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....and was it similar to one of these. Would ride that minibike for hours and hours as a kid. Anyone else start on one of these?
http://www.oldminibikes.com/images/cat/cat_minibike.jpg
http://www.oldminibikes.com/images/cat/cat_minibike.jpg
I went from that to a KX65 and my mind was blown in a day, that thing scared the shit out of me the first time I wound it up
Found a picture of one kind of like it. Somehow it seemed so much cooler to my 9 year old mind.
The Shop
my dad bought me some military boots and a pair of gloves the next day and i wore an open face helmet for the first couple weeks before he bought me the McGrath Showtime replica Bell.
been hooked to haulin' ass and poppin' wheelies ever since.
solo, At a church picnic in Seymour Missouri in about 1975. I was 11 years old.
There was a guy and his wife that raced and they bought their bikes out to let people ride.
I took a turn on the wife's bike (it was either a mx 125 or a tm 125). Figured out the clutch thingy pretty quick and was instantly hooked on what I knew had to be the most awesome and powerful thing ever made.
Been addicted ever since.
Do any sweet jumps?
Damn, oldminibikes... there's an internet forum for EVERYTHING, isn't there?
I took off on the thing in a pretty big flat field and didn't know how to stop it.
My dad forgot to mention to me "the breaks"...
Kept riding it for what felt like forever,until I finally slowed enough that I fell over.
Second ride was learning how to use the breaks and learning how to ride it standing up.
I pressured him to let me ride it and he finally conceded. I told him I knew what I was doing and I would take it easy (I didn't know what I was doing). I was putting around in first and second gear out in a field when finally he was like "Give it a little gas!". Well, I cracked the throttle and found out pretty damn quickly what a two stroke can do. The fact that I was sitting waaaaay back didn't help either. The bike launched out from under me and I smashed my tailbone on the ground. I just remember the bike being about 5-6 feet in the air.
My dad came running over and asked if I was okay and then when I said I was, he said, "You just had your first lesson in horsepower."
Been hooked and riding that 250 smoker ever since.
I was hooked from the 1st ride
Chillin with my jean jacket
First one by myself I think, no helmet, factory lion king. You can tell though I'm hooked from that second on for life.
Pit Row
Not mine but damn close! Blew it up in 2 weeks with my little bro. RIP XR75
Moto gets in the blood and your a lifer.
My first ride was PW50 the white and red model like 88 or 89 , I got it for Christmas my dad pulled it out of the back of moms Ford Escort GT. When I decided I didn't want training wheels any more that's when my parents got into running. As long as they would run behind me holding the rear fender I was fine. One day my mom let go with out me knowing I looked back to check if she was still there and she wasn't, I quickly ate shit and was thoroughly pissed off. Needless to say that was the last day I needed any help riding.
This was the first real bike I owned and started to learn to ride on. It was great except the woodruff key on the magneto kept shearing off.
My best friend John Runyon (RIP) restored it for me to ride for Christmas, it was his brothers at one time and was in pieces in a barn in VT.
My very first ride on it i will never forget, we were in a field behind our houses and his dad Ron said if i made from here to the fence post about 25 yards away, he would give me a stick of juicyfruit gum. I made it to the fence post and was so stoked i looked back at them all happy and jackknifed it, ate shit face first into the dirt, and balled my head off, but i got that piece of gum!
(that is Nealer pictured on the bike)
Love threads like these.
This isn't the exact bike obviously, but it looked very similar, just in much worse shape.
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