View Full Version : When did the biking bug bite you? Post a photo if you can find one.
-Ralph-
12-06-11, 08:59 PM
Just got given these by a relative and thought I'd post them. Pink T'shirts and yellow socks were in fashion I'll have you know!
This was a non-runner in a friend of my Dad's shed, and I spent hours getting this and an old step through running though I had no clue what I was doing. I then spent hours riding this up and down the garden (and falling off it). It's a YB100 I think? I'm about 12 or 13 years old here. Second pic is my Dad chuffed to bits that I got it running.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd82/colinbal4/scan0004-2.jpg
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd82/colinbal4/scan0004-1.jpg
Though this was the real first bike (ie: not a poster on my wall) that I fell in love with, though obviously I was never permitted to ride it at that age, though I spent enough hours sitting in the garage dreaming about it. I look a bit younger and smaller in this photo. Maybe 11.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd82/colinbal4/scan0006.jpg
What about yours?
The Idle Biker
12-06-11, 09:31 PM
My first legal bike was a Suzuki X1 50cc restricted. This was the 2nd and the one I fell in love with. GSX250. Boy did I ride and clean that machine a lot. You don't see many engine blocks that quality nowadays.
17 years old and just before I turned wanabee Punk.
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd400/IdleBiker/IMG-20110604-00013.jpg
No photos, but it was a yellow Norton 750 Commando Fastback that got me into bikes. The 18 year old over the road owned it when I was about 8 and we'd moved to England for the first time that I could remember. I used to go over and help him polish it and in return I'd get to ride pillion up and down the road, all helmetless because you didn't need one by law in 1970. Before the Norton he owned a Suzuki Super Six 2-stroke but I wasn't interested in that.
Weirdly enough Richard, the then 18 year old over the road, and I met up last year at the local club meet where he didn't recognise me at all - hardly surprising as we hadn't met in over 30 years. I took great pleasure in telling him and his mates (some of whom I've known for years but didn't realise he knew) that it was all his fault that I have spent far too much of my hard earnt on bikes since then.
I was sat at work on christmas day 2010 feeling utterly miserable about not being at home, that's when the bug bit me so I booked the theory test for the following week. Alas I have no pics.
andrewsmith
12-06-11, 10:10 PM
No photos again here.
My old man hada half restored GSX 400 sitting in the yard until I was about 11.
Then it was when I was on placement in 08/09 and shared an office with 2 petrol heads. The bike that got me was a Aprilia RSV in Factory guise with a few tasty toys even more brutal brembos and full exhaust system.
Didn't help that the then Assistant director had a tergimoni on his 05 Blade
The bike that got me was a Aprilia RSV in Factory guise
Same here. Friends dad had one with akrapovic exhausts and it seemed so special. That was about 4 or 5 years ago now and it took me until July last year to do something about the urge to ride.
Souldude
12-06-11, 10:27 PM
Same as Lozzo no photo but sitting on the back of my dads Raliegh runaround when he took me down to the shunting yard in Perth. Also first time on steam train cab.
JamesMio
12-06-11, 10:40 PM
Summer 2007, I had a go around the back fields on my mate's KTM SX125 after work on a Friday night. As I couldn't wipe the stupid grin off my face for the rest of that evening, I phoned the local DAS place the next morning, did my CBT the next week and the rest, as they say is history.
My dad's always had bikes, and 'getting my bike license' was always somethign I fancied doing, but the bug never truly bit me until that night on the KTM.
Jamesy D
12-06-11, 11:14 PM
December 2006, when I was still only 14 years old and my dad bought himself a 125 for commuting into work. It was a cheap Chinese thingy, but I wanted in...
late Feb 2009, at 15 years old (I turned 16 four days after, passed my CBT the day after my birthday) I bought myself a Derbi GPR50 and have never looked back...
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2565/109/123/507055428/n507055428_2783511_5364450.jpg
DJFridge
12-06-11, 11:26 PM
No exciting pics either I'm afraid and, like Stenno, quite recent. One of the directors at work had bought a newish Royal Enfield and proceeded to retro it. Then a Triumph 3TA "Bathtub" to restore, then the father-in-law/boss dug out an old Scott Squirrel he'd had for years and bought a couple of old Greeves scramblers, then an old Velocette arrived and I started thinking, "I've always liked the idea of bikes but never quite done anything about it." Wifey had briefly learned, DAS'd and crashed when we first knew each other and the bug was still there, so when I tentatively asked if I could have a CBT for my 40th birthday, she jumped at the chance to get me on a bike and herself back into it. Loved it, bought a boy racer 125 (NSR125 - cracking little bike) and couldn't get enough. Lessons, big bike lessons, big bike test and apart from crashing on my first Mod 1, I loved every minute. SV is my first big bike and I'm still loving it.
No pic either, but my first road legal bike was a candy apple red suzuki gsx750e... I was sure that bike was going to get me laid, but in actual fact it was just laid up in hospital for the most part.
Another no pics, but first bike was :
kawazaki kh100ek
honda 250 superdream (dispatch rider in london for 3 years)
suzuki 550 katana
Then kids came along.
Had a 20 year break...........( that make me an old git - mid like etc ).
Then late 2007 suzuki were doing 0% deal and i took the bate.
suzuki sv650s :smt108
then last year left the nest and got hold of a triumph daytona 675. :smt104
metalangel
13-06-11, 06:00 AM
Summer 2007, a colleague and I were bored in work and talked about exciting, silly adventures to do to make our lives more interesting.
She had friends who had bikes and so suggested that doing the CBT at the end of the summer would be fun... she'd bring her friend, I'd bring my missus, we'd have a fun day out. In the end we didn't end up doing it all together but that didn't matter. She ended up with an extremely crappy Chinese 125 chopper that spent more time growing rust in her back yard and being repaired (I remember my phone ringing and being told - "I had to tell someone, listen to this! (pause) *distant sound of 125 engine clattering to life*) while I pressed on with my DAS and soon had my own CB500 and nowhere to keep it!
Specialone
13-06-11, 06:31 AM
A few older lads had proper mod scooters when i was a young un, i suppose that was first seed sown, but when I first went to college in 1987, a guy on the same course offered a few of us a go on his DT50 in a railway cut not too far away from college.
I'd never ridden a geared bike before, he 'taught' me I guess in 5 mins, I was soon ripping up the side of the tracks at it's 35mph top end, it was on large gravel but didn't bin it once.
That was it I was hooked, I bought the bike off him a few weeks after for £50 and then used it over my local park and taught a few of my mates to ride it as well.
I had a lambretta after that, then briefly a 125 scrambler, then a 17 year gap due to bad choices, cars, no money etc.
My old boss suddenly died aged 38 so I was determined I was gonna do some of the things I wanted to achieve in life, cue November 2008, done cbt, then DAS 3 weeks after.
Now I'm bike mad :)
Mine was around '99/2000 when I rode my ex-girlfriend's dad's 250 Beamish-Suzuki off roader on a field. Loved it ever since!!
Probably about when i was 5/6. Dad had a honda superdream and I had my own helmet -a sight to be seen with long blonde hair. No Pics but I'll see if i can dig some out.
Always knew I was going to get a bike after that (wanted it before i was 21 but put paid to that) but nothing till 2005. thot enough was enough. and the got my own bike Honda CBF250. then suzuki SV650(which was my dad's 70th Birthday present)
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 07:54 AM
Doesn't have to be first road legal bike BTW folks, you don't even have to have ridden it! Just the first bike that got you hooked.
Shame so few folk have photo's, but until Saturday I was the same. I blame the invention of digital cameras, photos have all been packed away. I have some more pictures of other bikes that came and went through my teens, but it's a case of finding the right box in the attic and sitting down for a long spell in front of the scanner! I do intend to make a digital copy of every photo I have one day, and I've got boxes of them.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s148/messiemille/70sbikers.jpg
I'm the one on the far left
Unfortunately no pictures of my bikes :(
I started on a yellow Honda SS50, then had some CB250 and then the 400 Superdream.
Doesn't have to be first road legal bike BTW folks, you don't even have to have ridden it! Just the first bike that got you hooked.
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I wasn't allowed one after my brother went over the handlebars of the 125. I had to wait till I was legal. I'll see what i can find though -it'll provide the laughs!
fizzwheel
13-06-11, 09:12 AM
I cant remember, I think purely because it was present in my life when I was born. My dad has always had motorbikes. I can remember all manner of BSA's and Nortons dripping oil on the garage floor when I went in there to get my pushbike out. If I wanted my dad at weekends or evenings he was either doing his office work or in the workshop fiddling with a bike. So if I wanted to talk to him it was invariably whilst he was twiddling a spanner. Often I'd ask him questions and I can remember him explaining to me how the controls work when I was little. I also had a little Raleigh moped that me and my brother would ride around the garden well I say that, but we fell off it alot and rode mainly over mum's flowerbeds, but you get the idea.
The first bike I really remember was a Burgandy Red one with a little button for the horn on the bars, and I remember being allowed to press it and sit in the Saddle I think it was a Triumph, but no idea what model it was.
I helped my dad rebuild the engine on a BSA over one winter and he also helped my brother rebuild a bantam that he bought, which we both used to ride around the garden on as well.
I dont think I really got the bug, I think motorbikes just worked their way into my conciousness from when I was born. I was never allowed a road legal bike though as it was forbidden by my mum so my parents bought me a car instead. I think in hindsight this was probably a wise decision on their part otherwise I think I would be now recounting tales of how I damaged myself at this stage !
Geodude
13-06-11, 09:27 AM
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s148/messiemille/70sbikers.jpg
I'm the one on the far left
Unfortunately no pictures of my bikes :(
I started on a yellow Honda SS50, then had some CB250 and then the 400 Superdream.
Cool 8-) Its images/groups like that that really got the bug started in me when i was a kid.
Dave20046
13-06-11, 09:33 AM
Got a scootay when I was 16,did almost 10k on it and messed around bodging it and respraying it.made a bit of cash on it so kept doing up bikes until I got my full license and found I much much preferred to ride them.
Btw Ralph you were a lovely little girl :)
Specialone
13-06-11, 09:49 AM
Btw Ralph you were a lovely little girl :)
I did notice that but didn't wanna say anything lol, but if you wore pink where I grew up youd get beaten up on a regular basis ;)
mister c
13-06-11, 09:59 AM
I grew up around bikes. My mum's neighbour had a Triton 650 & BSA Bantam. i used to have a picture of me sat on an old BSA C15 when I was about 5, so think that's where the bug came from.
This was my 1st bike, a Suzuki X5 200. I wanted an X7 but couldn't afford the extra £100 on the finance. It was brand new (the only new bike I've ever owned) & cost £599 on the road lol. This is the bike that made me say that I wouldn't buy another blue bike again as I had nothing but trouble with it.....History repeated itself when I bought the Triumph, which, touch wood, is now all sorted :)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216967_1021929707958_1216657430_52844_8816_n.jpg
dirtydog
13-06-11, 11:28 AM
No pictures here either
First ride on a bike would've been when I was 7ish maybe, next door neighbours were motocrossers and had a little automatic thing like a PW50
Then I had a little spin up and down the road a few times on my brothers RD125 (when he was at work and didn't know about it) when I was about 12/13ish
Bought a 125 at 17 and have pretty much owned a bike since only being without a bike for about 18 months while I waited for my restriction to end
kellyjo
13-06-11, 11:50 AM
Decided to get my license in 1994 but didnt get around to it until 2008!!
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 11:54 AM
Btw Ralph you were a lovely little girl :)
:smt098
I did notice that but didn't wanna say anything lol, but if you wore pink where I grew up youd get beaten up on a regular basis ;)
Completely different era though wasn't it Phil, as the world moved on out of the dark ages, it became more acceptable for males to wear pink ;)
This was in 80's when music like Prince and a lot of Punk Rock stuff was huge and top of the pops was just a sea folk bobbing up and down in bright pinks, luminous yellows and greens, with the same colour hair and lots of gel to fix the sculptures in place. \\:D/ I wasn't allowed the wild hair, so I had to compensate. :D
You should see some of the pic's of me when Hawaiian shirts and aviator sunglasses were the big thing! 8-)
Specialone
13-06-11, 12:00 PM
Hey Col, the late 70's and 80's were my era as well I remember all the pastel colours etc, but males around my area never wore pink and I still think it's wrong to do it now ;)
I dont think that the biking bug ever really bit me. I had a Honda MTX 50 when i was 16, then i found cars! I didnt re-visit bike until i got a job in london and bought a scooter (Peugeot Speedfight 100). The circumstances sort of happened and i managed to do my DAS and bought the SV a couple of months after.
I have enjoyed the bike, but its mostly been a tool for commuting. I cant get away from the fact that i have made a fair few friends through via association with biking and had some good times. But i will always be a fan of four wheels.
tweakedtay
13-06-11, 12:14 PM
Officially, the bug got me in 1998, when I was 8. I got a Yamaha PW50 (dirt) and wrode the hell out of it. I was finally able to buy my first street bike at 16, another Yamaha, this time an EX-500. Wrode that for a year and got bored of the lack of power and especially the lack of looks. Then one day, the SV popped up on a search, and it was mine. Ever since, I've been doing mods, making it my own. And I'm proud.
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 01:26 PM
Hey Col, the late 70's and 80's were my era as well I remember all the pastel colours etc, but males around my area never wore pink and I still think it's wrong to do it now ;)
What can I say? I have two pink shirts in my wardrobe, and my sons wearing a kind of pink in my avatar! I'm just comfortable with my sexuality ;) :lol:
You should see some of the pic's of me when Hawaiian shirts and aviator sunglasses were the big thing! 8-)
hmm where are they then!!
Bluepete
13-06-11, 01:50 PM
My earliest bike experience was Dad's Puch moped. He used to ride to the rugby club and occasionally made it back without falling off! This was rural Herefordshire in the late 70's and the Police hadn't been seen there for decades!
I used to play on it around the garden when Mum went out. (Ours was blue)
http://www.theworstkindofperson.com/di-613055427865.jpg
Then Dad's Dad heard about it and I was banned from even touching it for the rest of the time we owned it. I was also told that if I even thought about getting a motorbike, I would be killed, nearly to death! I found out years and years later that Grandpa - who used to be a Distillery inspector for the 'Revenue - had come off his bike in the middle of no-where in the Highlands whilst maybe a bit merry on Whiskey and had spent a night and most of the following winter day in a field quite badly injured.
I did the usual thing and played on trials bikes on the farms around the village, I do remember a 250cc Husky enduro that scared the cack out of me, but nothing beyond what would now get me a Sec 59 PRA warning!
Then, after joining traffic and getting a class one advanced car ticket, the bug bit again.
I did a DAS and collected the SV two hours after I passed my test!
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0008.jpg
Got shot of it a year ago and picked up the Tiger.
Not an exciting bike history I know, but that's me through and through.
Pete ;)
timwilky
13-06-11, 02:02 PM
I guess I must have been about 3 or 4. My friends parents were bikers. I use to climb all over the Panther and Vellocette he had in the back yard. Even worse was the Brough Superior he scrapped (and now cries about)
Obviously I still see him about and despite being 80+ he rides a Franny Barnett and a Tiger Cub. He still owns a wing and a zx? But his daughter takes them out these days.
I just hope I am in the same state of mind as him when/if I ever get to his age.
tigersaw
13-06-11, 02:23 PM
In the early 70's my folks used to make us kids tramp around matlock bath on a sunday afternoon. About that time it had become popular with a few bikers turning up as well as the regular scooters. I clapped eyes on the yamaha FS1E - a real proper looking motorbike you could ride at 16, and I started saving straight away until I could get one in a few years time.
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 03:03 PM
yamaha FS1E - a real proper looking motorbike
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/217673/images/FS1E.jpg
Ahem, it's an upside-down step thru ;-)
This on the other hand
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3913/31093109foto3ty2.jpg
Have always been around bikes so it was great when I got to ride! The wife caught the bug early on, going from a DT125R
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg268/kenzie2k3/Misc265.jpg
To an XT660R
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg268/kenzie2k3/Misc295.jpg
And she now has an ER6-F. Trying to pass on the bug to the next generation
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg268/kenzie2k3/Misc267.jpg
Brothers Bandit which belongs to my stepdad now as he has a TL1000
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg268/kenzie2k3/Misc151.jpg
Specialone
13-06-11, 05:09 PM
Good taste, the DT are great little bikes :)
Dicky Ticker
13-06-11, 07:19 PM
I don't know when it bit me but I do remember where
Dollar bends on a Tiger Cub,blow out and sliding along the road on my behind-----Alloa Hospital with a nurse extracting gravel chips from my R's
couldn't sit down for a week or more-----circa 1963
Unfortunately when I left Scotland to come down South all my old bike photos got binned----the Cub,my first road bike was written off and followed by a Velocette 500cc single
carelesschucca
13-06-11, 07:28 PM
My god Ralph the op worked really well son, or should I say daughter. The 80's does not count as a mitigating factor...
My first biking moments were probably watchin my cousin Louie riding his wee Honda out the front of his old house. First time I rode a bike was at Ligh****er Valley on a tiny wee kidney shaped track. I'll have to go and see if I can find pictures. I think they're down my olds.
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 07:32 PM
My god Ralph the op worked really well son, or should I say daughter. The 80's does not count as a mitigating factor....
Ach, bolox to the lot of you. As you well know I couldn't give a monkeys what you lot think :D
Dave20046
13-06-11, 07:39 PM
Ach, bolox to the lot of you. As you well know I couldn't give a monkeys what you lot think :D
If it's any consolation I think (award winning artist) La Roux copied your style...
:D
Ach, bolox to the lot of you. As you well know I couldn't give a monkeys what you lot think :D
Aw Ralphie babes we support your right to be called Loreta.
AndyBrad
13-06-11, 09:07 PM
If it's any consolation I think (award winning artist) La Roux copied your style...
:D
hahahahaha :D
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 09:16 PM
You lot need to adjust your colour settings, I don't know WTF you're all talking about.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd82/colinbal4/scan0004-2.jpg
Cool 8-) Its images/groups like that that really got the bug started in me when i was a kid.
Images like this you mean?
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5054/5426549160_0ffb93e0fe_z.jpg
The SDC (Socially Depressed C**ts) August bank holiday 1982 - Wicksteed Park, Kettering. That's me aged 20 kneeling far right with my ex who now lives slap bang opposite me, I'd only just been released from hospital after an extended stay following a major bike crash that nearly killed me. I remember riding up on my Beckett proddy tuned Yamaha RD400 and crashing on the way home - my g/f Jeanette borrowed my KE175 trailie to get there and crashed that too about 5 minutes after we'd kicked the RD straight and got me back on the road.
I'm still in regular contact with most of that bunch of reprobates, three of whom are now fully fledged Hells Angels.
Specialone
13-06-11, 09:29 PM
You lot need to adjust your colour settings, I don't know WTF you're all talking about.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd82/colinbal4/scan0004-2.jpg
Colour aside you still look girlie lol
Btw, crap photoshopping skills, i can see the lines ;)
timwilky
13-06-11, 09:42 PM
The SDC (Socially Depressed C**ts) August bank holiday 1982 - Wicksteed Park, Kettering. That's me aged 20 kneeling far right with my ex who now lives slap bang opposite me, I'd only just been released from hospital after an extended stay following a major bike crash that nearly killed me. I remember riding up on my Beckett proddy tuned Yamaha RD400 and crashing on the way home - my g/f Jeanette borrowed my KE175 trailie to get there and crashed that too about 5 minutes after we'd kicked the RD straight and got me back on the road.
I'm still in regular contact with most of that bunch of reprobates, three of whom are now fully fledged Hells Angels.
FFS Lozzo, I thought I would be the only one on this site who even knew about Terry Beckett, never mind had one. I had one go proddy racing at 3 sisters on my lc250 and seized the damm thing first lap
The Idle Biker
13-06-11, 09:50 PM
My LC350 top end was tuned by Terry Beckett. It didn't stop me falling off though.
I'll dig some old racing photos out at some point.
DJFridge
13-06-11, 10:04 PM
Ralph, there was nothing wrong with the pink t-shirt - it's the white t shirt in the 3rd photo that looks like a skirt! Photoshop some decent shorts on yourself, quick!!
-Ralph-
13-06-11, 10:38 PM
Photoshop some decent shorts on yourself, quick!!
What? Some pink ones? :lol:
Drumming_Animal
13-06-11, 11:14 PM
I was brought up with bikes, my Dad used to race TZs in the 80s before I was born. Yea I missed the 80s :( He always had a road bike and I was always riding pillion whenever I could. I remember my Mum having a go at him for going 50mph with me on the back!! I, however was loving it. Playing cards in the wheel of my push bike and riding around on it with my bike helmet on thinking I was the coolest kid on the street coz my Dad had a motorbike. I stayed with my push bikes (dropping the helmet and playing cards) and then when I was 18, I finally got handed a nice savings fund my parents set up when I was born, so I went and bought a CBR125, did my CBT, Full test 5 months after, then got the SV and here I am loving every minute on a bike, looking at following my old man onto the racetrack to show him how it's done. Restriction comes off in August, just counting down the days :D
FFS Lozzo, I thought I would be the only one on this site who even knew about Terry Beckett, never mind had one. I had one go proddy racing at 3 sisters on my lc250 and seized the damm thing first lap
Terry Beckett was the top choice of tuner when I was a lad. Stan Stephens could make them a touch faster but his engines blew up, where Terry's didn't.
£80 that proddy tune cost me and it turned my previously joyful, smooth and fairly rapid RD400E into a firebreathing nutterbike with psychotic tendencies and ability to do a mere 9mpg when held pinned against the stop up the M1 between Junctions 1 and 12 on the way back from Chelsea Bridge on a Friday night.
DJFridge
13-06-11, 11:42 PM
What? Some pink ones? :lol:
:smt044
DJFridge
13-06-11, 11:45 PM
:smt044
Actually, not sure that's the right smiley. It's supposed to be me rolling round laughing at the thought of the pink shorts!
I've only been riding just over a year so there aren't any embarrassing photos of me yet (I hope).
Geodude
14-06-11, 06:53 AM
Images like this you mean?
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5054/5426549160_0ffb93e0fe_z.jpg
The SDC (Socially Depressed C**ts) August bank holiday 1982 - Wicksteed Park, Kettering. That's me aged 20 kneeling far right with my ex who now lives slap bang opposite me, I'd only just been released from hospital after an extended stay following a major bike crash that nearly killed me. I remember riding up on my Beckett proddy tuned Yamaha RD400 and crashing on the way home - my g/f Jeanette borrowed my KE175 trailie to get there and crashed that too about 5 minutes after we'd kicked the RD straight and got me back on the road.
I'm still in regular contact with most of that bunch of reprobates, three of whom are now fully fledged Hells Angels.
Yeah thats what im talking about Lozzo. I used to stare in awe of groups like that as a kid, and i still do :notworthy:
You covered in bandages in that pic or you just airing your boxers?
Geodude
14-06-11, 06:57 AM
You lot need to adjust your colour settings, I don't know WTF you're all talking about.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd82/colinbal4/scan0004-2.jpg
Didnt mind the pink tbh but did notice the great use of two right hand mirrors ;)
The Idle Biker
14-06-11, 08:21 AM
Terry Beckett was the top choice of tuner when I was a lad. Stan Stephens could make them a touch faster but his engines blew up, where Terry's didn't.
£80 that proddy tune cost me and it turned my previously joyful, smooth and fairly rapid RD400E into a firebreathing nutterbike with psychotic tendencies and ability to do a mere 9mpg when held pinned against the stop up the M1 between Junctions 1 and 12 on the way back from Chelsea Bridge on a Friday night.
This is where I really got the bug serious when I was a novice rider at Brands. Not sure how they do it now but in those days the paddock was on the outfield of the track and you prepped there then went in a tunnel under the track to get trackside. The noise and smell of those two strokes in the tunnel with the adrenalin going was fantastic. Still get goose bumps now thinking about it.
This was a Terry Beckett RD350LC, 1982. They used to throw novices and experienced guys in the same race then, 250cc and 350c, some of my programmes show 30+ riders. I can't remember too much about this race in the first picture only that Damon Hill was in it, I think he won easily on a 250 and I think I came a distant 4th.
No knee down action but the lean angle was quite steep, it was the stylish way we used to do it back then. ;)
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd400/IdleBiker/ScannedRD.jpg
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd400/IdleBiker/ScannedBrands82.jpg
Specialone
14-06-11, 09:12 AM
Awesome pics dude mucho respecto :)
DavieSV
14-06-11, 09:48 AM
My Father bought a Honda Z50j in 1976 when we lived out in Abu Dhabi, I was 6.
It was too big for me then, but when we got back to the UK when I was about 8 I loved riding it in the feilds near our house.
I got the box of bits of my Dad a couple of years ago and set about restoring it.
I just need to finish off the wiring then it's about done.
Here is the only picture I can find of it at the moment, in my rather over crowded garage.
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3946/monkeyshedtq1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Pedrosa
14-06-11, 10:15 AM
I was given a pillion ride on the back of a Suzuki K11P 80cc sport at the age of 8. From that precise moment I was hooked.:)
Sir Trev
14-06-11, 11:20 AM
Aged about 8, so late 70's - one mate had a knackered Garelli scrambler and another had a knackered Puch Maxi. We got them both going and annoyed the local residents on waste ground nearby. Great days but no pics as we didn't want any evidence in case parents found out...
Dad got himself a 125 Wetdream for commuting when he was transferred 30 miles from home (he'd always cycled in before that!) and I helped him rebuild bits of it in my early teens. He couldn't work out how I seemed to know what I was doing but we'd done the same things to the basket cases five years before and we were still tinkering with them.
H100S was purchased just before my 17th birthday (rubbish bike) and as soon as I passed my test I found a GSX250EZ, which I rode the wheels off. Shame the electrics from that era were pants - three reg/recs and copious headlight bulbs over 70k miles before it was written off. Sad end. The field bikes got me started but that little GSX got me properly hooked. Like this one but mine was red.
http://82.131.181.197/web/spoiler/kepek/1arlista/motor/full/suzuki/g/gsx/gsx250/gsx250ez.jpg
The next six years on a GS500 also had me doing a lot of miles (very under-rated bike) and now ten years on the much more fun SV. Shame personal situations change - I now have very little time these days to get out on the bike but it's there for the days when I do.
BigBaddad
14-06-11, 11:27 AM
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-irpUi6OT9Ms/TfdFaPIARTI/AAAAAAAAAXE/UZxDEI3fZOU/s720/2%252520%2525282%252529.jpg
That's me in the denim.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AO0mlp7d84Q/TfdG2na2JUI/AAAAAAAAAXU/J1-ybTsf7z0/s640/4.jpg
My Mum and Auntie Thelma
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WMBONiISa34/TfdHaTRAABI/AAAAAAAAAXk/gO5XQ1u4YgE/s720/1.jpg
Mmmm pedals
Luckypants
14-06-11, 12:36 PM
When I was about 14 I had a job at the petrol station in Betws-y-Coed, the sound of squadrons of these..
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3305/3450247534_c069490198.jpg
and these
http://www.mcqart.com/550four/images/cb400f2.jpg
coming down the A5 into Betws turned me on to bikes. Lunchtimes were spent up at Dil's Diner (if it was called that then? It is the Spinnaker now) ogling bikes. I have to admit my head was turned by these as well
http://www.saint.org/images/bmw-r100rs/bmw-r100rs-1977-poster.jpg
Kayaking, student-ness and a young family all meant my finances could not sustain biking until I was in my 30s.
-Ralph-
14-06-11, 01:20 PM
Loving some of these pics!
Jayneflakes
14-06-11, 05:57 PM
The bike that did it for me was a classic, a real head turner.
It was my mate Dan's Honda CB250 Super Dream, upon which we undertook a touring holiday, just before I departed to the halls of education and University.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/253519_10150202205226519_528306518_7150225_7806959 _n.jpg
This is a photo of my mate and his bike taken in 1995, we were in our early twenties and I met him at a good friends wedding. We hit it off because we were both Mountain Bikers and loved to ride together. One Day Dan turned up at mine with a big bike, the above Super Dream. We clocked hundreds of miles on that bike and ended a road trip at a rally.
It may not have been quick, particularly stylish, or reliable, but we could dump it in the hedge when we camped and it put smiles on our faces that no modern bike has ever done.
The next bike that caught my heart was this one.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/229543_7272221518_528306518_342222_6939_n.jpg
Lovely bike that, not sure of the make or model though! :---)
Mind you, I always have and always will prefer two wheels to four, even when person powered.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253519_10150202205236519_528306518_7150227_8074863 _n.jpg
davepreston
14-06-11, 06:01 PM
i hate bikes dont even own one just come on here to annoy people
Yeah thats what im talking about Lozzo. I used to stare in awe of groups like that as a kid, and i still do :notworthy:
You covered in bandages in that pic or you just airing your boxers?
Was a blistering hot day, so T-shirt off and tucked into top of jeans. My god I was skinny, I'd lost about 3 1/2 stone in hospital.
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd400/IdleBiker/ScannedRD.jpg
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd400/IdleBiker/ScannedBrands82.jpg
That's proper proddy racing, complete with horns and headlights still attached. Respect to ya, fella.
The Idle Biker
14-06-11, 08:45 PM
That's proper proddy racing, complete with horns and headlights still attached. Respect to ya, fella.
Thank you kindly Sir.
I did actually ride the bike there and back to and from the tracks, until I was lucky enough to get some sponsorship on TZ's for a while.
I noticed on the bottom pic the gear change rod is broke, if I remember correctly I was stuck in 4th but managed a top 1/3rd of the field finish.
The next race in the afternoon I replaced the rod and finished bottom 1/3rd...........happy dayz:)
Geodude
15-06-11, 04:56 PM
Was a blistering hot day, so T-shirt off and tucked into top of jeans. My god I was skinny, I'd lost about 3 1/2 stone in hospital.
Cool :cool: 3 1/2 stone, must have been some off.
Hmmm....not sure. I did my test on a whim after reading they were changing the test procedue. The pretext was that I wasn't actually going to get a bike, just get my licence whilst it was 'easier', but after doing the CBT and two days training and then test, I liked it so much that I decided to plum for a new SV.
Specialone
15-06-11, 05:25 PM
Hmmm....not sure. I did my test on a whim after reading they were changing the test procedue. The pretext was that I wasn't actually going to get a bike, just get my licence whilst it was 'easier', but after doing the CBT and two days training and then test, I liked it so much that I decided to plum for a new SV.
Actually that was what prompted me to get mine done when I did, I wanted to do it anyway but I learned they had pushed the change date to spring 2009 cos the new centres weren't ready.
So I did it, first time I must add :cool:
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