Same here! Didnt have any time for bikes until I saw a piccie of a Monster in a magazine. Booked my direct access, trundles round on a CB500 for a couple of days, and bought a shiny red M600 minutes after passing my test :D Havent looked back...

Oh dear, it's time to admit to my age :(.
1954 BSA 125 Bantam bought for £9 10s in 1964 ridden(illegally) for about 2 months until my 16 birthday. Feel the power-it would do about 55 flat out with me lying on the tank-3 speed gearbox, plunger rear suspension............
Got knocked off it after about 6 weeks and broke my arm, had a head on with a drunk in an Austin A35-he was driving up the wrong side of the road on a hill-I came over the top-wallop. He moved the bike and his car before the police came-enough said.
After that a succession of bikes, BSA Bantams, BSA C10L, C11G, Aerial Colt's, Francis Barnet's, 83cc MV Augusta Sport........passed test on Fanny B, then the big iron started, BSA B31, Triumph T100, T110, BSA SuperRocket, DB34 GoldStar (how I wish I still had that) BSA RocketGoldStar, Vincent Rapide-the list goes on. At one point I never got an insurance certificate, I rode on a succesion of 14 day cover notes, always changed the bike before the cover note expired :lol:.

John

1980 - Yammy Fizzy! Proper Yam racing colours and my brothers Kenny Roberts rep jacket to go with it - soo over the top.

First day I had it, myself and a friend set off to Scarbrough to watch the racing and his AP50 blew-up on the moors road - Oh what carefree lives we had then.

Happy times - Frank

My first was an FS1E-DX ... the one with the disk brake at the front! It was yellow with the Yamaha racing ladders on it, Micron exhaust, "race" disk valve and topped out at 46mph. RVV 421R where are you now?

But I'll admit that this is where it all started...

Heh, I had one of those too....

Other than the obligatory field bikes, C50/70 and 90's and a CB250G5 my first road bike was a MT5. Bought it as a non runner (cheap), rewired it and got it going.
Then the tuning started and ended up at 65mph everywhere. Limited only by the gearing. Couldn't get any smaller on the rear sprocket and the front almost rubbed the cranckcases :roll:
Covered 18000 miles on that little thing and it never blew!!! :o

Did my direct access on the schools bike and had a RGV250M sat in the garage for when I passed my test, was a bit of a shock the first time I opend it up after the NSR125 and GP100's I had been riding :o
Wish I had some photo's of it as it looked real nice in it's lucky strike colours :D

Darren

Yamaha FS1E - it had pedals!

1982 DT50MX - 65cc mallossi bore kit after 3 rebores

19** Villiers 2 stroke...........yuk