do you remember your first time

[marcella]

riding a bike i mean! i took my two youngest lads scrambling yesterday, i spent the journey describing throttle and clutch action to the youngest (tony) and he sat in the car squeezing and twisting his imaginery controls with his tongue hanging out and his face screwed up with concentration. By the time we reached the track he assured me he was competent enough to pilot a small commercial airliner (b0x1 BRING IT ON)
we stood and watched some of the bigger lads zooming round the circuit and it was plain to see he was itching for a go, so a mate brought this little honda mt5 dirt bike (a bit shagged out) but quick enough for a giggle. I was checking the brakes and the clutch while tony zipped up his leathers with his left hand and tried to fasten his helmet with his right ,he was so fired up it looked like he was body poppin at the same time??
he sat on the machine and whilst i was trying to explain the slippy conditions he had kicked it into life "Whoa!" i said "remember the throttle bl4hbl4h " before i could finish he shot off like a scalded cat, he got to the first corner with the bike screaming its arse off and turned the handlebars like a steering wheel, hup and over the bars and face first into the mud!!
the chin of his helmet proved a fine icecream scoop as it shovelled the mud up around his ears .it was like a visit to the moviesp0pc0rn41 , i think there was a patch of jacket at the back that was mud free but the rest of him was caked in filth.

so thats him indoctrinated into the skillfull art road butting, first and last i hope, were all looking forward to the next time.

 

[Pugwash]

The first time I sat on a bike was when I was 24. A week later I took my CBT, and a week later did a 3-day intensive course and passed for a full license. So yes, I can remember the first time. :yo:

 

[roXXo]

Frightening but so exciting.
1971.
14years old and a friend, who's dad had a haulage business will lots of land on a disused airfield, and shed full of old bikes. All scrappers but they still ran.
An Ariel leader, an Arrow, a James 150, a 125 Bantam and a Raliegh Runabout.
I had ridden on my dad's Bantam since I was 5.
We used to go to my granny's 4 up. Me on the tank, Mam pillion with my sister between my dad and my mam.

seems like yesteday

 

[Adam Rickenberg]

I tried to learn on a mates old RD350....... Madness now I look back on it! Who learns to ride on a 2 stroke rocket!! c7u8

I managed to gracefully smash into a bush while trying to master the gear lever and throttle.... All the while my mate was screaming at me to grab the front brakes!!

Needless to say the bike was a bit damaged and my nerves were shot. But I did eventually learn to ride a CG125 a year or so later... I was about 17 at the time.

Good fun days.......... :yo:

 

[Bikerbaby]

i was 15 dad borred a Gn125 from Uncle Noel and taught me up and down the drive way managed a u turn and 2nd gear.

went on then on boxing day now i'm 17;

managed to learn my clutch control do a figure of 8 (and at the saem time learn that my other left is actually called my right)

done a slalam and a u turn and got into 5th gear.

apparently i have brilliant balance and done extrmly well, i was shaking like i leaf but can't wait to next time

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first time as pillion was a bit worse, i was last to go out as i kept saying no u go first, got on and ten yards later was crying like a baby in fear.

i was sooo scared but dad made me stay on and go round the block, he appears to have regreted it seeing as he can't keep me off the back of a bike now

 

[Jaws]

13 years old.. LD Lambreta thing.. never did acutally ride it outside the garden though!

First thing I rode ( still 13 ! ) was a stolen NSU Quickly..
Next was a James Captain Deluxe when I was 15.. got nicked on that !

First road legal thing ( well almost anyway ! ) was a 350 Bullet.. It was actually registered as a 250 ( not by me ) and I rode it for ages on my provisional licence.. It was not until years later I found out they had never actually made a 250, and it had been a 350 !

 

[Smix]

First time was on what I think was an LTD 125 (sit up thingy) on my CBT. Had been pillion on and off for years, but always wanted to ride proper. Anyway, I wheelied away from a T junction whilst turning right!! :neenaw: Of course I'd love to have the skill to do that now, but doing it with no skill was hysterical!!!!!! - for me and the instructor!! :yo:

 

[Shalershasker]

First bike i rode was a kwaka AR50h1d1ng2 at 15, did me CBT a month later and never looked back.

 

[Centaur]

James 250

In about 1952. tank change and not a lot of petrol so started it on petrol and when it was warmed up....TVO from the tractor...compression ratio was so low it kept on running but got so hot the thing would keep on running even when it was turned off. Seized up fairly soon but then had the fun of a rebore and oversized piston. Next I remember was a Fanny B and then an exWD Matchless which is the first one I have a piccy of. halcyon days!

 

[D.S.]

8 years old, my dads mate farm and one mini scrambler.
A week later I had my own. 4 years later I was doing Junior Nationals Moto-X. Never been without at least one bike since then.
The old man is 72 now and I still have trouble keeping up with him on the road fl4g71 - whip his arse on the track though

 

[marcella]

mines was on a shitty old fs1e, and like the horror stories you tell i managed to make it go but went all to crap when i had to stop i was 16 years old and tony is 12. he,s still yakkin and blethering about it now lol

 

[derek kelly]

A clarks scampi moped, I think it was in 1970, given to me & my brother we used to ride it in the garden.
next was a Triumph 200 tiger cub that I used to push up the hill to the valley behind our house & ride when I got there [honest Mam]

 

[Nosher]

An illegal run on a puch maxi at 14 - it had twist gears (a la vespa et al).

First 'legal' ride was a Honda SS50 - 5 speed (wow), 4 stroke and pedals FFS.

RPH 443 R was the plate. Smashed it up when I went through the back of a caravan at 45 mph!!

.....fiberglass splinters itched for days in my neck!!

 

[R2B2]

WAs lucky enough to be brought up on a farm, so had field bikes from about age 12 ish. First was a mmoped of some sorts which was hopelessly slow and had pedals - not cool!

Next was a bike with a two stroke villiers twin that my uncle got from the auction for about ?2/10s. Poss a Franny Barnett but can't remember. Moved into the four stroke scene at about age 13/14 with a 350 bullet which just kept going forever with no attention.

First road bike was an Ariel Arrow, then took my test and got a Norton Dominator - fook me, that thing was such a step forward (in those days), it had the power to tow an artic it seemed.

Then a gap of some years and started again with a Honda 400/4 in about 1981 ish.

 

[Hornblower]

NSU Quickly up and down the garden when I was 12. First time on the road at 16 with a Puch Maxi on the A45 between Wellingborough and Earls Barton wearing my mates Centurion helmet with the clip on full face section. I remember my knees knocking with fear at the speed, from what I remember it was the fastest Ive ever been. We could only put a quarter gallon of petrol in it coz it had a crack in the frame down tube (which was also the tank) and it leaked quite badly onto the exhaust manifold. Two weeks later doing jumps off a ramp at Northampton race course I landed and the sodding thing split in half as I landed. My mate was realy pissed off and it cost a tenner (about what the bike was worth) to get it welded together and a band of metal welded on top to make it strong again. I stopped riding it after that, it gave me arm ache coz it pulled to the left so badly.

 

[Wolfie]

riding a bike i mean! i took my two youngest lads scrambling yesterday, i spent the journey describing throttle and clutch action to the youngest (tony) and he sat in the car squeezing and twisting his imaginery controls with his tongue hanging out and his face screwed up with concentration. By the time we reached the track he assured me he was competent enough to pilot a small commercial airliner
we stood and watched some of the bigger lads zooming round the circuit and it was plain to see he was itching for a go, so a mate brought this little honda mt5 dirt bike (a bit shagged out) but quick enough for a giggle. I was checking the brakes and the clutch while tony zipped up his leathers with his left hand and tried to fasten his helmet with his right ,he was so fired up it looked like he was body poppin at the same time??
he sat on the machine and whilst i was trying to explain the slippy conditions he had kicked it into life "Whoa!" i said "remember the throttle before i could finish he shot off like a scalded cat, he got to the first corner with the bike screaming its arse off and turned the handlebars like a steering wheel, hup and over the bars and face first into the mud!!
the chin of his helmet proved a fine icecream scoop as it shovelled the mud up around his ears .it was like a visit to the moviesp0pc0rn41 , i think there was a patch of jacket at the back that was mud free but the rest of him was caked in filth.

so thats him indoctrinated into the skillfull art road butting, first and last i hope, were all looking forward to the next time.

bet you pissed yerself laughing!!! i would of died mate.

 

[marcella]

now now andy you know im an emotive concerned type

nah! your bang on:yo: i dont know how my sphincter lasted out i laughed till it hurt (but not when he was looking!) he did a sterling job , maybe i'll get a cheap trailie in time for your next scottish jaunt?

 

[Wolfie]

now now andy you know im an emotive concerned type

nah! your bang on:yo: i dont know how my sphincter lasted out i laughed till it hurt (but not when he was looking!) he did a sterling job , maybe i'll get a cheap trailie in time for your next scottish jaunt?

mate i would off been pointing at him laughing like a feckin drain!!!!! then i would off said told you to listen to me yer doughnut!!!! and started laughing again.

 

[marcella]

mate i would off been pointing at him laughing like a feckin drain!!!!! then i would off said told you to listen to me yer doughnut!!!! and started laughing again.

maybe it because i reckon im stupid enough to make the same mistake still lol

 

[Adam Rickenberg]

WAs lucky enough to be brought up on a farm, so had field bikes from about age 12 ish. First was a mmoped of some sorts which was hopelessly slow and had pedals - not cool!
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I remember those bloody moped things.... Rode a mates one before I learnt to ride properly on the CG125.... Feckin' shitty thing! Pedals and a tiny motor that you had to lever on to the front tyre....

Wow, that brings back memories!! Thanks R2B2 :}