How did you learn to ride???
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You're not over the hill! You're just cresting it. LOL!!! I'm sure you heard the saying "life begins at 40" so we are in the prime of our lives!!!!
aw-man....thats so cool.Me, I am 57 and my first bike was a CUSHMAN EAGLE
!!! If anyone here knows what that was
, and man did all those 8 horses really make me think I was something
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Learned on a friends Kawasaki Ninja 250 back in 96.. thought that was the fastest thing on two wheels.. then in mid 2000 got my first bike .. a 92 GSXR 1100 (not stock) fun fun fun sold it after a few months .. and then in December 2003 bought a new 03' SV1000S had that till Feburary 2005 .. got the Busa after i sold the SV .. and loved it ever since..
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+1 to both of ya
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first ride ever, yzf50 mini street bike. Then two years ago a 2000 zx6r, now an 05' Busa
Hodaka Super Rat!
Thats one I forgot about....my cousin put a super rat motor in a minibike frame....man that puppy would rip!
'course, no brakes!
"...first time you got on a motorcycle and what happened??"
I think I'm cheating here. Learned to lap drive cars at age 6, so I knew how to steer. Built a mini bike, and road it a few times. Took the throttle off the mini, put it on a lawnmower that had this lever to engage the wheels. So I'd do the lawn with the throttle and clutch. Lawn had a lot of skid mark patches.
Dad went to visit a friend in some sand wash? His friend asked me if I wanted to ride his bike? I think I was 14? I want to say it was a 250 Honda Scrambler? When I came back, the guy asked me if I ever rode a bike before? I said that was the first time ever. He said it looks like I rode before.
So yeah, first two wheel vehicle I say...... was a lawnmower.
I think I'm cheating here. Learned to lap drive cars at age 6, so I knew how to steer. Built a mini bike, and road it a few times. Took the throttle off the mini, put it on a lawnmower that had this lever to engage the wheels. So I'd do the lawn with the throttle and clutch. Lawn had a lot of skid mark patches.
Dad went to visit a friend in some sand wash? His friend asked me if I wanted to ride his bike? I think I was 14? I want to say it was a 250 Honda Scrambler? When I came back, the guy asked me if I ever rode a bike before? I said that was the first time ever. He said it looks like I rode before.
So yeah, first two wheel vehicle I say...... was a lawnmower.
I think it was called a chibi 50. Used to fly up and down the dirt roads with it at 5yrs old. That's when pops had a sweet vw bug that the heat barely worked in. We lived in VT.
Better story. Decided to teach the wife (girl friend at the time) how to ride my one year old ninja 600. I could have picked a better parking lot than the chuch which had a cemetary behind it. I was sitting on the back and we took off slowly- she increased the speed - panicked - held the trottle in that spot until I could reach to grab the front brake and stuff the bike into the tarmac about 10' from the cemetary fence. She hasn't tried again since then but is itching to now. I'm not 19 now and a bit smarter so she'll go to bike school this go around.
Better story. Decided to teach the wife (girl friend at the time) how to ride my one year old ninja 600. I could have picked a better parking lot than the chuch which had a cemetary behind it. I was sitting on the back and we took off slowly- she increased the speed - panicked - held the trottle in that spot until I could reach to grab the front brake and stuff the bike into the tarmac about 10' from the cemetary fence. She hasn't tried again since then but is itching to now. I'm not 19 now and a bit smarter so she'll go to bike school this go around.
1983 or 84 suzuki 490 Enduro I believe it was...Im 33 now, dont know how old I was than. Anyhow, the bike had more snort than I knew what to do with, but my cousin who was 10 years older than me and raced MX pro thought it would be a great starter bike for me. I spent 2 1/2 long months over the summer with this beast, and my right calf muscle still has an imprint in it from trying to kick that beast over~~~mucho compression for a little kid to kick over.
Im really shocked I didnt kill myself on that thing, my 96 YZ250 didnt hold a candle to it in raw power...atleast what I can rember of the old Suzuki. I love to chase those big jack-rabbits through the fields for several miles on that thing, and whats even crazyer is I use to strap my loaded .22 rifle to my back whil I rode. I figgured if I couldnt run the fast buggers over, I would shoot them
I didnt truly respect that bike until I launced myself over a rail road crossing at about 60 on the thing...welll actually it wasnt a crossing, it was a ditch about 10 feet deep on each side of the rail road tracks...thought it would make an excellent jump...that was until I came-to with the bike ontop of me leaking gas, I was pinned underneath the bike with my back on old railroad ties. I took things a little slower for the next week, but as soon as I could race them North Dakota trains down the plowed fields I was back at it, just with a lot more respect for what Is and what IS NOT a good jump
Im really shocked I didnt kill myself on that thing, my 96 YZ250 didnt hold a candle to it in raw power...atleast what I can rember of the old Suzuki. I love to chase those big jack-rabbits through the fields for several miles on that thing, and whats even crazyer is I use to strap my loaded .22 rifle to my back whil I rode. I figgured if I couldnt run the fast buggers over, I would shoot them
I didnt truly respect that bike until I launced myself over a rail road crossing at about 60 on the thing...welll actually it wasnt a crossing, it was a ditch about 10 feet deep on each side of the rail road tracks...thought it would make an excellent jump...that was until I came-to with the bike ontop of me leaking gas, I was pinned underneath the bike with my back on old railroad ties. I took things a little slower for the next week, but as soon as I could race them North Dakota trains down the plowed fields I was back at it, just with a lot more respect for what Is and what IS NOT a good jump
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