on my friend's Puch 50, that's right, a 50 cc real motorcycle with a five-speed manual. If you can start that bike moving uphill from a traffic light, you can ride any manual. Many years later I got a Ninja 500, but my wife enjoyed riding too much but wasn't comfortable (what a surprise) so I went to a Suzuki Boulevard C50 cruiser. After she got scared of motorcycles, she made me sell it and I went several years with no motorcycle at all. Finally I decided I wanted a BMW F700 to ride around town. Guess what, same thing, the wife insisted on going along but wasn't comfortable and always in fear that we'd tip over. "Why don't you try a Spyder?" she said. So we did and now we have a "motorcycle" that she's comfortable on and doesn't scare her so much.

 

[gg194]

1969 Yamaha AT-1 in '69.

 

[imfleck]

1973 Honda 250XL

 

[AVBIZ]

My 1st Motorcycle. 350 Kawasaki Avenger A7 SS. 40hp. Nobody could touch it in those days.

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Liking the scrambler look- hope to add a Ryker or F3 stablemate for the 73’ CL350 this fall......

 

[ARtraveler]

Some very nice bikes being shown. They all bring back memories of those good ol days. :yes:

By the late 60's/early 70's I was into Honda 305 Dream. My first new Honda was a 350 Scrambler. (72). And...then the fun started.

 

[BikerBeast]

It is said that we revert to our childhood as we get old. I did not own this but it was my first ride on a motorcycle. My Uncle would take me with him to pickup 50 lb ice block for the icebox at the family cycle shop. After that were several different motorcycles and now the Spyder.
Photo from a web search:

 

[CrashDavis]

My first bike that wasn't a "mini-bike" was a 1970ish Honda 350. My dad brought it home direct from Japan when he was out traveling with the GA Air National Guard. You could do things like that back then as long as there was space available and you weren't displacing official cargo.

I got my first road rash on it. I was on the exit ramp getting off the expressway when I must have hit an oil slick because the wheels cam out from under me faster than I could think. I had visions of an 18-wheeler following me so I've never moved any faster since then getting off the road. Luckily, nothing was there. No real damage to the bike other than a bent brake pedal that kept me form riding but not from pushing. My damage was a scraped arm under the elbow. My dad came and got me. The worse part of the whole incident was my dad cleaning all the grit out of my arm.

 

[troop]

Honda CT70H .. 50 years and 24 motorcycles later, I have my first (and only) 3 wheeler

 

[Myron Ah]

We had a Honda 360 for a very short time. Bad buy really. Our first real ride was a 1981 Honda CB900. Great ride with HI/LOW range so it was a 10 speed. we had fun. Sadly, no pictures. Just fond memories.

 

[safecracker]

I went looking for a pic. Here it is.