SO.........What got you in to biking?

[Undinist]

I wish I could remember. I bought one when I was 18. Don't know why I did it. I didn't want a car. Friends and family didn't have bikes. Bikes were a bit oikish. A couple of boys at school had one and I was mesmerized.

[chickenstrip]

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[Nobby the Bastard]

It was arseless leather chaps that did for me.
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[chickenstrip]

[Fisty]

When I was a kid our next door neighbour had an old british bike of some sort.
He took my round the block on the back when I was 8.

I was hooked.
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[Sister Sledge]

Grew up in a village surrounded by an industrial wasteland of old railway track beds, illegal tipping from building sites and best of all - colliery spoil heaps.
I was 10 and I'd ride around the places on bicycles until one day a friend gave me a 'backer' on a Honda Cub 50. No pedals, comfortable and best of all went anywhere. I was hooked.
Another friend and myself went halfers on a Honda SS50 - we paid £12 for it. Friend ended up becoming a brother to a new baby and so the bike was basically mine to use freely.
The old track beds linked to other old coal mine sites and more spoil heaps. I could go almost anywhere without touching the public highway.
I actually started working doing allsorts just to fund the fuel for bikes from that point - cutting wood to make sticks for lighting neighbours coal fires made me some decent money.

First road bike was at age 16 because it was two long bus trips to my first job. I could do the trip in 20 minutes whereas the bus routes took a total of 70 minutes. I saved a fortune by using the bike too.
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[Blah blah]

When I was about 8 or 9, I remember my grandad having an old black Cosack (?) and I used to sit on and start it if/when I could find the key - it was in a covered alley way with doors on both ends that used to fill up with clouds of 2 stroke and un-burnt fuel shortly followed by lots of shouting to turn the bl***y thing off.

The next milestone was on my 12th birthday when my cousin gave me a go on the back of his purple 400/4, the noise and speed was amazing - he crashed it just before his honeymoon, breaking his collar bone.

Then at 17,it was either carrying on cycling everywhere or buy a motorbike, so I bought a KH100ex and that was the start of it all

[MarJay]

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"Junior Kickstart" on the TV in the late '70's/early '80's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1temGvrMTW4

I saved up my paper round money and bought a crash damaged, but 7,000 mile DT-E125 Yam for £60 and spent the next few years saving up for bits to get it running.
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[A100man]

[chickenstrip]

[pepperami]

1972 and I was a young puppy.
The lad across the road had various bikes and I was aware, sort of?
Then one day while I was over there , we took an old very tatty BSA Bantam out on the disused railway line.
After a few stalls and bumps I was riding a bike all on my own!
Then someone turned up with a 100cc Jap bike and it seemed to be twice as fast .
After that I had the itch and needed to get my own bike.

I’ve been doomed ever since
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[Minty]

I hate biking, absolute death traps that wake neighbourhoods.

I'm here for the leather.
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[chickenstrip]

[WreckTangle]

did anyone feel the temptation to get in to biking to piss off the mother?

Mummy said never purchase a bike, as she will be very cross...........SO I DID
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[chickenstrip]

My parents were seemingly completely indifferent to me getting into bikes. Maybe they'd already got used to the idea because my dad had them and they'd already gone through it with my brother, or perhaps they thought it a good way to get rid of me They didn't even say anything when I had my 750 Turbo delivered before I'd passed my test, not that I remember anyway.

Later, my mum used to joke about my hobby of "throwing myself off motorcycles"
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[WreckTangle]

[Howling Terror]

The profit margins are huge if you steal them and sell them.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

A magazine with a Norton F1 in, at the same time as one of my dad's workmates was building a trike.
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Free parking.

[WreckTangle]

[stevo as b4]

Think I was into them from age 4-5 at the latest. But sitting on a Fantic enduro bike static fun ride outside Adsa (Sorry Gateway) was a factor, as was Kick-start, as was a kid getting a PW50 and another kid at school having a Honda Z50. My dad had bikes from 69-79, and I used to watch all the bike sports on TV when everything was on Grandstand on Saturday afternoon.

I can remember watching 80's GP races, and especially the open class 500 MX championship with Dave Thorpe, Rob Herring, and Kurt Nicol etc.

I got a homemade Honda/Puch monkey bike age 11, and then did trials and tried MX on a YZ125. Probably as much of an influence as anything above though was the Katana man up the road, and my Superbikes of the 80's book that I've had since I was 7.

I'll leave this earth owning more than one bike, and I doubt they'll ever be a day i don't think about bikes too.

[Nobby the Bastard]

because chicks get wet about bikers.
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[stevo as b4]

I never really got that bit, or maybe I never really made chicks wet?
I was into tuned 125's at 17, but I can't really remember they impressed many girls being all smokey and noisy. In my school the girls that were impressed by bikes generally probably owned their own.

And yeah in 90's sports bike mad Britain I met a few girls at bike events who had some nice bikes, but I've found today that 30's-40's women who are impressed by bikes generally want or need to see a Harley Davidson, with some stubblely hipster dude riding it to be impressed or wet as you like to put it.