You and Your First Streetbike

[dxh24]

This is what I learned on 3 years ago (FZ6), this is what I ride today(FZ6), When I took the Motorcycle Rider Course, I rode on a Nighthawk. I will keep riding my FZ6 for a hopefully for a long time to come

That is the COOLEST FZ6 i've ever seen! :bow:

 

[CBRF3RIDER]

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This was the first time I ever took out my cbr600, about four years ago. I loved this bike so much. It went through many fazes, about a year after this pic I fixed up all the plastic and painted it satin black, new windscreen, HID, mirrors and taillight. A year after that I sold all the street parts and it is now a track bike! She is very happy in the garage next to my FZ (even though shes having some problems at the moment )

 

[jresch10]

My first "streetbike". LOL! The Yamaha QT50. (not the actual one I owned but identical to it) Legally considered a motorcycle in Ohio because of the kick start.

 

[malicious439]

Here is with my first bike!:BLAA: June 2010, although in this one im coping one of our more famous riders

 

[callmegandhi]

This is what I learned on 3 years ago (FZ6), this is what I ride today(FZ6), When I took the Motorcycle Rider Course, I rode on a Nighthawk. I will keep riding my FZ6 for a hopefully for a long time to come

That's awesome! I learned on dirt bikes when I was 12 on my grandpa's farm in North Dakota. My first street bike was a 82 Honda nighthawk. I really miss that bike. I bought that bike for $500 in 1990 and had it for 11 years! I put over 60,000 miles on that bike!:thumbup:

 

[SweaterDude]

Just graduated a year ago and got my fazer. looks so pretty next to the old mans beemer. :drool:

 

[dxh24]

Well i suppose the first street legal bike i ever owned was this
Benelli Dynamo, apparently the guy who had it before me actually put it on the road

Obviously i never did, lol. But it WAS my first bike...first street bike that i owned that goes on the street:

(used a google image cuz' i've been too busy riding it to take pics of it

 

[OZXJR]

I started on one of these,dont have any pics of the actual one.
1979 RD250.

 

[Erci]

Wish I had a picture of me next to the bike.. I had quite the afro when I was 13 :rof:

The bike itself is pretty special though.. 5 furious horses channeled to rear wheel via 2-speed trans!

 

[Chupacabra]

January 2009- It was 14 degrees when I purchased my maroon beast

 

[Motogiro]

My first bike was a 1966 Bridgestone 250. I think the model was the Catalina.
It was a 2 stroke. For those of you that don't know, look up 2 stroke. It uses a mixture of 2 stroke oil and gas for the fuel.
Here's a picture close to what it looked like. Yes it's the same company that makes tires today. The engine was an air cooled parallel twin. Road that bike everywhere and it never failed!
Oh yeah! It was blue..Looked something like this. And sounded like this: Ring! ding ding dinga ding ding......ding ding dinga ding ding ding....

 

[chomorro]

My first bike was a 1966 Bridgestone 250. I think the model was the Catalina.
It was a 2 stroke. For those of you that don't know, look up 2 stroke. It uses a mixture of 2 stroke oil and gas for the fuel.
Here's a picture close to what it looked like. Yes it's the same company that makes tires today. The engine was an air cooled parallel twin. Road that bike everywhere and it never failed!
Oh yeah! It was blue..Looked something like this. And sounded like this: Ring! ding ding dinga ding ding......ding ding dinga ding ding ding....

It has techspecs on it hahahahah. The original 1966 techspecs

 

[Motogiro]

It has techspecs on it hahahahah. The original 1966 techspecs

Yeah! I peeled them off and kept them all these years and put them on the SV!
LOL!

 

[ykbell09]

Great idea for a post! And lots of fun looking at everyone's first bike ... they say you always remember your first ....

I dont have any pictures of me with it for some reason ... but I rode the wheels of it almost every day for a year before I wanted something faster.

2007 Suzuki GS500F

 

[Jblk9695]

I did find a picture of my first bike, just not one I took and this bike is in a lot better shape than mine was. A 1957 Puch 250 2 stroke, just like motogiro, ring ding ding ding ding:BLAA:

Jerry

 

[iSteve]

I was 16 traded a 74 CR 125 for a KH 400. I'm first on the left.

Oh yea I think this was 1978

And my GPZ 550 like my 4th street bike but it was next to the other picture when I scanned them.

 

[Humperdinkel]

I did find a picture of my first bike, just not one I took and this bike is in a lot better shape than mine was. A 1957 Puch 250 2 stroke, just like motogiro, ring ding ding ding ding:BLAA:



Jerry

Thats a gorgeous looking bike mate :drool: :drool: Bet you wish you still had it :thumbup:

 

[MarkG813]

1996 Bandit 600. Bought it off criagslist for $800. Had 92,000 miles on it and sold it for $1000 3 months later with 101,000 miles

 

[FinalImpact]

Great idea for a thread!!
I am one of the boring ones, first bike was 2 years ago, '08 FZ6, but here I am anyway, with my baby:

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I see now your sig is in error......
It should be:

"I wear PINK gear because I understand physics."

 

[FinalImpact]

OK - going way back before I had a license of any kind - uhm think 9 years old'ish I rode a Blue version of this on the trails and the street.

The bike did become mine after it was stolen from our garage by some punk. When we got it back, the head and tail lights were gone, the muffler cut off, the front and rear fenders mangled.

A 1969 Honda SL90. . . . This is not it, but it was the blue version. I think that was in 72/73 or so when I became the owner. :thumbup: