have been riding since 16, but have been around bikes since i can remember. Started out on an honda mt50 which was a lovely lil' bike but i soon outgrew it and bought an aprilia toureg wind 125. For anyone whose not familiar its an off-road, paris-dakar styled bike with the rs125 engine in. lovely bike, was sorry to see it go but it needed new oil pump and exhaust, ?400 from italy so i've now got a yamaha dt125 which is ok, looks good but doesn't have the go of the aprilia. Have just bought a Honda bros 400, getting into *real* bikes.
Edit** Now on a 600s bandit on T plate which is a cool bike IMO, though i think i'm a V twin man, the bandit doesn't do it for me like the bos did