Hey fellas, what ride first got you on the road? Mine was a Yamaha FS1-E, 50cc of raw power, complete with pedals (which both locked forward) to comply with some b.s. regulation. I lapped the head to the barrel and fitted a 60cc "big" bore kit in my quest for speed. I seized several times, crashed it almost as many times and had a whale of a time! 55mph...I'm surprised I could breath at that speed!

 

Puch DS 50cc with PEDALS !! 3 speed with change by twisting the grip..........
Followed by a C110 Honda 50cc with the upswept pipe, and good for ,maybe, 55 MPH or 90 KPH.
Damned thing was bullet proof, but could never catch the Garelli's, Itom's or other two strokes..........even the DKW 50 was quicker...........
Gawd !

 

1978 cb550k inline four cylinder. it was in 1985, i was in high school and i thought i was the chit. wasn't all that quick compared to the newer bikes but the center of gravity on that bike was so low and it idled so smooth i could stop at a red light and never put my feet down. got pulled ofer a few times for running stop signs until i proved to all the local cops that i could stop and wait for 5 seconds without putting my feet on the ground (that was how they could tell if you came to a complete stop)

 

Hey fellas,1st ride .... Well a honda XR 500 big single full of raw power .... lol had a lot of fun on the XR riding on the back wheel & racing had the need for speed till I hit a car and a few weeks in hospital .... lol

 

First bike was a Honda Trail 50cc, followed closely by an XR80 (which I MAY have run on the road a few times ).
Then I got my uncles old CB100 running and broke the law a little more.

Then I started riding a Suzuki GS750 that was my buddy's dad's. He was crazy, and didn't care if I rode it all over the place. (His mom was crazy, too, and let me drive her plymoth duster at 13yrs old without a license! )

 

I'm a newbie biker so the Hurricane is the first bike I've ever owned and I'm in love , cant walk away from her without that backward glance and pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.

The first bike I ever rode for any length of time was an old '78 GS750 suzuki.

 

Mine was a Suzuki TS 50 ER, derestricted and good for 55mph
(if you could find a long enough hill) and just like Davethepom I spent more time rebuilding it and laid up because of "high speed" crashes than I ever spent racing Fizzy's and AP's. You never bothered even trying to race a DT, 30mph was their lot (they would probably go faster if you dropped them off Dover cliffs LOL. Great days
My first proper bike was a Suzuki GT 250 Ram air (2 stroke twin) it used to smoke like an old bus and blow up every 6 months (might have been the way I rode it, lol)

 

My first bike was a 1970s Yamaha YZ 80 that I got as a hand me down from my older brother when I was about 9 or 10. It wasnt much, but got me hooked! The list gets really long after that...

 

Mine was a 1972 CB350 with a 10" extended fork, custom paint and sissy bar. Think I paid $500 for it. A mini jap chopper of sorts. I can't believe someone put that much time and money in a 350, even way back then. Wish I still had the pictures. Fun part was it would wheel stand real easy. Oh well, young, dumb, and full of c....

 

My first ride was made with Riga 8 ( 48cc USSR made cycle with one gear and pedals).
My own firs bike was also USSR made 1989 Minsk. It was 125 cc two stroke and i spent more time fixing it than riding although it was pretty unreliable it was easy to fix it with screwdriver and few wrenches. My brother called it "very good model for educational purposes" and it was that definitely - i now about anything there is to know about that two stroke engine now
about all my childhood went by with old ussr motorcycles until few years ago my mate gave his 93' GSXF600 to test ride - after that there was no turning back the four stroke inline four is my kind of machine
That time the 600 GSXF felt unreal how powerful one bike can be ( the most powerful ussr solo cycle at that time was jawa 350 cc with 18kw if i remember correctly, the 750cc four stroke urals were with compulsary sidecar) but last year when i tried one GSXF600 again after riding hurricane for two years it felt like a wuss