Your 1st time?
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Your 1st time?
Just finished watching mcpastor's thread "right of passage" video of his son doing his first ride.
Got me thinking back to the 1st time I rode an actual Motorcycle (not a mini bike or tote-goat).
I was around 12 years old and my Ole Man put me on his BSA Lightning. I was in the grass on the side of our house. I let out the clutch and off I went around the front of the house, straight across the front yard and right into the drivers door of my dads Buick Electra. It was a great ride. Minor dent in the car door, no damage to the bike and good laugh for us all.
How about your first time?
Got me thinking back to the 1st time I rode an actual Motorcycle (not a mini bike or tote-goat).
I was around 12 years old and my Ole Man put me on his BSA Lightning. I was in the grass on the side of our house. I let out the clutch and off I went around the front of the house, straight across the front yard and right into the drivers door of my dads Buick Electra. It was a great ride. Minor dent in the car door, no damage to the bike and good laugh for us all.
How about your first time?
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I have always worked at airports (flight instructor / commercial pilot / aircraft mechanic). I bought my first bike from my friend who was my (at that time) bosses son. He had his own personal T hangar on the field that his dad gave him for tinkering on cars and stuff. I bought my 78 Honda CB 550K off of him and we spent all night and a 36 pack of cheap beer getting her running in that hangar. My friend had been riding his whole life and taught me to ride on the ramp at the airport. I learned pretty quick probably due to my long history of mountain bike and quad riding. After the tower had closed down for the night, the beer made us think it would be a good idea to see how fast it would go but didn't want to risk getting pulled over on the street. So instead we took turns racing my Honda up and down the runway of the airport drunk off our asses seeing how fast we could get it... no helmets or goggles on. The airport traffic was almost nothing at night, so we weren't too worried. Young, dumb and full of c*m, but we survived ourselves to tell all about it.
That hangar was great... we also lit a 1936 Studebaker on fire in there one night and just barely put it out in time before it started doing some real damage. Yes, beer was involved in that one too. That's a whole different story though. Good times.
That hangar was great... we also lit a 1936 Studebaker on fire in there one night and just barely put it out in time before it started doing some real damage. Yes, beer was involved in that one too. That's a whole different story though. Good times.
i was 13, been dippin into tha tdamn electric lettuce and soem weird colored mushrooms since i woke up. was walkign down the road to one of the girls i was seeing at the time seen this kawasaki rice rocket on the side of the road i nthe middle of nowhere, there was no one around and it had this aura around it and then it told me to take it for a ride casue it was a special bike with magical powers. so i thought for a minute somethign inside of me was saying i shouldnt cause it mightin be the devil but the other voices the ones saying yes take it for a ride where overpowering so i did jus tthat climb up on it turned the key and took off, that was a special bike alright, we flew all over victoria till around 330 in the morning.
then i decided to see if the voices telling my it could float liek a boat where tellign the truth so i rolled down onto the marina and flew off the end of the docks at 145kmh i woke up in the back of an ambulance on my way to the hospital to be checked out
then i decided to see if the voices telling my it could float liek a boat where tellign the truth so i rolled down onto the marina and flew off the end of the docks at 145kmh i woke up in the back of an ambulance on my way to the hospital to be checked out
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My first real motorcycle ride was when I bought my first bike a 70 model CL70, I rode it from the dealer Chattnooga to home, about 35 miles,,, didn't have my permit at the time, I was 13, man I put a lot of miles on that little bike, dirt and street.
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I thought this thread was about gettin' laid...but I digress.
After moving from mini bikes, my first motorcycle ride was on a Honda 150.
After moving from mini bikes, my first motorcycle ride was on a Honda 150.
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If you can't count a mini bike mine was a honda 50, then went to a honda XL70, man that was the bike, 55 mph was tops and it seen it alot of time, I ran QuakerState deluxe, 10w-30 I beleive, sold that bike to my cousin and he put a bunch on it also, last time I seen the od it had over 20,000 miles on it, thats a bunch on a little motor, tough a shoe nails though, memories, the good ones.
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My first time was when I was 14 or 15 and 3 of us went and rented Honda 50s. Big bikes. 
I didn't know anything about them and the guy that brought the one I rode back turned the gas off and it died in the middle of my ride. Did I say I didn't know anything about them and received NO instruction. No wonder so many people died on these things in the 60s. I had to push it back to the station. Was almost there and my friend stopped and showed me the gas valve.
I didn't know anything about them and the guy that brought the one I rode back turned the gas off and it died in the middle of my ride. Did I say I didn't know anything about them and received NO instruction. No wonder so many people died on these things in the 60s. I had to push it back to the station. Was almost there and my friend stopped and showed me the gas valve.
thast where the speedo needle was when the pulled it out of the water so i am assumign thats how fast i was going the diver that recovered the bike went 200ft off the end of the dock to hook the winch line to it