What made you get up and go buy a motor bike ?
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for me it started when i was about 7 or 8 years old
i loved cycling but hated hills and when i saw a motor bike go sailing effortlesly up hill i said to my friend one dauy im going to get one of those !
there thats my faily simple answer whats yours ?
The first time i went on a bike was last year, it was my dads vfr..... I loved it that much within 2 months i had my own lol .. Its the adrenaline for me
I was lucky that when I was at school we had an engineering department. Our metalwork teacher was a bike nut and responsible for positively encouraging all of us to look at the fantastic world of machinery and combustion engines. As he rode an Ariel Square four his machine featured in a lot of our lessons. He encouraged the older boys to take an interest in riding as well, and when I was 16 I bought an old Bantam from the Post Office(one of their telegram delivery bikes) The interest has been with me ever since, unfortunately I had a long lay off when my kids were growing up as I couldnt afford a car and a bike. I didn't start riding again until four years ago, but I couldnt find a bike that I felt comfortable on. My days of hurtling around like a maniac are long gone. Then I saw the trike and I fell in love all over again, so thanks Mr Cooper for my school days!
mid-life crisis! Was never allowed near em as a kid, then never believed I would be capable of riding one myself, thought Id try it out in case I was missing something! You know what............I did, I could and I love it..........just wished Id done it 20 or so years earlier but better late than never! Open road (well sort of!), freedom and the roar of that V-Twin is just awesome!! "Spock" is coming out again tomorrow..............just cant wait lol!
I was lucky Alice it was a new concept to have a technical school. We were sort of guinea pigs, but i'm really glad that i had the opportunity to go there. Only thing lacking was that it was boys only........................
Think we must be same age. . .mine was the first of the grammar techs. . . . .I really envied those boys doing metal work and tech drawing. Scarred for life that's me !! :>>
I went to a mixed comp and I hated all the cookery and typing stuff. I studied Tech drawing and was the only girl in the class. Although I passed it at A level grade not one drawing office was willing to take me on as it wasn't heard of then in the 70's, a woman in a drawing office! shameful!! Anyway I learnt to ride a bike cause it was sitting in the garage doing nothing and I had a 'TO Do' list of things i wanted to do before I reached 50. and I hate public transport..and if someone had told me how great it was to ride I would have done it 20 years ago and not left it so long.
Dad had an old beezer when I was small and I loved the sound. Then my sister started dating a biker when I was 15 and that was it I got hooked and started borrowing her C50 when I was 16. Both parents died whilst I was in early teens so no one to stop me buying a Honda 250 + the gear on my 18th birthday and becoming part of the local biker scene.
I suppose it also pandered to the rebel in me as I used to delight in p*ssing of the master at the school gates by pulling wheelies off the speed bumps dressed in jeans, leather jacket and sawn off denim and then changing into charcoal grey suit in the 6th form common room....
it must be in the blood, my mum used to ride on the back of my dad when she was pregnant with me, must be all the vibration from the old brits that sent me mad for bikes had one since I was 8, its just so me lol
I used to delight
in p*ssing of the master at the school gates by pulling wheelies off
the speed bumps dressed in jeans, leather jacket and sawn off denim and
then changing into charcoal grey suit in the 6th form common room....
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