Do you need a 'moment' to get bikes ?

[JPP]

While going to school in CA back in '78 I moved in with my sister and brother In law in the Malibu area. He through a fit when I showed up with my new KZ650. Did the whole "not in my house" thing. These things are dangerous. Your gunna kill yourself. About 2 months later he asked me to teach him how to ride it. He still rides today.

[SF2DieHard]

the motorcycle is an extension of a bicycle? yeah. For me the motorcycle is an extension of a fighter plane.

DungeonMaster

[Bas]

I grew up in a family of bikers; Dad, Mom and my Brother all rode. It was kinda of like when my friend asked me how old I was when I learned how to swim.

I just think I always have know.

[Omen]

When i was a kid, i spent most of my time on a bicycle. Motorcycling is just an extension of that.

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Amen to that!

I have three bicycles, two here in the UK (mountain bike & racing bike which funnily enough never see the light of day) & one gathering looooooots of dust, in a barn, not far from Toulouse in France....... or still I hope it is still there since I left it there back in 2000 (nice racing bicycle as well).

Now I have a Tuono Factory Black Dream for London....& an 04 Tuono gathering lots of dust in Madrid whilst waiting for its bloody new Matris suspension to be installed ( 2 months & still waiting due to Spanish Italian cocks up).

When I was 14, a friend let me have a go on his mates moped.... from that point onwards I became hooked & haven't been able to cure my addiction ever since!

Life is all good!

D.

[jrflanne]

Amen to that!



Now I have a Tuono Factory Black Dream for London....& an 04 Tuono gathering lots of dust in Madrid whilst waiting for its bloody new Matris suspension to be installed ( 2 months & still waiting due to Spanish Italian cocks up).


D.

I thought the EU was supposed to fix all of that.
Yeah, right.

[Diablo1]

I was around 11 years old and saw an ad for a Norton P11 scrambler. I was hooked.

[Omen]

I thought the EU was supposed to fix all of that.
Yeah, right.

Wishful thinking ;-)

My friends think it is hilarious.

Anyway, a week today I should be a very happy man.........I hope, I prey, ..... they can't turn me down again with some bull shit excuse...or can they!

D.

[Ewadz3006]

got a xr75 for my 6th birthday, I had to start and stop by a milk crate because my legs were to short to touch the ground. I've been hooked ever since.

[JPP]

Two words, Suzuki Trailhopper! Rode that thing regularly from Yorktown Heights to Brewster NY on old abandoned railroad beds. 20 miles each way. We were lucky to have so much open space 35 miles from midtown Manhattan. Railroad beds are now bike paths and the 100 acre motocross track down the street is now a sub division. A kid named Kenny Valentine(12 yo at the time) would borrow his fathers backhoe and drag an old wrecked Vdub around with chains to make a new track. The coolest kid had a CZ. Another a Bultaco. Kenny was the fastest. And jump like a bastard. He would build these huge jumps in the field and fly off them. Those were the days. Now I work.

[tuono07]

A friend of a friend was asking me about motorbikes the other day. What the big deal was and why bother, it's way to dangerous blah de blah de blah.
It was getting a bit boring really because they just did not or want to understand. It got to the point of me saying that until you've experienced the thrill of a 'save' you will never get it. You know, the bit where your running in a bit quick on a corner and maybe thinking 'shite I'm going through that hedge any second now' and you just tip it over a bit more than you thought possible and pull it off.
THAT kind of moment.

I see what your saying but for me it's not about the "the save" It's about that morning when you pull out of the garage, down the street, that morning when it's not cold but cool. You take off from the light and the bike just wants to go!!! you can feel it, it wants to be run, and run hard. The front lifts and the back squirms!! Inside the helmet you smile or if your like me you yell out loud HELL YEA !!

Maybe it's just me

[quadracer]

I first bought a bike to save money on fuel. Ppfffftt. Now, I spend all my "disposable income" on my bikes, and I can't see it ever being any other way.

[frogfeaturesFZR]

12 years old, paid for a ride on a 'minibike' at a school fair. Like flying only at ground level ! Been addicted ever since.....

[maddad]

Asked this girl why she was smiling on the track yesterday?How many people do you know that have ridden a 99 year old Rudge at 45 MPH she said.

[jer factor]

My brothers & I received 3hp cat mini bikes for christmas when I was 6, we rode those things practically everyday. Even at that young age I started to realize the freedom that they brought the places I could go that my friends who only had bicycles couldn't or wouldn't because it was to far or to many hills, so many adventures those little bikes brought us no matter how big or small I always felt a sense of triumph when I returned from a ride. Wow the exuberance of youth.

I still feel that way today.

[boggysv]

started late into bikes (mid 20s), but loving every minute of it.

Did not need a "moment" to get bikes, but I do need a good long moment to get it going with a new bike or even on my bike, a new setting.

Finally put on some decent rubber (diablo supercorsa sc2) for the bike today, and even though it's supposed to be much better than the old rubber, I was very uncomfortable with the bike for the first hour or so!