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Chip Beazley, that's a slick bike, that bantam. I Have a B25 starfire. Thing is quick for a 250. I love Bsa's. Now I'm a Triumphman. I like nortons, but as far as looks...there is nothing that looks quite as lovely as a BSA. Looks like it's going fast when it parked.

Started on a street bike (CB125S) when I was 15. Rode a bike to High School and all over the place with my buddies. My 2 brothers and I made our mom go gray, having 3 bikes parked in the laneway. I didn't get my car license until I was 20. Still have the bike I bought in '84.

Late 16. Never been on anything 2-wheeled but a bicycle up til that point. I lived!

High_Side wrote:5y.o. on an ATC 90, then switched it up a month later to a CT70....

LMAO same age same first bike

Whizza wrote:

High_Side wrote:5y.o. on an ATC 90, then switched it up a month later to a CT70....

LMAO same age same first bike

And now I am shopping for one for my kids...

High_Side wrote:

Whizza wrote:

High_Side wrote:5y.o. on an ATC 90, then switched it up a month later to a CT70....

LMAO same age same first bike

And now I am shopping for one for my kids...

a mate of mine has the next size up i cant recall what it is but it was his first bike and he too kept it for his kids ill see if i can find a pic of him doin a wheelie on it and in the next pic he is on his back side very funny day

I got my license 6 years ago. I'd been on the back too many years. I had carried around the MSF flyer with me for 2 years. One person, at the right time, asked me why wasn't ridding the front? Why indeed? No roll models? No encouragement? My now ex-husband was heard to say "no wife of mine is going to ride". He was right. I went to the class. 6 months later, my then 4 year old daughter and I were out of there. It was a last straw kind of thing.

I make it a point to ask as many passenger woman as I can about their interest in learning to ride. I hope I can ask at least one, at the right time, to encourage her to go for it.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

Gail

Got a Honda Mini Trail 70 for my 8th birthday, rode that thing to DEATH! lol, Graduated to a Yamaha dual purpose-it was a 250-don't remember the model-very early monoshock model. Then I got what I consider the ultimate 'starter' road bike-a Honda CB350. Those were great old bikes, built like tanks. Since then, I've owned a Triumph, a couple Harleys, a ZX1100 Ninja (holy crap that thing was fast!), and finally my current bike-an '03 XL883 converted to 1200, then punched up some more Harley Sportster. I love this bike, and wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm almost 39 years old now-and I started at 8-so I guess I've been riding for about 31 years.......umm, wow-lol.....I'm OLD! lol

My first ride was two-up on my buddies ct90. I was hooked, so he let me "drive"...my second ride was that one. After we hit the tree on the 90 degree trail bend, I was totally hooked! After that I snuck around bumming rides on my two buddies that had bikes (dad hated them) and never had my own until a break of 30 years. Last year I got yhis one, and put 10,000 miles on it from September to September. Good choice. I'd say I was probably 14 or 15 when we first did the shenanigans.

Of course much of my bicycling as a kid was jumping off of construction dirt piles at my neighbor's house...his dad had a bulldozer and a backhoe and was always digging something up. I've often wondered if it was just so we'd have a bicycle playground. BMX wasn't even invented yet. Schwinn stingray was the order of the day, and people didn't sue each other every time somebody's kid broke something.

I was about 15 when i first started riding, took my cuz's bike and went to visit my then gf...not the smartest thing to do but i did it anway. The feel of all that power and the beautiful curves, the sounds of that engine was like music to me...Been riding ever since