Why did you start?

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So why did you guys start riding?

I started because of a constant draw to them. My father forbidded me to have one. My Aunt hated them with a passion. Yet I kept wanting to see them, look at them, sit on them. I always toured the local bike nights on my bicycle before I was old enough to drive. Then one day I decided to get my license.

On the day I showed up at home with my bike, my Dad stopped talking to me for 2 weeks. Gradually he came around when he understood how much I love motorcycles and now he supports my love for bikes anyway he can.
 
My friends had bikes and it wanted one, my dad also had a bike. Saved up and bought my first one at 11 and haven't looked back, I have had a few breaks in between riding but always come back.
 
Older brother had a GS 750 when I was a kid. Always loved helping him work on it and chatting about bikes with his riding buddies when they were around. Bought a KX125 and raced that from age 16-19, then off to school. After school always wanted to start street riding but insurance made it unaffordable at the time. Months after turning 25, the street bike was in the driveway and never looked back! Lovin' every moment...
 
Cheaper way of transportation, but found out it wasn't that much cheaper. Much funner then a car though.
 
I've always had an interest in bikes, ever since I was a kid.
Never thought to pursue it until my buddy got his and walked me through the process a few years later when I could afford it.
Parents always hated it and never supported the idea, until I came home with a bike. lol... They're grown to respect my decision.

Glad I did it and I don't regret it.
 
My dad would take me for rides when I was little. I would sit on the front of the tank as he would ride me through a forest, or around the block. Plus the fact that virtually all my family rode at one point or another in there lives. Uncles, Aunt, cousins, its just a family thing that we all enjoy.
 
Spent a lot of my childhood on the back of my dad's bike. He sold his last bike the year I turned 16 and started inquiring about getting a Yamaha YSR myself. He hasn't owned another bike since and was always against me getting one even after all that time and miles spent on his. I never lost my enthusiasm for bikes but couldn't afford it until a few years ago. My dad still doesn't own one but is always welcome to mine and has indulged more and more as the years have gone by.
 
Sholay. Dosti. LOL
any1 who watches Indian movies will know what i mean. Wanted a bike ever since i watched it as a kid.
 
Wife told me to get a second vehicle that was cheap on insurance and good on gas.

She wasn't to happy when I pulled in with a bike lol. Bought her helmet ad jacket and she liks it now.
 
My Parents suggested I get one to commute to University. (many years ago!) This was in New Zealand, where motorcycles are used as a means of transport rather than "a Sport".
 
I had been riding dirt bikes from age 4 till 16. I was a trouble maker in H.S. and the principal thought it would be a good idea to get me into a Motorcycle Shop as a co-op. Apparently I had a knack for dealing with customers and working with my hands. After selling 14 motorcycles in 3 days I realized the same and was offered a full time position. Since then I have worked and rode on and off for the last 15 years in the industry.
 
As a young boy of 6 there was an old broken motorcycle laying on it's side in the forrest behind my house. I used to sit there beside it for hours and dream that I could fix it and one day be big enough to ride it. My first bicycle was the kind that looked like a motorcycle. Fake plastic gas tank and everything. I had to stand on something to get on it and could only touch one pedal at a time as they went around. Guess I just always liked motorcycles.
 
I started sort of based on a whim. My skill development as a driver and serious auto-slalom competitor was leveling off. I was looking for another activity that would help develop balance, finesse and that feeling of being at speed. I had a mild interest in bikes, but was never really "into them". I bought the bike, an SV650, and my slalom car, a well developed Fiat X1/9 felt real slow. It would still run rings around the bike and at 1.3 lateral G, it should, but I quickly started losing interest. Pic for reference.
 

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All this stared for me many years ago in high school. A few buds had dirt bikes, then I got one. Road it for years before heading off to University. Then came real life and kids, kinda lost interest, but now getting back into it. I not only like motorcycles though, I grew up around snowmobiles, water-craft...

And to make the best of it my wife is now into motorcycles. As a matter of fact she's the one who peeked my interest again in motorcycles. She currently has a TW200 to learn on, but in a year or so she'll probable get a true street bike to keep up.
 
I have grown up riding passenger with my dad and riding along in my grandpa's Goldwing w/ sidecar. Best part was doing all sorts of parades with the wing along with the Red Knights Wing club. Great times indeed.
At the age of 13, my father passed and I was left with his "78 XS1100 as my starter bike:eek: So that is where it began. 6 bikes and 14 years later and still going strong.
 
RodneyBR said:
All this stared for me many years ago in high school. A few buds had dirt bikes, then I got one. Road it for years before heading off to University. Then came real life and kids, kinda lost interest, but now getting back into it. I not only like motorcycles though, I grew up around snowmobiles, water-craft...

And to make the best of it my wife is now into motorcycles. As a matter of fact she's the one who peeked my interest again in motorcycles. She currently has a TW200 to learn on, but in a year or so she'll probable get a true street bike to keep up.
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Why not give your wife your 650R and get yourself an upgrade?
 
I wanted to spend my money on something that wasn't sensible like a house
I didn't want to buy a watch/cufflinks/ties/rings/whatever.
I wanted to get into something that got me fresh air
and its cool.... duh.
 
RodneyBR said:
All this stared for me many years ago in high school. A few buds had dirt bikes, then I got one. Road it for years before heading off to University. Then came real life and kids, kinda lost interest, but now getting back into it. I not only like motorcycles though, I grew up around snowmobiles, water-craft...

And to make the best of it my wife is now into motorcycles. As a matter of fact she's the one who peeked my interest again in motorcycles. She currently has a TW200 to learn on, but in a year or so she'll probable get a true street bike to keep up.
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I hope she's improved more than this
[video=youtube;snZHQKizbV4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZHQKizbV4[/video]
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