what was your first bike?

[vmaxride06]

First Bike was a Suzuki RM 80
Then Went to a Honda CR125
First Road Bike was a Kawaski KZ 650
Then Bought a Z-1 Classic and had some real fun.
Bought My Max in 06. Been happy ever since:eusa_dance:

Chris

 

[Firewrench]

1971 Suzuki TS-90. Traded it away for a riding lawnmower.
1969 Sportster
1982 FXR (Favorite Harley)
1970 Honda CB-360 This one was fun out in the woods running the dogs.
1982 Yamaha XS1100 Very smooth, wouldn't run in the rain or after washing.
1975 Sportster (had this one tuned to start with 1 kick, 99% of the time anyway)
1979 Low Rider
1981 Suzuki GS750 Made a bunch of money with this one, riding it!
1985 V-Max, Makes me smile every time I twist the throttle This one is it! (till the next one comes along)

 

[Josiah]

My first street bike was a red 85 Maxim XJ700X. Great bike, just sold it this past summer when I wanted something with a bit more oomph. It treated me well though, picked it up from an older, somewhat mousy gentleman with coke bottle glasses when it had 1800 miles on it for $750. Spent about $80 getting it running, and never put anything more than regular maintenance into it after that. Sold it with 11,000 miles on it for $2,400! If it wasn't such a good bike, I would have felt guilty for that one!

 

[eatatjoz]

Honda CB200T
Honda CB360T
Yamaha 750 Seca
Yamaha 750 Seca (2)
Kawasaki 250 Ninja
Kawasaki 250 Ninja (2)
Yamaha Vmax
Honda 1100 Shadow (RIP Adam)
Kawasaki 750 Ninja

My favorites were the zebra stripped Seca and my Vmax.

 

[Hatter]

First- 1981 Yamaha 185 Exciter 1 (bought in '86)
second- 1982 Honda CM400T (bought in '88)
Third- 1984 Honda Magna V30 [500cc] (bought in '91) My favorite!
Fourth- 1981 Honda CB750k
Fifth- 2007 VMAX

 

[yeroc40]

Past
86 650 Maxim
97 tl1000s
01 DRZ 400E, plated w/motard wheels
04 KTM 520 SMR

current
08 thumpstar
94 vmax
94 dr350

The TL is still my favorite and wish I hadn't sold it. It was the original and I had the original ecu, not the one offered as a replacement. Ran a little snatchy around town, but that was one wicked bike. Now that I really think about it. I wish I had it back now, but am thankful I took it to the track with the motard when I did, before being arrested or dead.

 

[naughtyG]

1st ride was my sister's Peugeot 103 (49cc CVT) moped fitted with pedals which I stole from her on saturdays when I was 12 (not legal to ride until 14 in France)..

Then I got another old Motob?cane moped that was dead ( free from a family acquaintance), rescussitated it and 'worked' on it to make it the fastest wackiest off-road moped of all time. It had a Honda XLS 125 seat, front fender and rear shocks on it, and we went at the cylinder ports with our metal files! :rofl_200::eusa_dance:Got arrested for riding it on the street at night with no lights or insurance :bang head:

1st bike was my brand new bright yellow 1982 Ancillotti 80cc Enduro bike - proper Italian thoroughbred with a great 2-stroke Minarelli engine - I so loved that bike (I was 16) and rode it through miles and miles of forest, dirt lanes and street until it got stolen :tantrum:

Then it went...

- 1984 Kawasaki AR80 (french model limited to 50mph) - also stolen - but in central London as I went to work on a sunday :confused2:

- 70's Honda CB 125 4-stroke - stolen from outside my squat in London after only about a month of owning it :damn angry:

- 1988 Kawasaki KLR 650 - got it in '89 with just 1800 miles on the clock, and rode it through England, Scotland, Ireland and France. Great bike.

- 1990 Yamaha XTZ 750 Super T?n?r? - nice dual sports parallel twin that was more of a road bike really, only it had a crap seat. Still rode it through most of England, France and Spain. Sold it to a dealer for near nothing in desperate times after my daughter was born.

- 1980 Honda CX500 - bought very cheap but still lasted me quite a few years. This bike was pretty much bulletproof till the day it simply refused to start and nothing I tried could bring it back - sold it to a guy who was making one bike out of two.

- 1994 Aprilia Pegaso 650. Another great Italian bike, with that Rotax-made 4-stroke single BMW used in their F650, but with much nicer styling. Another excellent bike, 0-100mph in very few seconds. Great for wheelies too.

- 1982 Honda CM200T Twinstar. Bought from my wife's granny (4 my wife), this thing looks brand new and still has less than 1900 miles on its clock!

- 1990 Kawasaki 454 LTD. My first cruiser - hated the riding position as I felt totally ridiculous, but nice perky little motor for a 450, that is basically half of the Ninja 906cc of the mid-80s.

- 1986 V-Max, bought just a few months ago with 36k on the clock for more $$ than I care to admit. Always wanted one since my first ride in '86 or '87, and I absolutely love it.

Really hard to pick a clear favourite - it's between the Ancillotti, KLR, Pegaso and the V-Max. Of course the :worthy: Max wins on the speed/power front :biglaugh: anyday.

The bike I always wanted but could never get was the Cagiva Elefant 900 IE - wicked dual-sports Paris-Dakar monster with a Ducati 90 degrees V-Twin at its heart - if I could still find one I would sooo buy it.

 

[KJShover]

Summer of 1971, I got a honda Z50.

Then it was a honda 80, honda 100, honda 125, yamaha rd500, XS750, 2-xs1100's, Venture Royal, Goldwing, custom chopper, then the Vmax.

With a Z1 and XS bracket bikes, and a Kaw turbo/n20 drag bike tossed in the mix.

This thread brings back memories. I can vividly remember riding all over hell and back with my z50. Even got pulled over on my street by the local police a few weeks before my 4th birthday, after loosing sight of my brothers on thier motorcycles in the trails. It was by my uncle, I still here the story from time to time.

If and when I ever have a kid, I want to find another one to rebuild for him or her.

 

[05Silverado]

First bike was and still is 1997 VMax unk:

 

[Noxx72]

1980 Honda CX500 - bought very cheap but still lasted me quite a few years. This bike was pretty much bulletproof till the day it simply refused to start and nothing I tried could bring it back - sold it to a guy who was making one bike out of two.

I had one of these little weirdos for a while in the early 90's. Tranverse V twin shafty.... what an oddity. Ran like a champ on a daily basis tho, and comfy to boot.

 

[jfeagins]

(("1982 Yamaha XS1100 Very smooth, wouldn't run in the rain or after washing.")) My 1979 XS1100 would do the very same thing. It had something to do with the two very tiny wires connecting the pickup coils to the advance plate under the leftside cover being broken inside their plastic sheathing. Temp variance would cause the wires to retract and the break would separate causing two cyclinders to drop till all heated up again, or until the $50 pickup coil was replaced. New ones would begin doing the same thing within next 10k miles. Bummer shortcoming for the XS1100's,

I digress.

My first was a Montgomery Wards 3hp ScatCat minibike.

2. 1972 Yamaha 125cc Enduro. burnt orange
3. 1978 Suzuki 500 2stroke, twin, blue
4. 1977 Honda GL1000 black w/ gold and blue pin striping
5. 1979 Yamaha XS1100 magenta red (aka brown to me)
6. 1985 Yamaha Vmax red
7. 1986 Yamaha Venture Royale 1300cc Urushi black/brown
8. 1985 Yamaha Vmax red (15 yr old female beginner driver bought the 1st one out from under me the hard way)
9. 2004 Honda Rune 1835cc candy black cherry

The Vmax will always be my favorite and the mostest funnest ride.

Currently in the garage: The wife and I still have the Venture, Vmax, my Rune and she has a matching illusion blue Rune and a 2006 Suzuki c90t 1500cc Boulevard. Life is good.

unk:

 

[naughtyG]

I had one of these little weirdos for a while in the early 90's. Tranverse V twin shafty.... what an oddity. Ran like a champ on a daily basis tho, and comfy to boot.

Yup - the CX500 really ran great. In London all the courier despatch riders used were CX500s and GPZ550s - those were the two most reliable bikes. Despatch bikes were more abused than any other - running all day long like taxi cars, and all year long in the winter salted road etc..

The CX also came as the CX500C - the 'custom' version that looked a bit more like a cruiser - same bike but with higher bars and a different seat. Another plus is that it was shaft-driven.
For one year, Honda also made the CX650 Turbo - that thing was stoopid fast. There was one in mint condition on eBay recently, but for way too much $$..

 

[EvilD]

1982? Yamaha Maxim 400

 

[dannymax]

Everybody's listing all their bikes so here's an addendum to my initial post:

After the 250 Barnett there was
'66 Triumph Trophy 500 chopper
'59 Triumph Bonneville 650 pre-unit chopper
'70's ? Yamaha xs650 chopper (went down hard with this one-lost my taste for choppers at that point)
'74 Yamaha xs500
'77 Yamaha xs750
'85 Yamaha Maxim xj700x 5-valve
'85 Yamaha v-max
'98 Yamaha 350 Big Bear 4WD
'99 Yamaha v-max

 

[MAXXMAN93-4301]

my first was a 74? rm125 suzuki ,then ts185 suzuki, then rd350, then yamaha xt500 first year,87 fz600[2] , then cx500[with allis chalmer tractor mufflers] then 82 cbx, kz1100ltd of course my current 93 vmax.

my favorites rd350 cbx xt500 but number 1 is the vmax

 

[one2dmax]

Man, I don't even know if there is room.

 

[Noxx72]

Man, I don't even know if there is room.

Ditto that, I'm also not sure my memory would serve. I've gone through a lot of UJM's back in the good old days when a used japanese bike was $1/cc as a rule of trade.

 

[maxout1200]

My first bike was a yamaha twin jet 100. For get what year! 60's though.
I could get 67mph laying flat on the tank on a calm day.

2nd 1964 Honda 250 Scrambler
3rd Yamaha 305
4th 1970 Kawasaki 500 triple MachIII H1
5th 1971 Kawasaki 500 triple
6th 1970 Honda CB 750 Four
7th Suzuki RM 250
8th 1984 Honda V65 Magna
9th 1985 Yamaha Vmax
10th 2003 GL 1800 Honda
11th 1993 Yamaha Vmax
12th Kawasaki 2008 KLR 650
13th 1970 Honda CT-70 mini trail
14th 1983 Honda XL600R
15th 2009 Yamaha Vmax

 

[Redbone]

1975 DT 250, loved that bike. I paid all of $450 for it new from the dealer in '76.

I think my favorite so far is Redbone though.

 

[dannymax]

1975 DT 250, loved that bike. I paid all of $450 for it new from the dealer in '76.

Jeez Brian, that looks a hell of a lot like a v max!! :biglaugh: