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Reply #45 - 11/24/21 at 14:50:58

Found this nostalgic thread and thought I'd bring it back to life.
My first bike was a 70's Cushman mini bike. It had a just a single brake for the rear wheel only which was a foot operated steel plate that rubbed against the rear tire.
When I was 15 I bought a 1975 Yamaha RD200B. She was a looker and had a crazy power band at the higher RPM's. Two stroke twin.
Then I bought a /77 Yamaha XS400 that I "cafe'd out" in my 16 y/o pea brain. Well, I put on drop bars and a quarter fairing and cut the pipes short with a hacksaw, then drilled holes in the baffle plate.
The pic below isn't mine, but just like my RD200.

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Tocsik Serious Thumper Offline the singularity Posts: 1206 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #46 - 11/24/21 at 14:51:17 Here's the XS400. I eventually put on those glass pack slash cut shorty tips.
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youzguyz Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2555 San Antonio, Texas Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #47 - 11/24/21 at 15:26:40 Not my first motorcycle, but the first one I have a picture of.. and, it is a Suzuki.. Savage. TS250
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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2825	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #48 - 11/24/21 at 17:32:41 First off-road bike. First street bike.
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SoC Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 516 New Jersey Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #49 - 11/26/21 at 09:01:22 Mine was a 1972 Yamaha LT2 100cc Enduro. Got it brand new, a combo of saved my pennies and parents and Grandmother chipped in the rest for my Christmas present. Too young for a drivers license it was modified to a backwoods trail/motocross machine. Sorry but no pictures.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #50 - 11/26/21 at 09:50:49 That Suzuki500 is Pretty!
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Reply #51 - 11/26/21 at 20:25:48

Well it wasn't the 650 bonnie I wanted ... but it did have the numerals 065 in the description . Grin

Mom , saved me from self destruction when she got me a Honda S65 when I was 15 years old. I got my driving permit a few months later. and 2 years and 12,000 miles later the transmission broke . so I moved on to a twin jet 100cc yamaha.

She won a honda 50cc in a raffle then gave a few extra bucks to up to the S65

That was back when : " YOU COULD MEET THE NICES PEOPLE ON A HONDA " Grin

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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2825	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #52 - 11/27/21 at 05:02:42 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 11/26/21 at 09:50:49: That Suzuki500 is Pretty! ---------- Sole it from my dad! It sat outside so it wasn't as nice as the one in the picture, but that was back when chrome was still done right so it wasn't that bad either.
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 6023 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #53 - 11/27/21 at 08:55:40 yea I really like the looks of that 500 Titan ! I had a RD250 two cycle twin once and it ran really good , if the 500 ran twice that good it must have been awesome !
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5401 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #54 - 11/27/21 at 10:14:39 JOG you are a little off That Suzuki is museum quality That’s a real motorcycle Pure Motorcycle Pornography
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Reply #55 - 11/27/21 at 12:55:04

Hey Tocsik, I had one of them 200 twins back in the day. It was a sweet little commuter. Only seized her up once. On the freeway. Heavy traffic. High speed. Middle lane. Major scary. Shocked

Made it to the shoulder, let it cool off, limped home. Those were the days brother.

My first bike was a Kawasaki A7. It was a 350 twin, rotary valve 2-stroke. Then traded up to an H1 500cc triple. Thinking about it now, they were both pretty terrible motorcycles. Fast, but terrible. Real death traps. Kids do the darndest things.

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Reply #56 - 11/28/21 at 13:38:49

Strange, but true: after taking my mini cooper to race drivers school, it was obvious I couldn't afford racing 4 wheels. Buddy took me to a local bike road race. Walking through the paddock (1967 !) and seeing the huge variety of bikes being raced, 100cc to 750s, I thought 'I can do this'. Bought a used Yam YL-1 100cc with a GYT kit, practiced on the street for 2 weeks, signed up for a novice race. Most fun ever! Took it to Mosport, discovered I had more ambition than talent, was 'tail-end charlie' every race. Traded it for a Ducati 250 Mark 3, packed it in after 2 years of being a moving chicane. Best time of my life!
Cheers! Cool

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Reply #57 - 11/28/21 at 15:50:32

I learned to ride on my dad's 1968 Yamaha YAS1C....a 125cc twin scrambler, and also his 1966 305cc scrambler.

The first bike of my own was a 1970 Kawasaki F6 Enduro. I got it when I was 15 so it spent the first year of it's life off road.

I replaced it when I was 17 with a Suzuki TM125 motocross bike and didn't ride on pavement (legally) anymore.

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Reply #58 - 11/28/21 at 15:53:32

My first road bike I bought when I worked at a Suzuki dealer in 1977.

Suzuki put a $1,000 rebate on the RE-5 Wankel engine Suzuki and I bought a brand new one for $1,700!

I sold it for $ 1,300 with less than 2,000 miles on it when I started college in Cincinnati in 1979. (Sure looks like a mistake now - but I really needed the money).

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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2825	Re: Your first motorcycle? Reply #59 - 11/29/21 at 15:58:38 Dave wrote on 11/28/21 at 15:53:32: My first road bike I bought when I worked at a Suzuki dealer in 1977. Suzuki put a $1,000 rebate on the RE-5 Wankel engine Suzuki and I bought a brand new one for $1,700! ------------- The Rotary Water Buffalo!!
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