When did you realise you were made for two wheels?

Same old story here too, wanted a bike for as long as i can remember but due to the parents not allowing me too whilst I lived at home I couldnt get one. Therefore when I graduated form uni in July I booked my CBT and lessons and DAS, passed my test 5 days ago and collected my SV650 4.5 days ago!!, moving into my own house on friday (the bike is currently hidden at the girlfriends mums house, lol) so the bike will no longer have to remain a secret

For me it was either one of two times.

In 1992, I was 6 and went to India with family. One of the family (can't remember) had a new motorbike (can't remember.) I was sad between two member of the family between the pillion and rider's seat on a bike. It scared me a quite a lot but I enjoyed it.

My parents being the medical field dissuaded myself from purchasing a bike but after playing with a friends bike in his family field I wanted to get a bike.

I bought a 2005 CBR125 and then got the SV in 2007.

About 1978 15 year old, Saw a Silver Honda CBX 1000Z, in Alan Watson's Showroom window in Dewsbury, went to Dewsbury nearly every Saturday, just to press my face against the glass and look at those 6 shiny exhausts, a daily topic of conversation at my High School, for months on end......, finally got to take one for a blast about 10 years ago when my mate bought one....... AWESOME (complete with marshal 6 into 1 on it, with nearly all the glass packing missing).......you think Yorkie Chris's is loud, add ANOTHER 4 cylinders......

Always loved the idea of a road bike, I'm a big fan of the racing too and always have been.
Finally got around to actually getting a license in October 2006, but I don't think you can really know if motorcycles are right for you until you've had some time on one. I think it took me about 6 months to realise I wasn't going to get bored, I loved trying to get better at it as much as anything else, and I also realised that I just didn't want to use the car any more.

30years ago, I used to wag the odd day off school to take my turn riding my best mates 100cc trials bike around his farm and woodlands; had the bug ever since.

my chav beating 50cc vespa.
Then sv650 to follow on from being a pillion on a ST4 and harly for my life!

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by AndyL

Same old story here too, wanted a bike for as long as i can remember but due to the parents not allowing me too whilst I lived at home I couldnt get one. Therefore when I graduated form uni in July I booked my CBT and lessons and DAS, passed my test 5 days ago and collected my SV650 4.5 days ago!!, moving into my own house on friday (the bike is currently hidden at the girlfriends mums house, lol) so the bike will no longer have to remain a secret

I'm the opposite. Luckily (I think) my parents have accepted that it's something I want to do and are being really good about it. Since my bad crash my dad's offered to replace my lid and even help out with advanced bike lessons!
I started out with a scooter when I was 16, god knows why but I saved up bought a peugeot scoot did it up and ran it (held a lot of cans under the seat too :P ). With the money I made off that I bought a cbr125 (awful bikes) got knocked off that and bought a kwak ar125 (awesome) to do up sold that making me a fair few hundred and paid for my bike lessons & test. Bought me a sv ....and killed it.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by BBadger

my chav beating 50cc vespa.
Then sv650 to follow on from being a pillion on a ST4 and harly for my life!

was it an ET or a proper vespa?

Originally Posted by Dave20046

was it an ET or a proper vespa?

ET2 geared to the max and with a race pipe ... bring it chavs !

Ahh same for me
my parents just excepted that i would either ride a bike with or without them, so helped pay for my lessons and insurence.
Then after i passed my dad drove with me for a few trips till he was happy i could handle the big bike safly.
Never looked back
or at a car

As soon as I lost my stabilisers at the age of 4 and realised the bike could LEAN. From that moment on it's been nothing but two wheels for me. My son is exactly the same. He's been riding push bikes without stabalisers for a year. He's still only 4 now.