Your first 3 bikes....

1965 305 Honda Scrambler
1969 BSA Firebird Scrambler
1975 Honda 550 SS (still own it)

 

Honda CBR f4 1999
Honda CBR 929RR 2000
Honda CBR 600RR 03 (first track bike, where the addiction began )

 

1973 Yamaha DT250
1974 Kawasaki KE175 enduro
1976 Suzuki GT380

 

1997 Honda CBR600F3
2003 R1 (Thus began the Yamaha addiction)
2004 R6 (tossed it into the cornfield by turn 5 at tally & then sold it & bought my new R6 after deployment)

 

1957 BSA C12 - seemed like a good idea, until I got it.

1983 Kawasaki AR-80 - good cheap fun.

1984 XR1000 - should have kept it.


Many more since then...

 

1976 Yamaha XS500
1971 750 Norton Commando
1961 Triumph T110 road cruiser.
In that order.

 

1981 Honda FT500 Ascot
1976 Kawasaki KZ900
1974 BMW R90/S

 

1969 Honda CT70. Still have it.
1971 Honda SL100.
1972 Suzuki TM125. Thus started my racing(?) career.

Later my first street bike was a 1970 Kawasaki H1. When I bought it it already had a busted tail light and mashed in rear fender.

 

196x-ish Ducati 250 Monza (the slow one)
1968 Kawasaki A7 350 - great engine once you vented the carb covers, half of bike's weight was the engine
1973 XL 250 Honda -

 

I could tell you were of good character.... My 4th bike was a '70 H1, then a brand new RD400F, then my 84 yellow RZ350 that I still have....

 

1985 Kawasaki Ninja 900. Bought brand new for $4,105 OTD
1988 Yamaha FZR $6,200 OTD
1986 Honda VFR-700 bought used for $1,600

 

Funny thing about the RZ. I bought it in '86 with 220 miles on the odo from a guy in SF. Came close to totalling it (and me) on the test ride. WAY different powerband than the RD350 I had at the time, and I went superwide on one corner and clipped a curb. I limped back to his house, wrote him a check (!) and rode it home. He couldn't handle it, and I got a bargain. $1100 IIRC.

-jim

 

1986 ZL600
1986 ZX600
1994? ZX9

 

81 or so 650
81 or so CB 900 SS (ex race bike, trying to buy it back currently)
2000 gsxr 750. Rode on street a bit, did a few track days then promptly converted to race bike.

 

'75 Suzuki GT380
'85 Suzuki GV1200 Madura
'88 HD Sportster

Too many to remember since then. Although I'm gonna take a moment and reminisce.

 

GT380. Weird bikes. Baby water buffalo.

-jim

 

I bought one 5 or 10 years ago in the parking lot of a swap meet to restore. My first bike, memories with Dad, etc.

Then I came to my senses and it went on to somebody else.

I didn't like it THAT much.

 

I forgot the 1975 TS185 between the S90 and the FA50. Fun bike.

 

You can (for the most part) get away with a lot more hooligan shit on a 50 than you can on a 600, which a judge reminded me of in'89.

"Exhibition of Speed." Six months with no license. Dragging knee in the Laguna Seca parking lot on a YSR50 at the GP in '88 was frowned upon by the Monterey Sheriffs or then, the Mil Police.

-jim