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[BigBoyinMS]

I guess my first ride alone was when I was 10-11 yrs old; around 1970. It was a Dual range Kawasaki (I think) that belonged to a visiting cousin.

My first bike was a year or two after that; a Suzuki 100.

I was always trading cars for bikes, too.

Traded a '67 Cutlass for a Honda hardtail chopper with a bored 305 Dream engine. (I was told.)

Traded a '58 Chevy Biscayne for a Honda CB400F.

Traded a '70 Chevelle SS396 for a '75 Shovelhead Superglide... when I was 17. (Back then the Chevelle was a $1500 car) After this one I was hooked on the BIG bikes.

[yamadawg]

After riding a mixture of mini-bikes, scooters, go-karts and etc., including a little Benelli 2-stroke that looked as if you were spraying for mosquitos I finally got my first "real bike", a Honda CL100 Scrambler... the 11hp model! in 1971. :cool18:We had some real adventures, that bike and I, and grew up together. Tucked in real tight and laying on the tank we could get up over 65 mph going down the big hill on the highway if I started wide open then free wheeled... After a few junkers here and there I bought a totally remarkable new cruiser, a 1978 Yamaha 650 Special. :cool17:Dark blue with alloy wheels and padded sissy bar. I loved that bike, and maybe it was just me but as well as being very stylish it was very fast, too. Marriage and kids changed that bike into a 1975 Lime Green Vega station wagon. :Avatars_Gee_George:Where is the justice? Fast Forward: The kids are mostly grown and the marriage has made it through the bike drought... Then, after a near 20 year hiatus we started right back where we had left off with a pristeen '83 750 Maxim, then '83 Venture Standard, '88 Venture Royale, and finally made it home to the '03 RS Midnight Venture.

[Kirby]

My first ride was on some kind of scooter in the middle 60's. That got me hooked! Moma wouldn't let me have a bike, so I had to wait until I was out on my own. My first bike was a 1971 Honda SL100. What a piece of junk that was! My present bike is a 2009 Venture S(bought it in June and now have 13, 000 miles on it). In between, I really can't remember all of the bikes I've had. I do remember a 1973 Yamaha RT3 360, a 1973 RD 350, a 1972 Yamaha 350 (can't remember the true designation, one year older than the RD), a Honda SL350, a Kawasaki 100 dirt bike, several Yamaha DT 250's, a 1974 Kawasaki 500 triple, a Yamaha TX750, a TX500 Yamaha, a BMW R5/75, a Suzuki 185 trail bike, a 1975 Suzuki GT750 Waterbuffalo, and a 1999 Yamaha VMAX (which I still have). There have been several 3-wheelers, 4-wheelers, go carts and other dirt bikes.

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