Earliest photo on a motorbike...

[Doovy]

... Sort of. So I came across this photo the other day in a stack of pictures my parents gave me, from a little clearout.

Circa 1994, I was around 5 years old. I used to jump on this arcade game all the time when on holiday, I believe it was in Eilat. It was most likely what kick-started (excuse the pun) my love for motorbikes, albeit not being a real one

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1917315_10154016339689513_2457923055016124930_n.jpg?oh=0d475507bba2d9d8b7a5b9f336b8410b&oe=575A1C1E

I remember 'Biker Mice from Mars' and 'Masked Rider' TV shows also having a big influence in biking interest.

Anyone got any of their first 'on-the-bike-shot'?
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Yamaha RXS 100 > Honda CD 250 > Honda Hornet 600 > Honda CBR 600RR > Yamaha RXS 100 > Kawasaki ZX6R J2 > Yamaha FZ1

[CaNsA]

inb4 pedobear

[Skudd]

[Evil Hans]

Feck me. In 1994 I hadn't been on a bike since before you were born.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050. And it's Red.

[Pigeon]

[RedPanda]

2 years old / 1989 (VF500).

https://i64.tinypic.com/33uxtzo.jpg
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CBF125 (2013) -> CBR600F (2001) -> 'Ninja' 300 (2014)

[stevo as b4]

This was my first bike ever in I think it was 1988. Makes me 10-11.

https://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u482/stevo1994/DSC_0157_zpsu0yzuyhj.jpg

[bikertomm]

Me and the Uncle, only one in the family to have a bike..


Think I was hooked!

https://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o520/bikerrtomm/IMG_20141017_170232_zps83ogk9db.jpg


Out of interest, anyone know what that bike is? The headlights almost look triump(hy) to me. I know he owned a couple of Ducati's around then also! Will have to try and find some more!

I'm still donning the same haircut to this day.
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07' Honda Hornet now full powaah! My guide on performing an oil change!

[Pigeon]

[stevo as b4]

955i Daytona surely? The only thing wrong with that bike is that Blair sat on one, but that's not enough to make it a bad bike even!

I know Binge would be horrified, but that little home made C70 engined monkey bike I had, I'd love to have back now, and put proper forks and bars and wheels on, maybe a front brake too. And then make it road legal.

[Pigeon]

[haroman666]

I was very strange... I remember saying in my childhood that I hated motorcycles. I was always going to be a fan of cars.

And then in 2007 my parents moved us to the middle of fucking nowhere.

So it was suggested to me to get a moped. So I begrudgingly obliged, thinking it was only for a year or so and then I could get a car.

But after a while I thought "This ain't too bad..."

And then I bought my second moped, which was unrestricted and all that. Did 50mph according to the clocks!!! PHWOOAARR!

And then on a whim, I thought... "I'll buy a 125. Yeeeeah... one with gears too!"

So I ended up with my CBR125 and from that point forward it was a snow-balling effect of bike related lunacy that now means I cant talk to someone unless they can talk about bikes.

Because of all this, I think the first picture of me on a bike is probably me on my Bandit 400 in ~2011/12

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/326497_10150665290305288_1181980599_o.jpg
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The mistresses: 2000 Honda CBR600f, 2000 Honda VTR1000

[Silver_Fox]

Funny that, I had zero interest in bikes until last year when a friend mentioned he wanted to do his CBT. The bug bit so hard I got malaria
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CBR600 F3 FV
CG125

[Doovy]

lol at the oldies moaning about my just-gone-quarter-century-self

27 next month, married and own a house.. I'm not that young

No-one in my family really rode bikes so I was kind of on my own with it. My aunt had an RXS100 stored in a shed for 14 years which she gave me years ago (got it working then sold it), but I never remember her riding it. Certainly never had any photos on it as a child - she was the 'weird aunt' that everyone has in their family.
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Yamaha RXS 100 > Honda CD 250 > Honda Hornet 600 > Honda CBR 600RR > Yamaha RXS 100 > Kawasaki ZX6R J2 > Yamaha FZ1

[chickenstrip]

[mrbox]

the yellow bike in the picture above is a T595 Daytona
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Current bikes: RE Himalayan, Bandit 12, MZ250ES

[Pigeon]

[sgtcalle]

https://i.imgur.com/PZzdJea.jpg

Me on my tw125 back in 07 I think. Thing couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding!
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CBR600F '02
Manchester

[ZX-7R]

Earliest pic of me on a bike i think is me on a 1986 RG500 in 1989 not long after passing my test.Was 20 at the time.

It's somewhere in the house but not sure where.
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Current Bike - 2000 ZX-7R

[stevo as b4]

Threatening to show an 80's hooligan iconic smoker in a period photo, and then pulling it at the last second, I think that's behaviour worthy of the ban hammer IMO!

[ZX-7R]

[chickenstrip]

[stevo as b4]

I went to view one for sale in 2000. It had 14K on the clock as was up for £2k. I should have bought 5 of them!

It didn't start on all four pots, and would run on 3until really warm, which put me off a bit, but not as much as the cracked and badly damaged bellypan on an otherwise nice clean bike.

I should have angled for a couple of £££ off and bit the blokes arm off! I have a similar story of a life full of missed opportunity with an NS400R too!

I remember speaking to stan the man about a re-build estimate for an RG, and he said he'd stripped a std bike with 38K on the clocks that had perfect bores, and only needed rings seeing as it was apart.

[Fladdem]

I asked my mum to get an action shot of me after a month of owning the MT5, it didn't come out very well.

From about September 2010. Christ... Five and a half years ago. I remember that so clearly as well.

https://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/Fladdem/67488_1308465451998_371968_n_zpsn9nvf12f.jpg

The cub at the front was the first bike, I got that in about April 2009, I think, I went halves with my dad, £25 each.

Needless to say, I used to go out on it whenever he wasn't around, sometimes me and him would take it over the fields and tank around on it, but never too long or too often or else we'd start attracting attention, the speedo cable broke first time we used it, so he never knew when I'd took it out and he always leaves the key in it.

https://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/Fladdem/820858_3749316271743_1109466638_o_zpstjpng3mz.jpg
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Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
I'm having more fun than a well-oiled midget.

[alanstott21]

Late 70's with my Uncle