Do you remember your first time?

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

We also liked denim. Taken with my old Kodak 126mm

Howcome we all had the same barber back then, no matter where in the country we lived?

First time about 8 on the back of my dad's CB250 too!
I had my own helmet and everything!!

17 years old, had only met the guy twice at the time. He was with a friend of mine riding pillion on his bandit 600 and my mate offered his helmet, jacket and gloves for a little trip. Needless to say I accepted and hopped on. Steady 30mph round a couple of roads, until we got to a big straight 40mph section. All of a sudden he gunned it up to about 110mph and I sat on the back absolutely cacking myself. I got back to the carpark and saw my friend sitting there and my car was gone. I spent the next 15 minutes trying to find where he'd hidden it! That was my only ever time on a bike (other than a 2 minute go on stomp pit bike round a field) before I started my lessons last year. It doesn't seem so scary now...

My earliest bike memory is running to the top of the road to meet my Dad on his way home from work and jumping on. Very very sedate stuff. Then similar to Reeder, a friend of a friend had a gsxr600 when we were about 20 and I had a go on the back of that. Scared the hell out of me!

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

Don't recall my first time we as kids were all into bikes, field bikes like c50's and Puch Maxi's. We had family and friends that were into bikes.

We liked the group thing.


We also liked denim. Taken with my old Kodak 126mm

Absolutely love the picture!

yep a 110 mph wheelie on the back of a mates busa, i near fell off and told him i was going to kill him when i got off, tbh it nearly put me off bikes but id already bought the sv
yes i did just get up one day and say feck it im getting a motorbike for no reason, still dont know why

[Messie]

My first ride was as a pillion but I don't know what bike it was - only that it was like nothing else I'd ever experienced and I loved it! Then I tried riding, unsuccessfully, a BSA Bantam across a field. The I got my own Honda SS50 and chewed up Dad's lawn on it as I waited to be 16. Then I got my own CB 250 .... and the rest is history
One of these is me

[Bri w]

Pillioned on a RD200, then started off on a CD175 around the back roads in the Lakes - T-shirt, jeans, no gloves or helmet and never dropped it. Saved dropping a bike till I bought my own, a CB125 and promptly dropped it 6 times in 5 months.

Originally Posted by BigBaddad

Wheyhey! The man's wearing a Stadium Achilles. I had one of them too. I didn't have those boots I'm glad to say.

Don't remember my first pillion. I think about it maybe it'll come to me.

EDIT: No it won't come to me 'cause it wasn't a first pillion, it would have been my first ride held on between rider and tank, I wouldn't have been old enough to reach the pillion pegs or be trusted to sit on the back.

My first time on a bike was a Honda NC Express, I was about 14/15 years old, drove it up and down my Grandad's drive. It then became my first scooter when I passed my CBT! First time on the back of a bike was on my mates Honda FMX!



This was I about 14/15 years young! Still got the bike in my garage!