Steve y: I am not interested on forums or chatting. I just want to know how long people have ridden and what their first bike was. If you are not going to answer and just spam the question with your groups no thanks.
bikernoj; I think buying new bikes is the only way to go, but that is just me.
I started in 1958. 1st one was a 1954 Triumph. In 1960 I bought a 1959 HD. It was either a Duo-Glide or Hydra-Glide, I forget. There have been 14 Harleys since then, the present one is an 08 Streetglide. If I had to do it over again I damn sure would. Only harder this time.
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I started riding in '05, my first bike was a Yamaha XJ650. 650 was a great starter bike but wished I would've got a 1000 after a month or two of riding.
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harley davidson all the way!
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48 years
I started with a 3.5 horse power minibike back in the 60's.
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back in 1999, my first bike, i restored a old 78 honda automatic and put a sidecar on it, loved it to death, ran the thing from 1999 til about 2004 i could not get anymore parts for it. plus i was putting about 150-200+ miles a month on it. i wore the poor thing out. PS aim a girl yet
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I'm 53 now and I started out at age 12 riding a Honda 50 in the woods, I now have a totally restored GL1000 Gold Wing.
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I started riding in 2003 after some co-workers asked if I had ever ridden one and I couldn't think of a reason why not. So after a couple months' worth of research (as well as taking an MSF course and buying full gear) I decided to get a new 2003 Suzuki SV650S. It was easy to ride, cheap on insurance, got about 50mpg average, looked cool and was WAY fun!
In retrospect, I should have bought a used bike, but I'm still happy I got the SV. The one and only complaint I had about it was the forks; it's not that they didn't work, but there is a big difference between a damper rod and cartridge damper when you want performance, and it was just a fly in the ointment to me.
It got dropped a couple times at low speed as ALL newbs do with their first bike, but without a lower fairing all I had to replace was a couple turn signals.
I'm now on my third bike, a 2007 Honda CBR600RR. It's perfect in almost every way, but there are times that I miss my SV650 and the feel of a little V-twin sportbike.
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I started riding in 1967 that's a long long time ago 42 years and the first bike was a 125cc postie bike then I jumped on a 650 Mach less then a BSA 500 and over the years I have ridden and owned Ducati's Honda's Kawasaki and Harley, and Buell
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I've been riding for three years although first year was a pretty junky bike that wasn't really street safe and I just played around in my nieghborhood with it.
My first real bike was a Suzuki Intruder 800. I had no problems with it and I'm a smaller dude, 5'9", 150, so don't listen to people who say start off on a 250. At first I had a hard time learning to shift as I never learned to drive stick car but stick with it and you'll pick it up quick. As for starting off on a little bigger bike than normal, at first I was a little surprised by the power but I learned in my nieghborhood and in parking lots and got comfortable before heading out onto real roads. I'm glad I bought it too b/c unlike many other people I know who bought small biks and have since wasted money trading up to bigger bikes once or twice I'm on my same bike.
Good luck
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I started riding in 1969 and my first bike was a 1969 Honda 90 Scrambler. I now ride a 2006 Harley 883 which I bought in 2006.I have owned small and large bikes well large for me the largest I owned was a 2004 yamaha Silverado 1100 I bought in 2003. A 15 year old unlicensed driver in a Cadillac ran right out in front of me and there was no way I could stop and I hist him at 50 miles an hour and flew over his trunk and landed face first on the hot texas pavement. it was then I decided to buy Harley. I always wanted one but could not afford the larger ones and everyone made fun of the 883's but I said to heck with it I want a harley before iI die so I bought an 883 to heck with what people say. I love it.
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2001, first bike-CX500Custom Honda, bike now-suzuki KatanaGSX
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Street legal for 30 years. First bike was a Yamaha 500.
First thing I got with 2 wheels and a motor was a JC Penney minibike when I was about 8.
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Been riding for 40 years, started on an old Harley, that we stripped all the lights off of and put knobby tires on it, and rode it in the dirt for the first 4 years, then when I turned 16, put all the lights back on it, and changed the tires to street tires and been riding on the street ever since.
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advid motorcyclist for 40 years, have ridden most brands at least once.
Yahoo Answers is not strictly a forum or chat page, so try
http://www.motorcycleforum.com
There are lots of good people (like the ones above) there.
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I bought my first bike, a '71 Honda 350cl, against my Dad's wishes. I didn't even know how to ride. The salesman pushed it outside for me and said you just do this and then you do that and you go. I had never been on a motorcycle before, and I didn't even have a motorcycle license. Afraid to shift, I rode home in first gear. Took it out in a field and learned the rest myself. I rode until '81 on Honda, Triumphs and Kawasaki. Always wanted the Harley, so 25 years later, I decide it was time. Now I'm enjoying my '07 Lowrider and having a ball. Oh yeah, my Dad never said a word when I brought my Honda home.
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I started off on a little '75 Kawasaki G5 100cc back in the mid seventies, then got street legal 25 years ago on an '82 Yamaha Vision XZ550. I'm pretty much on Harleys to stay now, but I may have to add a Triumph somewhere along the line.
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I started in 1958. 1st one was a 1954 Triumph. In 1960 I bought a 1959 HD. It was either a Duo-Glide or Hydra-Glide, I forget. There have been 14 Harleys since then, the present one is an 08 Streetglide. If I had to do it over again I damn sure would. Only harder this time.
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50 yrs of HD
I started in 2005 on an 2005 manco Phoenix 50cc and now i have a 2007 manco matrix 50cc i want a 1100 cc gold wing.
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i started off on an old honda 50 with a clutch and 3 speed transmission. Now I ride ktm 450 and a vulcan 900 custom. NO HARLEYS. I dont beleive in paying for a name.
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I started riding in 1952. Fifty-seven years and about 1/2 million miles, still at it. First bike was a 1942 Harley 45, next, an Indian Chief, 1947. Then, a 1947 Harley 74. Been a lot of others since. Have ridden street, dirt, a little road racing, lot of drag racing, Bonneville Land Speed trials, a few records. (200 MPH Club). Still operate a bike machine shop, ride, and do speed trials.
Tomcotexas.
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Been there, done that, got scars, trophies, and paper to prove it.
i started riding motorcycles at 2! i slept while i rode my honda 70 three wheeler! haha, only once i guess. .lol. but yess, now im 15 and i love four wheelers more than anything! EVER!!! i currently ride a 2008 yamaha 250 raptor:) HELLLA;) its amazing, i ride my dads 700 once in a while. most powerful sports atv available…yes it is:) its AMAZING if you are looking for speed and power!! i have ridden honda, kawasaki, suzuki, atvs, moutain quads, three wheelers, you name it…well not dirt bikes! haha, but yes, i would probably faint if i could not ride my four wheeler ever again!!!
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riding for LIFE!
oh boy i was in third grade . got a briggs and stratton lawn mower mini bike for x mas 3.5 hp a brake that was a metal plate that you pushed a lever and it hit the rear tire for the brake . first real one was honda z 50 got that the next x mas been riding ever since dirt and street first street bike was an 84 suzuki gs550e
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Started riding in 1978, on a Honda 360 (what an ugly bike) many make and sizes since. Now on a Harley Road King Police Edition (what a joy to ride).
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street legal,i started in 1984,bought a 1968 sporty.
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