Have not ridden in quite a while, but recently got a deal I could not pass up. An 86 Yamaha Virago 1100 with only 14,000 miles on it for $400.
My first bike was a 56 Harley FLH "panhead", with suicide shift. Not a good bike to learn on. :-) About six weeks after I got my lisence, I got cut off by a tractor trailer, loaded with steel. If I'd been more experoenced, I'd have aboided him, but I bailed and dropped the bike. The trailer turned it into pretzled scrap iron. My next bike was a 250 Sprint (Aeromachi/Harley Davidson). I rode it till I got out of the Navy, then sold it. Bought a 150 Lambretta Speciale, which I rode for about twenty years, then sold and got a Honda CB500-4. Sold it in 2010, when i needed to replace a dead car. So have not had a bike for the last ten years.
Looking forward to getting the Virago on the road this coming Spring. Have to rebuild the fuel system, and put a pair of tires on it.
Any other riders on here? What's your current and past rides?
"There's only three tempos: slow, medium and fast. When you get between in the cracks, ain't nuthin' happenin'." Ben Webster
Started with a minibike then a Kawasaki motocross bike. My first serious bike needed a lot of work, an 86 Kawasaki Vulcan. I had it in good shape in college. An 09 Kawasaki Ninja, 2011 Victory Vegas Jackpot, 05 Harley-Davidson Fatboy with apehangers.
Ah, ermm...I clicked on the link thinking horses...dammit. I ride Australian, a 17.2 hh Percheron x Thoroughbred gelding, now twelve years old. Anyway. Mac would shift his weight and crush a minibike.
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I learned in a back lane on a Honda CD175. I rode various bikes as a courier in London when my car was in the shop. A friend bought and rebuilt Kawasaki 400s and let me ride them for a few days until he sold them. I test rode a 10ish-year-old mid-70s Ducati. After 4 miles I went back and signed on the dotted. Best vibrator I ever owned. The last bike I had was a very old 750 Suzuki. I loaned it to a friend who had a close encounter with a drunk. The bike was toast, but I kept the friend.
Have had motorbikes for many years, Kawasaki Z1100 was by far my favourite ride. On a bike of course ha ha.
Currently have four in the shed. Love just about everything to do with bikes - except buying tyres ;)
Well, I ride neither motorbikes nor horses, but I have a nice 18 speed hybrid bicycle in the garage that got a fair bit of mileage this year. I've been tempted to pull my son's old Giant road bike up from the basement but I need to find a better seat for it (the stock seat hurts my ass) and get some shoes for the clipless pedals he put on. I don't think his will fit me. He has a Norco mountain bike with him in Ottawa and doesn't seem interested in taking this one up.
I still have my 2005 Kaw Vulcan, it hasn't been running in a few years. I owned various harleys over the years. Nothing to write home about..
Dad has an '86 VMax . It's awesome ,makes me wet !
Hoping to start riding this summer but the course is expensive [France].
I can ride a 125 on my car licence here [I think] but for us girlies bigger is always better lol.,
94 Honda Fireblade. ( I brought new, but still going strong.)
KTM 400 enduro bike. But the older I get, the more it hurts when I crash that one.
Are we talking bikes or motorcycles or horses? No matter, the answer is no. Not in the past year or more.
Mac, my poor neglected 17.2hh Percheron x Thoroughbred gelding who is boarded about ten miles from my house, hasn't had me in his saddle in over a year. He's been chartered out since February 2020, though, b/c he's an absolutely bombproof trail horse and b/c I knew, back then, that it would be a bit before I could get out to ride. Ha. I thought then that it would be a few months. Stupid me.
My bicycle, a...hybrid road something? Is a Novara, made by REI, pink and white with flowers, custom ordered so that it could be ridden by a stupidly tall woman. I'm looking at the Rad electric assisted bikes now, but only because it's a local company, they're offering huge discounts through my employer, and they're kind of cool. Please note that by "looking" I mean "reading emails from the mailing list". I'll probably end up with one of their new RadWagon bikes, because I don't drive unless I absolutely have to do so.
Motorcycles/mopeds/anything similar? Oh, Hell no. No. There's a good reason that in the medical community, motorcycle riders are referred to in various ways, but all involve those riders being imminent organ donors.
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