When did you realise you were made for two wheels?

[Shellywoozle]

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

glad you got round to it eventually cus i met my bessie mate hehe

LOL oh yeah know I wish I hadn't done it ! (Joke)

I did it so I could get on the bike team in the job, hoping to further my career, all I did was bugger that up by comin off a week after a months attachment. I'd impressed the Insp too LOL, think he changed his mind after my off LOL Best thing I did tho !!

i can remember being 10 riding through country lanes on my BMX thinking this would be ace on a bike. and frankly its utterly skill

only took me another 15 years to realise the dream. and yes. those roads are great!

[lazymanc]

When I was about 12 or 13 my dad used to work with a crazy German lad who raced bikes on the weekends. I kept asking him questions about riding and to shut me up he brought me an A3 print of a photo of him with his knee down during a race - it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen and it spent a good few years framed on my wall.

Had other priorities for my cash while I was a student, and never really had enough to splash out since then, but earlier this year I decided I was finally going to get involved after my car got nicked and I needed some new transport. Been loving it ever since, learning to ride was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Now I just need to get my knee down so I can pass a photo onto some other impressionable youth Failing that I've still got the original somewhere...

first went pillion when moved in with drew in January this year (my parents wouldn't let me while living at home) fell in love with being pillion. From about May i was going on to drew that i wanted to ride rather than just be pillion. We looked at it and realised it would be about 2 years away. Something changed after the AR this year. I really wanted to ride. We moved stuff about and within a couple of weeks there was a SV in the garage and I was booked in for my CBT, Theroy Test and DAS or A2 test.

Mid August i passed A2 and after 2 months of riding my SV i am fully in love with it!

[mister c]

Sort of grew up around bikes. Both my next door neighbours had them & let me sit on them when I was about 5 or 6 & loved the smell & sound of them. They were British bikes in them days. Also when I was about 15 or 16 we had a bunch of H.A. move into a house about 6 doors down from us. They were riding British Choppers, Harleys & 1 lad running a CB750 Sidecar outfit on car wheels & tyres.

I waited till I was 17 then bought my 1st bike & promptly crashed it about 3 weeks later. It never put me off & I have never been without a bike since.
Became a CBT Instructor 7 years ago & completed the Cardington assessment 6 years ago. I love bikes & couldn't do without them I don't think

[northwind]

I did it by mistake... We used to go to the speedway racing all the time but that's not really motorbikes, it's more death-rockets on wheels, so I never made any connection to road riding. Still don't!

For me it was all economic, supposed to be a cheap and fast way onto the road, and no more. Didn't quite work out like that, it was a slow and expensive way onto the road, then it snowballed. And one day, while rewiring my virago 125 in the snow, I discovered that I actually loved this stuff Then I met the SV.

When I was sat on the motorway, not moving, and counted about 30 odd bikes go past me within an hour or so. That's the first thing that got me really thinking.

Then I did my test as I wanted to get it done before the changes to the system were made.

Passed my test first time (some how) and went to the bike shop and bought me an SV.

Rest is history.

I'm 28 so about 28 years, never been interested in cars. 11 years for my health to be good enough, brain scans, diff doctors making sure im fit, then a long paper work battle with the dvla and doctors. Friends taking me pillion on their bikes, 130mph round bends kissing the grass, trying to scare me. Didn't work just wanted one even more!!
Finaly got my first bike, the sv650 in June 07 passed in sep 07. got the bike knowing I would do whatever to pass my test and never looked back. can never see me owning a car. love every second on my beast in all weather. I was made for 2 wheels, even have my own built in crash helmet?? lol

I was about 15 and really wanted one. Wasn't allowed by my parents so waited till I had moved out and totally independant of them and it was pretty much the first thing I did. Initally bought as an evening/weekend toy, till I realised it would slash my weekly trip home by at least half an hour. I then started using it more and more as transport, to the state where I now do about 5x the mileage on my bike that I do in my car. I ride primarily to get hours of my life back (and not be bored whilst commuting), but find it good fun too.

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I have always liked speed/going fast/motors so it was an inevitable transition I think.

When I moved out it was an obvious oppurtunity as I knew my mum wouldnt approve.