do you remember your first ever time on a motorbike?

[bryvw1973]

today was a proud day for me i sat my seven year old son on his first bike just a cheap old pit bike. he wobbled a bit but did a few laps of the garden ok then as i said lets put it away he flew down the yard with no sign of slowing down and crashed into the garage doors had his first off on his first day but still keen.

[neil.]

6 months old in 1983, my dad sat me on his BSA 650cc thing. I don't actually remember it of course. There's a photo somewhere in the family archives, must dig it out...
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[joneseyjnr200...]

Yep, it was a year ago this month and i was wobbling my way through a cbt day in the rain. Never looked back lol.

[Skudd]

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Scooter - 19th of July 2009
Bike - 20th of July 2009

[pickled]

I was 6, it was a little red Suzuki Dad taught me how to make it go, but seemed to forget to mention the brakes, I ended up in the fish pond
must be a bloke thing? as my Ex did it with our son, who was 2 at the time, he headbutted the shed

@Skudd age is but a state of mind and dont worry I was 6 well before 1983

[mr rip]

I had a puch maxi when I was about twelve (1981/2 ish) that I used to rip around the local fields on

it did a wapping 45 mph but I felt like I would burn up in the atmosphere it was so fast
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[chris-red]

I was tiny my dad would come home from work on his CX500 I would come runing out in an oversized Crash helmet clambered up the bike and rode pillion up the drive
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[GeorgeCBR]

None of my family were interested in bikes, but when i got my moped at 15 i rode it from my dads house to my nan's. I was uninsured etc, but it was literally 5mins if that. I wanted more afterwards. 3 years on and im on a thou!
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[baldy]

I was 12,

riding a ar50 on a field.

I almost shat myself.

Oh the power.
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[kitty kat]

I was 9, (1973) staying at friends house, all the parents had gone for a night out and the babysitter was on a bike. I got to go pillion with him to the chippy as I was the eldest I loved it and always said I would get a bike one day. Then I met Dave at work who had an RD350LC powervalve in Marlboro colours. I persuaded him to take me pillion, then got my own little bike, got engaged to him, passed my test, bought a brand new bike when he bought a used one, he finished with me and I have never looked back
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[Ol]

Hello All !

Apart from pillion on my dads EN450 / Virago - i had a Suzuki TS50 when i was 10 - not sure i did more than 5 miles on it as it was always broken... then nothing until a trusty old Cub50 when i was 16.. which lasted 9 days before being stolen outside college!!

[Ol]

Hello All !

Apart from pillion on my dads EN450 / Virago - i had a Suzuki TS50 when i was 10 - not sure i did more than 5 miles on it as it was always broken... then nothing until a trusty old Cub50 when i was 16.. which lasted 9 days before being stolen outside college!!

[Polo]

I rode a Honda Vision 50cc ped of my mates, in the snow.

Great fun.

Shortly after was on the back of a mates brothers GSXR 750 Hyper-Sports. That is when I done did got bit by the bike bug.
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[G]

I was 4 at a local (err, national, but this was Papua New Guinea) faire thingy... I crashed three times in a straight line, then went crying to my parents.

Looking back on my biking career so far, not much has changed .

[angryjonny]

I was probably about 10 so that would make it some time in the latter half of the 80s. Had a go on some little motocross bike on an off-road track at a show. The kid in front of me fell off and I had my first experience of object fixation and ran him over.

[ncrn]

I was two, my dad took me round the street sat on the bike in front of him. I don't remember it at all but I've been told I really enjoyed it .
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[Throttle]

I was 16 working the kitchens at the Stonecross Pub in Lowton if anyone knows it?

The guy I worked with had come on his ZX-9R and as usual offered me a lift back. I agreed but was secretly bricking it all night.

I got on, everything was cool and I felt like I was the man. Then he pulled onto the East Lancs and accelerated. I shit myself when I first felt the pull of the thing. After that I got into it and enjoyed it.

I am aware that last sentence sounds gay.

[ms51ves3]

I was 9/10 on the back of a Piaggio X9 250 my dad was test riding.

[wizzzard]

I think I was 14 and went pillion on the back of a friends cub 90. It was only a few hundred feet but to be honest it scared the bejesus out of me. I still wont go pillion now.
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[Mr Hammers]

BSA Bantam, no idea how old but must have been around 5 or 6. My brothers had to take the tank off and stick a washing up bottle or something on instead so I could reach the ground with at least one foot.

Don't remember coming off that, though I'm sure I did, but I do remember not long after involuntarily trying to ride up and through a garden fence on a Tiger Cub. I nearly made it too...
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[Smooth]

age 14
A mate had a tuned-up RM125
I blagged a go with my talk of powerbands, doubles and berms
revved-up
stalled
REVVED UP....
... wheel-spun, wheelied, flipped it right over and snapped off the rear mudguard.

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[Mystery]

erm my dad used to put me on his rd 250lc when i was about 2 but i started ridding when i was about 12 when i was on holiday without a license(bad i know) then i got my uk license when i was 16 then got a 125 when i was 17 thats me for now
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[Oz.]

14 years old, Italy. Staying with Italian friends of the family, they all had those pedal and pop chicken chaser things. Anyhow they I asked if I wanted a go, of course said I! So they said ok well the pedals have broken on this one so you have to run beside it and when the back tyre locks a little pull back the throttle and jump on.

So off I went running down the road, bike tyre locks I pull back the throttle... pulled the throttle way to much the bike starts pulling me down the road and of course the more the thing pulled forward the more the throttle went back, running me straight into a brick wall with me and the bike in a pile on the floor.