Your first motorbike

[Sapphire Disco]

What was your first road legal motorbike ? I've said road bike because from the age of 11 I had lots of stripped down dirt track bikes.

My first one was this which I bought brand new in 1973 for about £300 a lot of money then, yes I know it's a moped with folding pedals to make foot rests ( which seem to be missing on that picture ), but I loved it and used to drive to the south coast on it with my mates all on our little 50cc bikes when I was 16 happy days.

[Mark Wild]

I had the Yamaha DT 50 MX not long after my 16th birthday 1991 on a provisional license, oh the freedom ! did about 45 mph if I remember rightly but ALL my mates had a 50cc. From the Suzuki Love Moped to the good old fashioned Step-thru, happy days indeed. :D

[Corabar Steve]

My first road legal bike was a Norton Commando (stock photo first pic, but fairly similar looking) Shame I wasn't (road legal that is)

My second (in an attempt for me to go road legal) was a Honda Rebel (newer version in the pic, but you get the general idea of what it looked like) Shame I only owned it for around half an hour before I forgot that British bikes & Japanese bikes have the gears & brakes on opposite sides & crashed it into somebody who pulled out in front of me (Just like in the Think Bike! ad)

My only fully road legal bike (ok it's a trike, but it has a bike engine so it counts) where both it & I were legal. A Yamaha XS1100, which I haven't ridden in about 4 years because there is a wall of disco kit in front of it & I can't get to it.

[Mark Wild]

My only fully road legal bike (ok it's a trike, but it has a bike engine so it counts) where both it & I were legal. A Yamaha XS1100, which I haven't ridden in about 4 years because there is a wall of disco kit in front of it & I can't get to it.

WOW ! LOL ! That Trike is a BEAST Steve :beer1: My second bike was the Yamaha RD 125 LC my nan bought it for me bless her. I used to always get pulled by the old bill for noise pollution, but never done, as I didn't ever touch the baffle in my full micron exhaust system :p . My RD did 95 mph ! That was screaming it though and the power band in that thing was dangerous (for a 17 year old anyway)

[Corabar Steve]

The trike has straight throughs. It's a Q plate & exempt from most regs

(I've done 120 on it, before I realised how fast I was going & slowed down to within the speed limit)

[Charlie Brown]

This was my first.

I had it for a 3 days before braking my arm on it.

Didn't use it again.

[DeckstarDeluxe]

My old dear flat out refused to allow me to have one when I lived at home. Only had a go on one for about 30 seconds but it was awesome.

[Mark Wild]

This was my first.

I had it for a 3 days before braking my arm on it.

Didn't use it again.

That's not a motor bike you :Censored:

[MikeW]

My first bike/moped! was a Yamaha FS1E 49cc!:)

I bought it about two weeks before my 16th birthday and was not allowed to use it until I was 16.
Those two weeks were the longest of my life! There is only so much sitting on a moped in the garage you can do, before it becomes boring.

Next up was a Suzuki (i think it was an AP50) which I bought because it was supposed to go about another 10mph faster!

Good times.

[Pe7e]

I had one of these in the 60s: Sun Challenger, 197cc Villiers 8E engine, but not this one! mine was ready for the scrap yard in comparison, but I thought it was wonderfull at the time. My second bike was an Airiel Arrow (which I crashed) followed by a very tidy, S/H, Royal Enfield Contenental GT which I thought was the mutts nuts.

http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/1954-sun-challenger-deluxe.jpg

[hammy]

My first was a puch maxi the ones with pedals, I then had a honda melody, then a honda 200 benley,then later on in life i bought a ninja 600, Chopped that in for an R1 which has never been replaced

[Dj Diddy Davies]

My first motorbike was one of these:

Yamaha TY50 (early version of the DT)

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.yamaha-ty-trial.com/assets/images/ty50.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.yamaha-ty-trial.com/html/ty50.html&h=588&w=1056&sz=67&tbnid=fEdxlNGyC3XWFM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyamaha%2Bty50&zoom=1&q=yamaha+ty50&usg=__WZgH9zmoCVlCsQ23VOmNgMHqfJA=&sa=X&ei=VdY-TcHlMoiahQfFspHjCg&ved=0CCoQ9QEwAg

But have had various others - Vespa PX125, Yamaha TZR250, Honda Revere, Suzuki GSX750.

Steve.

[TONYTIGER]

Sorry no glossy pictures ,first bike BSA Bantam 125cc

[sleah]

:o this.....

[Sapphire Disco]

My first was a puch maxi the ones with pedals,

Was it a yellow one ?

When they first came out that was the only colour you could get :D

[supersound]

Mine also was a Yam TY 50 twinshock.

I Now have restored this and rode it today.


How I got It.

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af358/supersounddj/MEMO0048.jpg

Restored

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af358/supersounddj/FinnishedyamahaTownmate.jpg

[supersound]

I give up
Damn complicated computres

[Corabar Steve]

I give up
Damn complicated computres
Helps if you know what you're doing. :sj:

Fixed.

[supersound]

Cheers Steve ,you are a diamond.

[STEVE HANLEY]

1981 a Kawasaki Z250 You could ride up to 250cc with L plates in those days.

How I didn't kill myself god only knows

Was an awesome machine though a bit of a cult classic now apparently

[Excalibur]

Paul, my brother's first bike was the ultra relaible SS50. It never put a wheel wrong.


Sorry no glossy pictures ,first bike BSA Bantam 125cc

Sort of snap. Mine had started life as a 125, but by the time I got it, it had grown to be a 175. ;) :D :D

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

I had a 50cc bike.

Made by a company called Derbi, but I can't seem to find any piccys of it.

[Dynamic Entertainment]

Suzuki GSX-R600...pretty much excatly like the one pictured.

Gotta love Direct Access and a job (well had job) in Road Safety ;)

[Booche]

I had a 50cc bike.

Made by a company called Derbi, but I can't seem to find any piccys of it.

I too started out on a Derbi Senda (motor cross style 50cc) untill it got nicked

http://www.50cc-motorcycles.com/pictures/derbi/senda-r50-2.jpg

I then went onto a Yamaha rdlc 125cc in bright green again till it got nicked :(

(same as below but bright green)
http://is.gumtree.com/image/big/23365794.jpg

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Very similar Dave, but mine was a little older and don't think it was called the Senda.

Mine was nicked too!