dare i mention bikes?

[Bosun]

as a thought how long have mosyt of us been riding/in possession of a bike?

me: 24years riding now.. with only 8 months without a bike.. (rotten ex)
took me until 35 to pass a car test.( cos i didn't want to drive see above 8 months)

[cxdemon]

Yes you can mention bikes, bout the same amount of time, got my first at 16 FS1E!! never taken a car test, (bloody dangerous fings :eek: ) but only got round to passing test 3 ish years ago, so i'm stuffed for car engine trikes :mad:

[UKRobKLR650]

Got my first bike when i was 6 (30 years ago :eek: ), got on the road legally at 16 (20 years ago :eek: ) and basically never been without a bike. Only passed my driving test when i was 29, passed my bike test at 18 cause i had a years ban at 17 for riding a motocross up the main holiday route in Mid Wales on a hot sunny afternoon, got 36 points on the totting up procedure :D
Biggest bike ive had was a Bandit 1200, smallest was a Yam Fizzy at 16 and i now ride a 2002 KLR650 and a got an FZR Foxeye streetfighter in me garage (I say streetfighter loosely cause it aint finished yet ). I'd say my fave bike lookin back was either my Bandit 12 or my Triumph speed triple t309 with gold Brembo wheels, nissin brakes etc :D

[Shudy]

Mention Bikes on the 100% Triker site? :eek:
Been riding since I was 13, 30 years ago, on a Bantam round a field. Passed my test when I was 17 and currently have a Harley, A Yamaha Playmate 80 and at least one and a half bantams! (The Yam is up for sale if you're looking for a new scooterette Fayji?)

[Mitch]

There seems to be a consensus round here about this....

Started riding bikes at age 17 (1990), passed my bike test in 2000 (same reason as Fayji - but for slightly longer, how about five and a half years!!!!!), the day I moved in with Mrs R!!!!

Then passed my car test a year ago, aged 30! In a way, I wish I'd done it years ago.

[JOE]

Passed my test just over a year ago (June 24th) at 24, got meself a gsxf600 after about a week an' a half, which lasted till the end of may when some silly tart smashed it. Lasted a bit less than a fortnight before I got meself a loan to get me current bike - a slabside gsxr1100 streetfighter. I'm also building a chop using an old cb900 as the donor bike.

The missus is learning to ride now too, test on the 20th.

[poridge wog]

currently riding a gs1000 this is my 12th gs. started riding when i was eight on me dads farm way back in 73, spent years on trikes then hardtails broke me back in accident few years ago so i've gone back to bikes with shox. getting triked up for next summer so i can trailer tent rallys, passed me bike test in 82, only got car license coz work insisted on it but then they paid for me lessons n test, result or what :cool:

[TaxiDave]

Off road bikes from about eight years old (1973) then an FS1E at sixteen, then an AP50 (still got it in the back of moms shed), then a KH250, Z650 etc, etc, then trikes. Allsorts since then. Got a GPZ900, an XR400 and half a Reliant trike at the mo. Wife is having an unscheduled layoff (some bastard nicked her GS), but hopefully she should have a Z750 for a surprise Crimbo pressie.

[guyver1]

Riding a CB 700 S Nighthawk, damn good bike but needs a little work....like more bloody forks, passed test over 3 years ago now, only did it cos i fancied the girl behind the desk at the bike place, still fancy her like mad and now im a bike instructor down there, was i ever as bad as the people im training??? god i hope so heheheh :D

[BlackPig]

18 years ? Bloody 'eck !! :eek:
Seems like a lot of us started with the same bike (that poor FS1E must have some milage :D )Had allsorts , ridden everywhere , and damned good fun 'tis too !!! :cool:

[Nitrowing]

Bought an RD200 when I was 16 (1989!) and rode around without a numberplate (or license) until I was 17 (250 learner law in NI until about 1992 :) ) Passed my test in 1993 (I had joined the RAF and they wouldn't entertain illegality). Favourite bike was an RG500 I built with USD forks, single sided swinger etc which some scum nicked!!

Currently got a CB550 soft-tail chop, Pop-up headlamp Katana, CBR1000 streetfighter, CB1300 and a nitrous 1500 GoldWing (13 second 1/4 mile :D )

[El_Mick]

Started riding when was 8 on mates farm.
Have been legally riding 44 years, cant remember how many bikes i've had in that time .
At present have ST1100, ZZR1100,GS750 and 850, simpson. 3 trikes and a plastic pig waiting the angle grinder .

[Bosun]

(The Yam is up for sale if you're looking for a new scooterette Fayji?)


i do hope you will not be upset if i decline your kind offer, the C70 was only a means to an end (pass test)

as i didnt mention my bike I currently have a 1100 dragstar in need of tlc so hope to find a middle weight dirtcheap (free) bike to play with while i clean 1100 up

[XJphil]

Never ridden or sat on a motorcycle in my lfe, nasty horrible things they are.
my mates still got a FS1E in the garage, supossed to be worth a load too
my bikes in this months mag :D too, just thought i`d mention it

[Bosun]

see it, like it, love the colour

[DANNY]

Got a Casal 50 for the fields at 15 (25 years ago) never realy bin without a bike sins. my best was a uk spec 1974 t140 triumph bonnie.

[guydewdney]

honda express field bike at 14
dt50 at 16 (nicked) at 16
honda express (temp replacement)
honda MB5
gp100 (tuned and ratted after accident)
CM125
RD250
benly 175
CB100N
benly 200 (with full rickman fairing :eek: )
superdream 250 (at one point had fully enclosed double adult wooden sidecar - that lasted 24 hours till i crashed..)
Z200 (streetfighter, usd forks, single seat, 225 cc, crank built by village bike shop in manchester, home made stainless exhaust, mono-shocked, fzr 1000 front brakes.....)
TDM850 (with NOS) (current)

[Mrs Reject]

Started off at 21 on a mobilette which took 2 star petrol (I was desperate for transport ok - stop laughing!!!).
Was a pillion queen for years but always longed to ride a bike of my very own but never had the opportunity - kid, no money, that sorta thing. Then I met Mitch and he taught me to ride and I passed my test last year at the age of 42. Now proud owner and all year round rider of chopped and customised Kawasaki GT 750.
I said I'd do my bike test if Mitch learnt how to drive a car so that's what we did.
Dream come true :) :) :)

[TaxiDave]

I said I'd do my bike test if Mitch learnt how to drive a car so that's what we did.
Dream come true :) :) :)

My wife learnt to ride a bike in exchange for me going horse riding with her. We breed Shetland Ponies (got twenty nine of the terrors), so they were a bit too small so had to go to a riding school with loads of little Lord and Lady Fontalroys. Looked a bit odd cos I had right long hair at the time and the riding hat didn't match my boots and camo trousers. :o

[mr.chaz]

It's raining and I'm bored... so here goes:

First bike was a Cossack 175 at the age of 13. Learnt to ride on my mate's old SL125 Honda. Rode around on all sorts of stuff until I had to " go legal" and get a 125 to pass my test on when I was 17. God knows how I got away with it!

Never sat down to list them before , so this should be fun:

Cossack 175
Ural
Dnepr

Yamaha
RD400
200 YASI
DT 400
DT 185
TT600R
XS 500
XS 500
XS 400 chop
XJ 550
XJ900
XJ 750 Maxim
XS 750
XS 850
Suzi
250 Hustler
GT 500
GS550
GS550 chop
GS 850
GS550 lowrider
GS 750
GSX 750 Katana popup
GS 425
GS 650
GSX 1100
GSX 750
Bandit 1200
Bandit 600
TS 50ER
TS 125 ER
RM 250
400 Impulse

Aprilia RSV 1000
Aprilia RS 250
MotoGuzzi V50
Triumph Thunderbird sport
Triumph Trident 1968
Triumph 500 unit
Laverda Diamante' 668
Cagiva Elephant 900
Ducati Monster 900
MZ Baghira 660
Iron head Sportster
Evo Sportster Hugger
Evo Sportster
Buel M2 Cyclone
1200 superglide
Fatboy

Kwak GT 750
ZL 1000
1100 Zephyr
KZ 1000P Chips
Z250 Scorpion & sidecar (whyohwhy?)
Z750
Z750 twin chop
Z650
Z550
ZZR400
ZXR 750
KH 250

Honda CBR600
CBR 600
CB 600 Hornet
VFR750
VF 750
VF500
VF 750 Magna
CB750K
CB 750 lowrider
CB650 Nighthawk
CB 550
NTV600
CBR400RR
CBR 400
XL 125
CB 125
CB 250
CB 360

There you go - no wonder I'm skint after all these years!
Worst bike - Fatboy ( fools and money easily parted- shudda bought the Nightrain or Roadking)
Best bike - The Buell or my old 1100 Zephyr ( Zephyr I think!)

[Mrs Reject]

My wife learnt to ride a bike in exchange for me going horse riding with her. We breed Shetland Ponies (got twenty nine of the terrors), so they were a bit too small so had to go to a riding school with loads of little Lord and Lady Fontalroys. Looked a bit odd cos I had right long hair at the time and the riding hat didn't match my boots and camo trousers. :o

Heehee, that vision of loveliness will stay with me for years ff's!!!!
Horses hate me, don't know why, they bolt and rear if I just look at them! They're probably thinking, "Don't sit on me you fat b*stard". :)

[TaxiDave]

I'm just a mere slip of a lad (16 stone) and I'm sure that the horses at the school drew straws when I turned up for a lesson. :D

[TaxiDave]

Feck me Mr Chaz, you've had a bike for every year since you've been 17 :D :D

[toots&purple]

fs1e they were the biz back then,in 75 i bought my first road bike a ss50 honda £210brand new,never stoped,though i did learn not to buy hondas!a few hundred bikes latter&my miss spent youth is catchin up,so its trikes now,but still determined to grow lod disgracefully.toot toot. :D

[mr.chaz]

Feck me Mr Chaz, you've had a bike for every year since you've been 17 :D :D
and d'ya know... if I won the lottery I'd buy them all back too! Apart from that stupid Fatboy and Z250 & sidecar.

:)

[poridge wog]

this has realy got me thinking so last night the mrs tried to total up how much we've spent on buying bikes and trikes, it got realy scary and we recon we could have bought our first house outright if we hadn't got bikes, but as i pointed out we've had one hell of a time on the money. :D :D :D

[DANNY]

i cant beat Mr Chaz only had 18 bikes in my name.

[Bosun]

and i have only managed 14, had 3 at 1 time though
here we go

the infamous c70
honda cb250rs
honda cb400n
triumph t140e
triumph t140v
kwak z650
kwak gpz550
honda cd200
yamaha xv750se
honda c50 (crashed xv big time)
yam sr250 (single ) orrible bike
yam xvs650
honda pc50 (freebie to me)
yam xvs1100a

[MrFluffy]

having read that, Ive just totted it up and so far from memory im at quite a lot, although admittedly a few of them never made it to being road legal. Mostly from working in bike shops and getting offered heaps for cheap and not being able to resist yet another hack to abuse/blow up/have fun with.
Ive got it down to a reasonable six at the moment after murdering my ft500 frame a few weeks back (but if anyones got a rgv250 with a dead motor, i have a hankering....) Course my missus delights in pointing out i should just get rid of the lot and have one "good one" but as they say variety is the spice of life..

Oh btw, I WOULDNT have them all back if i won the lottery, some of them are happily distant memories for good reasons (they were sh*te!)

ill have a go at the list thingy...
bsa bantam d1 (ex grass tracker)
triumph tiger cub
oldie c70
fs1e
c90 cub
yam yg1 (giant fs1e)
cg125
xl125s (curiously with a cg125 motor..)
x5 suzuki
xl250
xs250se
gsx250
xs400
xs250
xs400 hardtail chop
400/4 (sheep in sheeps clothing)
yds7
cb250g5
cb250n x3 (including the big pink wobbly one)
cb360g5
sp370 (ive had this since the year dot it seems)
cb500 chop
ft500 (god rest its soul)
gs550m
gpx600r
gpz750 rat
gs750 (v heavily modified)
gpz turbo (zx750e) x 3
kawa gt750 + watsonian sidecar
gs850 dayglow rat
xs850 triple (ugh, i sold it after 2 days)
bimota yb8e 1000

[Santa]

First powered two wheeler (I hesitate to call it a bike) was a Honda PC50. Strange thing with a direct drive engine mounted inside the back wheel! All my mates had scooters but my dad wouldn't let me have one because "the centre of gravity is too low which is dangerous" (!!!). Because the moped was restricted by exhaust back pressure I used to take the silincer off to keep up with my mates which destroyed the engine in a year. Graduated to a Honda 50 Cub (ooh-er - gears!). next was a 250N Wetdream, then a Suzi GS500 with Piper exhaust (very loud).Then came the xv1000 Virago, followed by the xv1100 Virago. At the moment I've got a Honda F6C (Valkyrie) which is massive but sweet to ride. Next?.........who knows. Bin riding since 16, which was a long time ago!

[Pugwash]

i'll be buggered if i can remeber all mine but there were over 40 of em

been Riding just over 25 Years currently own a Chop oh an a few other bikes in bits

Car test passed in 98 after one of my best friends died he was a motorcycle courier just like me an we started on the same day i did 13 years as a london courier an gave up and passed me car test in a week then became a van courier for anutha 3 years got fed up with that though .gettin stuck in traffic don't feel right to me.

started riding in 75 provisonal in 77 1 year in hospt in 78/9 bugga :mad: that was rest of it on a bike of sum kind even in plaster at one point :rolleyes:


passed test finally in 84 after some outside persasuion oh an a 6 months suspended for forging a drivin licence :rolleyes: up until then i was a bit naughty ;)

not got a car at the moment shame not

luv me chop an lookin forward to the next 25 years aswell

[lowrider]

Think i fell off my first bike which was my first ride when i was 13.Used to spend hours polishing the big lads bikes just so i could have a go on the back.First road bike was a RD250 which was promptly nicked after 3 month.Then went through the suzuki 2 stroke range then after that i forget.
Ride a custom now that i got as a swap.True custom in that it was not built in Japan.
Passed my car test about 20 years ago because the wife objected to my suggestion that we bungee the 2 week old daughter to the bike rack. :D
Dont care what people ride as long as they do.Lots of young kids around here ride scooters and can be bloody annoying but i look on it if only a few move on to bikes then thats the future of bikes.
Look forward to annoying them in the future by wandering up to them as they park up saying"i used to have one of them,mind you that was when bikes were bikes etc"

[Friar Tuck]

WHERE THE F*** DID MY LAST POST DISAPPEAR TO? :mad: :mad:

Here goes again!

On road at 16 with a Honda PC50, then at 17 upgrade to a Honda C90! (Raw Power! I can handle power! Me!)

Passed car test on a Tuesday and bike test the day after in '78. Both first time, so there!

Right bike list:-
PC50
C90,
Garelli tiger cross 50,
Malaguti Olympique 50 ( Fizzie and AP50 eater!)
CB250N x2
VT500
XBR500. ( A very underated bike)
Yamaha SR500 ( Hate it, hate it, hate it! Can I have it back please)
GSX250
Kwak Z200 X3
Kwak KT250 ( Very rare, wish I still had it!)
Kwak KL250 (Ugh!)
BMW R80RT
BMW K100RS 16v. ( H216 CJU where are you? Come home to Daddy, please?)
Ahem! sorry about that!
Kwak Z750 ( Awaiting new daddy!)
Yamaha FZS600 Fazer ( Known as Homer!)

Not many, but varied!

[Rodders]

Cant really remember what the mo-ped was. Probably a Mobylette. Remember the grin at having the engine speed overtake peddaling speed. Yeeee haaaaar.
Then it was Suzuki b120p.
GT250 with ram air. My first new bike.
T140V 2nd new bike. Fairly chopped by the time I sold it.
AJS 600 First home built chop from the ground up.
Swopped a GT 250 for a half built trike in 1979. (I got the bike.)
GS550
Free Honda 250
GS750
GSX750, Still got that one
Harley Shovel. In bits but going back together slowly.
Just picked up another Honda 250 for the kids. They want to chop it so that's what we shall do.

Not a great deal of bikes but I tend to stick with them for a while. Like to get my moneys worth.