Show me your early rides!

[Grifo]

I'll start
 Piaggio 49 cc scooter called "SI" I was 13 when my dad bought me this one. I totaled it tumbling down a ravine after being stung by a wasp

[Grifo]

I replaced it with a Piaggio 49 cc scooter called the Bravo. Bought it myself my own money at 14.

[Grifo]

At 15 I sold the Bravo and rode this Piaggio Vespa 75 cc courtesy of my uncle

[Grifo]

At 16 after getting my motorcycle license I bought this Honda NX enduro. I really wanted a Suzuki 125 cc moto gp replica (Pepsi) but my family didn't let in fear I would kill myself on it.
 So I made my NX a Kevin Shwanz replica

Last pic me being adventurous in someone olive grove.  sTD would have been proud lol

[Grifo]

After a long break from motorcycles, in 2005 bought this S2R Dark

[Grifo]

I almost forgot about this gem lol.  49 cc Piaggio Ciao, it belonged to another uncle of mine. I rode it in between rides, wish I still had all those old scoots

[Dave]

As a kid (7th grade) I had a Honda Spree.  It was slow, loud, and the opposite of cool, but I loved the freedom.  plus every once in awhile I spent like $1.50 in gas.

[crazyducdude]

first bikes, I cannot find pictures for, in order of purchase...
1998 Honda CBR 600 F3
2002 Honda CBR 954 RR
2001 Honda CBR 929 RR bought wrecked and rebuilt
2000 Suzuki GSX600R ex AMA race bike Disalvo ridden
2005 KTM 525 SMR
2003 Kawasaki Z-1000

'05 Honda CBR1000RR Repsol

after the wreck



'08 999 trackbike cyclops exhaust



'01 996 street/track bike with custom short tube exhaust




'08 Ape, custom short tube dual exhaust



those are all that I can remember at this point...

[nsu max]

Here is my first 1949 Cushman motorscooter, I was 10 when I got it in 1968. Sitting in my work shop right now waiting for 3 clutch springs.
 

Number two quietly waiting turn on the bench 1972 Yamaha Mini Enduro. Got this one when I was 13.


Got this from my Dad when I was 16 just because. I did'nt know anything about it.It just showed up in the back yard after school one day 1953 NSU 250 MAX. waiting for a baddly needed repaint.


I have pictures of my first Italian bike a 1966 Benelli 125 sprite but I can'nt find them now.

This was the first brand new bike I that I bought on my own 1977 Harley Davidson XLCR 1000 Cafe Racer I just turned 19 and used my first pay check from Bendix for the down payment.



Ther are more but I can't find any pictures of them, I'll post 'em when I do.

[nsu max]

Mario, Dave, scooters kick ass there's just something about small wheels!!

[Grifo]

Nice Frank, very nice!

[GRUBBY]

I had one like this. "82 Yamaha XT250


I beat the shit out of it.

[DucLeone]

I replaced it with a Piaggio 49 cc scooter called the Bravo. Bought it myself my own money at 14.

always wanned one of them when i was 14 !!

[sTD]

1979 Yamaha YZ80 - Dad went half and half with me to buy it when I was 13. By the time I was 14, I'd twice broken the same collarbone and been arrested on it.  Have no idea how many tires and top ends I went through, but I basically lived on the bike 24/7:

(Not my pic)

I replaced it with a 1981 YZ125... mucho faster.  Got bounced right out of the seat landing it during a race and knocked myself out.   But it was a great intro to enduros...


Got this beast to get around, and promptly removed the asinine 35mph governor


Kinda got wrapped up in cars for a while, then bought myself a college graduation present after riding a friend's.  A 1986 500 Interceptor... oh yeah.


Sold that to my future bro-in-law, and shortly thereafter got the itch again... and snagged a cherry 1989 CBR600.


Which was replaced by a 1993 VFR750


My first Duc, a 1996 900SS/SP, still wish I'd kept her... and the Top Gun shades.


Then the racebike, a 1997 916


Somewhere in there I got the itch to go enduro racing again, and picked up a 2000 KTM 200 EXC.  Had the craziest tankslapper of my life on a fast field crossing, but saved it.  Great bike.


Got a line on a pristine 1995 916SP, and sold the racebike to get it... then promptly put it on the track   Then realized that was a really bad idea, sold it, and bought crazyducdude's 996... which I still have.  Getting some bromance from Mother Mario:


Somewhere in there, I had a Monster, a 1995 900, which I put almost 30,000 miles on in 3 years, then sold it when I bought the Multi


Enjoy.

[GRUBBY]

You forgot the silver SS/CR. I really liked that bike.

[Grifo]

That was for his wife..

[Scotty Bob]

my first bike was a 125 Lambretta we used to run on a old rail track
police and local land owners were very anti motorcycle

this was BC   --- before computers  
and camera was for real ale   http://www.camra.org.uk/
no photos yet will have to try and find some  
i was about 15 and the scooter was a pale blue and cost about $20 sidepanels spare etc missing and NOT road legal  found this site for Mario
http://uk.lambretta.com/tabid/66/Default.aspx