How old were you?

How old were you when you first started riding? I was just wondering cause a lot of people who post on this board seem to be in their teens. Did all of you start riding when you were younger?

Okay, I voted <15 because the first time I rode was on a Honda 50 when I was like 7 or 8. I never learned how to shift or anything (yard wasn't big enough to use 2nd gear) but I learned throttle control and what-not. I had a little "incident" on the dirt bike, and didn't start riding again until March of 2002 when I learned street riding at the age of 19. I'm now 21 and I LOVE riding twisties.

19, Started on the streets. Im 20 now. Would have started at 16 if I had the money or if the parents would have allowed it. But theres no way in hell they would have. I understood though. Start early while your reflexes are at their prime.

i learned this past summer up in utah. my friend bought a 83 650 nighthawk and he had a big church(bet youll never guess what type of church?) parking lot across the street so we spent about a week up their in the lot learnig how to ride. ever since then i fell in love with bikes. and i will get one as soon as i sell my civic.probably a '88 honda hawk(650), suzuki gs500, or sv650 is what i am mostly looking at.

i learned this past summer up in utah. my friend bought a 83 650 nighthawk and he had a big church(bet youll never guess what type of church?) parking lot across the street so we spent about a week up their in the lot learnig how to ride. ever since then i fell in love with bikes. and i will get one as soon as i sell my civic.probably a '88 honda hawk(650), suzuki gs500, or sv650 is what i am mostly looking at.
Side note, but GREAT choices for starters. ;)

Some of you wont believe this but its true....

I learned in the parking lot of the dealer i bought the bike from. Its was kinda in the middle of no-where so it was a big lot. I rode for a few hours then roke it home on the highway in the rain.

i DO NOT recomned doing it this way, Im an exception because im so great!

:evillol:

I started riding dirt when i was 12 then got onto the street on my 91 zx-6r when I was 18. I paid $800 for it and figured that it's cheap enough to where I don't care about it, but as long as it ran good I was good to go. Never took msc but I still knew better than to try to keep up with the badasses, and to stay away from old ladies drivng. Then I got a 00 zx-6r about 3 years later and I loved it. Had to sell it just last fall because I was poor. :crying: But I'm looking at one of the new cbr 600rr!

i started at 16 on my POS 250 can't belive i bought that turd new biggest waste of cash ever. Now i got maggie all is right with the world.

Started riding at 16, with the bike I have now. But Yamahas are the greatest!

I started with dirtbikes at 13, learned how to ride a motorcycle before I learned how to drive a car.

I started riding when I was arround 12, I think. First street bike at 17. 81' Yamaha 250 street bike. It was a big piece of junk, but it was fun. Bought it for $200 and sold it for $700. Now at 23 I have a shadow and will never get rid of it.....I wish I could go ride it right now.

First started riding when i was 8 with an oooold honda 50cc minibike. When I was aobut 10, i upgrgaded to some 80cc dirtbike, but I dont remember what brad it was. Yamaha I think. When I was about 12, i got myself a 125cc 3 wheeler (TONS! of fun, too bad they're too dangerous to make anymore) and kept that until I was about 15, when my dad an I picked up a '76 honda 360T crusier for $8 and a bottle of whiskey from our neighbor. Took a year to rebuild that and get it working. Rode that around for a while, until i was aobut jeez, 17 I think when my dad and I got a brand new suzi DR650. Huuge power difference.. that thing is a torque beast... now soon at the ripe old age of 19 (but not for long ;) ) i hope to be upgrading to a suzuki (edit) SV650!

im 20, started riding last year. ive got a 1999 honda vfr800. love it.

I started riding dirt bikes when I was 10 (28 years ago!!) I ride dirt and street these days, but not as often as I would like to.

i got a honda spree when i wan 10, a suzuki 90 when i was 12, a yamaha dt50u when i was 14, and looking for an R6 now 8 years later...woo hoo.

I started riding a motorcycle 18 years ago... I'm 22.

Started dirt at 14.....crashed alot. Been riding street since 18 and I am 26 now.

I started out on my friend's YZ250 dirt bike when I was in junior high. My parents bought me one, in which I had for two summers until it caught on fire in my same friend's garage.

Purchased a 2000 GSX-R when I was 18. Now 23, I still own the bike but living in Colorado doesn't bring much good riding days. Also going to college is a pain too.

I was 7 or 8 or 9 when i started riding with my sweet Honda Z50J which is still in my garage and i never crashed with it and its like new :iceslolan :sunglasse

started a few months ago...im 15 now...i have a 2001 GSXR750 and my stepdad rides a 99 R1 i started on a dirtbike (2003 cr125) about 5 months ago...

Im 25 going on 40.

I started riding at the age of 18 on a 1986 Kawasaki 900 Ninja. I wish I had started on a smaller bike but I lived thru it. I have now been riding over 17 years and still ride a Rice Rocket. I might buy a cruiser when I grow up and become more mature. I am curently riding a 2000 ZX-9R with Muzzys big Bore Kit.

Well i had rode on my bros bike when i was like 15 or so a few times......but never really more than that.........The first time was prob this year as far as street bikes. Was my uncles Honda CBR 1100 XX Blackbird

Now i wouldn't suggest learning on a bike like that and i wasn't used to anything at first but all in all i had fun and am lookin for a gixxer or r6 thirs spring

started at 8 on a honda 50 getting around my dads work site (plant cultivation site)
rode friends dirtbikes every year on hols from 12-16

got into street bikes at 19
got licence at 24 and started commuting. (never caught without licence)
now 31 (:uhoh: getting old now have to buy a cruiser soon)
owned bikes pictured below

started at 8 on a honda 50 getting around my dads work site (plant cultivation site)
rode friends dirtbikes every year on hols from 12-16

got into street bikes at 19
got licence at 24 and started commuting. (never caught without licence)
now 31 (:uhoh: getting old now have to buy a cruiser soon)
owned bikes pictured below

NOOOOOO! You gotta go full-liter before you retire.

what are you saying? 954 isn't a litre bike. basic maths. 9.54 rounds up to 10.00 equals a litre. also cruisers aren't over a litre? :icon16:

just messin with ya. i know deep down i'm just not quite there yet. maybe in a years time i think about contemplating discussing the possibility of an upgrade. indecisive bastard aren't i

what are you saying? 954 isn't a litre bike. basic maths. 9.54 rounds up to 10.00 equals a litre. also cruisers aren't over a litre? :icon16:

just messin with ya. i know deep down i'm just not quite there yet. maybe in a years time i think about contemplating discussing the possibility of an upgrade. indecisive bastard aren't i
Blayne, if my dad (who is 54) just got rid of the Viffer this past year, then you've got a whole other lifetime before you are allowed to call it quits on sportbikes!!!

Besides, I have a friend who is about 51 who rides a 1990 CBR1000F with over 100,000 miles on it... some track miles. Don't you dare go over to the dark side! At least not yet.

Blayne, if my dad (who is 54) just got rid of the Viffer this past year, then you've got a whole other lifetime before you are allowed to call it quits on sportbikes!!!

Besides, I have a friend who is about 51 who rides a 1990 CBR1000F with over 100,000 miles on it... some track miles. Don't you dare go over to the dark side! At least not yet.

Tangie, are you talking about DAD from sbw.sportbikes.com? People very often say he has enough skills to beat guys in their current 600s with a Ninja 250.

Aussie, don't get your hopes down, you're only old as one of my Aussie uncles, hehe. I think a person is only old as they look/feel like to him/herself. If 954 is too much for ya, get a 05 gixxer 750. :D

Btw Blayne, if that's you in the avatar, croickey mate, you look like us college blokes, haha.

Tangie, are you talking about DAD from sbw.sportbikes.com? People very often say he has enough skills to beat guys in their current 600s with a Ninja 250.

Aussie, don't get your hopes down, you're only old as one of my Aussie uncles, hehe. I think a person is only old as they look/feel like to him/herself. If 954 is too much for ya, get a 05 gixxer 750. :D

Btw Blayne, if that's you in the avatar, croickey mate, you look like us college blokes, haha.
Z, yeah, DAD is one of my good riding buddies. He promotes INSANELY good WV rides during the summer! He has actually beat a Busa with an EX500 in the twisties. Not even kidding. The man is just SICK with ability... but he's been riding longer than most of us on the board have been alive.

i was 18... drove a 250 ninja for like 3 hours then a week later bought a CBR 600 F2! now i am looking for another... had to sell the cbr... *crys*

Aussie, don't get your hopes down, you're only old as one of my Aussie uncles, hehe. I think a person is only old as they look/feel like to him/herself. If 954 is too much for ya, get a 05 gixxer 750. :D

Btw Blayne, if that's you in the avatar, croickey mate, you look like us college blokes, haha.


i think the real saying is "you are only as old as the woman you feel"
Woohoo i'm 25 :evillol:

the 954 will do fine for now and as for the mug shot, i was following Trans NSX's lead. figured you may as well know what i look like. trouble was finding a photo that i wasn't drunk and had someones ass in my face in

i think the real saying is "you are only as old as the woman you feel"
Woohoo i'm 25 :evillol:

well im 13 then :naughty: jk :rofl: i was 17 when i discovered bikes, got the sv@ 18

Started when I was 12 or so on dirt. Started this year (currently 27) on a CBR600 F4I.

im 21
http://photobucket.com/albums/v306/LaffTAF/CarsAndBikes/
find my bike there

I learned to ride on the Saturday after my 18th birthday when I bought my brothers Honda CX500. On Sunday he rode with me on the expressway, and the rest was trial and error. The MFS course was very expensive at the time, so I never took it. That was 22 years ago.

Join the AMA and help protect your right to ride.

<---------26, male, I love long walks on the beach and playing tennis, just being with that someone. ( o shit wrong fourm) my bad........j/k

I have only been riding for about 9 mounths. I have been into cars mainly. I am now going to school so i can fix my bike if something happens. There is so much stuff to know. I don't like people working on my stuff.

I started with a new 1981 Honda XL-250 when I was 20 years old in 1981. Bike cost $1300 then and I kept it for 2 years and rode it over 10,000 miles. I'm 44 now and been thinking about the midlife crisis motorcycle :icon16: . Best advise I can give a younger person is not to get too crazy and go too fast. You only live (and die) once and it's just not worth taking unnecessary chances. Always wear your protective equip. and BE CAREFUL! :iceslolan

GOOD ADVISE,

I live in FL and it sucks here. You kinda cant injoy rideing. You are to damn busy looking around every where. Some old ass lady that can't see over the dash or some really young new driver that should not be on the road yet pulls out and WAM!!!

Haha, try cruising in Miami - ghetto central.

I started riding a dirt bike when i was 13, my bike is a honda 82 XL 80.

I think I beat just about everyone... My dad put me on a PW50 when I was 4. That was 19 years ago. I grew up racing dirt bikes and then when my dad got back into street riding 6 years ago. I got my first street bike at 16... Now I'm on #6

I started riding when I was about 6yrs old, my first bike was a Yamaha Tri-Zinger Three wheeler.. I've had a handfull of Quads and Motocross bikes throughout the years, I just picked up my first street bike last week (R6).. I cant wait for this snow to melt :sunglasse ..
-Jimmy

rode dirt bikes from 5 on up, now im 27 and just got my first street bike.

I was about 10 yo, learned on a friends honda 50 3sp, auto clutch,.........man watch out for that tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmm started riding on a 50 a while ago puttin first gear only 1 aloowed . and recetly got to play on a crf150 lol fun four strokes :)
then i got my 1995 kx250 pretty trick ride lol never will let it go transfer case is leaking :'(

I started at 22 Im 24 now. got my permit then bought my bike took the road test after riding for about a month.

Never thought I could ride one untill one of my friends got one and talked me into getting one....Thank God for friends cuz its great, Ill always have a bike to ride if I can help it.

anybody ever hear of a suzuki vx 800? awesome bike first thing I ever drove besides a car and I have to say its a perfect starter bike. its fast and comfy.

Ive been riding dirt bikes and mini bikes ever sence i can remember. Got my motorcycle lisciense as soon as i could when i was 16. This will be my third year riding.

i started riding when i was 17 .. a yamaha 400 street bike... rode it for about a week every day until my friends dad wrecked it... was his to begin with.... i loved it so much i just recently bought a '97 F3.. way more power (and much more dangerous) and much more fun..

Learned riding @ 12 yrs old, Im now 32 still loving every day of it!

Well first let me say hello *first post in bike part of AF* and today and 2 days ago are my first times. I'm 19 and so far go the take off and shifting into second going good. going to ride up and down the straight alley behind the house for a few more days b4 i try ne turns. The bike is a honda chopper 650 cc i think. Its one of dads 2 choppers i'll post up a pic of the other one.

I'm 16 and have been riding dirtbikes since I was 7 and i've been riding my 82 CB650SC for about a year now and I also had my first streetbike crash about 3 weeks ago lol

I was 18 and fresh out of basic training. picked it up real quick cause it was my only mode of transportation, and I rode with about a dozen squids all the time. i put 8000 on the bike the first 6 months.

I started riding dirt bikes at 12, my first bike was an xr80.
My first road bike was a 79mdl srx250 (mad little bike, quick for a 250 and great handling) I got it of a mate basically for free. He got it off a mate that worked at the tip (where it was dumped) neither of them could get it started so they gave it to me and all it was in the end was the carby and the battery. I didnt spend any money on carby and the battery was cheap. The bike was in good condition and never dropped as far as i could tell, that is until i got it. About 12months after i got it, a car pulled out in front of me and my mate (that was on the back)
I dropped it narrowly missing the car. We just took off skin, no broken bones. All the bike copped was a broken indicator and a small dint in the tank, 12 months later and after much thrashing, i sold it for $500. it was a good bike.
I had a yamaha xr550 road bike after that and a rt390 2 stroke road/trail
but sold them 2.
I now ride a 75 ninja 600, also a mad bike.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/E38_Charger/MyKawasakiGPZR600Ninja.jpg
I want a duke 900ss or something like that next.

welllll i started out with a 1992 kawasaki zx250R at 15, and then got a honda f2 600 at 16, and then a 1996 ZX-6 kawasaki, and now am currently riding a 1997 Honda CBR 600 F3 and i think i'm going to stick with honda the rest of my life....

I was 8 when I got my first fat wheel honda-matic 50. That lasted me for 3 years when my father bought me a hudaka (spelling?) 100 cc Then it is one bike after another as I got into moto-cross. I wrecked more bikes and broke more bones than I can remember. At 16 I was furtunate enough to get my father's 69' BSA lighting. It was a custom that he rescued from the bone yard. At 18 my father gave me his 67 xlh sportster. My daily ride was a 84 Yamy fj1100.
Now in my mid thirtys with kids and a morgage the closest I get riding to 2 wheels is on a mountain bike with the kids at the park.

I voted 15 because my first vehicle was a Vespa scooter which I needed to get back and forth to my part-time job after school. Now I am 60, and getting to the point of not remembering how many motorcycles I have had over the decades. Currently, I ride either my '92 Harley FXRS-Convertible or my 03 FXDXT. My wife rides an '02 Harley FXDL. Our daughter rides a '98 Kawasaki Vulcan Classic Cruiser. I suspect my grandkids will ride when they are much younger than I started.

2 weeks before I turned 3 I rode my first bike solo. It was an automatic 50cc Indian.

I started on my dad's riding lawnmower and upgraded to his honda 500/4 when I was 14... licence when I was of age. Born in 1970 before a ton of bikes were on the road.

Tribal - When are you going to finish your tattoo? PS: I own a shop in MN :)

welllll i started out with a 1992 kawasaki zx250R at 15, and then got a honda f2 600 at 16, and then a 1996 ZX-6 kawasaki, and now am currently riding a 1997 Honda CBR 600 F3 and i think i'm going to stick with honda the rest of my life....

lol....looks like this post was wrong.... :lol2: