If you can, do a google image search and post the bike that most closely resembles what you learned to ride on.

I learned to ride on a 1990 Honda VTR Interceptor 250 (though it amuses me greatly that Honda had the ***** to name the bike "Interceptor" when it was only a 250).

I rode this bike EVERYWHERE including highways for 2 years. I got it when I was 17 and had to fight my mom tooth and nail to get it.

 

Started out on a Sears mini bike, went to a Benelli 3 speed (don't remember the CC's), then to an Suzuki RV90 all as a kid. As an adult a Honda CM400E, a 1976 XLCH, a 650 cc Silverwing that was totaled in a month in a hit and run, CX650C, GS650, twin cam Hertiage and now an 07 Ultra. This doesn't count the off road bikes I had in the 80's.

 

1963 Harley "Pacer"

 

Much like myself. Sears mini-bike, Benelli 50cc mini-motorcycle, the H-D 65cc Leggero, and on and on and on with just about every small motorcycle there was until I was 21 years old and in the USAF. Then I bought my Low Rider, in 1980.

Remember that old time commercial "Some day you'll own a Yamaha"??? That's exactly how long I owned one, a 125cc I think. Bought it used, rode it one day, traded it for a H-D SX175 the next day.

 

Back in 1970 when I was like 8 years old my Dad bought me a Honda CT70. He already had a few dirt bikes, and liked to trail ride, so he got me into it. This is the first bike I ever road by my self.


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My first legal street bike came when I turned 17. I had been riding all sorts of **** wrecks before that.....and still only had my MC licence without any auto endorsement on it (didnt drive a cage legally until I was almost 31). So when I turned 17 I bought one of these. (I had it shipped out to LA where I attended and graduated from American Motorcycle School.....that was in 1980....and was the first MC mechanics school I attended. Lets just say I had a VERY good time that Summer....I had just gotten access to quite a bit of money from my trust fund.....and used some of it to buy a brand new bike, pay for school, and live in LA for almost a year without having to work.....I was only 17.....my GF at the time was 18, and life was so very simple.

 

First one, my friend's Honda Trail 70...took all my first spills on this tough little ****. My parents wouldn't buy me my own.



When I got old enough to work and get my own, I learned street riding on this Honda CB500 Four..mine was even this color:

 

1947 Knucklehead....................sure wish I had that thing now! Was my brother-in-laws.........my 1st one that I owned was a 1951 Pan...........took me some getting used to the foot shift/hand clutch! lol.........never owned a Jap bike............all HD all the time.............I miss some of those older ones, but I sure do appreciate the newer technology.

 

I learned on a late 60's (I think) Yamaha 80 street bike. I was 15 years old. Searched for a pic, but couldn't find one.

 

Honda Mini Trail Z50A. I was one bad Mamba Jamba on that bike!

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See my sig pic.