My first bike.... was a Honda

[GSXKING]

First road bike was Katana 550 photo attached. My mate and I did Sydney trip for Easter. Brisbane to Sydney non stop fuel only in 12 hours before the highway circa 1979.
39 years later I just couldn't do it even on my R1200RT se BMW.

Loads of memories and they all come flooding back. Thanks guys 

[mlivkovich]

1985 Honda vf750f interceptor, 1987 Gsxr1100 , 1997 TL1000S and now k2 gsx 1400
My first was also honda

[froudy]

I can see all the photos in this thread...But I have got that Photobucket "Fix" installed @VladTepes 

[Sweaty]

First road registered bike was a 1984
Suzuki TS 250x  then a 1983 Honda vf750f.
First bike was a 1979 Kawasaki KX 80, then 1982 CR 125, 1983 CR 250 all motorcross/dirt bikes.

[ARH]

Honda CB175.... great little bike until it dropped a valve at 23thou miles on the rest and be thankful....  Followed by Honda CJ250 .... Honda 400 dream (with yoshi exhaust.... cracking bike) Honda 400/4, Honda CBR600.... then a big gap... another 400/4 as a restoration project... and now the big Suzi.  To be honest.... I never really rated any of the early Suzuki's ... especially everything below 400cc.  Paint and general finish always looked poor in my eyes. Even when I bought the 14.... I was looking at a big Honda...VFR or suchlike... but have to say the 14 surpassed my expectations and now I'm completely hooked 😁

[grog]

ARH, you missed out discounting small suzuki.250 hustler and 350 rebel were just amazing. Only bikes with 6 speed gearbox early70s. Never had a prob with paint/ chrome. Could rev at redline all day, start first kick. Titan and 3 cyl just followed on. Rebel won the Castrol 6 hour 1972, against all comers. Got disqualified because the horn had been removed.

[Andre]

Honda CB175.... great little bike until it dropped a valve at 23thou miles on the rest and be thankful....  Followed by Honda CJ250 .... Honda 400 dream (with yoshi exhaust.... cracking bike) Honda 400/4, Honda CBR600.... then a big gap... another 400/4 as a restoration project... and now the big Suzi.  To be honest.... I never really rated any of the early Suzuki's ... especially everything below 400cc.  Paint and general finish always looked poor in my eyes. Even when I bought the 14.... I was looking at a big Honda...VFR or suchlike... but have to say the 14 surpassed my expectations and now I'm completely hooked 😁

I haven't been impressed with some of the finish on the 14. Mostly the engine side covers and pillion foot rests. But hey, gives me something to work on. Nobody in the  crowd has noticed. Even my 87-year-old-lady-next-door-neighbor admires it.

[ARH]

Grog... didn't get into biking until 77.... so these were a little before my time 😉.... I recall stuff like the gt 250, X7 etc.... both 2 stroke rockets.... but then I was never a fan of 2 strokes.. smokey stinky things 😜😂😂

[seth]

first bike was in 1982
yamaha
RD50MX
then in order
RD125LC
DT250MX(winter bike)
RD350LC(fitted 380cc kit moded carbs and read blocks , fitted lots of TZ race parts and swarbrick expansion chambers .it did145mph and 9mpg)(it got stolen)
then my 1st suzuki's
GT250 (ramair model)(had 5 engines due to it being a commuter bike on a motorway everday)
GT250X7
then first honda
CB250N (superdream)
then my first kawasaki's
Z550J
GPz550H1 swopped it for a
Z1000J
next was a honda
XL250R (winter bike)
next was my first proper fast bike a kawasaki
GPZ900R
then after losing my big paying job a suzuki
GS1000EC (the list of mods to this are in the forum somewhere but did loads to it over 8 years ending up an 1100cc 120bhp monster)
next was a suzuki
GSX1100EFE
then a yamaha
XJR1200
followed by a kawasaki
ZZR110D6
then in 2002 my 1st
suzuki GSX1400K2 (b/w)
then
GSX1400K6 (still have this one its the moded b/w)(56000 miles on it now)
GSX1400K5/6 black (emma's bike) (53000 on this emma has rode 52900 of them and we still have it)
a honda
CB750F2 (winter bike)sold for
GSX1400K4 (b/w) replaced by
GSX1400K6 (b/w) replaced by
GSX1400K5 (b/w)
then to scratch an itch
GSX1300BK (Bking,wasn't for me and what i use a bike for tho an incredible bike)
swoped it with cash back for my spare
GSX1400K5 r/b(11years old 6500 miles on it)
there must have been others back in my early days but didn't have them long .

[taximan]

I was part of a gang of local lads into bikes, trouble was I was by far the youngest. By the time (1976) I got my brand new Suzuki AP50 they had progressed to the 250 range and bigger. I got so fed up of being left behind on a route and arriving at the next smoke stop just as they were leaving lol.

Three months before my 17th birthday I put in for car and bike test. Bike test came through one week after 17th, borrowed mates Kwak KH250 and passed first time. Within a week I got a GT750 and was now leading the crew lol.

No wonder so many kids got killed in the 1970's, lost 3 mates myself. 

[Andre]

You must have been smoking a whole pack 'till your mates caught up. 

[lil4399]

My first was a British "Bitza" based around a Villiers 250T. At 14 it was in at the deep end on this monster (for then) cycle cross machine.
Learnt everything the hard way with each lesson costing 8 square inches of skin and half a pint of blood. Oh, and three conclusions and a fracture.

Later bikes included DT 125, XT 500, RD 400.

Then a long break whilst I did the car "thing"

Last bike Harley Sportster. Then retired early to France in 2015 and spent the last few years rebuilding old house, it's nearly finished (should be in Feb) then two weeks to 're roof the old bread oven house or, as it will be known, "Suzi's" 

[lloydjames]

RD125LC for me... loved that bike.

[VladTepes]

photos in OP updated

[KiwiCol]

OP?   wasn't he the lad in The Andy Griffiths Show?