Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Your first Wheels - come clean

[JACKO748S]

Bit of a late starter - mine was a '97 M600.

Top first bike, good enough for to be a laugh round Cadwell and the back roads around Torpoint in Cornwall.

[Jools]

BSA C15...bought it for a fiver in 1971, two weeks before my 16th birthday.

Took it home and my Dad said, "your not having that, take it straight back" so I did. Rode it for all of 5 miles...illegaly of course.

[FiscusFish]

Suzuki GS125 in 1985.

[Lee]

1979,
Mine was yet another fizzie - but the DX version - RHJ286R - not that the front disc worked any better than the drum
But I thought It looked as if it might.

Rode it to school, in fact I was never of it - and in the summer use to disappear on Friday nights to South End or somewhere as naff with some mates and not go home till Sunday

What freedom we had.

[BDG]

Honda CB250 G5, what a bag of ****e.

First day i rode it, took it to work, lost it on gravel car park and stuffed it into the front wing of the bosses 3.5 litre Rover

I was very unpopular with the boss but a hero with everyone else

[Jasper]

White and blue RD250LC-Awesome,then they changed the learner laws,so i had to ride a Honda CB100N!!Stilll went and played on the LC though.Best thing about the Honda?The reg,it would be worth a mint now(more than the bike):SEX 666X.Wish i'd kept it!!

[Rattler]

FS1E!!! Fantastic, bright red (dodgy respray) - no ignition switch - dreaful Micron can - fabulous!!!

[KeefyB]

Originally posted by Jools
BSA C15...bought it for a fiver in 1971, two weeks before my 16th birthday.

Yep,I had a C15 too.1977 was the year.Most of my mates had GT250/185's,CB250/200's and the odd 'Onda SS50.and they could all leave me for dead.I was the first to pass my test tho,and got my own back when I bought my Triumph Bonny.
Ah,UNC116S,where are you now?

[webbyc]

Mine was a Royal Enfield 250 Crusader Sports which I bought for £20 in 1974. My dad encouraged me a bit by showing me where the controls were and what they did, and then just left me to get on with it!!!

[Eamonn]

First bike I owned in 1973 was a NSU Quickly moped (it wasn't quick!) - used as a field bike since I was only 15. The engine would last about 30 mins riding before nipping up and needing a complete strip down. I learnt a lot about that machines engine and gearbox internals......

A proper bike in the shape of a Norton Jubilee 250cc came in 1974 -cost £5 but needed new front tyre and tube. Pushed it 2 miles from mates house to mine on the grass verge (to protect the rim) only to have Dad say I couldn't keep it since it would cost £18 for a new tyre and tube and so it wasn't worth it. Pushed it back the 2 miles and had my fiver returned

Then first real road bike in 1975 - a James 250cc Commodore with an Italian engine in it! Top speed about 65 mph and had to be careful about taking on FS1E's away from the lights - they would often beat me.... how embarassing....
Still have the bike, built in 1957 with 14,000 (genuine) miles on the clock. The bikes worth about £200, the number plate about £2000