When did you get "THE BUG"?

[ZX10R King]

Found an old photo to prove it was my parents fault for why I ride a bike now. They gave me THE BUG way back on a holiday.

[aardvark]

Christmas when I was 6. Dad bought my brother and I mini-bikes.

[Maty10]

Lets just say I started young

[ZX10R King]

Lets just say I started young

You practicing to be one of those stunt riders?

[chameleon]

Some kid I barely knew swapped me an ok mini-bike for a pushy I had painted black. Best deal I have ever made I recon.

[SocialSecurity]

chameleon, are you sure you werent thinking of that movie 'the dirt bike kid' like how homer simpson has flash backs to happy days?

[TMO82]

18 months ago. I had never even sat on a motorbike in my life,a bike flew past me driving to work one day and i thought to myself i gotta get one.

I had no idea,at Q-ride i even had to ask how the gears worked 7 hours later i had my licence bought a cbr250rr and now i ride a zx10.

I'll never own a car again.

[Lainie]

hmmmmm I 've ALWAYS hated motor bikes, went on my cousins for many years but since meeting Tones if it didn't have two wheel well was just not worth it so I learnt myself how to ride and yeap 6 hours later had my L's and seem to be more on my bike than he is on his

[Diane]

Always liked bikes but never to ride myself, only ever sat pillion and was quite happy doing that, till my mate got her licence and was riding everywhere and I thought well why cant I do that so went and did it, so now me and my big yellow L plate on my CB250 head off into the world as often as possible thanks mate for the inspiration

[Steve_TLS]

I have no pictures of my first ride

But I exposed someone else to it as soon as I could.


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(7 years I've had the TL for )

[Lainie]

Always liked bikes but never to ride myself, only ever sat pillion and was quite happy doing that, till my mate got her licence and was riding everywhere and I thought well why cant I do that so went and did it, so now me and my big yellow L plate on my CB250 head off into the world as often as possible thanks mate for the inspiration

awwww I am touched, your very very welcome. Just more trouble we can get onto

[Strika]

I got my first ride on a motorbike when I was 10 (Mid 1970's ). It was the next door neighbours (we lived on big farms) CT90. I rode it for about ten minutes and then he went home. I then didn't get to ride another one until I bought my first motorvehicle the CB400 four Supersport Honda, when I was 17 (1983 )!
Then I bought a Ducati in 1984. But I never really got passionate about bikes then until I was in my mid twenties, and a guy who lived next door to me took me for a ride on his CBR1000. That was it I was Hooked. You see this guy was an Irishman, who could actually ride! So he took me around corners cranked riiiiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhttttt over!

And that was really how I got the bug!

[Bartofsky]

10 years old and dad brings home a honda step through for use on the farm. Then prgoressed to a mighty Honda CB175 (That was a wee beastie) before crashing my brothers RM80, his XR500 and getting caught riding his CB400 on the road with no license by the local copper. Then I rode an RGV250, took a break for a while and got fed up with sydney traffic and needed a toy! Then GS500 and now Bessie, my black Z750. Shes so purty!

[Neka79]

6..got my 1st pw 50 yamy..rode it into a fence 1st time...
then a i got a ds 80 suzi wen i was abt 10..crashed that a few times too...


some things never change....

[kellz]

well i ahd teh bug before i was born, mum would ride pillion with my dad untill she couldnt hold on or fit due to the bump, was 7 months with my bro and 8 months with me...

then as sson as i could sit dad woudl put me on the bike for fun and make noises like we ere actually riding, then onc ei could hold on that was it always on teh bike, used to get irden to school most mornings or get picked up.....

so i thank my dad for giving me the "bug" yet when it came to the crunch he didnt wnat me to get my licence, somethng about me being his baby girl, i told him i would always be that, but i wanna be on a bike...so he gave in and here i am riding around and enjoying every km i ride....