When did the biking bug bite you? Post a photo if you can find one.

Originally Posted by specialone

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

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

You should see some of the pic's of me when Hawaiian shirts and aviator sunglasses were the big thing!

hmm where are they then!!

[Bluepete]

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)



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!



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]

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]

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.

Originally Posted by tigersaw

yamaha FS1E - a real proper looking motorbike

Ahem, it's an upside-down step thru

This on the other hand

[Kenzie]

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



To an XT660R



And she now has an ER6-F. Trying to pass on the bug to the next generation



Brothers Bandit which belongs to my stepdad now as he has a TL1000

Good taste, the DT are great little bikes

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]

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.