Remember your first ride...

Antipodean 11/4/2011 7:30pm
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First ride and first crash.

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Rudeboy119 11/4/2011 7:57pm
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Now this was the 1st bike i owned, not rode

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T Man 345 11/4/2011 8:43pm
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Flipped it on my very first attempt to take off. Scared the poop outta me. Didn`t get back on that day.

If dad had of forced me back on, maybe i`de be battling with RV2 for next years SX title... `Jus Sayin Whistling

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ocscottie 11/4/2011 9:23pm
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I have told the story a few times but...my best friend Chris Neals dad had this Z50 that he taught us both to ride, we were...
I have told the story a few times but...my best friend Chris Neals dad had this Z50 that he taught us both to ride, we were about 4yrs old.

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! Cool

(that is Nealer pictured on the bike)
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That is a truly cool story.
I cant still remember it like it was yesterday, laying in the dirt chewing that piece of gum.

This was my first "own" bike, '74 MR50:

That was also riding at Hollister Hills OHV park where our family would go camping and riding every weekend, best times of my life! Ironically it was also the last place i rode, it is where my accident happened. One of the rangers that helped cart me off the hill in a stretcher was pretty shaken up, had known him since the day i began.
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jathey 11/4/2011 9:32pm
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The first bike I ever rode was one of those little mini-bikes like Steve S posted. It belonged to my older cousins (who happened to be girls). I got on that thing and rode it straight into their chain link fence, busting my mouth open. I was hooked.

A year or so later, my parents bought me a 1974 Suzuki TM75 for Christmas. $399, brand new. (My Grandparents - who insisted that I have proper protective gear - chipped in and got me a pair of High Point MX boots and an opened-face Bell helmet.) I spent every afternoon riding that bike in the gravel pits near my house. I had to ride the hell out of it to hang with the kids who had XR75's, but I didn't care - To me, it looked just like Roger's bike and that was all that mattered.

Later on, I got one of those original Bell Moto Stars. Took it home and immediately painted it to look like Gerrit Wolsink's helmet. I thought I was so cool.
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CamP 11/4/2011 9:37pm
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I started on a blue 1971 SL70 that looked just like this for about a week.

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My first...

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trailhopper 11/5/2011 2:38am
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What great stories and great pics. This should remind us of why we are all here. We all just love to ride. This is refreshing compared to some of the BS posts that get thrown around in here. Ride on......Smile
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MXEditor 11/5/2011 7:58am
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This thread rocks

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Zildjian 11/5/2011 10:42am
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The Honda Trail 70 was a friends bike and the first bike I ever rode. Drove it straight into a tree. No one bothered to tell me what brakes were.



A month or so after the tree incident my dad bought me the fabulous Suzuki 90. All metal, all the time. I was a 90 pound 12 year old and that bike must have outweighed me 2 to 1 (at least it sure felt like it). Hated that POS with a passion, but still rode it everyday!
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82 cr80. felt like a top fuel dragster at the time.
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tns 11/5/2011 11:21am
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my first ride was on an Italijet 50 with gears my dad got it for my birthday,i stalled it the first 3 times and my older sister was taking the mic so i said here if you think you can do better do it she got on wound it open dropped the clutch took off straight through our fence and into next doors fish pond
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steve_97060 11/5/2011 12:30pm
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first were several minibikes, mostly homemade, with or without brakes and interesting throttle choices..

then a variety of bizarre honda 55's, yamaha's, other honda's, all mostly street bikes converted to ride off road.. of course this was the early 70's and we took what we got and made it work..
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gharmon 11/5/2011 3:41pm
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trailhopper wrote:
....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...
....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
That's exactly what i had. I had a couple of them. It was 75-77 and I was 4-6 years. Mine looked rough though. I has some foam taped on to a wooden board with duct tape for a seat but I rode the hell out of that thing. I remember twice the gas sticking and me running into the neighbors concrete block porch. It broke the forks both times. Aftet the mini bikes I got my first real bike at 8 in 1979. It was about a 72-73 Kawasaki 90. It was a two stroke street/trail bike. It was ugly as fuck. lol
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gharmon 11/5/2011 3:44pm
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Man I asked Santa like 4 or 5 years straight for a Honda XR 75. I never really understood why Santa kept saying okay and never brought my my damn new motorcycle. LOL But man did I long for a new XR 75
gabrielmalinois 11/5/2011 3:46pm
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When I was a kid my family would go desert riding out by California City. This was my first bike. The first time I rode my dad started it up, put me on it, gave me a little push to get going, and after I rode around for a little bit i came into the camp and hit my dad's friends camping trailer in 3rd gear because nobody taught me how to stop.

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zippy895 11/5/2011 3:57pm
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first new true motorbike, after the mini bike phase.

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zippy895 11/5/2011 3:59pm
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first new mx bike

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zippy895 11/5/2011 4:02pm
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then,the first new bike raced.


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wildbill 11/5/2011 4:27pm
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76 Suzuki TS-100

No pics on the google but found this gem and a cool Renault in the TS search...wtf?



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trailhopper 11/5/2011 10:41pm
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trailhopper wrote:
....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...
....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
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That's exactly what i had. I had a couple of them. It was 75-77 and I was 4-6 years. Mine looked rough though. I has some...
That's exactly what i had. I had a couple of them. It was 75-77 and I was 4-6 years. Mine looked rough though. I has some foam taped on to a wooden board with duct tape for a seat but I rode the hell out of that thing. I remember twice the gas sticking and me running into the neighbors concrete block porch. It broke the forks both times. Aftet the mini bikes I got my first real bike at 8 in 1979. It was about a 72-73 Kawasaki 90. It was a two stroke street/trail bike. It was ugly as fuck. lol
That's a riot. Go ahead and go ride it and don't worry about how to stop......thanks Dad. I had a couple of these....Rupp Roadster from 72 to 78. Wish I still had one today to cruise around the neighborhood.

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Highsider 11/6/2011 5:56am
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SteveS wrote:
My first ride was a pullstart Taco-type from Montgomery wards. Slid it sideways in the grass under a chain link fence and got stuck there until...
My first ride was a pullstart Taco-type from Montgomery wards. Slid it sideways in the grass under a chain link fence and got stuck there until my friend's dad came home and extricated me (fortunately it was only a short time).

Found a picture of one kind of like it. Somehow it seemed so much cooler to my 9 year old mind.
I had the same Taco 22 or 44 or something.
Steve, probably ours were black, so they were "cooler", eh? They came unpainted, so that was really fun, spray painting with cans of gloss-back.

I was 14 in 1966, when I earned the money for the frame-kit without engine. My Grandpa lived nearby and loaned me a Briggs 3.5hp engine out of a lawnmower.
Same time our front yard was torn up from a neighborhood sewer line project, so my folks let me make circle laps in our front yard.
I have been hooked for over 45 years!
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Racer92 11/6/2011 1:25pm
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Zildjian wrote:
[img]http://brownz.com/honda_trail70_1972.jpg[/img] The Honda Trail 70 was a friends bike and the first bike I ever rode. Drove it straight into a tree. No one bothered to...


The Honda Trail 70 was a friends bike and the first bike I ever rode. Drove it straight into a tree. No one bothered to tell me what brakes were.



A month or so after the tree incident my dad bought me the fabulous Suzuki 90. All metal, all the time. I was a 90 pound 12 year old and that bike must have outweighed me 2 to 1 (at least it sure felt like it). Hated that POS with a passion, but still rode it everyday!
Fawk that red CT70 is deja vu all over again. I had the exact same 70 as my 3rd bike. I drove the frickin' wheels off that thing and my dad couldnt believe it when he came home from work one day and I had replaced the points & condensor on my own. (quite a feat for a young lil shit). Before that CT-70 I had a Minitrail-50 that I had got from a guy that worked with my dad. I traded him all my sisters Steppenwolf albums for it. LOL Boy was she pissed !
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petegrath 11/6/2011 5:22pm
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MXEditor wrote:
[img]http://cdn.racerxonline.com/11474_picture_213.jpg[/img] Not mine but damn close! Blew it up in 2 weeks with my little bro. RIP XR75


Not mine but damn close! Blew it up in 2 weeks with my little bro. RIP XR75
XR 80 for me, I think it was an '83 or so (was a neighborhood kid's).

Those bikes were indestructible! Wow, so much fun. Hooked ever since. What great bikes.
RedRider28 11/6/2011 7:31pm
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I believe mine was an XR70, was hooked on dirt bikes and the sport ever since!
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Taylor156 11/6/2011 7:34pm
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Rudeboy119 wrote:
[img]https://www.cyclechaos.com/images/9/97/Z50R.jpg[/img] I was hooked from the 1st ride


I was hooked from the 1st ride
Had a 1984 and gave Texas Canyon and Gorman a handfull

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