Pic of your FIRST bike!!

[BuellyBagger]

This might be hard for some of our more "elderly" members to come up with, but wondering how many of us can show our first bikes!
I know we've had a lot of "list your motorcycles" threads, but nothing really compares to your first LOL.

So I'm strangely proud to say my first motorcycle was a 1975 Harley Davidson (Ironhead) Sportster, Chopper. My dad bought it at a swap meet in Souix City, brought it home, and we fixed a few things up on it and I got to ride it in Sturgis @ the age of 17 with my girlfriend(now my wife) in tow. I was really into the custom bike thing, harleys, etc when i was that age still kinda am. My senior year dad and i tore the sportster down and redid it, finish it in my 1st year of tech school. When i graduated tech school my dad offered to give it to me, but i had no place to keep it so i declined. It got sold and i have no idea where it is now....
Please post a pic and a story of your FIRST bike!!




After the re-build

 

[BambamXB12r]

2008 Kawasaki KLR 650, bike treated me great but was tall and slow.

 

[mrlogix]

This might be hard for some of our more "elderly"

Judging from your haircut in the photo's, what exactly do you mean by elderly? LOL :tongue-new:

 

[Enemy Zero]

Can't find a pic of it but my first bike was a '78 Honda XL250. Looked just like this one:

 

[Chicknstripn]

I learned how to ride on an 86(or I think) xl 500!
Shortly there after my first bike was an 85 xt600

 

[BuellyBagger]

Judging from your haircut in the photo's, what exactly do you mean by elderly? LOL

Ha that's where you are wrong, that was 2004!

 

[BuellyBagger]

Proof. .. the hoody the wife is wearing in the photo!

 

[wickedchop]

My first one was a 1987 gsxr 750.....pics are at my pops house somewhere. If I can get em ill post em. I remember I told him I was buying it and he said if I do I was outta the house.......OUT I WENT. He was not happy

 

[Cooter]

These are all google pics.

Besides the dirt bikes,

Ya. Suck it. It was 100mpg freedom. It was brand new, and I was 15 1/2 years old and bought it myself.

A big jump! going to school in AZ.

This was a little better! Traded a POS '82 Ford EXP, remember those! Then winter came...

Finally in 1988, I got this 1986 1000R. a DREAM bike for me. I had a poster of my own bike on my own wall! Ahhhh. The days when your priorities were all in line I got the Corbin seat, the Supertrapp mufflers...
From then on it's all a blur

 

[Rays]

Well I definitely qualify as one of the 'elderly members' - this picture of my first motorcycle (a 1941 BSA WM20) was taken in 1971.



Note the weight saving lack of a front brake and the strict adherence to safety gear (at least I made my sister wear a helmet) ........at 16 your confidence is limitless.
Dirt roads, bald tyres, rigid rear suspension, poor brakes - it was heaven at the time.:love_heart:

 

[terrible]

This is what I started with 1966 305,not the exact one but close


And what do you mean elderly?

 

[pur pony]

not my picture but the same bike i started on - 1983 Honda XL200

then i bought one of these (1981 Yamaha Maxum 650)... bought it in 1998 from my dads cousin who bought it brand new... has 1000 miles on it when i bought it.

 

[AZmidget91]

I think I had a little 50 before I moved up to this bike

 

[buell248]

View attachment 3023

My 1st sport bike, bought it new in 1989 FZR600

 

[neilrl79]

My first... '03 XB9SL bought in February of 2012

 

[Fiero]

My first bike... remembering that I got hooked on these bikes more than a decade ago. My former colleague Martin 'Bud' Vermeij (indeed: owner of Twin Motorcycles the Netherlands) showed me pictures of the Buell's, en heared his XB9R... Love at first sight... Remember that I requested several brochures containing pictures and specs of the models back then. Althou all these bikes were 'out of my league', I never stopped dreaming. Now, more than 10 years later... She's there, in my backyard... seriously a dream come true...

So yes... Big men remain being little boys on the inside...