At What Age Did You Learn To Ride A Bike?.

[ZX-7R]

I was 10 years old and learnt to ride on my mates elder brother's Suzuki motocross bike.Could barely touch the floor lol.

By the time i hit the road at 16 i had some good experience behind me so did not become one of the unfortunate teenage casualty's.
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[WULFSTAN]

I was 11 on a kmx 125 it scared the crap out of me.
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[ZX-7R]

[Snorty]

20, I bought a CB125TDC and used to ride it around the works car park before I did my CBT. Strangely wasn't even interested in bikes until one day.
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Past: CB125TDC | TZR125 | GPZ500 | CBR600F3 | ZX9-R | GSXR1000 K4

[Andy_Pagin]

Forty five, I was never interested in motorcycles, it was a financial decision to cut commuting costs.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Bit fuzzy on the exact year but about aged 7/8 was my first ride on a powered moped. A purple Honda P50 that I crashed into a gate but didn't fall off.
https://www.cmsnl.com/img/community/vehicles/4/41/411/411391/201205110108020.Honda-P50-2.jpg

Next would've been the Yamaha PW80. I'd previously thought it was the TS80 but recently spoke to a friend of the lad (gentleman) and he corrected me.
https://www.bikepics.com/pics/2008%5C08%5C07%5Cbikepics-1377878-full.jpg
Truth be told I pushed it more than rode it.

After that was the FS1e in Purple.
https://www.bikesrestored.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/yamahafs1e-1975-1-1024x768.jpg
Used to stuff it in the back of my 1975 Vauxhall Chevette (LDG 13P 1.3 in light metallic blue...wasn't even the L model ) Take it do an old backroad and thrash it senseless.
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[andym]

[c_dug]

I was 16 years, 6 months and 29 days, I did my cbt on a 50cc twist-and-go scooter. I tried racing a friend shortly after passing. I was on my geared TS50X, he was on crutches.

I lost.

It took me a good couple of weeks to work out gears. I remember my dad took me out with him shadowing me on his r1100s, I was moving so slowly he was genuinely worried about his bike overheating
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[hmmmnz]

so young that i dont ever remembering how to ride, 2 or 3 or something like that, but lived on a farm,
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[LimitlessFox]

29

Have been wanting to do it for years and finally said screw it. Only passed in January and now looking for my first bike. I actually can't wait!!

[Nobby the Bastard]

17. But I didn't so much 'learn' as 'fall off it lots'.
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[notbike]

20 on a suzuki vanvan

[mudcow007]

pw50 on the fields by my mum an dads, i think most lads around Liverpool learnt on a pw50/ 80

I must have been about 10 or something

[waffles]

26. I wanted a bike when I was around 14/15 but my parents said no and were prepared to pay for driving lessons for me when I was 17. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
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Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[redeem ouzzer]

13 / 14, C70 field bike. Learnt to ride a geared bike on a tuned DT175 which was a bit hairy.
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[chickenstrip]

Learned to use clutch and throttle on bruv's Z650 at about 14. Learned to ride properly on the road on a Suzuki ZR50X1 at 16, which I was riding around the North Circular in rush hour traffic within a few days of getting to grips with. Makes for a steep learning curve.
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[esullivan]

I rode a minibike once at aged 11-ish. Fell off. Then mopeds (the ones with backup peddles) when 19/20-ish. Nearly killed by cars passing by with 3.5 inches to spare. Switched to bicycles. Passing cars increased the clearance by a couple of inches.

Then not again until I was 48, when I took my CBT on a whim. I stuck with it because riding makes Britain's crowded, narrow roads seem almost as spacious as the American ones I spent my first 30 driving years on, and the roads around here remain shit for bicycles.
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Previous: '12 NC700S, '11 CBF 125, '04 SH 125.

[Doovy]

16 years old on a 50cc Yamaha Jog R as my first moped. Crashed on my first weekend of ownership.

11 years later and still here
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[Andy_Pagin]

[stevo as b4]

I think it was about 1988, I was 10-11 and first bike was a homemade Honda/Puch monkey bike with a C70 engine, and a Puch maxi fuel tank. After that I had a TY175, and for a while a YZ125 too. I rode trials events on&off until I was 16, then got into mountain bikes and then Road cycling for a bit?

At 17 plenty of mates had bikes, I had a car. I used to ride their 100's and 125's any chance I got, but never got my licence or own Road bike till 21.

[Skudd]

I've been learning all my life and still am.
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[grr666]

Aged 9 (1982) I rode a scrambler on Brean Beach that belonged to some spoilt kid on one of the caravan sites.
I loved it and wanted my own bike, so when I got home from my summer hols I bought a tatty Motobecane Mobylette
that the bloke at the cab office was flogging. Think I paid something daft like £17 for it. Went out and did all sorts of
juvenile pedding stunts, long before anybody had ever heard of Jackass I was riding my moped down slides and going
as fast as I could around the BMX (a brand new phenomenon at the time) track at the local park. Eventually I broke it
but at a couple of years later, (maybe 1985?) me and a schoolmate bought a C50 cub from someones older brother
which I remember we gave 15 quid and a pair of ice hockey skates for. Cue more tomfoolery and antics until
eventually the garage I kept it in was broken into and it was eventually found over the park burnt out, but I never
reported its loss as I wasn't old enough to be riding it at the time anyway. I didn't have another bike again
until I was 16 (1989) which for a change was actually legal and legit and to earn my money I had also started working
in the then brand new industry of home pizza delivery. Damn I feel old.
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[Triumph1300]

Aged 7 in 1967, bsa bantam farm hack.
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[alexknight200...]

13/14 when we found a Honda cb200 circa 1970 in the canal near Southall, then found an old honda c50 circa 1971.

Used to have such fun ragging around the greenway in Hayes watching the rozzers get stuck in the mud as they tried to cross the fields to catch us.

Graduated to one of the first Honda MT50 then yamaha dt100 the kawasaki kh250 then cars became the necessity and never got round to taking my full test (failed and couldn't be arsed to do it again).

Came back to biking some four years ago and took my full test.
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Current stable: Yamaha XVS 650 1996 - Honda Super Magna VF750 1988.

[thx1138]

11 or 12, rev and gos at Butlins