Your First Bike

My first ever was a Puch 50 "Flying Banana" like the below



There have been many since, more recent ones can be seen in below thread.

https://www.thetriumphforum.com/threads/my-bike-history-in-pics.9963/

 

Lou160487
Welcome to the family. The first bike topic has been done on here if you look for the topic. That Suzi of yours looks pretty good you have looked after it well. Looks a real nice area around there.
Regards & Ride Safe.
Joe.

 

My first bike was a 50cc Honda C100 back in 1964. I can remember running out of fuel with it once and costing all of 3/6d to fill up. That's 17.5p in today's money!

Sorry but I haven't got a photo!!

 

Honda CB72 250 rode it to work on my 16th birthday wrote it off 4 months later.

 

Yamaha RD200DX

 

I bought this little chap (not this exact one) for the same price as 3 months rail travel between Coventry and Leamington when doing a City&Guilds course, do they do have those?

 

Honda XL500S. A great thumper and a wheelie beast. Sorry no picture available.

 

I was a late-comer to the biking party. While I've always liked bikes I never owned or rode one until I got divorced in 1999 when I did my direct access and got a lovely black/grey/silver Honda CBR600fv.

 

Bloody hell, did the guy that took that photo step out from under the big cloak hanging out the back of the box brownie afterwards?

 

Love the colours on that Suzuki, Lou. Really smart. Before Suzuki went mental with the graphics in the 90's!

FWIW, paid my dues on a Kawasaki KDX125SR.

Paid my dues as in, learning how to stop the chain falling off the back sprocket, checking bolts so bodywork and bits don't fall off. Keeping at least one foot on the pegs when doing a wheelie.Getting my collar felt every other week by the local constabulary and many other tales of yoof-ful woe. Happy days!

 

That was my second bike.

The first, a Ducati 200 single I bought just before my 16th birthday. Taught myself to ride it while waiting for my license to arrive. No such thing as a CBT back then. Whack a pair of L plates on and off you legally go. Fatality rate among young riders was horrific.

 

This is a picture of what I had as my first bike :



Sweet little thing she was, had loads of fun with her - 'til I got me license, than a Bandido 600 !!

 

1974 I think? Honda CG125, had it for a month swapped + cash for RD200 much more fun

 

First bike that was just mine was a 1975 Honda XR75, the bike I started my illustrious racing career on. My first road bike was a Suzuki GS550E, Both great bikes.

 

Like this one?

I had the earlier RD200B with the tear drop tank and the twin leading shoe drum front brake. The first photo is one I bought a couple of years ago. The 2nd photo isn't my actual bike but very similar.

 

Yeah that’s the one
But mine was orange