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Your first ROAD Bike.

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  • allde
    allde
    13 years ago

    I've noticed a few have had bikes over 250cc on their L's / P's, I'm guessing these are in NSW when that loophole was around, where you could ride a Katana 1100 on L plates if you had a full car license.

    Seen a Few when I was based there.

    Am I right?

  • chriso
    chriso
    13 years ago

    great thread fellas, yeah i got through my Ls on chook chasers but the first road bike was a Yammy xs750 tripple, quite rare now but before that was riding around on mates Honda four with graveyard theme airbrushed on the tank, ha wild bit of gear it was but was not mine so cant claim it as my first.

  • 06 Softail
    06 Softail
    13 years ago
    I had a 250 trail bike which was my first bike, but my very first road bike is my 06 Softail, so technically you would say that I am one of a small few who's first road bike IS a Harley.
  • Aunty X
    Aunty X
    13 years ago
    BMW K100 Touring bike. 16 years after I got my licence. Rode my mate's Suzuki RGV250 when I got my licence. Had the BMW for 4 months before I got the HD.
  • Wingy
    Wingy
    13 years ago

    GT 750 Suzuki Waterbottle a blue one ....

  • Hesh
    Hesh
    13 years ago

    Ok, back in 1998, a brand new 1998 Suzuki GSX250F Across Urban Sports Bike......in Candy Teal....which was a kinda light fuckin blue.

    Damn that thing was well balanced. Fuel tank was under the seat so the centre of gravity was lower. Nice bike that one.

     

    Hesh

  • 883n Harley Convert
    883n Harley Convert
    13 years ago
    Ducati Monster - 2006 model, awesome little bike, followed by a GSXR K8 and now the Sporty!!
  • Flak88
    Flak88
    13 years ago
    1976 Z400. Secondhand $500 off my sisters boyfriend.
  • perthhog
    perthhog
    13 years ago
    a 1983 ? yamaha rd350lc fully rebult lots of powdercoat/paint perlwhite and blue with 250 stickers alldone by me at 15 back in 91?
  • H
    H
    13 years ago

    1975 Kawasaki 500 2 stroke Triple.

     

     

  • tattmad
    tattmad
    13 years ago

    Honda CBR 250
  • Ross
    Ross
    13 years ago
    Does a CT110 count as a road bike?
  • killerchef
    killerchef
    13 years ago
    cb 400 .... when younger a bit before getting licence i used to sometimes flog around on jawa that a mate owned. ugly orange pig of thing.
  • Bitza
    Bitza
    13 years ago

     XS 250 Special

  • Tim S.G.
    Tim S.G.
    13 years ago

    Great thread guys , H has the best photo of his Kwakka triple . Mine ,  XL250 for 3 mths then Z750 .

  • Thaddeus
    Thaddeus
    13 years ago
    I can't believe I am even going to say this.....................................1960 Vespa VBA 150 Scooter

    be nice....
  • andyro101
    andyro101
    13 years ago

    My first true road bike was in '92 with a Suzuki RGV 250M, but back in '85 had a Yamaha IT 200L enduro bike.
    Doesn't make me feel like such an old c*nt after looking at some of the dates in this thread!!
    Cheers boys!

  • Thaddeus
    Thaddeus
    13 years ago

    Not much of a mod Allde, just really really broke  and like the style, I didn't think I was interested in power back then just wanted to cruise around, of course I was about 40 KG lighter back then, (I used to keep fit by having to flinstone it up any hills), not sure if it would move now

     

    nice pick up on the Get Smart reference, you are the first to get it,

  • Rick1310
    Rick1310
    13 years ago

     I started out with an old Honda K2 750, it was a god bike to learn.

  • beagle
    beagle
    13 years ago
    1959 Norton 600 Dominator, followed by a 63 Norton 650SS ex police special, then in the 70's it was jappas right thru to early 1990's when I started Harleys with a 92 FLHS, followed by several road king models, a couple of dynas, and a softail heritage. Current ride is a FLHX 103.
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