how long did you 'think' about getting a bike for?

[kernow24]

So how long did you ponder about getting a bike? Just
curious really, because for most its not something you just
wake up to one day and say, I think ill book my cbt and get a
bike.

For me it was a good couple of years before I started the process,
of getting a cbt done and doing my tests etc

Mainly due to work commitments and life getting in the way
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[Kwakki Si]

surely everyone wants to be a biker when their a kid, remember pretending ya bmx was a motorbike?!
But then most blokes pussy out and get a ford focus or something, then realize their life is dull and going knowhere so end up getting a bike for some thrills, ahem.
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[Alpha-9]

Always wanted a bike, never really occured to me to just do it, then I realised I wanted one, booked cbt and had one within a month or 2
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[J.M.]

Until I was old enough to get one.
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[Irn-Bru]

Always wanted one, but didn't really have the cash until I started uni (thank you student loan).
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[Dean-J]

I forgot my childhood dreams of having a bike until last year. Jumped on a mates crosser, within 24hours id bought one. Put it on the road, within 2 weeks decided i wanted a proper bike, bought one a week later. Tests the month after. So start to finish about 2 months from that first ride.

Never regretted it for a second, not even when im cold,wet and numb!

[cdlxxvi]

[AlexW]

2 weeks from getting insurance quotes on a bike, to buying the 125 and booking CBT.

Then the next week I put the 125 on the road and decided to go for my full test, although took 3months to book my theory due to money/housemove etc, and a further 3 months to pass my mod two, 10 days later I had a big bike, 5 days later it was on the road.

[Rogerborg]

Majorca 2 stroke peds were the sum total of my biking experience. The CBT was a mad 30's whim, and then I rode a pedal bike regularly for a year afterwards until I felt confident that I had the right attitude: can't be seen, and even if they do see you, you're not "real" traffic.

Some people jump right in, some of us take a long hard think about it, but I doubt that many of us regret it.
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[Dazbo666]

Well my paternal grandad had been a biker in his youth (BSA's and Nortons etc), but he had downgraded to a Honda 90 by the time I was old enough to become aware of bikes....

However, school, college, then a growing family family interrupted me, until I eventually made a definate decision to learn about bikes when I was about 30.
And it still took until I was 35 before I actually knuckled down and did my DAS.

My ONLY regret is that I didn't do it sooner.
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[FantasticMrFo...]

5 minutes, then I got on the phone, booked my CBT, then went to the Honda dealers and brought my CBF125.

I'm not exaggerating either, my mate pulled up on his new bike, let me have a go, found it great fun and had intended to use the inheritance I got to get on the road anyway (but was thinking car licence) and thought "sod it, this is far more fun that 4 wheels, I'll have me one of them"
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

My dad and sister had bikes whilst I was growing up, when I was old enough I couldn't afford it. By the time I could afford it, my then long term girlfriend hated them, and it was a case of "me or a bike". This lasted about 6 years whilst my dick ruled my life, until I thought fuck it, and got a CB100N. I passed my test and got the CB250RS within 3 weeks of us splitting up.
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[sidewinder]

One day i decided driving a cage was shite.Went to my training center booked cbt for the next day got cbt on a sunday booked das the next week .by the end of the month i was riding a 600 legaly so i guess i thought about it for half a day
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[waffles]

I was 15 when I first said to the rents that I wanted a bike, they rubbished the idea and said that driving a car would be more useful to me. It was really! I did my CBT when I was 27 and full licence at 28 when I could actually afford lessons and bikes and gear.

BEST. DECISION. EVER.
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[Imonster]

I never thought about it, had been riding offroad since I was a nipper so getting my CBT and a beat up DT50 just after my 16th Birthday was inevitable. No thought went into it other than saving some money to enable the dreams.
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[AyrtonSenna]

16 years of age I rode a moped and loved the thrill, Started college September rode a mate 125 rs and loved it, so decided i wanted one so I've been working my butt off so far 30hrs per week along side with college and i have managed to raise around £3500, will be £4000 next pay day (8th). I haven't got my bike yet as a i can't open up insurance without my mum (over 18) as I am currently 17 and can not enter a pay monthly contract on my own.

[hedgehugger]

I first pillioned at 6, on the back of my bro who was 9!
Always liked them, but never had the money or the common sense to learn to ride.
My dad, uncles, brother always had bikes.
We used to get taken to the speedway, with great wads of cotton wool shoved in our ears!

Money and sense to do it myself didn't appear until late 30's

[Clanger]

I didn't think about it, I begged my mother for many years and she finally relented when I hit 16...
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[Benno]

Years. Wanted one since I was 17, but parents forced me to get a car. In retrospect I'm quite glad I did. But a few months after I hit 21, I suddenly decided "hey...why don't I buy a bike?", so about a week later I did my CBT, and about a week after that I bought my first bike. It's now been about 2 months and I'm booking my DAS for september (since I'm away between now and then).

So you could say either I waited...4 years, or 2 weeks. Depends on your perspective. Personally I'd say I waited 2 weeks from first deciding I'd get one.

Still haven't told my parents though...living at university helps keep it secret

[Jynister]

For a long time I had zero interest in bikes. Then one day I kinda got the itch for it, and went through stages of learning more about them, gandering at them to finally wanting one. I reckon the last bit was about 8 or 9 months of doing my research and saving up, doing CBT etc. Can't imagine I'll ever look back.
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[Teflon-Mike]

About 6 years......
I was hardly able to 'Say' motorbike when I decided I wanted to ride them.... I think I was about 3.
Got my first one when I was 9.... well, it was a pedal & pop.... but I wasn't going to argue.
Always had at least one ever since.
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[panrider_uk]

I never gave it much thought at all.

I got a moped when i was 15, got it legal when i was 16 and away i went.

No CBT back then and the test was twice around the block and don't fall off so bikes were much easier to get into than cars.

Mark
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[Maccydee]

I'd always like the look of them, especially the fat rear tire and under the seat exhausts, normally when I pulled up behind them in my 3 series rep mobile. However, the thought never occurred to me to get one until my then missus of 5 years decided to leave and I found myself have a strange "coming to god" moment at the age of 31 where I realised that 4 bedroom new build houses, German salon cars and sex once a month were not what I wanted in life, so I thought, fuck it, passed my CBT and Direct Access got myself the Thundercat and a 22 year old girl friend! Two years later, I'm still happy with both and coincidentally still have the house but now a Volvo....... You met me at a strange time in my life

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Speedway at Belle Vue aged about 7 and watching Spanish chavs ragging the tits off Bultacos.
FFWD a few decades and I found myself on my own and no car. My uncle had casually mentioned getting a bike to get about on, and he had an old XL125 I could use.

Taught myself how to pass the tests. 9 years of riding nearly everyday and I can honestly say that motorcycles are time consuming, unstable and sometimes expensive to maintain.
One of the best things I've done in my life.
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[MetalDog]

When I was a nipper and my big, bad, mad uncle Steve was bombing about dispatch riding and taking little-me on the back from time to time, I wanted to be a biker.

After roughly 30 years of alternating being too skint and too chicken, I find that too many people I know have died of cancer while I've been bored and grinding away in the rat race. Life's too short. Got my provisional in the post last night and booking my CBT tomorrow.