1st bike - GS500F - bought age 30

Erm...

The End.

A fascinating tour through the annals of my biking history, I think you'll agree.

(Oh, but am looking to trade-up once I can sell mine in the spring... thinking about probably an SV650S...)

Well, i dont count my first bike as my first bike.. I owned it less than 24 hours before it was taken back due to a shed load of things that would have probably killed me...

'twas a GS125...

then I did my DAS well over a year after that... and already had my SV650S K3 waiting for me when I got home 8)

now.. ZX-6R B1H in green 8)

1st) a DERBI 50cc moped (Thought I was the dogs on that)

2nd) 50cc Suzuki trail bike. Almost immediately got stoppped by the Belgian Police and got done for a number of things from lack of restriction to headlight to pillion rider etc etc.

3rd) Kawasaki ER5 bought for £825. Old ex-trainer bike, did the job though. (Thought I was the dogs on that)

Current) SV650 K3. Love it. (Think I am the dogs on it)

BN125 - Blew it up

GPZ500 - Girl I sold it to blew it up

SV650s - Still going....

Next

Z1000

well...

If we're talking about on road and off road bikes...

Honda MT50 Field Bike - Ragged to death and sold

Kawasaki KE100 (bored to 120) Field Bike - Ridden all over, even on road (how the feck did we get away with that? I was 15)

Yamaha DT50 - first road bike, blew it up twice before selling it

Derbi Senda - 2nd road bike, also blew it up

Aprilia RS125 - lovely little bike, handled like a dream, sold after gettin:

Suzuki SV650S 1999 Red - rode for 3 months, crashed and nearly killed myself, 2 months in hopsital, month off, then:

Suzuki SV650S 2000 Blue - Still going strong, weekend bike now, cos I'm using:

Kawasaki ER500 - Sh*tter I use for commuting on, actually quite fun




A few bikes for a 18 year old, I'm happy :)

My Dad's still got his Cali II in his garage. If he ever get's it back on the road, I'll probably borrow it and use it more than the SV :wink: :lol:

In the interest of brevity, I've listed my bikes before and anyone that interested can do a search.
Never owned a Harley, BMW, cruiser or out and out tourer (although did use a Pan for work for six months).

Break in riding, well I’ve managed a week before but that was extreme!
Never been without at least one bike and most of the time several.

Started riding in 75 (on the road anyway) and haven't stopped yet, over a million miles covered and still racking them up.

Either owned; worked on or ridden a fair amount of the mainstream stuff and a Good % of the exotica as well., particular passion for the old “flat tankers” but as Sid Squid would say “ wouldn’t do anything as silly as buying one”.

Cheers Mark.

Mark, pretty similar here - passed when I was a boy of 35 (now 38 ), bought a SV650SK3 brand new (June 2003), did 7000 miles or so, sold it and bought a GSXR 600 May 04 - now covered a total of over 20,000 miles all told. Oh, hang on, that's not the same at all :oops: I probably only covered your biking record up to 1976! :wink: :lol:

You've never hurt yourself badly enough then :wink:

everyones got to start somewhere :wink: