Your first bike pics

Right everyone lets see your old bike pics the earlier the better.

I'll have a look and see if I can find my 1st road machine, the power house honda H100

This was the same as my rocket ship

mine was this crotch rocket


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got my first knee down on it....back in the day lol

Dont have any pics of my first few bikes, only started taking pics when i got the Thunderace, will see if i can dig some library pics up of the first ones.

yes do m8, Ya have to laugh at thge old bike pics

As promised here are some pics of the first powered 2 wheeler upto the last bike before the R1.

As a 15 year old brought one very similar to this of a friends older brother for £50, used to sling my denim jacket with Northern Soul badges on plus a open faced helmet & race round local area on it (so long as my dad was at work...lol)

Bloody thing was always breaking down, so got rid of before i had had it a year for £60 to another m8, who ended up restoring it & flogging it for £200.

Then a few years later i brought this brand new, got the manager at the local pub to stand as guarantor for the finance. Got nicknamed "Mr Looney" by the yamaha dealer staff, as when i went to collect it wasn't used to just how fast the bloody thing accelerated as i left the shop via there side road i very nearly hit the wall on the other side of the road before i managed to turn & scream away in a haze of 2 stroke smoke....lol, funny thing was i got to the top of a hill about 1/4 mile away & the bloody thing cut out & wouldnt re-start, so i pushed it all the way back to the shop & felt such a twat after giving them a gob full about this brand new bike that was a piece of shit, when the sales manager went over to bike turned the fuel tap to reserve hit the starter button & it fired up !!!!
Then they gave me a proper guide to the bike controls filled the tank & off it went feeling very stupid...lol.


Then many years later & 1 failed marraige did my bike test with the Army & got an A2 licence, so went out looking for something to tide me over till my 2 year restriction was up & brought one of these in the same colour for £750, cost me about the same to get it fully sorted as both front & rear suspension was well over due being sorted out (difference after rear suspension/swing arm bearings was wife sat on bike & it actually went down when she sat on it, before it never moved ) Had to pay for restrictor kit, new chain & sprockets, replaced the exhaust when the balance pipe rotted through for a Motard 2 into 1 stainless system. flogged it 3 years later for £850 cash to one of the AGS guys on the camp gate for his wife.


When i sold that i had allready put a deposit down on this Thunderace, kept it for 4 years put 41,500 miles on it went all over sometimes with wife no 2 on it & if it wasn't for falling in love with the R1 i think i would still have it.
First pic is how it looked shortly after getting it


This pic is how it looked just before i part chopped it for the R1


And after that i took delivery of the mighty R1 (need an R1 emoticon)...lol

good biking history mate, Thunder race was nice looking bike as well. I'll try and sort a R1 emoticon.

here goes (fingers crossed) , If this works ill be able to make any emoticon as i made this one myself
I love the yamaha

yeahee it works

Club Founder wrote:

yeahee it works

your a star m8..

thats some collection rambo...u always been a yam man then

phantom wrote:

thats some collection rambo...u always been a yam man then

Yes m8, had the one Kwackawaki , but to be honest the Yams have always looked the best to me, plus of all the various bikes i have tried for size, they seem to suit my size better.

me mate had a thundercat at the same time I had my
k1 gixer....it dwarfed the gixer size wise....an then the thunderace
being that little bit bigger

found a pic of me at the grand old age of 16 on my 1989 nsr125rk lol