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So lets put aside all the debate about which first bike a newbie should get. Post the first bike you learned on / purchased.. Also include how long u have been riding since then and maybe how many accidents you have been in.. or anything else you wanna share!!

Though it is not recommended as a first bike, I'm learning on a Honda Magna 700cc. It has about 80HP and weighs about 550lbs. I've been riding for almost 3 months and almost 3k miles under my belt on the bike. It has been very reliable since then though it is on the sidelines at the moment waiting on a new front tire.

Learned on a 1971 Honda Mini-Trail 50 when I was 7.

First street bike was a 1983 Honda VT500FT Ascot when I was 16. Though I was riding it around the neighborhood when I was 14, it was my fathers. Still have it.

learned on a honda 80 dirtbike in my teens, sampled a few others between then and now...first owned was a 2004 800 vulcan(a).

This has been done viewtopic.php?t=8503&highlight=first+bike+owned

i'll always miss aya....

1 crash in the canyons. broken plastics and broken confidence. me and her were mechanically fine though and we still rode after the accident.

here's a pic from ACH... damn! it was freezing cold!

I just bought a GS500F about three weeks ago. I have put about 400 miles on it so far. And it has only been dropped once on wet grass. That was kind of a fluke. Just a word of advice for all. Street tires on wet grass does not work.

I bought a beat up '76 KZ400 in '79 and taught myself to ride (no MSF courses). Been riding ever since. I crashed that KZ about 5 times and nearly all of them could have been classified as "Basic stuff you should have learned in an MSF course".

1 month, 12 days, 646 mi

Bought a Honda Shadow600VLX, took the MSF course three weeks later and have been riding for about 2 1/2 weeks to work daily. 640 miles and counting (dropped it in the parking lot once, no damage but to my pride)
BTW... no prior experience.