How long did it take you to get hooked on bikes?

[White Noise]

Hey up
I first properly rode a bike 3 months ago and for the last 3 days i have not been able to ride due to my bike having no back brake, everyday when i cycle to work i pass my bike undercover and my heart feels heavy! it is then i realise i am now hooked on bikes, even if i am not wanting to go for ride it is knowing that i have a working bike that i can just escape on!
Just wondered how long it took people to get well and truely hooked after they started riding
WN
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[stinkwheel]

You are not as hooked as me then. After my first few days of riding I wouldn't have (and haven't on a couple of occasions) seen the lack of a back brake as an impediment to me riding my bike (and still wouldn't).
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[Wave2k]

Once you start you just cant stop
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[Dave J]

it took me like 1 hour to get hooked on riding...

and as far as no rear break? who cares !? I hardly use my rear break!

[jimster]

Took me two minutes!

I was in the Cook Islands, on a scooter I'd just rented (and had to drive it away without knowing how to drive one), in fantastic sunny weather on a lovely South Pacific Island with no helmet or much traffic, just gliding along effortlessly after three months spent cycling with /much/ effort!

It was great. Shame I haven't managed to recreate the good weather and no traffic since being back in England, but there's just too many cars for me to sabotage them all

PS And when I rented a moped a week later which fell over while parked and smashed the rear brake handle off, I carried on. Apart from an unpleasant gravel-induced front-wheel skid while braking, it was fine. Does that make me hooked, or stupid??

[musclebiker]

Know the feeling. Pissed it down yesterday yet when i got home all i still wanted to do was ride out on my own. I must be hooked... or bordering on madness...
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[Bendy]

There a brake at the back too?

[JonB]

The first two minutes of the road phase of the CBT. I had this adrenaline rush, seriously and I was only going 30.
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[dansuresh]

I've been hooked on anything with a motor since i was 5!!!
Although i have been more hooked on bikes since i was 15 cos thats when i found out i can ride a bike at 16!

[Annabella]

Totally, utterly hooked about two minutes into my first pillion ride. From then on getting my own bike became an obsession (much to the disappointment of my mother).
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[RiderOfTheSto...]

I was brought up driving and riding bikes. Even when I didn't have my own I would go and borrow one from somewhere. So... can't really answer how long it took me to get hooked, think it was in my blood.
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[Gracie Jones]

Was hooked long before I even went pillion.

I don't really remember it, but when I was a really small child walking around town with my grandma and aunty in Cardiff, they say I used to stop and look at all the bikes without fail. I would often make them wait until the owner came to take it away, and then cry at the noise the engine made.

My dad had a small 100cc bike in my other nan's garage (he only had it running for a brief time, it was a real nag) and so I used to sit on it for hours whenever we visited - until of course the bloody thing fell on me, which was a bit traumatic.

I can't believe it took me until age 27 to get my licence. Money really. Having said that, it was strongly disaproved of in my family. Hence when I got one, I was shitting myself about telling my mum. She was totally cool about it though, and has even gone pillion.

[johnsilva]

erm, when i was five in 1989
my dad got a Kawasaki GPX 250R in black and red
loved it
i was hooked from then, and still am!

John
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[Nolongerhere]

Since I was 3 and never looked back.

[v4forlife]

once i got over the agravation of having to hold the clutch in every time i stopped, then i started having fun, hooked ever sence
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[TOM M]

first tiem i got hooked on bikes was wen i went with me dad to pick up some parts for his bike, and in the showroom was a brand spanking new rs125, then 2years later i bought one, and never looked back since!!!!!
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[Method]

Probably the first speedway meeting i went to see when i was about 6?
Although riding wise it has to be the first lap i did around Sittingbourne Speedway Training track when i was 8

(Although since ive been riding the GS my "Hooked-ness" has been gradualy detereorating)
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[jonnay]

I liked it, but didn't really know how to get the most out of my ped, from day 1.

It wasn't until the bike blew up, and I googled for possible reasons why this would happen, that I found this forum, and reading your posts about how much fun you can have on any bike really did inspire me. I found myself longing for a bike

So, cheers people of BCF... you've got me hooked on a fun (and very expensive) new hobby

Jon
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[Ric]

my mate had one, occasionally he took me on the back


from then on i was hooked

altho i wanted a 50-125 crosser for ages, i then liked sportsbikes

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[gimpy limp]

yeh the back brake is only meant to be used to level out (balance) the front when your braking (and obviously as a backup if the front fails). Unless you mean the brake lgiht not the actual brake?
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[Gazdaman]

The moment I took my first bike out on the road, I was hooked.

There's probably only been about a weeks worth of days where I havn't ridden a bike between now and then.

Gaz

[pipnet11]

First time I was on a bike was when I was 11, hooked ever since.
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[Jrod]

I've ridden without a front brake! ( I really have )

[Vespa]

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