View Full Version : What made you want a motorbike ?
What got me into bikes was definitley Kanedas bike out of Akira - you know the red one, as a kid I always wanted a bike like that when I could... still waiting :) Just the shape of it was perfect, still love it now. (tried adding a pic - not sure how).
So what about you guys/gals what was the first thing that made you really want a motorbike ?
minimorecambe
16-07-12, 09:00 AM
Me and my Dad started going to the TT about 7 years ago annd my interest sparked then.
Then my Dad got a motorbike again when I was 20 and that made me want to get a bike so I got my CBR125rr and then passed my DAS and got my SV.
Elliott
16-07-12, 09:01 AM
Transport, since then it's just got crazy!
yeah my old man had a bike aswell, suzuki 250, he can't remember the model, but all chromey - he loved it. Since I've got my bike he' started showing an interest again so hopefully he'll be back on...
minimorecambe
16-07-12, 09:08 AM
My Dad got a SRAD 600 then got a GSXR 750 and now wants a GSXR 1000 :rolleyes:
I'm quite happy with my SV :p
Traffic, takes 30 minutes less each way to get to work.
Transport, since then it's just got crazy!
Yes.Kinda same ,Though my Dad road Bikes previously (Has his BSA A10 in the garrage in bits)
At 17 we could ride 250cc with no tests on "L" plates when i started.:queen:
Spank86
16-07-12, 09:38 AM
didnt some japanese guy make a bike inspired by akiras?
yeah theres been a few, but they never looked right, bit tall - physics I suppose didnt allow for it to look like the manga version... one day maybe :) could paint my SV red ?
Dicky Ticker
16-07-12, 09:48 AM
At 16 I couldn't afford a car and driving a tractor to school wasn't cool.
I reckon rolling up to work in a Tractor now would be amazing - I would love to see the security desk when I park a wacking great John Geere in the car park...
femaleacid
16-07-12, 09:50 AM
Well my dads had bikes for years and my fella'. I've always liked bikes but i finally decided to get one when i realised how much cars don't interest me in the slightest.
The expenses too, having a bike is so much cheaper with near enough everything.
metalangel
16-07-12, 10:11 AM
Wanting adventure and fun that would get me out of the house.
rode pillion ..( i watched street hawk)..rest is history
tigersaw
16-07-12, 10:17 AM
Because if you had a fizzy at school you were like the fonz and became a f***y magnet.
Jayneflakes
16-07-12, 10:24 AM
http://carsmedia.ign.com/cars/image/article/604/604670/kanedas-bike-20050415025520039.jpg
Hmm, not sure that one of these would do it for me.
I got into bikes in my twenties, went every where with my mate on his 250 Super Dream, we went touring and ended up at a local rally.
I waited until my thirties to get my own bike because I knew that with my maniac streak I would have killed myself and been another stupid statistic. These days I am a good girl and ride nice and safe! ;-)
Geodude
16-07-12, 10:27 AM
Leather clothing ;)
bikes have been in the family since my granddad (1930's) so i didn't want to disappoint :-)
i know it sounds selfish but i'm only ever happy when i'm on a bike. i had a 20 odd year gap then my bro got a ducati 750ss so i had a go and realised by the grin on my face that i had been missing something. 3 months later i had an SV which has filled that hollow empty feeling.
why do i ride a bike? as it makes me happy.
It was way cheaper than a car to buy, insure and run.......... 30-odd yrs back
Griff-SV
16-07-12, 11:23 AM
For me it was watching BSB for the first time when I was about 7 and a bloke down my road used to ride a gsxr 750 srad which I saw every day on the way to school
squirrel_hunter
16-07-12, 12:19 PM
At 16 I was fed up of the bus. So bought a 'ped to use for a year until I could have a car at 17. But after a year on two wheels I just wanted more bike so stuck with two wheels for many years after.
Sir Trev
16-07-12, 12:46 PM
It was way cheaper than a car to buy, insure and run.......... 30-odd yrs back
This. Passed my test and still coundn't afford a car so got a 250, out of curiosity went to a few rides and camping trips and that was me hooked.
Jayneflakes
16-07-12, 02:33 PM
Leather clothing ;)
Trust you! Pervert, but it is why I like you.
Hugs from us XXX
:o
keith_d
16-07-12, 03:14 PM
Less petrol, more fun.
Balky001
16-07-12, 03:38 PM
I got in to bikes as I just wanted to go fast and couldn't afford a car to match the thrill of a bike. That's not why I keep riding though
aliwakeskate
16-07-12, 03:52 PM
because they are cool and anyone who rides one is :cool:
RACEFIT_GLADDY
16-07-12, 04:13 PM
Moto GP last year at silverstone, I had bikes off road since i was 4, the intention was to pass my test and go on the green lanes.. however i found road riding more fun and the rest as they say is history...
robh539
16-07-12, 04:16 PM
To wear tight leather and impress the ladies with my huge wheels and tricks ;)
Really because the freedom, family thing, and there fun. Cars are boring so used for shopping in and carrying hard to shift items, like the lass from last night.
Dave-the-rave
16-07-12, 04:28 PM
One of my earliest memories is of sitting on the tank of my dads BSA Bantam while he rode around the local streets. I guess it just grew from there although I haven't grown up much. :smt031
femaleacid
16-07-12, 04:28 PM
To wear tight leather.
Shouldn't it be us females doing that for you?
Although... A man in leathers is quite irresistible.
Iansv II
16-07-12, 05:40 PM
Transport, got a new job I needed transport for and my driving instructor at the time completely put me off car lessons so did a cbt and never looked back
14 years later I've still never bothered with any more car lessons
My ex's Dad had a Beamish Suzuki RL250 and I got to ride it. Racing across the field that first time I was hooked. Passed my test at 17 onto a TS125R, two years at 33hp then got an RGV250L then onto the SV after a few years without a bike. Suzuki man if you can't tell!
Littlepeahead
16-07-12, 05:58 PM
Trust you! Pervert, but it is why I like you.
:o
And no mention yet of the revs on a GSXR when riding pillion at 7500rpm!!!
Actually my dad had a BMW bike when I was a little kid and he used to take me up and down the road on it. Wish I knew where the photos were.
Dabbled with a few 125s and a Vespa classic scooter in my 20s.
Then I was watching Long Way Round over Christmas hols many years later, realised that I should get off my sofa and get back on a bike. It was the same week I got my bonus at work and got told I had to use up my holiday carried over by the end of January. So I booked my DAS and by 17th Jan had a full licence.
I haven't told Dad I got a BMW motorbike last week yet. But unlike his, mine isn't a horrid poo brown colour.
dizzyblonde
16-07-12, 06:45 PM
I wanted a purple Harley when I was a child. The first bike I ever rode was a 1340 Harley, with big flat bars and no back brake. Still got a pic of it somewhere.
I got a cruiser 125 when I was 24ish?* then got the SV a year later. I am now cured of my Harley shame, I frickin hate them!!!!!
*I'm old and can't remember my age, but it was somewhere near that age.
DJFridge
16-07-12, 09:26 PM
Watched the bike racing on the TV when I was young and wanted to be Barry Sheen. Never actually did anything about it though. Then a few years back, one of the directors at work bought a 350 Bullet, the a Velocette, tnen a Triumph 3TA. FIL had scrambled in his youth (and had an old Scott Squirrel rotting in a barn) decided to start collecting old bikes too. All of a sudden there was a load of bikes round the place and it rekindled the interest. Figured if I didn't do it before I was 40 I never would and MrsDJF asked if I would like her to pay for my CBT as a birthday present.
ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! Bought the NSR straight away and did the "big bike" test. Then bought the SV once I was happy with pillions and the NSR wasn't man enough to carry two on the A roads.
Sid Squid
16-07-12, 09:47 PM
I've been around motorcycles all my life, my dad rode as did his brother and some of my parents friends too, and I suppose I somehow thought that I always would, but if I had to tie it down to one experience it would be this one:
My first ever trip on a bike on the road was when I was four, a Triumph with the luggage rack on the tank, (I think it was a T110 - it was a while ago), belonging to my Mum and Dad's friend Larry, being as I was very short, (I still am), I coudn't reach the footrests so I sat in front of Larry on the tank and held on to the rack, helmets were not compulsory then and no-one seemed particularly worried about such things.
I remember every inch of that short trip so vividly; from my house then turn right onto Mansfield Road, through the lights and past the Stag, across South End Green and up Donkeystand Hill, around the Whitestone Pond and along Spaniards Road through the old toll gate then onto Hampstead lane to Highgate, turn right at the Gatehouse and past The Flask, down Highgate West Hill and then right onto Gordon House Road, under the railway bridges at Gospel Oak, (ohhhh the noise!), onto Mansfield Road and then back into my street. I wished it wouldn't end so soon.
It's very difficult to put yourself in the shoes of a four year old, memories fade and the capacity for wide eyed wonder is something that age somehow breeds out of us. That brief memory from *cough-cough* years ago is so burnt upon my memory that I can close my eyes and, almost, take myself back there now to that wonderful moment when I was so speechlessly astonished by that fantastic experience. I think I grinned for a month, and I knew that this was something I wanted to do too - I so wanted a motorbike and I became utterly obsessed by them.
metalmonkey
16-07-12, 09:53 PM
I wanted bike since was a teenager, but really couldn't afford it my folks weren't keen on me riding anyways so I did other things like travelling, did other hobbies, a few years ago I had the enough money so a bought my SV, got my licence as they say the rest is history!
Luckypants
16-07-12, 10:05 PM
The sound of squadrons of Honda 400-4s coming down the hill into Betws-y-Coed, then filling up in the petrol station where I worked as a lad. They seemed to have so much freedom....
Plus they ****ed off my boss, so I liked them(no matter how much fuel they bought)
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I never wanted a bike, still don't either. Hate the bloody things.
FIL had scrambled in his youth (and had an old Scott Squirrel rotting in a barn)
One of my best mates is a very well respected Scott Squirrel and TT Replica restorer oop north.
kaivalagi
16-07-12, 10:12 PM
Like a lot here I am sure, the old man had bikes which got me interested, he had bikes ranging from a Grieves 250 before I was born (rocker days) to a Pan Euro then a 600 Ninja, which got me interested proper, especially when going out as a pillion on the thing. However I got overly sensible in my late teens and 20's and tried to ignore them for a bit...when I hit middle age (mini crisis?) I did what I thought would get me killed at a younger age and got my bike license and an SV...now I have a hooligan supermoto bike so I think I was right to hold off :)
Sid Squid
16-07-12, 10:23 PM
I never wanted a bike, still don't either. Hate the bloody things.
Mary Mary quite contrary :) .
I blame Richard Gorka who lived over the road from us when I was a kid. He had a red Suzuki T20 Super-Six when we first moved there, which he chopped in for a brand new yellow Norton Commando 750 Fastback in early 1970. I was 8 years old and he's 10 years older than me - I used to go over the road to help him wash and polish it, in return he took me for short blasts up and down the road and then round the village in the days before compulsory helmet use.
Three weeks ago me and Richard met up at a bike show and we got chatting again about us then, now and the bikes we've had. We're the last from our own two groups of friends who still ride daily. He feels really proud of the fact that he got a youngster into bikes and that the snot-nosed little kid from over the road is now so involved with them every day.
Rode motoX bikes as a lad, pinched my sisters C90 at 15, fell off on patch of diesel!
At 28, pillion on a Yamaha 1000, scared the sh*te outta me and stayed away for another 11 years.
Neighbour got a ZZR600 and I had a wee sit on it, started it up and gave it a wee rev, just wanted to ride away!!!
Did CBT 4 weeks later and never looked back.
sv_rory
16-07-12, 11:08 PM
I got one because I used to love the sound of them when I was a kid.
Bordtea
17-07-12, 12:41 AM
Mainly cost for me - bought a 125 as a cheaper mode of transport than a car to get to college. Caught the bug and here I am :D
I was approaching 30 years of age.
A colleague - a biker - dared me. I'd ridden, one summer, 20 years ago but Paul (the colleague) wasn't impressed and goaded me back on a bike.
... Fast forward two years and I still manage to grin daily on my commute.
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BanannaMan
17-07-12, 02:19 AM
I was born with it.
That's what me mum would always say.
Didn't know anyone with a bike but wanted one since I was a wee toddler.
Put trading cards in the spokes of my first bicycle to sound like a motor.
From there to motorized and by age 13 I was riding a BSA Lightning 650 on the road. (albeit illegally)
I'll always remember taking my first motorcycle license riding test at 16.
The instructor said, "Wow, You ride like you've been riding for years!"
LOL, I had been.
Note: It was long ago, out in the countryside, when the roads were less traveled and being caught meant being followed home by the police who told your folks to keep you off the roads.
Mikey10
17-07-12, 09:47 AM
Watching gp's when i was young then my dad got his license when i was about 9 i think.
which i then went pillion alot plenty of bike events etc.. got on a 125 at 15 passed at 17 now 19 had the sv 2 n half years.....................
STRAMASHER
17-07-12, 10:11 AM
Cos I'm not quite right. :)
Obsessed with the things since I can remember.
Always wanted to but never got around to getting my licence despite being badgered by my dad to get it sorted. Moved to Dunstable with my girlfriend and have to commute to London every day... choice was £4500 a year train costs or Get a bike.... Opted for the latter and am Absolutely LOVING IT!!! Passed Saturday just gone, bought a SV650s Sat afternoon and am just loving it :) cant believe I didn't do this sooner.
yorkie_chris
17-07-12, 10:39 AM
My Dad had a yellow 955i Daytona with what I think was a wunoff underseat exhaust system.
Sounded like a p*ssed off piston engined fighter plane and I've been hooked since!
Commuting. Bought a scooter, ahd for 2 years, then bought the SV which i still have 12 years later although i dont commute any more.
Gremlin
17-07-12, 04:54 PM
I went pillion with a friend from uni and loved it. My brother then out of no where said he was getting a bike. I expected the usual you shouldn't ride its dangerous but my dad said "there's nothing like riding a motorbike", he wasn't wrong!
barwel1992
17-07-12, 05:36 PM
Been around bikes and crosseres since I was about 8 , and I like speed
ImplodedHamster
17-07-12, 06:12 PM
insurance mainly, would cost £2500 for insurance on a small car (+£500 to £1000 for a car)
for a bike it was £2500 for a brand new bike (YBR 125), helmet, jacket, gloves and insurance for a year, and all but the insurance was on interest free credit :D
i then found out that biking was AWESOME got my full test and a sv650 and haven't looked back since :-P
Nothing better to do with £900 spare in the bank.
True Story.
Fruity-ya-ya
17-07-12, 10:08 PM
Well in the films when the world is about to end the hero knows how to pick up a bike and ride it away from whatever catastrophy has befallen the planet.......
That and my cousin had one and he was my childhood idol.
Aside from learning to shoot an ak47 and flying a chopper i rekon i'm set!
mister c
18-07-12, 05:03 AM
Been into bikes since I was a little lad. My mum's neighbour had a BSA 250, I just loved it, the sound, sitting on it, just got hooked.
Bought my 1st bike in 1980 & rode it out of the showroom on my 17th birthday None of this CBT stuff in those days :)
I've owned a bike ever since. Sold my car as it never got used & do about 12000 miles a year whatever the weather.
I always say that my bike is my drug. I don't smoke & hardly drink, so the bike's my fix.
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