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Title: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: kballowe on March 31, 2021, 07:13:22 AM: I bought my first motorcycle, brand-new in 1971 - at the ripe old age of 13, with money I made from hay work, lawns, or whatever else I could get.

Rode that thing everywhere. I remember putting cardboard in my jacket on the colder days.

:bike-037:

This is the exact bike that I had.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50679967973_16fdc7b99e_z.jpg)
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Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Scout63 on March 31, 2021, 07:31:06 AM: This was mine. ‘78 Honda 125. I rode the pants off of it. A Hooker Header ensured that the neighbors knew about it.

https://images.app.goo.gl/Fk89M16RyFkm2nK69
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: JJ on March 31, 2021, 07:35:54 AM: YES! Age 14...a used 1965 Yamaha YG1-K 80cc Rotary Jet that my dad bought me for $125.

This "nut & bolt" restored example, (mine was just like this!!), was seen in SOCAL many years ago, and the owner wanted $6,000 for it!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :shocked: :shocked: :huh: :huh: - - so of course, I passed.

(https://i.ibb.co/7bh5xBm/1965-Yamaha-YG1-K-018.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7bh5xBm)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Gliderjohn on March 31, 2021, 07:40:54 AM: I had access to several small Hondas when I was young but the first bike that I owned was this 1977 GS400. Put about 40,000 miles on it before getting my T-3.

(https://i.ibb.co/njgSZhT/DSC06205.jpg) (https://ibb.co/njgSZhT)

GliderJohn
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: bmc5733946 on March 31, 2021, 08:00:35 AM: First bike was 196? Yamaha 50cc step thru, don't know model maybe U5 or something. There was a hill near the house where I could get it up to 47mph. Siezed that engine at least three times on that hill, stripped it down sanded out rough spots in cylinder and on piston, back together and running. I knew nothing about engines or anything mechanical. I was fourteen in 1965, bought it from neighbor for $90.00 sold in 1969 for $100.00. Rode that sob everywhere!

Brian
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Alfetta on March 31, 2021, 08:12:24 AM: i got my start on a Benelli 50. and i could kick any honda 50's arse !

the bike had a crazy rollover transmission. lift up for 1st thru 4th, up again your in neutral, and up again, your back in 1st...!
turns out that's how i killed the bike. too many 1st gear oops at speed...
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Dave Swanson on March 31, 2021, 08:16:22 AM: Motorcycles were verboten by my parents, therefore I had to wait until the age of independence, 18. I then went out and bought with the help of the bank, a brand new 1974 Honda CB750.

(https://i.postimg.cc/RVYN6nr5/honda-cb750.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/qz8kWqMj)

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Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Burkslaw on March 31, 2021, 08:21:48 AM: CB160, at age 16 in 1969. I note that many here started on small displacement bikes, learning the basics before moving up. We learned caution, conservation of speed, how to stay out of the way of other traffic, how to plan ahead for maneuvers......all of the skills that have allowed us to survive to senior citizen status. Unlike today, when many inexperienced riders go out and buy a 100HP 600cc sportbike as their first.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Calidavid on March 31, 2021, 08:24:42 AM: Royal Enfield Flying Flea. Found in a farmer's hedge, appropriately close to a wartime SOE airfield, in about 1962.

(https://i.ibb.co/D4294D9/th.jpg) (https://ibb.co/D4294D9)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: sidecarnutz on March 31, 2021, 08:25:13 AM: 1980 in nuclear power school at the base in Orlando FL. I was 19 years old. My buddy let me ride his Honda 400 super sport all over the base to learn how to ride street bikes. He didn't have a car, so I'd loan him my 1978 Mustang fast back. (Best looking Pinto ever made with a V6!) It really became a passion for me so I sold the car and got a minty 78 Honda CX500. That was a pretty amazing bike. I'd even ride it to the beach at Daytona two up on weekends. 41 years later, still riding a bit and love bikes.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: wrbix on March 31, 2021, 08:26:10 AM: Likewise, had to get away from home and the “never while living here” mandate, then in second year of my medicine residency bought a used ‘76 Bonneville.......st ill in my basement, cylinders full of oil (I hope)......someday....
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: LongRanger on March 31, 2021, 08:33:52 AM: Bought a new ‘78 CB750F when I turned 18.

(https://i.imgur.com/9ODAXDT.jpg)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: roadventure on March 31, 2021, 08:43:09 AM: (https://i.ibb.co/YNr2vPX/Dave-and-his-Kawasaki.jpg) (https://ibb.co/YNr2vPX)

MY first REAL motorcycle at age 14. 1971 Kawasaki G4TR Trail Boss.

Prior to this it was Tecumseh powered mini bikes.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: bettythebear on March 31, 2021, 08:44:09 AM: Mine was a KLR650. I had never ever been on a bike before, but knew I wanted to. I drove a few hours with a trailer to see an almost brand new one. I got on it, and drove it around the seller's big property, somehow not stalling or dropping it, and brought it home. After that, I took a riding class, and started riding it.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: ohiorider on March 31, 2021, 08:56:40 AM: Remember it? Of course! 1963 BSA Spitfire Scrambler. Unfortunately, this is my only photo of the bike, across the 4 lane boulevard from the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston WV. Feb 1966. Quite a jump from riding my buddy's Whizzer, Motobecane, Allstate (Vespa,) and Mustang.

Bob

(https://i.ibb.co/Mkq40Fk/My-BSA-February-1966-rev1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Mkq40Fk)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Milosh on March 31, 2021, 09:05:50 AM: My first motorcycle was a dirtbike. A Yamaha BW200, the one with the big tires. That thing was fun as hell.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: JoeKirby on March 31, 2021, 09:06:15 AM: Not counting a Garrelli moped with a Honda 50cc engine crammed in it, my first was a 1971 Honda CL175. I wish I had a picture but that was well before digital cameras and film was too expensive for that.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Dirk_S on March 31, 2021, 11:22:57 AM: Bought my first bike 10 years ago, a ‘77 KZ400. Spent way more time wrenching than riding, but lots of learning, too (vacuums, lean/rich, cleaning carbs, sourcing non-Moto bits like radiator hoses as substitutions, points, etc.). Loads more yet to learn.

(https://i.ibb.co/xS0LFQ1/B84-C6-E0-D-1567-4172-986-D-68-EE8-E3-E9535.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xS0LFQ1)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: CWR67 on March 31, 2021, 11:34:40 AM: Mine was a KZ1000P assigned to me after motors school.

The first bike I actually bought myself was a '93 BMW K75S. To this day one of the smoothest bikes I ever had under me.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Stretch on March 31, 2021, 11:47:13 AM: Yep. 1975 Honda CB125S. Great bike - I learned a lot on it.

45 years on I still have the itch.

-Stretch

1968 Chang Jiang M1M
1978 Yamaha SR500
1987 BMW K75S
2011 Triumph Rocket III Touring
2015 Triumph Trophy
2017 Moto Guzzi California Touring
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: craigclu on March 31, 2021, 11:48:52 AM: Before I could have a license, I got a Twin Jet 100 Yamaha. I drove a friend and his Super 90 Honda crazy when we'd race. His older sister was dating (later married) a fellow who ran a speed shop and were tweaking the Honda with overbore, cam, carb, etc and never could better the 100. Fun days! Picture is from the internet as I don't believe I have anything from the mid sixties and as a 14 year old, one doesn't think in the long term or in heritage mode!

(https://i.ibb.co/MVw6zPW/twin100.jpg) (https://ibb.co/MVw6zPW)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: jguzzi on March 31, 2021, 11:53:22 AM: Yes...mine was a 1976 Honda 360 twin. Rode that bike to work 50 miles roundtrip most days.

(https://i.ibb.co/vcR1Hdb/Honda-360.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vcR1Hdb)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: stonelover on March 31, 2021, 12:35:21 PM: Bought my first "real" motorcycle in 1955 when I was old enough to get a license. I went to a dealer in Devon, PA to test ride an Ariel single that I had my eye on. Bike wouldn't start so I went to the HD dealer in Pottstown and became the owner of a used 1946 model EL. Never looked back!!
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Huzo on March 31, 2021, 12:36:19 PM: Yep.
First bike with a list of demands and conditions that read like the Magna Carta. I could not conceive of any way that I could have been happier.

(https://i.ibb.co/tsmf6g2/A803610-B-30-F3-4-F3-B-8330-26-D9393-BE984.png) (https://ibb.co/tsmf6g2)

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First bike after licence, supplied by Dad, I was at Uni doing Engineering.
(https://i.ibb.co/sVRV4v2/D3704-EA0-204-D-4-A44-8-B81-E5868-AE9-B82-A.png) (https://ibb.co/sVRV4v2)

I left Uni and got a job, Dad took the T500 back and I bought my first bike with my own money.
This.
(https://i.ibb.co/dMHN9ks/14-FE0-CD1-3-E1-D-4963-BA69-07-C816-FC9389.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dMHN9ks)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: GeorgiaGuzzi on March 31, 2021, 02:05:09 PM: A Honda 400 twin. A ‘78 I think. Only two years younger than me! My parents would not hear of me having a motorcycle until I was an adult. I first got a non-running Honda 360CL for like $200. I just rode around the pastures with it. The 400 was my first street bike. I enjoyed that bike greatly. Rode all over eastern PA with that bike before moving on to “bigger and better”. Only things was, didn’t find anything quite as enjoyable until my Quota.

(https://i.ibb.co/C6pwWZY/02-A91076-0-B3-A-452-E-B7-B8-0-F182-D0-A8-DFE.jpg) (https://ibb.co/C6pwWZY)

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Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Guzzi Gal on March 31, 2021, 02:45:00 PM: (https://i.ibb.co/nDrfFQ7/IMG-2325.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nDrfFQ7)

She wasn't the first ridden, but the first I'd owned. This was taken minutes after Anni was delivered.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: kballowe on March 31, 2021, 02:52:11 PM: My Dad (initially) forbid me to have a motorcycle, all the while telling me how dangerous a motorcycle is, blah blah blah.

And then..... I found a picture in one of the family photo albums with him sitting on a 1950 Indian. Turns out, wasn't his 1st motorcycle, either. There were more photos in there. I casually slid them over to him at the supper table that night. We went to the motorcycle dealer the next day.

:bike-037:
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Shorty on March 31, 2021, 03:28:11 PM: (https://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2011-10/19/8433133-10-1.JPG&width=640&height=480&autosizefit=1) Yamaha 175. Bought it at a bike shop in Bradenton, Florida. (file photo)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: MGrego on March 31, 2021, 03:50:17 PM: (https://i.ibb.co/GpvdbwF/IMG-5046.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GpvdbwF)

Still have it, and ride it ! 82 Honda Sabre
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Huzo on March 31, 2021, 03:56:50 PM: Quote from: Guzzi Gal on March 31, 2021, 02:45:00 PM

(https://i.ibb.co/nDrfFQ7/IMG-2325.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nDrfFQ7)

She wasn't the first ridden, but the first I'd owned. This was taken minutes after Anni was delivered.
Yours has the nice wheels GG... :thumb:
You should ride it to this place..
(https://i.ibb.co/T1NRjyk/3-B72537-E-8022-426-C-91-EB-2657806314-A2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/T1NRjyk)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: inditx on March 31, 2021, 04:01:26 PM: Saved my pennies from lawn cutting and the sale of a mini bike and bought a Yamaha 80 when I was 14.
I had 2 older brothers that broke my parents in on early onset motorcycle ownership so they were cool wth it.
Man I thought I had a race bike only I enjoyed off roading it. 3 trail gears and 3 street. Still not sure they were any different but it was cool.
Homemade expansion chamber from my brother and a new seat cover from mom.
See it WAS a family affair!
inditx
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Peter949 on March 31, 2021, 04:02:19 PM: Sears Allstate ... paid $14.oo with paper route money. :bike-037:
(https://i.ibb.co/4KKtwc6/puch.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4KKtwc6)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: AJ Huff on March 31, 2021, 05:01:19 PM: 1971 Moto Guzzi Ambassador bought in 2003. I was 32. Still have it though it needs a deep tune up.

-AJ
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: LowRyter on March 31, 2021, 05:19:42 PM: took my life savings at 13 years old in 1967 + Christmas gift = $300

Mine looked just like this one (no siglnals)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/87/1b/7e871be8133fa07720ad1a53ff110c59.jpg)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Scott of the Sahara on March 31, 2021, 05:21:27 PM: In the spring of 1977 I was working at a car wash. Bud offered to sell me his Suzuki 150 for $150. It was not running. I took him up on it. Someone had painted "Smokey" on the side covers. I was able to get it running and I used it for over a year before I broke the generator / regulator. Every other bike that I have owned has been better than Smokey.

(https://i.ibb.co/ykJKnCL/download-Suzuki-150.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ykJKnCL)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: LesP on March 31, 2021, 05:36:32 PM: http://vintage-suzuki.com/product/1975-suzuki-rm125s/

Bought brand new in August 1976 aged 16 and cost NZ$1448.67 (iirc) after a $300 deposit and HP.
A RM125S model with factory revised cylinder and Mikuni VM34. (unlike the lower horsepower M version)
Most of it is in boxes along with a couple of spare engines and would be rare in the US as in the link.

That was followed a 1974 Kawasaki 250 S1B triple (250cc limit for newbies) in 1977, a Triumph 500 and a 1974 Kawasaki H2B 750 in 1980 (which I still have)

16 yo then poof, in your 60's. ?

I still remember signing paperwork or something at the dealership (Colmans Suzuki on K Rd)
The sales dude is filling out stuff and asks if I had ridden a motorcycle, I said I had ridden a Puch scooter (3 speed shift on the left hand grip) and a Motobecane moped at the local dirt track a few times (and now buying a 5 speed piston port MX bike)

He looked up and said "OK good luck with that and carried on.

A few years later I was test riding the H2B (dealership) and could not hear what the dude was saying before I pulled away (He was saying first was up N-1-2-3-4-5)
I could not get into first ? so shifted up into 2nd and used appropriate rpms for a 2nd gear start (it was in first gear)
It made for a fairly radial entry (wheel in the air) to the world of Kawasaki H2's.
When I got back from round the block test ride the salesman was still laughing.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: old head on March 31, 2021, 05:42:57 PM: 1973 Kawasaki 175 Enduro, bought in 74 when I got my license in high school.
Rode it for 2 years then sold it for what I paid for it.

old Head
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: steven c on March 31, 2021, 07:29:28 PM: I have one of those in the garage, still a fun bike when it runs.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: steven c on March 31, 2021, 07:35:36 PM: 75 Suzuki GT380 bought as a left over in 76 for I think $1100 it was cheaper then the CB400 or RD. I put 9K on it in one year then I sold it to buy a 77 XS650 Yamaha , I went from a vibration free ride to I can't see because my eyes are shaking at speed.
(https://i.ibb.co/HKmH3m6/suzuki031.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HKmH3m6)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Guzzi Gal on March 31, 2021, 07:56:44 PM: Quote from: Huzo on March 31, 2021, 03:56:50 PM
Yours has the nice wheels GG... :thumb:
You should ride it to this place..
(https://i.ibb.co/T1NRjyk/3-B72537-E-8022-426-C-91-EB-2657806314-A2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/T1NRjyk)

Ha, that's funny! :thumb:
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Scout63 on March 31, 2021, 09:29:03 PM: Quote from: Guzzi Gal on March 31, 2021, 02:45:00 PM

(https://i.ibb.co/nDrfFQ7/IMG-2325.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nDrfFQ7)

She wasn't the first ridden, but the first I'd owned. This was taken minutes after Anni was delivered.

Great picture. True motorcyclists are born, not made.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: calfruit on March 31, 2021, 09:44:54 PM: First ride—1966 S90 i think it was $320 out the door— still in the garage. It was redone in the late 90’s and gets ridden monthly
(https://i.ibb.co/Yy6WHPC/4003-CCD1-3341-41-D1-8-AD5-126-C5-AE4-DF47.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Yy6WHPC)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Huzo on April 01, 2021, 05:25:08 AM: Quote from: Peter949 on March 31, 2021, 04:02:19 PM
Sears Allstate ... paid $14.oo with paper route money. :bike-037:
(https://i.ibb.co/4KKtwc6/puch.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4KKtwc6)

Jesus Mary and Joseph...!
What an absolute beast. That is as cute as the little runabout in the Mandello museum that the workers built for the boss..
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: s1120 on April 01, 2021, 06:09:33 AM: Quote from: Gliderjohn on March 31, 2021, 07:40:54 AM
I had access to several small Hondas when I was young but the first bike that I owned was this 1977 GS400. Put about 40,000 miles on it before getting my T-3.

(https://i.ibb.co/njgSZhT/DSC06205.jpg) (https://ibb.co/njgSZhT)

GliderJohn

My first street bike was a 77 GS400 also. Really a GREAT first bike.. Did everything a new rider could want.

Off road I started on a early ATC90 at about 7 years old. A '69 minitrail a few years after. Only of them I still have a picture of is the Mini Trail....
(https://i.ibb.co/Rg7Lnkg/z50a.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Rg7Lnkg)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: twowheeladdict on April 01, 2021, 07:09:28 AM: I had the silver one with every factory accessory and several aftermarket ones.

(https://i.ibb.co/PDVsY6Z/xs750-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PDVsY6Z)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: larrys on April 01, 2021, 07:17:41 AM: An mid 60's Honda 90 Sport that I bought for $50 in 1969. The kickstart shaft splines were stripped, so bump starting was the only option. Mom said only one of us could live at the house, so I kept it in my next door neighbor's garage.
Larry
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: guzziart on April 01, 2021, 12:39:54 PM: My first bike was a basket case YA6 in 1969.

(https://i.ibb.co/4FhTHjh/YA6.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4FhTHjh)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Moparnut72 on April 01, 2021, 12:48:48 PM: My first two wheeler was a Bianchi scooter. I didn't have it too long as I replaced it with a YG1T Yamaha trailmaster. I put 17,000 miles on that little guy. It was a good bike considering what I put it through. I replaced it with YDS3 as I moved up the ladder.
kk
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Dimitri_Harkov on April 01, 2021, 02:43:58 PM: Not really a motorcycle, but it was great - Puch Monza 50cc:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/c9/69/59c9695ec5446be626345251ed9cff9c.jpg)

Sadly I have no pictures of the actual bike.
I got it from a guy who had some crashes and retrofitted it with a larger fuel tank and painted it in a hideous but somehow appealing neon-blue color.
Hey, it was the 80s ;)

Still ran great for what it was, and I hate myself for selling it.

Cheers,
D.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: MAC on April 01, 2021, 04:19:09 PM: Used '71 Honda CB350
It had a wrist pin knock,I beat the piss out of it but it would not die.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Guzzistajohn on April 01, 2021, 04:22:55 PM: My first "real" motorcycle was like this one, still have it since 1976
(https://i.ibb.co/x3447g3/BULL.jpg) (https://ibb.co/x3447g3)

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Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: berniebee on April 01, 2021, 06:09:52 PM: My 1973 RD200 was already a couple of years old when it became my first "real" bike. (I had a Honda Z50A before that.) Exciting acceleration once it hit the power band. I found out quickly that the powerful front drum could easily lock the ribbed tire. I learned to never leave the house without spare spark plugs. (We had a foul relationship. :tongue:)
Pic is not mine but identical model and colour. If I remember right the alternator and starter motor were one and the same!

(https://i.ibb.co/D4DMRvN/Yamaha-RD200.jpg) (https://ibb.co/D4DMRvN)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Bulldog9 on April 01, 2021, 06:42:28 PM: My first after a lawnmower engine powered mini bike.

(https://i.ibb.co/LR4C6Kr/il-1588x-N-2839412244-rlhc.jpg) (https://ibb.co/LR4C6Kr)

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Still have fond memories of that bike. Saved all my birthday and lawn and yard $$ to buy. Rode it in 6th & 7th grade, kept at a friends house because I wasn't allowed to own one.
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: Bulldog9 on April 01, 2021, 06:46:54 PM: Quote from: twowheeladdict on April 01, 2021, 07:09:28 AM
I had the silver one with every factory accessory and several aftermarket ones.

(https://i.ibb.co/PDVsY6Z/xs750-1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PDVsY6Z)

I still have my 78 SX 750 and 79 XS1100. Have owned the XS11 since 1984. Both are tucked in storage since 2013..... Waiting refresh and return to the street when I retire.

(https://i.ibb.co/X7kJTRX/IMG-0577.jpg) (https://ibb.co/X7kJTRX)

(https://i.ibb.co/Y0b7Tjw/IMG-1189.jpg) (https://ibb.co/Y0b7Tjw)
Title: Re: Remember Your 1st Motorcycle ?
Post by: DesmoDog on April 01, 2021, 08:13:49 PM: My mom and dad were not keen on bikes so I had to wait until I got a real job and moved out on my own. Then I went against everyone's advice and bought this.

(http://teamyikes.com/907/90701_xl.jpg)

That led to an obsession that was only recently broken. My V85TT was the first non-Ducati street bike I had bought since 1995. I got an RSV-R for a track bike a few years bak too but ended up selling it cuz we just didn't bond...