Pictures of Former Bikes

[Sport Rider]

got a pic of your first bike? got a pic of your favorite bike? Share them here!

This was my first bike...75 model if I remember correct.

[Sport Rider]

look at me...I got it wrong already. THIS was my first bike. the XS500 was my second.

[JerryHawk250]

I don't have an actual picture of my first bike but this is exactly what my 73 Honda CB200 looked like.

[JerryHawk250]

I can wait till quadz gets this picture issue resolved.

[Fast_Freddy]

My first: https://www.cycleworld.com/2014/02/2...review-photos/

[2LZ]

One of these, in black.

[Fast_Freddy]

My dad had one of those Honda Cubs. It was fun and very reliable.

[2LZ]

Originally Posted by Fast_Freddy

My dad had one of those Honda Cubs. It was fun and very reliable.

Funny story behind that cub. My dad, at the time, owned an insurance agency and also wrote motorcycle insurance. There was NO WAY he was going to have any of his three boys on one of those death machines! Mind you, this was also pre-helmet law here in CA. Problem was, living in the country, we were pedaling our bicycles everywhere.

My mom felt so bad for us chasing our friends around on mini-bikes and small motorcycles. She's be looking out the kitchen window (picture typical 60's housewife, apron on. June Cleaver, if you will) as our friends went riding by the house, and we'd be trailing along on our bicycles. So, our uncle had the Cub behind his shed. He'd broke his jaw on it a few years prior, and put it out to pasture. Obviously, it was in deep need of repair and didn't run.

So, after much of moms pestering to dad, he picked it up for $50.00, plopped it in the garage with a new, cheap helmet. "If you boys can get it running, you can ride it". I was 9 years old at the time. Two weeks later, we were tearing that little Cub up and down the dirt road in front of our house, and riding all the trails in the area with our friends. Dad wasn't happy.....and probably never forgave my mom, but he kept his word!

[IdahoRider]

My first bike (not my picture) a 1983 Suzuki GS450 I bought new in 1984 and paid about $1800. It had a claimed top speed of 100 mph and I think I got it up to about 105 mph. Only had it about a year before I sold it. Second bike is a 2022 KPX 250.

[cheesy]

We used to have to scratch pictures in dirt with a stick when I had my first bike.


That's a Ducati Falcon 50. This story has been told here before.

My Dad picked up a lot of three boogered up bikes from a police auction for about ten bucks. This would have been in the late sixties. There were two barely there Sears/Puch mopeds and the Ducati, minus its' rear wheel. Dad told me and my brother to clean the pile of junk out of the truck and if we, meaning me, could make one work, we could keep it and ride all over the vacant lot next door.

I took the rear wheel off one of the mopeds and shoved into the Ducati frame. I Rube Goldberged the rear brake, cleaned the carb, the plug, and the petcock on the tank. Dad came home from work the next day and saw me riding it around the vacant lot. If I recall, Mom shot daggers at him and Dad said that he didn't think that I could do it. Bwahahahaha!

If I'd had another season with it, I could have figured out how to defunk the goofy 3 speed twist shifter/clutch control but I think Dad got rid of it for that reason. He was probably figuring that the Ducati was a gateway to bigger, better bikes and wanted to nip that in the bud quickly.

Then Mom & Dad discovered snowmobiles. And they thought motorcycles would make me nuts.

[Sport Rider]

Originally Posted by IdahoRider

My first bike (not my picture) a 1983 Suzuki GS450 I bought new in 1984 and paid about $1800. It had a claimed top speed of 100 mph and I think I got it up to about 105 mph. Only had it about a year before I sold it. Second bike is a 2022 KPX 250.

thats a LONG time between bikes!

[tknj99]

My first bike

And mid-life crisis a couple years ago

[TominMO]

My first bike was a Suzuki 120, like 2LZ's except it was the dweeb normal street version, not the cool Scrambler version that Steve McQueen would have ridden.

My second bike was a '67 Honda CL77 305 Scrambler. My best friend in high school had one when I had the Suzuki, and I lusted for it so I got one myself. Looked just like this one. IMO one of the most beautiful 1960s Japanese motorcycles, along with the '69 CB750. But the coolest bikes overall back then were the Triumphs.

By modern standards the CL77 was astonishingly crude. But back then, nobody knew any better. And it was fun to ride.

[Magician16]

Yamaha 1966 YA-6

[Sport Rider]

Originally Posted by tknj99

My first bike

And mid-life crisis a couple years ago

go big or go home?