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Sijmen · Jul 17, 2005, 07:18 AM

After I started reading the thread 'what was your first car?' I pittied myself, since I never owned a car. I don't even own the B-license(that is the Dutch driverslicense for the four wheeled moving thingy) I only have the A-license, which is the two-wheel variant.
Since I'm young, and kind off a daredevil I never was quite interested in that whole motor-in-front-of-you philosophy, so i opted for the one mounted below me, which gives a muchy nicer feeling when you're scraping your knee thru a bent

Although I'm still with my first bike(got the license March 11th and the Bike April 9th 2004) I'm wondering what all you posters were driving when you bought your first motorcycle.

Here's mine:

That picture was taken the day I bought it. After almost a year and a half of use, I replaced the direction lights(is that what you call those orange lights?) with smaller ones, I yesterday replaced the braking disks with Wave rotors from BRAKING, and got new tires(BT014). Also after breaking the left mirror while on vacation in Switserland, I replaced those with Syin Yo designer mirrors, which look cool, but the mounting feet are a bit to big, so I'll have to buy other ones. During that same vacation I saw some pretty awesome mirrors in Italy but I was almost out of money so couldn't by them, maybe I should go back this summer and get them, they look absolutely fantastic!

My bike is my passion, so sorry for the long story, but driving that piece of machinery just gives me the chills that no affordable car can give me(Yes, I've never driven a car, but there just isn't anything that matches the acceleration and manoeuverability of a motorcycle

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So, What Did You Drive?

TheIceMan · Jul 17, 2005, 07:46 AM

My first bike was almost the exact same one, a 1994 Honda CBR 600. Man, I miss her.

Sherwin · Jul 17, 2005, 07:51 AM

Air-cooled RD250. But mine was silver. And very broken.

bradoesch · Jul 17, 2005, 07:55 AM

I still have my first bike.

OldManMac · Jul 17, 2005, 08:06 AM

1972 Honda CL450, like this, except mine was red.

Eug Wanker · Jul 17, 2005, 08:17 AM

The Yamaha Seca 550 was my first (and only) donorcycle:

legacyb4 · Jul 17, 2005, 11:12 AM

I learned on a Honda VT500, did several road trips on a Suzuki Intruder 700, graduated to a Honda Magna 750, and finally retired on a Honda Shadow 1100 (the bike riding, that is, not me).

Honda VT500

Suzuki Intruder

Honda Magna 750

Honda Shadow 1100

ghporter · Jul 17, 2005, 11:15 AM

Honda Passport. A 73cc powerhouse! It was a "Cub" model that sold in the States for a few years in the late '70s and early '80s. Sweet little bike!

Randman · Jul 17, 2005, 11:15 AM

Still waiting for my first ride that I actually own.

ManOfSteal · Jul 17, 2005, 11:39 AM

This is the only motorcycle I was ever allowed to ride...

mitchell_pgh · Jul 17, 2005, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

This is the only motorcycle I was ever allowed to ride...

I didn't even have that... I had to borrow my neighbors.

stevesnj · Jul 17, 2005, 12:19 PM

Just bought my Shadow 600 3 weeks ago and its my first bike.

This is my favorite bike EVER!!! BIG WHEEL

JustAnOl'Broad · 12:47 PM

First one I rode was a Honda trail 70; a friends and we rode that thing to death.

Later, bought a 220 EFS Casal (if memory serves) from a family
who lost their son in Viet Nam. Think it was a Portuguese bike (?).
(Also bought his Corvette that they had garaged, a couple years after.)

I googled for a pic, but came up empty.
P~

nbnz · Jul 17, 2005, 02:23 PM

My first (and only so far) bike is a Suzuki Bandit 250.

BlueSky · Jul 17, 2005, 03:51 PM

bradoesch · Jul 17, 2005, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Bluesky

That would get boring really fast.

Sosa · Jul 17, 2005, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by nbnz

My first (and only so far) bike is a Suzuki Bandit 250.

You must mean a Bandit 1200, I've never heard of the 250. Anyway that was the last bike I owned, sold her 2.5 years ago and looking forward to my next bike. Like the original poster, I rode motorcycles only for almost 10 years before I finally got my car (3000GT). For my first bike I wanted a Suzuki GS 500 but I was a few hundred dollars short and I couldn't bare to wait a few more months to save for them, since I wanted to spend the summer at my girl's highschool, so I bought a Yamaha 850 Special. It was scary to ride her at first and it was all I could do to pick her up whenever I dropped her, but I have been in love with motorcycling ever since!

broxy5 · Jul 17, 2005, 05:49 PM

First bike, and only Jap bike I've ever owned. This bike was a gas, and vibrated like crazy. Sort of a British rip-off. Went on to Triumph's, BSA's, BMW's, and the last three (the best three) were/ are Moto Guzzi's.

nbnz · Jul 18, 2005, 04:25 AM

Originally Posted by Sosa

You must mean a Bandit 1200, I've never heard of the 250.

Nope, definately the Bandit 250. 250cc 4 cyl 4 stroke, it revs up to around 17000rpm!

It was only released in Japan, but a lot were imported into Australia and New Zealand who have 250cc maximum for learners.

I think US & UK/Europe only got the 600s & 1200s.