Biking is in your DNA

[Benno]

https://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/study-says-biking-is-in-the-blood/21351.html

Personally none of that fits me. My family are 500% against bikes. My friends told me to "enjoy dying". I just wanted a bike from the age of 17.

How did you get into biking?
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[Rob W]

Well, pretty much everyone in my family has had bikes, and I grew up around them. Some of my first memories are seeing my dad with his bikes.
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[Islander]

My dad had outfits through most of my childhood. So did his brother. We used to go to rallies and meets as well.

Me taking up biking was a bit of an inevitability really...

[cdlxxvi]

[WannaBeDude]

Had a go or two for 5 mins a time on a scrambler 250 2T when about 13 est - owned a 50 bike at 16 for a few months -

Brothers got bikes, and i had to get one !!
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[scorps]

I was in Coventry on Tuesday, its still a shithole
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[WannaBeDude]

[DrDonnyBrago]

I suspect that familial motorcycling has more to do with class than genetics.

[WannaBeDude]

[bikertomm]

Same as OP, no-one In my familly has ridden bikes of the motor variety.


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[Dazbo666]

My paternal grandfather had bikes when he was young - BSA's, Nortons etc but afaik he's the only one in the family to have owned and ridden motorbikes.
My parents were completely against them when I lived at home, which is one of the main reasons why it took so long for me to get in to it....

but I still maintain that learning to ride and doing my Direct Access was the most fulfilling learning experience of my adult life. My only regret is not having done it sooner
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[snikks]

Dad rides a bike, mother was very much against them. I always kind of wanted one, and finally a friend suggested I could get my CBT to commute with. Having done so, I then was very much bitten by the bug and set out on a mission to get my full license.

I think for me it's 15% about being slightly different from the norm, 15% about the convenience of zooming through traffic, and 70% about the sensation of everything else fading away and everything becoming about the ride.
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[Redoko]

Didn't get into bikes till my first one at 16. Didn't really notice them until that point.

Dad's been into bikes, my Mum has just accepted them. She doesn't particularly like them.
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[waffles]

Biking skipped a generation or two in my family. My uncle used to ride and has recently got himself another bike, on my dads side of the family his uncle is a bike nut and his dad used to have one when he was stationed in Africa during the war.

Neither of my parents have ridden, not grown up around them either. Im the awesome person in my family
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Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[Drake]

insurance persuaded me into biking. would like a cage but insurance is like £3k for me compared to certain litre bikes being £600
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[LordShaftesbu...]

My uncle rode a bike when I was young (apparently my grandfather also used to ride but I have no memories of this). Uncle crashed and shattered his leg into a million bits. The family went right off bikes after that, but I held a secret interest that involved putting Kawasaki Ninja stickers on things. I didn't get round to realising that I could actually own a bike if I wanted to till I got to my early twenties, and it took another 5 years before I finally got my license.

No-one I know at the moment has any interest in motorcycles. All my family hate them, so do my female friends, and all my male friends are indifferent.

[Stonefly]

My dear old dad was into bikes in his youth and took my dear old mum out on his Triumph Tiger 100 when they were courting. By the time my sister and I had arrived on the scene the bikes were long gone, but there was a fascination inside of me from a very early age. My parents were not really thrilled when i got my first bike at 15 (a honda C50 that i used to thrash around the local woods) but never tried to stop me. I was riding proper bikes from 17 and my dad always took an interest and helped with maintenance. Dad died in 2000, but he had got back into bikes again, and had a 1946 AJS 500 that he was restoring, but did manage to put a few miles on it.
I suspect biking was in my breeding!
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Previous....Yamaha FS1E, Honda SS50, Suzuki AP50, BSA Bantam D14, Honda CD175, Honda CB250N, Kawasaki Z250A3, Yamaha RD250E, Kawasaki Z400, Kawasaki Z500, Kawasaki GPz550, Honda NTV600, Kawasaki GT750, Kawasaki Z1000R, Kawasaki GPX250

[Derivative]

This seems obvious. People can only like and/or take part in experiences they've actually been exposed to.

It's simply much more likely that someone tries out a motorcycle if there's been one in the garage for them to look at their entire life, no?

No-one in my family has owned a motorcycle during my lifetime. My grandparents rode when they were younger (sidecar and all), but that stopped a good few decades ago.

[Polarbear]

When I took up riding (1973) you could ride a 250 on L plates and I was at marine college at 16 so as soon as I was 17 I bought a YDS7. I couldn't afford car lessons (and didn't bother with my car test till 2007 ) My Mum was indifferent but there weren't thehorror stories on the internet that the younger riders have to cope with now.
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[stonesie]

My dad rode bikes in the 60's (Norton Navigator, then he moved up to a Honda 305) so I was used to hearing his tales of what they used to get up to.
Then when I turned 16 I wanted a scoot, Dad said ok, Mum said No way.... So when she went away with friends for a week guess what was in the shed when she got home (both me and dad were in the doghouse for a few days) then when I learned to drive a car I left bikes for about 12 years.
I don't know what spurred me to get back on 2 wheels but 2 years ago I did my DAS after bimbling about on a CG125

[Shaft]

I had zero exposure to road bikes when I was growing up.

An uncle had an outfit, but switched to a three wheeler in the late 50s as his family expanded, one of his boys had a CB200 as a commuter and Dad had a few tales of trips on the back of his mate's Black Shadow in the early 50s, but that's it.

What did happen was a visit to Wimbledon speedway when I was 4 (my family were big speedway fans since before the war) and I was hooked on that.

By the time I was old enough to ride one, I was too tall to be comfortable on a speedway bike, so I did a bit of schoolboy MX and getting a road bike (traily, natch) seemed an obvious thing to do, when I was 16.

Had a bike around me ever since.
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[P.addy]

Saw bike, saw clunge get on bike, went on myspace (oh yes..old) saw videos of bikes. Wanted bike.

Ask parents, got told no.

Bought bike, simple as

[Benno]

[binaryferret]

Dad had one, but I was too young to remember. I was never allowed one when I was younger however I used to ride my bicycle around with my dads old crash helmet on... I guess I was a bit of a mong.

Always wanted to ride one but just never go around to it until I was 27, although still a newb, I love it. Looking forward to trading in my 125 for a bigger bike after I pass the test.
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CBT: 07/2011 | Theory: 08/2012 | Current Bike: Yamaha YBR 125 Custom 2009

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