[Closed] What was your first motorcycle or car?

I had one of them - but my first bike was one of these in orange
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I can beat that. Suzuki B120P with a heavily modified exhaust. Man that thing was uglee..

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mini 1000

1st bike : Kawasaki AR 50

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While everyone else was riding what we called 'chicken chasers'. I rebuilt this bad boy with Micron straight through exhaust, different rear sprocket and 'performance' air filter to give me an extra 9/10 mph 🙂

1st car

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1974 Hilman Hunter GT 1725 Holbay in 1978.

Honda XL125 in 1977

lovely car. no transmission tunnel so lots of room for my 6'4" frame.

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Gilera 50cc Enduro moped. R plated so not 30mph restricted.
Also Mini with 1100 engine and ahuge fabric sunroof and wide wheels. Great

1989 Fiesta Popular Plus 1.1 thought it was great after years of biking/walking to work.

1.3L 3 door 1981 Mk3 Ford Escort, which I bought in 1991 I think.
Same colour as this but more rust. Lasted about six months before I crashed twice in one week, the second one wrote it off.
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I was born to be a hair dresser.

1973 Yamaha FS1E here, sadly no pics of my first set of wheels 🙁

First bike:Yamaha TY80 trials bike.(nine years old at the time).

Mine was one of these, a fs1e in yellow-don't remember it having Kenny Roberts stripes though

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First car was a 1275GT Clubman Mini in purple

IanMunro - you are surprisingly good looking!

lol

c50 aged 10
cb125j aged 16
Hillman Avenger aged 27

FS1E here too got it 2/6/75 - can't remember what year the bike was though

71 Capri 1600 XL auto. The auto didn't last long before I bolted in a 4 speed & a Weber carb. So easy to fix with Escort & Cortina parts being dirt cheap, at the time.

Honda 50 when I was 15
followed by a Lambretta SX200 at 16

and a Reliant supervan at 17

Bugger my cover's been blown!
Suzzie.

First car:

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First motorbike was an Excelsior.

My first road bike was the H100. I got a bike before I got a car.

My first motorcycle ever was this....

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Still have it too...

1st bike ,Kawasaki KMX125
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1st car ,Peugeot 309 diesel
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Suzuki AP50, identical to this one: Tempted to buy another for old time's sake but decent ones go for over £3,000..eeek!

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Simwit - that Laverda Jota is lovely!

Do you still have it?

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A MK3 Cortina something very like this, only with more rust.

mini 1000 here too.

1.0 Metro just like this.
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and before that I had one of these!
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Never really recovered from the metro!

Honda CG125 (1st Generation).

Top speed of 68mph and I could get over 130 mpg too.

I used to ride up the A9 to Inverness tucked in behind a decent sized HGV as that made it faster.

Grounded it at the Aberlady corner a couple of times resulting in a big off. I eventually took a hacksaw to the tang of the stand to increase the ground clearance.

My first car The fiat Uno the best car in the world for understeer even 20mph going round a roundabout it would slide out.
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Hey - the Uno wasn't that bad. I had an Uno Turbo for a while and we managed a great holiday in France for 4 of us. Fast as stink!*

* well - it felt it 🙂

Yet another 'fizzy' here - a 1974 IIRC which was clocked by the police at 52mph who couldn't stop laughing when [b]my Dad[/b] took off his helmet - he had borrowed it to go to work one day 😆

a Nova Merit+
something like this
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1st car was a 1986 Ford Escort 1.3L 3 door C720MWC, 4 speed, leaky boot, dodgy electrics, used a gallon of oil every 1000 miles...

Random pic off t'web in the same colour as mine
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Car:

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Motorbike:

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My first cars:

1st - Nova GTE at 17
2nd - Citroen AX GT at 18
3rd Audi Quattro 2.3 Sport at 19
4th Citroen Saxo VTS at 20

First 4 years of driving cars that were far too fast for me at that age. No crashes though.

one of these, but right-hand drive:
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mine was a 1982 5TL

Nikes

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Cars

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This, well, one in the exact same colour and same age, ford fiesta 1.1L

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Bike - XL125S followed by CB400-4 F1.

Car - Austin Healey Sprite (Mk4, not Frog-eye)followed by, er, Fiat Uno 😕

@Zedsdead

I'm afraid that was a library pic I found and not my bikes (if only!)

I had one of these

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Changed the exhaust, put a big bore kit on it and just the sprockets as well and it went pretty well actually 🙂

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Car, 1971 Vauxhall Viva HC in white and red oxide. Given to me by my dad as an 18th birthday present two months before it failed its MOT....

Bike, Suzuki RG250 Mk 11 Gamma with a stage 3 Stan Stephens race tune. Mother of God did I learn to ride when I had that!

Best bike BTW, 1998 Kawasaki ZX6R (in green of course)......then the kids came along

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Excellent fun.

soperman - Member
Car, 1971 Vauxhall Viva HC in white and red oxide. Given to me by my dad as an 18th birthday present two months before it failed its MOT....

Bike, Suzuki RG250 Mk 11 Gamma with a stage 3 Stan Stephens race tune. Mother of God did I learn to ride when I had that!

Best bike BTW, 1998 Kawasaki ZX6R (in green of course)......then the kids came along

How did you get a 250 as your first motorbike? Respect anyway because I can remember those things being extremely rapid, particularly when tuned 8)

First bike:

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First car, a Morris Marina Coupe, like this but blue:

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soperman said:

Bike, Suzuki RG250 Mk 11 Gamma with a stage 3 Stan Stephens race tune. Mother of God did I learn to ride when I had that!

I really quite fancy one of those now, or an aprilia

Best bike BTW, 1998 Kawasaki ZX6R (in green of course)......then the kids came along

Funnily enough I only started biking AFTER the kids came along - does that make me a bad dad?

This bad boy, though a 1977 version in snot green. Surprisingly good handling for an old car.

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Went everywhere in the UK. Floor eventually rusted through, as did almost everything else to be honest.

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^^^^

Cool, a Vauxhall chuv-it 😉

My ex-step-father had one of those and when he turned the windscreen wipers on it used to sound like it was saying "tarzan" to you. It drove him mad 😆

How did you get a 250 as your first motorbike?

Pre 1983 you could have a 250 as your first bike.

First motorbike.
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First car.
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The bike might have actually been faster than the car!!

stuartlangwilson.. I hate you. Mk1 gti as a 1st car! How did you afford the insurance?

Zedsdead
That seat and pipe are the same as on my Gilera. is it one or something like a Derbi or Casal?

That seat and pipe are the same as on my Gilera. is it one or something like a Derbi or Casal?

First Bike, never looked this tidy mind
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First Car (oh the shame)
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Kawasaki AR50.Micron exhaust.Noisy,went ok.
First car Metro-Pile if junk

Oh the memories, first that retro Cannondale for sale and now all these pics - my early years all over again.

1st Bike Honda CB175
2nd X7
3rd RD400
4th 350LC
then a car Mini Cooper S mk3 with 1000 badges on

those were the days, every thing was modified for better or worse

First bike DT50, obviously fettled the ports myself...

First car was a yellow Chevanne with one red door and one brown door. Soon sorted with an 'on the drive' sprayjob, should have been Gloss Black but defo more Matt!

first car, to be honest only car as well.

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now at 173k and counting.

@nicolaisam

Snap! see 1st page. Mine was noisy as hell.. although loved beating everyone else on their mopeds.. with head down i got it to 42mph 🙂

1st bike Honda CB100 - rebuilt by me aqnd my Dad (mostly him), ticked off my mates at poly with their Fizzies and Puch Maxis 🙂

Followed by my 1st car, a 1500 Mk1 Cortina in dark blue. £70.

After too many years without a bike I now have a yellow Daytona, and I'm driving a Fabia VRS which is a hoot. Happy days then and now.

Mk1 VW Polo 895 cc in Mars red for me

Some nice bikes on here. Let's change that:

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My Virago 125. It would have been rubbish even if it worked, which it almost never did.

Hyundai Pony coupe. Kept three spare wheels in the back because they kept collapsing when hitting obstacles such as cats eyes, small twigs and wool.

I was so proud of it - "Electric Blue" with added rust effect. I thought it was a hot hatch!

Lol at Ho-hum's dad's car's windscreen wipers saying, "Tarzan". That would drive me nuts too 🙂

Mini Pick Up as a post grad student. Used mostly for biking adventures in conjunction with Leffeboy's Allegro for the bodies. Happy days. You could fit 6 bikes in the back.

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Nice duds 😉

Oh the shame...same colour too 😳
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But I soon saw the error of my ways and got a load of 8V turbo one of these:
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This was my first bike - a Yamaha RD250E. Sadly this isn't it but mine was the same colour but had Allspeed expansion boxes on it and a nice set or rear-sets and dropped bars. Absolutely ace bike, quite quick and much better when it had some proper Avon Roadrunner tyres fitted in a proper big size 😀

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Bikes
50cc Mobelette fieldbike at 12
Garelli KL100 Cross (looked like a Tiger but was actually 80cc and with a kickstart) at 17, then RD250E on L plates when I went to college - passed my test and went straight to an RD350LC - still only 17...
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Cars
Renault 20TL auto at 21, but had been driving new Renaults (one 4, four 5's and two Fuego's)since 17 (my Dad worked for Renault)

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More hits than the beatles in one of these, bunged it through a fence two hours after passing my test!

First bike was a blue AP50 exactly like the previous photo.
First car I drove was my mum's Morris Marina (a 1.8 in a shitty brown/beige with a black vinyl roof).
First car I owned was a Ginetta G15

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Renault 5 - simply awful
Ford Escort - pretty bad
Vauxhall Astra - not bad at all
Honda Civic 5 door - great, great car
Honda Accord - bland but reliable
Honda Civic S - fast enough to scare me = fun

Hadge - I had one of them (two actually, a DX and an E), same colour, also with Allspeed spannies.

1.6 ford mondeo hatchback in blue green colour maaaahousive boot great for getting the bike in!! No abs almost killed me on the motor way when a BMW caused a stack still miss it!!

mcmoonter

That is the coolest outfit I have ever seen...............no really, made my night that has 😉

Gilo - you mean you had one? The E looked stunning - discs front and back and those wheels mmmmm. I looked round for ages wanting a 250 but my dad wanted me get a Honda as he had a 400 Dream (yuk). I found loads of Hondas but only the one Yam which my mates mate was selling so I paid £400 for it and I loved it. They fetch really good money now but I'd love to get one. I did want an LC but they were a lot more money if truth be told.

First bike

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First car - MK1 Golf (non turbo) diesel