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Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:44 pm**

In the dirt, on a '74 Indian 100.... just like most 7 year olds did.

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:35 am**

I started on dirt with the typical minibike. After two minibikes, I got a Chapparal "mini cycle" that had been converted from the blown 80cc engine to a 4 hp/torque converter set up. I then converted that to a "road bike, and started riding to my friends house 15 miles away on the secondary roads. I primarily stayed on the street (illegally) for the next 3 years, until that glorious day when I got my motorcycle temps. (16 yrs. old) been riding ever since (43 yrs. old now).

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:53 am**

Street, first bike was a 81 CB400T.

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:28 am**

Both. It was illegal but I did as many miles on the road as I did off.

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:32 am**

If you count the minibike I rode at my uncle's farmlike property, I guess it was dirt. But that was when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old, didn't start riding "real" bikes until I was 20, and that was on the street.

Posted: **Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:21 am**

Street and it was/is a 2001 ZX-6R J2.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:12 pm**

started on dirt ...benilli 50...long...long...long time ago...LOL

Lonewolf

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:32 pm**

1981 Yamaha Exciter (250)...even had a built-in little trunk on the back! Frankp

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:10 pm**

My VERY VERY VERY first time behind the bars was on a friends 1978 Suzuki DS80 in highschool...

COOL I JUST GOOGLED and FOUND A PHOTO OF THE BIKE!

http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/DS/D ... us_500.jpg

WOW! exactly as I remember it!

specs: http://www.suzukicycles.org/DS-series/DS80.shtml

That first zoom down the back alley and tearing around a park set things in motion... big revs, two-strokes, adrenalin, big smiles... A visit to ol "uncle walts" had me trusting for a Yamaha GT80 enduro bike: red tank with yellow "GT" lettering, street legal kit, and silver metal fenders... whew! what a dream that was... but alas it was never to be.

Then I was able to borrow my brother's DT200 on the street until i got my official license for my next dream bike -- a used 1983 RZ350K, and after a year on the road, it was off to the race tracks... etc. etc. etc.

Lots more fun after that... always commuting... didnt own a car, didnt care... some racing, repairing, etc... tons o' fun

that was over 17 years ago. over the past few years my truck broke down, but I kept my bike going as long as a could afford to... always my first toy, and always my last...

And tomorrow I am going to look at another new bike that someone just "dug up" for me... then perhaps one day i will buy a truck or car again (giggle)... but first the bike again! i can survive without a car, but gotta have another bike this year. weeeeeeeeee...

'er... we shall see. a need just a snippet more luck to land on my plate

but i think the world will look after those little details... karma.

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:09 am**

D-D-Dirt...started at 11 yrs. old...haven't ridden a streetbike yet...but will do so very soon.

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First bike