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

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.

[tonyk]

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
then last year left the nest and got hold of a triumph daytona 675.

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!

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

[Kenzie]

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)

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.

[Messie]

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.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

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]

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 !