Your First Bike.... Images?

This was my first bike in 71, a yellow Kaw 90 G3 SS. Not my bike pictured, but this showed up at one of our bike nights and I wasn't there!

Think I got off to a pretty good start, especially since I somehow managed to control myself enough to not wreck the thing: a '75 Kawasaki Z1. Someone had put a 16" back wheel and black LTD-style pipes on it.

:blush:

My first bike, if you want to call it that, was a Honda mb5, the black one below. It was a 5 speed 50cc wonder. I bought it 2nd hand. It seemed to vibrate a lot so I took it to my dads friends house. He tightened the mounting BOLT, changed the plug, and ran some carb cleaner through it. The power scared me....so when I was done with that, I promptly went out and bought a Yamaha RZ350, not much power. COUGH

Loved it for 6 months, then got cut off by a 1972 land yacht. Layin in the hospital, dreaming of 2 stroke 500s from Canada. We are sick. There ya have it.

The RZ.

early yamaha 650 twin...my older brother left one in the garrage and moved back east so it sat...and sat..black and gold ,electric start,ohc,spokes,,,till one day i said,,hey lookie here a motorcycle ..wonder what that would be like..he said take and be carful...crashed it about ten times in two years..i thought it was the fastest bike in town in my hands..then i met this guy riding somthing he called a z-1
..i miss that 650 ...gotta get one and cafe it sometime...it really was fast..even now i see the following that model has and the racing history...at the time i knew nothing about bikes ,,i just knew it was awesome to pull the trigger on.. it was freedom...peace craig

i have had more than my fair share of xsesives i am looking for around a 75 because i am in dire need of a flattracker i am going to run it in the fat old guy class up here and maybe at afew races down south just for shits and giggles.

My first bike was a 1971 Kaw 175 Enduro. A friends older brother was selling it.
It was all repainted yellow, and had the larger rear sproket installed, no kaw emblems.
Man, I wanted it so bad!
I was 15 at the time, and only had $200.00, It was selling for $300.00. I told my friend that I didn't think I would be able to buy it. :S
Then he had an idea, I was to really talk it up big, to my dad, how great of a deal it was, and how 2 other guys were saveing to buy it too. I was also to tell my dad, that my friend and his brother were going to bring it by on saturday so I could look at it, see, I could make the last payment next week.
You bet my dad was around that saturday, so I wouldn't hurt myself some how.
Well it worked, :woohoo: My dad thought it was such a good deal, that he lent me the last $100.00 so know one else would buy it! He said: JUST DON'T TELL YOUR MOTHER! about the loan.
I wasn't to ride it untill I got my drivers license + Insurence, But, once in a while, I'd sneak it out, and zip down to Mc Donalds and back, hopeing like hell a cop wouldn't catch me. Used to bend up the last no. on the license plate so a cop couldn't read the entire #!
Only problem was, my older sister always, ALWAYS! Ratted me out!
I had it for 3yrs. and sold it for $300.00 with the carb floats broken! (have to split case to repair) That's why Yamahas were more popular.
With that one you would be driveing along, hit a bump, and the key would fall out! Finally had to start it, put the key in my pocket, kill switch to park it, retrieve key, shut off ign.!
Man... If a guy could do it all over again! :lol:

My first bike was a Penton 125 that I learned on when I was 11 with my dad. I borrowed a lot of bikes from my dad over the next 7 years or so. Then I got the Z1 pictured here in 1985. It was ugly as hell and a spray painted it every weekend a new color to throw off the cops. It never stopped running and never let me down. I don't think I even changed the oil in it the whole time I owned it.


Notice the fancy wheels. I was a parts swapper before my time. :laugh: Those wheels sucked big donkey! The rear sprocket kept coming lose no matter what I did. I used lock washers, nylon nuts, and safety wire all at the same time and they still came out. Good times! :woohoo:

I owned a series of DT series dirt bikes as well as a Kaw motorcross bike and a Suzuki dirt bike before buying my first street bike. A 1969 CB450. I bought it in 1972 while it was still in its crate. It had been shipped to Okinawa where I was stationed in the military as a Govt of Japan police bike. I brought it back to the States after I got out of the service. I had to put fold up pegs on it and a different headlight as I recall. The missus and I rode all over the country on this bike as it was considered a big bike back then.