When did it start for you? (pictures)

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Edited Date/Time 3/8/2012 10:24pm
Had a Briggs and Stratton mini-bike before this, but this was the oldest pic I've found. Circa 1980

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roughneck 3/5/2012 1:16pm
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You kinda look like Barcia...if ya close one eye and squint the other from about 100 yards..Blink
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Don't have any from way back Mutt, but this should do, Dec 79, breaking in my first new 250....





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WhipMeister 3/5/2012 1:17pm
3/5/2012 1:17pm Edited Date/Time 3/5/2012 1:19pm
< ------------------------------- somewhere around that time over there. (About 72)

I have that XR in my garage, now
keeptwostrokesalive 3/5/2012 1:23pm
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Dont have any pics but the first bike i rode was my uncles honda mini bike. Then when i was big enough i hopped on his xr70 and rode that thing to death. Then many years later i finally got my first real dirtbike, a 2004 yz125. I was the happiest 14 year old kid ever when i finnaly saved up enough money to buy that bike.

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MX558 3/5/2012 1:30pm
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Same here had a pos Briggs and Stratton mini bike in 76, that pile couldn't go 10ft. without the chain falling off. lol First real bike 77 xr75. I rode that thing from sun up to sun down.
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slipdog 3/5/2012 1:31pm
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Had a Honda QA 50 first but this my first race, Sandhill Ranch 1983

Gotta love my dads electrical tape X's

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Mutt 3/5/2012 1:34pm
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MX558 wrote:
Same here had a pos Briggs and Stratton mini bike in 76, that pile couldn't go 10ft. without the chain falling off. lol First real bike...
Same here had a pos Briggs and Stratton mini bike in 76, that pile couldn't go 10ft. without the chain falling off. lol First real bike 77 xr75. I rode that thing from sun up to sun down.
That's a 1977 XR-75 in my pic. Did the same, was on that bike every chance I had. My mother would give me a dollar for lunch at school every day, .58 a gallon gas afforded me a lot of freedom. So what if I was only eating two meals a day! I lived two blocks from the Mesa and to me it was dirt bike nirvana.
Crisp BRAAAP! 3/6/2012 1:09pm
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I think it's a 1974 Indian 30 with a centrifugal clutch. Check out the sandals and bell bottoms. And the nice shirt. Someone's getting more ass than a toilet seat at Yankee's Stadium.Laughing I started when I was 4 but that was with training wheels. Looks like I was maybe 6 when this was taken? Kick started forward onto a metal tank. I distinctly remember my foot slipping and smashing my berries badly. Thank god for the "safety seat" and universal backwards kickstarters.

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Spartacus 3/6/2012 1:17pm
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1970 on one of these.



When you 13 years old and 6' 3" you don't ride mini bikes.
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It didn't take long to learn that pipe would burn the piss out of you.

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First bike was a XR75 but it was too big, sold it and got this MR50 to start racing on.



Crash pic. lol

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4stroke4DWIN 3/6/2012 2:10pm
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I'll have to scan a pic but it was a 85 XR80 it took 1 broken collar bone and about 2 months of bottoming out the suspension before my parents got me a CR80.
Temor a la Mancha 3/6/2012 2:21pm
3/6/2012 2:21pm Edited Date/Time 3/6/2012 2:22pm
Four years old. I didn't get a real motorcycle until a few years later, but I'll be damned if I wasn't ready... coordinated outfit and all.

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Riesenberg448 3/6/2012 2:34pm
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1992 - 6th birthday on Christmas morning. PW50.

26 years later, history is getting close to repeating itself.

Last weekend at the bike shop with my son.
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FastEddy 3/6/2012 2:34pm
3/6/2012 2:34pm Edited Date/Time 3/6/2012 2:46pm
Started on JR 50


New Bike 79ish



Woodring & I 81ish PIR


Hall & I 80 or 81 Ponca (think Eric won the 80xprt class that year)


Some More Randoms from back in those days









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slipdog 3/6/2012 2:52pm
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THIS is the kind of thread I like!!!
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This was in 1999, Was 5 and had just got my 95 KTM 50. I loved that thing. Seems like it was just yesterday.
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Tbteam 3/6/2012 5:26pm
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I thought this thread was going to be about what Mookie said to his mechanic two days after Atlanta.
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GuyB 3/6/2012 5:31pm
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Man, there are some sweet pics in there. Smile

In one way it does illustrate how things change, though. How many of you actually get prints of photos now? In a few years, they'll all be digital, and no one will have aged and faded pics in a box that crack and get dog-eared.
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JOHN CHOATE 3/6/2012 5:35pm
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gsxrcr28 wrote:
First bike was a XR75 but it was too big, sold it and got this MR50 to start racing on. [IMG]http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j379/ccrider28/chip1.jpg[/IMG] Crash pic. lol [IMG]http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j379/ccrider28/chip30.jpg[/IMG]
First bike was a XR75 but it was too big, sold it and got this MR50 to start racing on.



Crash pic. lol

Very cool. I'm sure I was around there somewhere. That's Danny Carpenter on top of your bike in case you didn't know. Can you post one for me???
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Crisp BRAAAP! wrote:
I think it's a 1974 Indian 30 with a centrifugal clutch. Check out the sandals and bell bottoms. And the nice shirt. Someone's getting more ass...
I think it's a 1974 Indian 30 with a centrifugal clutch. Check out the sandals and bell bottoms. And the nice shirt. Someone's getting more ass than a toilet seat at Yankee's Stadium.Laughing I started when I was 4 but that was with training wheels. Looks like I was maybe 6 when this was taken? Kick started forward onto a metal tank. I distinctly remember my foot slipping and smashing my berries badly. Thank god for the "safety seat" and universal backwards kickstarters.

I had the same bike (mine was orange, though), and similar taste in clothes, except I wore cowboy boots.
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gsxrcr28 3/6/2012 5:46pm
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@JC yeah I know that's Danny, I can still remember him screaming "MY FOOT!!!" lol, he was ok after though. Email me your pic and I will post it up.
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My first bike at about age six. My son's first bike at age 3.
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4stroke4DWIN 3/6/2012 6:42pm
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I could'nt find any of my XR80 pics but found some of my CR80 pics when I was 12 or so then a pic from when I was 16 or 17. Man I took goon riding to a whole nother level back then. Check out the Scott fish face goggle attachment I was rockin. Wow is all I can say.BlinkSickLaughing
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GuyB wrote:
Man, there are some sweet pics in there. :) In one way it does illustrate how things change, though. How many of you actually get prints...
Man, there are some sweet pics in there. Smile

In one way it does illustrate how things change, though. How many of you actually get prints of photos now? In a few years, they'll all be digital, and no one will have aged and faded pics in a box that crack and get dog-eared.
If you look close you'll see tire marks on this one. I was carrying them home from the drug store on my bike and dropped them in the the street. Got run over before I could pick them up.

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anniebertmojo 3/6/2012 8:57pm
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Eddie Crowell (Crowell's Cycle-Inglewood, CA) and my dad built this minibike for me (as a fun project for them and a excuse to drink beer and eat bad pizza at night). But most importantly it was to keep me out of trouble so I wouldn't get mixed up with the wrong crowd at school - Their project turned into a life long passion for me... thanks dad and Eddie (who still stay up late eating bad pizza and drinking beer in the garage tinkering around)


1978 Saddleback - Suzuki RM 100


1980 Saddleback - Suzuki RM125


1982 Saddleback - Pro Circuit Husky 250CR


2012 Glen Helen (REM) - Suzuki RM250F
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bents 3/6/2012 9:01pm
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1972 Mini Trail, followed by the 73 SL70, which lead to a 1975 Suzuki TM100 under the Xmas tree-best Xmas ever! Nothing has topped it since. That was when the racing began. There is a picture somewhere....
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.Turtle 3/6/2012 10:21pm
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Nice Mutt! Great thread, will scan in some pictures!

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