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SimonTuffGuy Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline i like to thump... ;) Posts: 1159 Central PA Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #15 - 06/01/12 at 17:14:47 My S40 is my first bike... No reason to upgrade yet.
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Re: Your first motorcycle?
Reply #16 - 06/01/12 at 18:26:48

My first bike when I was 15; worked all summer in the peach orchards of N Calif. at $1/hr to earn $500. This is what I could afford and liked for the price. It was a tough little thing.

S 32 II 1966
Overall Length: 1 900 mm (74.8 in)
Overall Width: 765 mm (30.1 in)
Overall Height: 1 000 mm (39.4 in)
Seat Height: 775 mm (30.5 in)
Wheelbase: 1 260 mm (49.6 in)
Ground Clearance: 152 mm (6.0 in)
Dry Weight: 115 kg (252 lbs)
Engine type: Air-cooled 149 cc 2-stroke aluminum twin. 16 hp/ 8,000 rpm, 1,5 kg-m/ 7,000 rpm.

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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #17 - 06/01/12 at 21:44:16 I saved up some lawn mowing money and got one of these GT80s when I was about 9. So much stuff broke on mine, I'm not even nostalgic about them.. I sold mine to a junk dealer for $20 and if I never see one again it'll be too soon. BleeeeEEEHHHHH bleh blehh blehh.. bleeEEHHHHH bleh bleh... It sounded like bleh.
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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 6849 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #18 - 06/01/12 at 23:11:28 my 1st solo ride was dads honda 55 1st i owned was a 75 suzuki gt550
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PerrydaSavage Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Riding "The Rock"! Posts: 3522 Republic of Newfoundland Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #19 - 06/02/12 at 02:07:46 1985 Honda CMX250 Rebel ... bought in Aug. 2002 for $1K, sold Aug. 2003 for $1.1K!
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Blinky-FSO Serious Thumper Offline Three Eyes Are Better Than Two Posts: 528 Kentucky Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #20 - 06/02/12 at 06:02:45 In rememberence of my Father, this is his first motorcycle, a well used Indian that took him all summer to get running. The picture was taken outside of Yakama Washington in 1941. He was 15. Ride on Dad.
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Re: Your first motorcycle?
Reply #21 - 06/02/12 at 15:28:50

A white 1969 Kawasaki H-1 500. Bored with expansion chambers. Good thing for me, my cousins and friends had shared motorcycles with me since I was 12. A couple of years later I got a blue 1972 Kawasaki H-2 750. Had various dirt and street for a while. Quit riding around 1978 and started back with the Savage 3-10-10. 13,000 miles since.

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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #22 - 06/02/12 at 21:15:21 1970 Kawasaki 90. The best summer of my life. Dad agreed to go 1/2 Worked my butt off to get my 1/2. Thanks for the positive life lesson and giving a 14 yr old some awesome freedom dad.
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360k+ Serious Thumper Offline Savage heart of darkness Posts: 680 Cartersville, GA Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #23 - 06/03/12 at 11:04:14 Honda P50 exactly like the one shown here. You peddled to get it started and from then on it was automatic (no tranny). It would do about 35mph on flat road, and was a super fun little scoot! I paid $125 brand new in 1968 in SE Asia. I think it got about 500 mpg - lol.
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Southpaw Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline This ol' dog ain't staying on the porch! Posts: 920 Missouri Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #24 - 06/03/12 at 17:07:42 First one "I" owned was a 1968 Honda CB450, but I cut my teeth on a TS125 Trailhopper at my neighbor's farm! I have no idea how I survived for the stupid things we used to do on that thing!
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BuckRYCA Senior Member Offline Posts: 258 New London, CT, USA Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #25 - 06/03/12 at 17:18:14 1966 Honda S65 (engine displacement was one-tenth that of the Savage). Hit 55 mph lying down on the gas tank. About 120 mpg. Fire engine red with an upswept pipe. I paid for it working a summer job at a pipeline valve factory. It was so much fun.
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Re: Your first motorcycle?
Reply #26 - 06/03/12 at 21:49:31

This thread has lead me to a revelation that I never realized and why I love my savage. Let me explain.

Go-carts when I first became able to walk. Mini-bikes when I could ride on two wheels. From there, Sears was having a sale on 106 cc motor-bikes for 106 dollars plus tax. Armed with my life’s savings earned from lawn work, weeding the family garden and picking potato bugs, I’d leave the big ones, Dad drove me to Sears and loaded it on the pickup truck. It was a great bike until the plastic gear fell off the cam.

Soon after, driver’s license in hand, I bought what I believe was a bike before its time – a Bridgestone 175 Hurricane Scrambler. With the stinger baffles removed, my 305 Honda buds only laughed when I would brand the inside of my legs with the heat shields. College expenses and freshman not being able to have motor conveyances was her demise.

As soon as I could afford it, and here’s where I start seeing the pattern, I bought a Matchless 500. Reliving the 106 Sears days with bugs in my teeth and a silly grin, I was in heaven. I wish it was as nice as the one below, but it was a single cylinder not a multi thus the pattern. Family coming and a wife that wanted a live husband was the bike’s demise.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/tartard/matchless.jpg

Raised two boys then a empty nest and peer pressure produced another multi – 2002 Triumph Trophy 1200. Great sport touring motorcycle that put Goldwings and H-Ds in their place, the rearview mirror.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/tartard/tt1200.jpg

The wife started having health problems and two up rides were out of the question so the Trophy was sold and the silly grin and buggy teeth of a twelve year old returned along with a large deposit to the bank with the purchase of a used 2001 Savage. Returning to my roots, that 106 Sears, and the realization that one lung is all a motorcycle needs, and that I am like a dog returning to his own vomit is something that I have learned through this post.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/tartard/savage.jpg

Truly simple things are great – thump – thump – thump.

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Re: Your first motorcycle?
Reply #27 - 06/04/12 at 10:56:35

The first bike I've actually owned is my '06 S40. When I was in high school, I learned to ride around the neighborhood on a Honda CT70, Suzuki XL185, Kawasaki KE100, Suzuki GS450 and a Suzuki GS750 (all of which were owned by high school friends).

My dad still owns a 1964 Ducati Monza 250. This is the first bike I ever rode on a street with more than 2 lanes. I still remember being scared sh!tless at how fast the cars went past me.

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Rogue_Cheddar Serious Thumper Offline Hang up the phone and drive! Posts: 725 Haverhill, Massachusetts Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #28 - 06/04/12 at 12:26:37 My '95 Savage I got in 2006, started riding at age 52. Currently on a Vstar 1300
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prechermike Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Kalashna Kitty, from Skat Posts: 1190 Ponzer, NC Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #29 - 06/04/12 at 13:09:17 SimonTuffGuy wrote on 06/01/12 at 17:14:47: My S40 is my first bike... No reason to upgrade yet. Me too! Sorta. A friend had an 87 savage that he wanted to sell. I wanted a bike, so I bought it, really not knowing much about motorcycles. Even a blind sow finds an acorn once in a while. Recently "upgraded" to an 06.
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