What got you into bikes?

nick.h · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Karma :

I started riding because my dad is a biker and he got me into bikes, just wondering what got you lot into bikes?
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ash t · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Karma :

Well partly because my dad always had a bike, and partly because i wanted to get onto the road. As soon as i had one, i just became bike mad!
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Weed · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Karma :

I was cycling and walking everywhere, to and from work and I was knackered the whole time from it. Cycling back from town one day (handles had the shopping bags hanging from them) and I saw a 'ped, started looking into it, four months later I got one, and now I want a Bandit 6! Thumbs Up

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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

One day I just fell in love with them, I sat ona mates bike pre 16 yo and I was like I so have gotta get a bike! Love at first sight. Thumbs Up

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mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

I'd never quite got round to paying hundreds of pounds for driving lessons and tests and things, then my brother got his bike, so I decided to spend a couple of grand on getting all of my stuff. It was probably the not having to pass driving tests to learn to ride that swung it really though.
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octane · Trackday Trickster Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Karma :

Passed my CBT and DAS so I could start doing courier work to keep myself going during the knowledge, but when I ditched the job and the knowledge I was left with a love of bikes, so I kept on riding.

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

It was cheaper than the tube and cheaper than trying to insure/park my car when I moved to London. So necessity at first, but now it's just for fun.

JodieWodie · Reflective Banana Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

I woke up in June 2004...
thought 'hey,..it's hot'..
wow..a mo mo bike would be cool today.

I don't know how to ride one.

I am 30...I will learn before I die !!!

And..I did

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MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

not got a bike yet but i still voted.

well i am a pretty poor student and didn't want to take driving lessons as its quite expensive. don't really want to take lessons and live off bake beans really Sad

i bicycle to my part time work place and really didn't want to do it anymore as i am 19 and just feel embarassed. i did some research into scooter and did some browsing on ebay but then financially i became strapped so left the idea. now that i have abit of cash i just have a big urge to buy a nsr. i just know me and bikes are meant to be.

billy whizz · Scooby Slapper Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Somebody stuck me on one when i was about 8 years old and i'm still on one now! Guess i must like them Wink

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v4forlife · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Karma :

fell in love.
i was walking along a main road one day when about 15 bikers went past on big burly sports bikes, and the last few popped wheelies, and i thought wow, i wanna do that
so i got an ns, then my beloved nc30

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Wheres the option:

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MinhDinh · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Karma :

one of those things, just one of those things mate. Smile

18aprilia · I don't get it? Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Karma :

i think i was on my way to school one day, and i saw a guy fly past on a blue R6, and i thought to myself.....what a wonderful day.
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Dan 4RR · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Karma :

College was up and coming so I needed my own form of transport. decided to get a scooter .... thats it really.

izzi81 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Karma :

I just fell in love... my neighbour had a vfr750 which I used to see parked outside his place, I loved the look of it. And then we went on a family holiday to Skye and there were lots of bikes about... I just thought it looked cool!
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Jrod · Page 3 Girl Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Karma :

A friend got a RS50, I thought

"Wow I can have one of these now, damn its sexy." Drooling

I wanted one when I turned 16 but my dad said no, you're to fat . ( I was about 20 stone at the time.)
For a year I pestered him for a bike but he always said no.
In the end it came down to about a month before my 17th birthday and he was offering me a car, I was offered a brand new Seat Ibiza and cars along the lines of that
"No, I want a bike."
I looked into it allot myself and decided a 400 was the best route, Went through all the 400's that I liked:

ZXR

VFR

CBR

FZR

But in the end decided that all of them looked old except the ZXR so that was then what I wanted. Smile

I was then looking for a ZXR for £2000 but was considering more to get a new black one. Looking at Ebay one day I saw one I loved, I bid on it and won. Very Happy

Well the bike was about a 3 hours drive so we went up that weekend to collect it. Got there and it wouldn't start Confused

We made a deal to go back the weekend after if they had it fixed and knocked £100 off, They got it fixed. Thumbs Up

I went and got it. Never had a problem since. Very Happy

mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

My dad had bikes for years, he eventualy stopped rideing... buying one was an absoloute no, not much they could say when i'd got home smelling of petrol and exhaust fumes haveing just purchaced my cg.

I'd occasionally go for ride on the back when he had his last one, a CD175! blimeh... it was a 15minute ride to where he did some gardening every week, i'd help him out sweeping up to 30/40 bin bags at a time of wet leaves in the rain, i got pocket money yeh, but i was only really bothered about haveing another go on the bike Smile

At school a couple of mates got bikes, one had a cg125 and the other a speed flight, had a go on both, tazing arround a deserted car park in the middle of the night, gliggleing like a luatic at 20mph, took a friend on the back within 3 minutes and she screamed her head off as we pootled allong...

I could never understand why people get obsessional about their cars/bikes or whatever... its very clear now though...
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Silver · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Karma :

None of the options in the poll. One of my brother's friends offered to take me on the back of his RGV250 one day and after that, I was hooked!

palmer · Fiddled Kiddy Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Karma :

my dad is a mechanic, so ive always had cars and motorbikes around me, but ive only just taked a big interest due to my dad getting his CBR, and sitting on the back, whilst he is accelerating from 60-150 is a VERY big rush.

AcIdBuRnZ · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Karma :

Always had dirt bikes as a kid (first 50 at 8 yo) so was natural to get one on the road when I was old enough. Although I did leave it until I was 20......
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daz|n00by · The Internet Joined: 11 May 2004 Karma :

easy answer really...SPEED!!!!

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superchoward · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Karma :

Cant drive when your 16 so a 50 for me it was. Im hooked but i am a liability so will end up getting a car in August Crying or Very sad

Chris

wildcat · Spanner Monkey Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Karma :

My big brother has had a bike since he was 15.(long before I was born) Once I was old enough to hold on He took me for short runs. I now take my oldest daughter up & down the road and am teaching her to use the clutch(she can't reach the pegs to chage gear, but she can use the clutch and front brake. Most of her school friends asked santa for roller skates. She asked for a helmet.
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