When/Where/What did you learn to ride on?

[Robbie8666]

I started with a nail of a cub50 dad took me to get insurance that evening, rode it round to my mates n got nicked for going the wrong side of a traffic island!! copper let me off with a stern word when he saw my insurance reciept was only 2 hours old!!
then had a yamaha step thru 75 automatic then cars kids wife eventually in '92 persuaded her to let me have a bike for comutting was a Yam RXS100 took cbt & test within 3 days then got a super dream 250 for £100 got a BMW F650 for my 30th birthday rode until 2000 then job change forced me to leave biking last year finally got divorced  yea!!! and got my fazer 600 new mrs n kids love it but might have to sell next year due to expense  :'( 

[chaz]

Think I'd had a go on a bantam and a scooter for a total of 2 mins. started work at 15 saved up some money and went and bought a 250 francis barnett for £18 a months wage. Rode it home ready for my 16th birthday, In those days you could ride up to a 250 or if you put a sidecar (frame and a plank of wood) you could ride any size.
no training, no helmet, no idea what you was doing just get on and go, no wonder the death toll was so high.

[BBROWN1664]

Started with a moped my nan gave me when I was about 9 then went onto  Suzuki TS50ER when I was about 14 for in the local woods. this later went on the road when I was 16.
A Kawasaki KE125 followed when I was 17 and took my test skipping th part 1 and going strait to part 2 by borrowing my dads XS750 with a sidewinder.

first big bike followed a few days later and was an old 1973 CB500T

[Fatherbiker]

Started my bike riding in 1974 with a Raleigh Runabout but quickly went on to being a telegraph boy on the gpo and doing 34000 miles in  2.5 years on a Puch 2 geared thing capable of the amazing speed of 36mph down hill with the wind up yer arse!!...lol I passed my motorbike test on a Suzuki 125 twin Stinger in 1976 but passed my moped test (yes had to do that for the gpo) in 1975 on the post office Puch 50!...eugh!!. At least back then there was no cbt and the likes and just 2 parts to the test (written and practical).

[Khaotik]

Started on a KX125 in 1991... continued on a MTX50 after crashing the KX125... then on to a MBX50 when the MTX50 died... and then I got my licence.

[Oldgit]

passed me test first time on a Tiger cub 250 in February 1965, examiner walked alongside me for the slow speed stuff and stood out in the road for the emergency stop, kept the Cub for another 6 months then traded up to a 500.
Halcyon days :pc

[goldfazer]

Did me CBT on a CG125, then a year later DAS on a 125 then GS500. Seemed fast but was bloody slow compared to the Fazer!!

[D4Delta]

Started in my early teens on my Dad's old James ( Villiers 9D engine with hand gear change) riding in our garden - not very big, but an end house with a side garden so learnt clutch control at least. 


Got an Ariel Leader when I was 17 and passed my test. Then on to a BSA A10 with sports sidecar. Lovely bike. Various bikes after that including a 650 Panther with sidecar, Francis Barnett 197 for messing about on, an M.Z,. CX500 and my present bike - FZ6 S2.


Also had 4 Reliants in my time. (Do I get a medal for bravery for admitting it?) Made passing my car test easy later on.


David. 

[dx408]

First ever ride was on a 250n superdream but learnt on a GP100 (ish ended up being a GP100 bottom end 125 top end, carb and disk valve, microns dropped the rear cog by 9 teath to keep front end on the ground) never had an accident on it but did loose it once in a snow drift !!!!!!!


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