What was your first bike?

Team Sakai Racing 7/14/2010 7:48am
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1968 Sach's 80cc Boondocker with full size wheels and yes, The leading link front end.
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1972 Yamaha DT2 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.
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1972 Yamaha DT2 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.
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1972 Yamaha DT2 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.

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1972 Yamaha DT2 250 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.
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1972 Yamaha DT2 250 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.
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1972 Yamaha DT2 250 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.
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1972 Yamaha DT2 250 Enduro when I turned 16. Took the lights off within a month and ran my first race at the first event ever run at Bithlo. Now its my backup vintage racer. Damn, I`m getting old.
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mx400bee 7/14/2010 8:33pm
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Sorry for the extra 6 posts. Old and Stupid I should have said.
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my first was a italjet 50.
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my first was a italjet 50.
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Team Sakai Racing wrote:
1968 Sach's 80cc Boondocker with full size wheels and yes, The leading link front end.
I had a sachs 80 also. all black w/a red gas tank. went pretty good for a 80. ran NPG oil in the gas. had to put a piston in it once. C-B motors did the boring for me. how many of you guy's remember C-B motors? I think they were on crenshaw in hawthorne. good memories all around.
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Law 131 7/15/2010 5:03pm
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1971 Honda CT70H (H was for hand clutch) 4 speed. The color was burnt orange.
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The original pumpkin...Indian Mini Mini.
oldschoolmxr203 7/16/2010 1:23pm
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..

..This was me and my brothers second bike the first was a lawnmower powered mini bike,
this is what it looked like, its not our actual bike 1973 Kawasaki mc1m 90 trail bike
Mugen ME125RE 7/22/2010 10:36am
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1979 Yamaha MX80. Wish I still had it. I outgrew it in about 6 months which led to my second bike. Nov of 85 a 1986 CR-125 rolled up. Woo Hoo! I still have it, with a full assortment of Mugen and Showa goods from Sudco International, that I bought with all my hard earned lawn mowing money.
Mugen ME125RE 7/22/2010 10:37am
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1979 Yamaha MX80. Wish I still had it. I outgrew it in about 6 months which led to my second bike. Nov of 85 a 1986 CR-125 rolled up. Woo Hoo! I still have it, with a full assortment of Mugen and Showa goods from Sudco International, that I bought with all my hard earned lawn mowing money.
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NW#599 7/22/2010 11:48am
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First bike was a lawn mower pull start engine powered hand made chubby tire mini bike my dad built.

First production bike was the Honda MR50 when I was 5. Still remember seeing two of them on the show room floor and thinking it was too good to be true that I was getting one.

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wownd out 7/23/2010 5:19pm
7/23/2010 5:19pm Edited Date/Time 7/23/2010 5:26pm
72 Honda QA50 at age 6 rode it every day in my backyard, in right hand circles, i should have done australian speedway instead of MX.
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wownd out 7/23/2010 5:22pm
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Double post! ok my 2nd bike was a 75 Honda XR75 i rode it every day in my backyard in right hand ovals, i should have done Australian speedway instead of MX.
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slowvet 7/24/2010 11:52am
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wownd out wrote:
Double post! ok my 2nd bike was a 75 Honda XR75 i rode it every day in my backyard in right hand ovals, i should have...
Double post! ok my 2nd bike was a 75 Honda XR75 i rode it every day in my backyard in right hand ovals, i should have done Australian speedway instead of MX.
My buddy had one of those when I was a kid, Hooker exaust, yz 100 forks and Koni forward mounted shocks. I was so jelous.
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slowvet 7/24/2010 11:53am
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wownd out wrote:
Double post! ok my 2nd bike was a 75 Honda XR75 i rode it every day in my backyard in right hand ovals, i should have...
Double post! ok my 2nd bike was a 75 Honda XR75 i rode it every day in my backyard in right hand ovals, i should have done Australian speedway instead of MX.
My buddy had one of those when I was a kid, Hooker exaust, yz 100 forks and Koni forward mounted shocks. I was so jelous.
Johnny89superbike 9/1/2010 1:48am
9/1/2010 1:48am Edited Date/Time 9/1/2010 1:55am
1st - Italjet Mini Bambino 50 MX, new $250
2nd - Gemini (Taiwanese made Yamaha) Boss 80, used $100
3rd - Suzuki TM125L, new $649
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oldschoolmxr203 wrote:
[img]http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab47/mxr203/1974-kawasaki-mc1m.jpg?t=1279311614[/img].. ..This was me and my brothers second bike the first was a lawnmower powered mini bike, this is what it looked like, its not our...
..

..This was me and my brothers second bike the first was a lawnmower powered mini bike,
this is what it looked like, its not our actual bike 1973 Kawasaki mc1m 90 trail bike
I had one of those in 1974. Took the baffle out to make is sound like a "race bike". That bike took some major abuse. Bought it used for $250 paper route dollars.
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dals3 9/2/2010 7:59pm
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"The one" that started it for me was this one. A 1966, 50cc Harley Davidson. It was my Grandpa's pit bike when he was a mechanic on a Canadian MacLaren racing team. He passed it onto his son (my uncle) who promptly turned it into an "mx" machine with big sprockets, knobby tires, high/plastic Preston Petty fenders modified to fit, no lights/electrical, heavy springs in the forks, etc.

I wanted a bike soooooo bad when I was 12 years old (grade 07). My Grandpa promised me I could have The Harley if I hit a homerun in the baseball tournament we were playing in one weekend. I was so determined to get that thing, I hit THREE that weekend!!! That was it for me. I was addicted from the first time I rode that bike.

*Crazy thing had a forward action, left side kick start and a clutch/shifter on the left side lever. To shift you pulled in the clutch and twisted the grip to the next notch and let it go.

*There was also a women's version of this bike with step through tank/seat configuration.

Man I LOVED that bike.

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Bubu13 6/17/2011 2:57pm
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1971 Yamaha AT-1

I think this might be Lyons in 1972. Wow, cool boots, huh? and the Precision Cycle sweatshirt... now that's old school. lol

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