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what was youre first bike and how old were you when you started riding?(yes im bord)
mine was a 1974 honda mr 50..it was a piece of junk,but it was so cool to me..i was 10 and i scored the bike from saving car wash money..we were super poor,and my parents wouldnt buy me a motorcycle even if they had the money..both the footpegs were broke off.so i used to ride with my feet up on the engine cases..so much fun terrorizing everyones front lawns...ahh the good ol days 
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1987 KTM 125 SX. I was 12 and it fast! In all honestly, I don't think it would have a problem tearing my CB 750 a new one. LOL. One of the few two strokes bikes that had an actual power valve. Loved that bike.
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1974 Yamaha 400. Got it from a friend that had a mech. tell her it would never run. Little fidling and cleaning got her purring nice. Seat was a rag sitting on the battery, exaust was a cheap pipe I got at Track Auto. Never got it street legal but had tons of fun running down the country roads... ahhh the good ol days!
It's only illegal if you get caught.
If at first you don't succeed, use more lighter fluid
95% of Harley Davidsons ever made are still on the road... The other 5% made it home.
New Baltimore, Va '82 CB900c, 1980 CB985F/K 'Mutt"
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My first was an old Briggs and Startton 3 HP minibike when I was 8. Then moved up to a 4 HP minibike. The 4 HP one had suspension, and a torque converter. It would run away from my friends Honda 70. Then I got my first Harley when I was 11. It was a total piece of shit. A 73 Z-90. I should have learned from that, but continued on with Harley's, and none were any better. After the Z-90 I got a Kawasaki G-5 100. I could not tear that bike up. I also started riding my Mothers CB 350 about the same time. Never did break that bike. I wish I had noticed a pattern back then.
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Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."
1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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Never had a dirt bike: rode a bicycle just about everywhere. Had a B&S powered gokart for a while, til the cops gave me grief for riding it in the street...in traffic.
First MC I owned outright? My 1979 CB750L that I got from my family for my 51st birthday.
The first one I worked on? A friend's early 70s Triumph Bonneville 650. Bored out .030 over, but stock otherwise. Spent more time working on it than riding it. My neighbor's son has a chopper with this motor in it. Love the look, hate the maintenance.
By comparison, the Honda is a twist-and-go.  Love it when my Shadow sits all week, I turn the key, add a bit of choke, hit the Start button, and 3 seconds later it's idling. 30 seconds later, she's ready to go.
Luke M
Used to have a 1979 CB750L, sold it as a parts bike, now riding a slightly modified 1984 VT700C. Network/Field Engineer. Central OH, USA, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Universe.
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Early 70s Honda trail 70. No front brake, bent handlebars, short and fat tires! Top end about 35 and the gas tank was under the seat! Started riding that at about 9 or so. Learned ALOT about using a rear brake on the bike! So much that when my rear locks up, I barely notice it on the street. Even locked the rear brake in my road test but had it down so well I didn't lose a point!
Started on my pilots license on this bike, later completed on my late 70s yamaha 100cc enduro!
The ride IS the adventure. The destination is just to get gas!
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1981 CB750K that I bought last year .
Was supposed to be my starter bike that I didn't mind dropping. I was going to trade up to something else after riding it for a year. Yeah that isn't going to happen.
1981 CB750K with 900 cams
90K KM's, rebuilt head, rebuilt carbs, upgraded valve stem seals
My wife's recipe website that I'm trying to help promote: Strawberries for supper. Yes, I am a lucky man.
My cb750 video site
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lol great storys guys..i wish we had digital cameras or camera phones back then.some pics of these death traps would be sweet (all i had was a pager back then..yes 10 year old kid with a pager..no i didnt sell crack....then)...oh yeah we used to call my bike "the mister 50"
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I started late...I had a '99 Suzuki GSX600F, otherwise known as Katana. It was great as a starter bike because the power was fairly tame until you hit 8000 RPM. Then the front end would come up. It had almost 80HP and would do nearly 130MPH. I rode that for the next four years...I didn't even have a car. That bike saved me a lot of money because there were things I just couldn't buy and bring home on it! lol
I had a lot of fun on that thing.
Of course, in the '80s I had several scooters, but we won't talk about that.
Mark Davis
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
amateur photographer, hot rodder, motorcyclist, adventurer
"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."
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Come on now, scooters are loads of fun. When I was a kid a good friend of mine had a 50cc honda scooter. We got to messin with the jets and drilled the exhaust. Decided to be funny and had a bud that made stickers for cars take a Harley logo, replace the eagle with a chicken and changed the name to Hardly-A-Davidson. Was takin it out for a test drive and pulled up to a light with a buch of hardcore bikers. The lead rider looked at the logo, did a double take, and lauphed his azz off.
It's only illegal if you get caught.
If at first you don't succeed, use more lighter fluid
95% of Harley Davidsons ever made are still on the road... The other 5% made it home.
New Baltimore, Va '82 CB900c, 1980 CB985F/K 'Mutt"
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YOU NO YOU JUST CALLED MY POP's RETARDED
My Pop's died when I was 14 ,So had A 1948 Pan-Head Chopper & 1950 Pan would have been stock ,
Learned on a 1976 A.M.F.175 that I couldn't touch the ground ,so took off from flower bed,My older cuzzin said I did great try using the clutch though it's easyer.  
Speacial Retard is right wouldn't change a thing  
1977 CB750 F2 Super Sport
<LET THOSE WHO RIDE DECIDE><RIDE TO LIVE-LIVE FOR JESUS>
Native American from central Cal, Kickstand UP in S.W.Missouri,
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A friend of mine had a Puch in high school that could hit 45MPH. We wondered how fast it could go with nitrous. Needless to say, we had the ingenuity to make a system and hook it up, but lacked the knowledge of mixture ratios. I wish we had a camera, because when that fireball with a helmeted head screaming like a little girl went by at 60MPH, well, it would have made a great picture. ( you couldn't see the moped at all, save for the front tire and the riders head. lol )
Good times!
Mark Davis
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
amateur photographer, hot rodder, motorcyclist, adventurer
"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul."
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THAT IS FUCKIN AWESOME!!!
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I have tears streaming down my face 
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 AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's only illegal if you get caught.
If at first you don't succeed, use more lighter fluid
95% of Harley Davidsons ever made are still on the road... The other 5% made it home.
New Baltimore, Va '82 CB900c, 1980 CB985F/K 'Mutt"
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My first bike .
 No cell phones then.
No tele phone answering machines.
When the phone rang a person answered.
If no one answered then no one was home. Simple.
On a Roadstar Adventure.
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That's hilarious. My friend has a little puch that stopped working and we're going to try and sort it out.... might have to try the nitrous  My first was a 79K Limited, which was this year. I was 22. Finding myself asking a lot of probably dumb questions, but learning huge amounts every day from this forum. Never worked on motor vehicles before...
1979 CB750K
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"No cell phones then.
No tele phone answering machines.
When the phone rang a person answered.
If no one answered then no one was home. Simple."
i wish things were so simple...now i get low ball offers on stuff in a text message...
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holy shit!..i had a pretty neet scooter back then too..i used to run a really short open pipe,and it caught on fire one time when my friend was riding it..he just layed it in the middle of the street and started running...
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