First significant memory of bikes

[Rookie]

So here's a question for you: What's your first significant memory of bikes? Are you someone who was conceived, born and raised on a bike, or are you a 40 year old who until the midlife kicked in thought of bikes and bikers as the go faster tossers?

Me; at 14 or 15 I was reading (of course) a porn magazine. And I came across this article on the new Ducati 999. So I read through it, and being a porn mag it was hardly a distinguished or brilliant article, but I loved the whole thing. The looks, the philosophy, the mind-blowing statistics. So I took out the picture and stuck it on a school book, and when I turned 16 I did my CBT and never looked back.

You?

[Groove]

I remember my sister going round the garden a few times on some type of moped thing, had gears, it was silver. thats all i remember!

i must have been around 7/8/9 (my youngest sister is 9 years older than me )
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[mr.z]

My dads CD175, red, orrible things they are.. but at 10 it was fecking ace..

I used to hlp my dad do his crap extra job he used to sweep up a load of offices of wet leaves, 9 till it got dark fecking awfull it was.. but it ment a 20minute ride about there and back.. so every weekend without fail.
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[veeeffarr]

When I was about 14/15 my brother had an FZR600... Used to sleep in the bedroom with various fairing panels, car doors etc...

Was interested then but my mum went mad about it... And being a bit scared myself I forgot all about it until I moved into a houseshare with mates about 5 years later...

One of my mates had a ZX6R, went on the back of it to the local spar once, was fooking hooked

Ended up getting a loan, Girlfriend bought me my CBT as a birthday present and I went out last May and bought a CG125

Addicated ever since

[Simple]

age 7, pootling around back yard on apink yamaha pw on christmas day, making me late for dinner at my gran's house hehe.
Dogs who'd never seen or heard a bike so close were chasing me and barking...

never looked back
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[craigs23]

A schoolmate bringing in a bike magazine (can't remember which) with rave reviews of the new Fireblade (1992).

[McGee]

I was 6 or 7 and my uncle come home on his brand new (at the time) GSXR 1000 he gave me his old helmet and stuck me on it. Took me for a quick ride round the area and I was hooked.

My nan even offered to by me a mini dirt bike for christmas but mum saw the end to that plan But 12 years later I have my own brand new GSXR

Great thread Rookie
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[EuropeanNC30R...]

I remember my Dad always tinkering with and test-riding his RD250, must've been around 8-10 at the time.

[colin1]

ive ridden bicycles for years but never really thought about getting a motorbike. i thought i shd get a car license and a car for transport but didnt quite manage it for ages.

at one point i decided to do my cbt but i didnt have th right code on my license and didnt bother getting it changed until years later i had a placement as part of a course that wd be a bitch to travel to. i got my cbt and an rs125. not the ideal commuter and i wd have probably been better off with an cg125 but i hadnt trie one yet and had hated the sr125 i did my cbt on.

before i got my cbt i had the vague idea motorbikes were dangerous but they are far safer to cummute on than a push bike

the following year i did my das and passed my car test. by then i could have got a car but they just dont really appeal in the same way
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[feef]

remember my uncle riding his big old metaflake gold BMW thing along side the car when we were driving back from my gran's to home.. must have been early 1980s (7/8 yrs old?).

other than that, also remember playing on mopeds in france, and cracking about fields on a DT125, and XR600 which a mate owned when I was about 14/15

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[akaDAVE]

I remember gawping at bikes from the back window of the car on journeys with the family when I was a kid.
I loved big loud plastic sportsbikes - (this was the eighties/ early nineties). I could tell they were quick just from seeing the back tyre going past.
My dad would be cursing them from his driving seat - 'bloody idiot'/'hasn't got a chance if he comes of that'/'dangerous F'ing things'.
As I got older I started to agree with him but the initial attraction stuck and I still had to get one.
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[tatters]

I remeber going on the back of my dads BSA C12 and 250cc superdream aged 6 after pushing over the superdream in the driveway and slapping blue paint all over the C12 when l was younger.

Later on I used to go on the back of his CBX550 sportsbike which gave me a love for bikes so when l was almost 16 my dad got me a 50cc moped and because l was one of the oldest in my year l was the first kid in my year to have a bike
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[Biker101]

My uncle has always had motorbikes and when i was young everyone used to say i would get one because i spent so much time looking at them, everyone was okay with it.

Then for a few years i was all for cars but after taking car holidays for the past few years and getting stuck in traffic jams and watching my aunt recently take her car test i saw the stresses of learning and driving.

Now i am all for bikes and will probably not take my car test until i am settled in a full time job which will be a fair few years yet. My family have certainly changed their tune from cute baby sitting on a bike to death machine. I say that you could die tommoro crossing the street so why not enjoy life the way you want it now.

Hush Hush dont tell my grandparents i have bought my first scooter!
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[Andy C]

mine was quite strange, i decided to get a car and booked all my lessons etc and for some unknown reason (i think i was because it was summer) i was on my moped and thought,

"what are you doing andy, this is the best feeling, imagion this with 6 gears, some proper tyre and going 110mph"

Went home, unbooked my driving lessons and went shopping for a RS125. Passed test and here i am now
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[Wave2k]

generally liked bikes, but got a ped cos i hate the crappy bus, then i went from there.
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[Jrod]

Mate got a RS50 when he turned 16, Was like wow what a beast. I could ride that in a few weeks!!
Wasn't allowed to get one but at 17 I insisted on a bike over a car and got the zxr4.

Now selling the zxr4 as I'm learning to drive and have bought a car.

At least I can be a BAB later in life.

[Keen]

my 6th birthday, my dad tells me and my little bro to wait at the door while he goes round the corner, next thing I know he comes onto our road riding a knackered old kids italjet 50cc bike, complete surprise for us but hes always had bikes... my mams face was a picture.
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[Whosthedaddy]

When I was 3 or 4 my dad had a Puch moped. The one where you had to pedal from the lights to help start the damn thing.

Man its a beast...

https://www.mopedsonline.com/m-o-l/images/website/tk's%20maxisport.jpg

Dont really remember, got couple of pics woth me in his helmet, and one sitting on it.
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[SoND]

Was about 5-6 at the time and was in the Isle of Mann visiting my granny.

Big green superbike pulls out of a junction and wheelies down the road in front of me. Was amazing.

Will never forget that
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[casadunc]

Never even thought of bikes until i was 34. Does that class as mid life crisis? Could well be as my kids went to live with their dad and my ex buggered off. Never looked back.

Caz

[phantomtek]

Aged 3/4/5 (Seriously) My Dad had a custom paintjob Lambretta, had the Dambusters all over it and it was probably my favourite paintjob on any bike ever, he built it from basics and chromed it all himself, he really loved that machine. I have pictures if anyone is interested, won awards, got featured in the Scootering magazine (Two page spread) and that's my first real experience of a bike, I can still remember dangling off the end of the seat trying to reach the handlebars in my old back yard. And I have photos of me in my Dad's lid with my brother and sister on the same seat

I have had bicycles for aslong as I can remember, there's one I loved and I'm sad to have grown out of it. Still have it though

I'm a believer that bikes are kind of in my family, my Great Grandmother had a scooter, very old thing, my Dad has had them since he was a young 'un too, my Mum used to have one, my Stepdad has them, my Great Uncle used to be a racer and now I've got one. But I suppose I started really liking bikes when my Dad got the R7, and started taking me places on it, then his ZX9R I fell in love with. We got a small PW a few years ago, for field biking but it was sold and I got my 50cc.

Pictures are available on request

[The View Askew]

Ever since year 6 at school I've been riding dirt bikes/quads/go-karts. At the moment my road bike is a Blaster 50, shortly to become a Honda SCV 100, then an RS125.
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[TimC]

when i was about 6 my next door neighbour took me up and down his drive on his blackbird, that was a good memory, bad one was watching a biker go over a cliff when i was 7, he wanted to comit suicide
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[Dazbo666]

My older sister paddling around some wasteground outside my grandparents house - on my grandfathers Honda C90.
As I remember it, he wouldn't let her ride it, but said she could freewheel it around. At a guess I might have been 7 or 8, so my sister would've been 13 or 14

Apparently he had also been heavily into his BSA's in his youth (obviously before my time), but that C90 is the first bike I ever remember noticing, and the only bike I can remember him owning.
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