What was your first proper ride like?

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Wow Bri, I bet that would have been a beautiful set of roads if you weren't scared silly...lol.

I am so so glad I have done so many miles as a pillion over the years as to me, leaning the bike right over in the twisties just seems natural and I think that helps a lot. Luckily I am not someone that really suffers from nerves and I can't wait to get out again tomorrow.

Stretchie was funny when we stopped at Cheddar. He said, "I went through the twisties back there and looked in my mirrors to see you come out of them but I couldn't as you were right behind me already".......I had a grin from ear to ear. LOVE IT!!!!!

Will be even nicer on the CBR when there's a bit more rubber on the road!

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Originally Posted by mjc

mine was awesome... until i got pulled for being a tit

Do tell!

My first ride was pottering around the airbase on which my parents live in Germany where I bought the bike in a vain attempt to get used to the bike. Three hours later I started a near 600 mile trip from Bruggen in Germany to Birmingham, UK. Hell of a painful first solo experience and not the most exciting!

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Originally Posted by gruntygiggles

Wow Bri, I bet that would have been a beautiful set of roads if you weren't scared silly...lol.

1st 2 yrs of my biking life was in the Lakes. Autumn is the best time - parents don't take the kids out of school in the autumn so its mega quiet.

I had a pretty decent ride through the Vale of Glamorgan just getting my CB500 home, but my first proper ride on it was up the valley through Rhymney, then along the A465 to Neath, and then back on the M4. Was really long, my nose started itching and couldn't scratch it so my eyes were watering, my backpack wasn't tight enough and so was acting like a sail, I went rather too fast along the M4 and nearly got killed by some idiot in an Audi A3 trying to undertake me.

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I was so excited on my first ride that i rode until i ran out of petrol and had to push bike to garage and could'nt stop singing born to be wild over and over but only the chorus cos i didnt know all the words, infact i was so excited i pulled out right infront of a bright yellow rolls royce which i did'nt see

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Hmmm....I've had a few Audi drivers be completely ignorant of the bike already. On my Mod 1 day, totally cut me up at a roundabout, but I could tell he was going to s I kept back and watched him swerve into my lane in front of me and today, a woman was in a 50 limit about 10ft off my rear tyre, Dan waved me past him so that she was behind him instead of me...what a gent!

My first ride on a motorbike was in a little feild. It was my cousins KMX125. I didnt know how to chane gear or how to pull away...he put it in second, pushed me off and told me to let the clutch out and just go

and it was so much bloody fun, from then, I've never looked back

Originally Posted by gruntygiggles

Hmmm....I've had a few Audi drivers be completely ignorant of the bike already. On my Mod 1 day, totally cut me up at a roundabout, but I could tell he was going to s I kept back and watched him swerve into my lane in front of me and today, a woman was in a 50 limit about 10ft off my rear tyre, Dan waved me past him so that she was behind him instead of me...what a gent!

They seem determined to usurp BMW drivers as the most reviled drivers on the road*. I'd just overtaken a slow moving car in lane 1 by moving into lane 2, and was moving back into lane 1 when Audi man decides he'll nip back into lane 1 too and blast past me on the inside. Well, I checked over my shoulder and mirrors and saw nothing so started moving over, and then as I was just going over the line saw him coming up behind me at a high rate of speed and swerving onto the hard shoulder to avoid punting me up the bum!

Kinda soured my first big ride! Anyway, sorry to have derailed the thread.

*obvious disclaimer, not ALL BMW/Audi drivers are selfish arrogant bastages.

Thing I remember most about my first ride on the SV was catching my helmet chinbar on my shoulder - the riding position was that much different from the ER6 I'd learnt on. And being worried about so much power () on wet roads with a new rear tyre and now being financially resposible if I dropped it.