What was your first road bike?

[BartonBKing]

After passing my test, it was a Yamaha Virago XV750. Loved that bike.

[KungFooBob]

My first bike having passed my test was a Honda NS125R. It was quite an upgrade over the GP100 I had before, it looked like a proper bike and I didn't need l-plates.

I couldn't afford to insure one before I passed.

I had it almost a year before getting a CBR400RR Tri-arm, that got written off two days later and I was back on the NSR, which I then traded in for a CBR400RR Gull-arm.

Hold on, are you an evil AI datamining?

Do you also want the name of my first pet and the town I was born in?

[Count Steer]

Ignoring the Lambretta, a 650cc P&M Panther. (Followed by a BSA A7).

[weeksy]

Zxr400 H plate I think maybe J

[Yorick]

GT185 at 17

[Skub]

A 1971 Suzuki T250 Hustler. I was banned from riding while still on L plates.

[Pirahna]

RD250 DX as a learner then licensed rider.

[Druid]

Honda CB250K4



It was shit, but I didn't know any better until my mate bought a Hustler like Skub's but in faded red paintwork

[kendo57]

What no mopeds ,, mine was Suzuki AP50, went to school on it and got two speeding tickets

[Taff]

A 98 Blandit 6

[MingtheMerciless]

KR1-S

[MrLongbeard]

Peugeot Speed Fight 120 Prost and a Honda CM125 before passing my test.
A Honda Shadow 600 after

[mangocrazy]

90cc Honda C200. Bought with a seized big end bearing due to the previous owner running it without oil. I paid £9 for it. But I was only 16 and clueless.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Honda CB-1. 400cc grey import thing, same engine as a CBR400. T'was an NC27, IIRC t'was the engine from an NC23. Maybe.

I think, and I'm a long way from sure on this, the only "CB" Honda where the official name is hyphenated.

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[ogri]

Fs1e-dx at 16, gt250 at 17.

[v8-powered]

TZR 125 to learn on, then a CBR400RR Tri-arm

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

My first road legal bike was a Suzuki TS50ER, my first bike after passing my test was a 250LC, which was also the first bike I raced, as in exactly the same bike, not another 250LC, it was also the first bike I wrote off, poor little thing, it even got trail ridden, it refused to die and was eventually sold after I bought a 350LC, the second bike I wrote off.

[KungFooBob]

My first road legal bike was a Suzuki TS50ER, my first bike after passing my test was a 250LC, which was also the first bike I raced, as in exactly the same bike, not another 250LC, it was also the first bike I wrote off, poor little thing, it even got trail ridden, it refused to die and was eventually sold after I bought a 350LC, the second bike I wrote off.

My mum had a TS50X.

She used to let me ride it to Cadets if I'd been a good boy (rather than my Honda Melody). There was one junction where I always used to stall it, because I hardly ever rode anything with gears (even though I passed my CBT on an MT-50).

[MyLittleStudPony]

I had a 1988 Kawasaki AR50. Followed by a 1989 Aprilia AF1 125 the year after.

They were great days!

[David]

A YAS125, 5 speed...took a day or three to work that out. On the way home I thought "Will it wheelie?".

Yes it would.