Your First Love?

[OneSickPsycho]

I liked 'em all until I saw this:

[Trip]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I liked 'em all until I saw this:

didn't that royally fuck you?

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Trip

didn't that royally fuck you?

No, this did:


My opinion of them hasn't changed... I still think it was most likely something I fucked up putting it back together than anything... However, it was everything I ever liked about motorcycles in one package.

[Gas Man]

Honestly I was hooked from the sound go.

I was 8yrs old on my Uncle's 1984 honda shadow V 700


Taken at a KOA camp ground in Monroe, MI

I remembered holding on for dear life, the roaring sound of the motor, the vibration, the wind. Thinking WOW, we must be going a million miles an hour!!!

It wasn't till later after I was 18 that I was able to look at my own. Then much like the other people here... the F4i was my dream bike. But I got my used 97 EX500. Same uncle went and looked at it and test rode it for me. Then showed me how to ride it in a parking lot.

[Porkchop]

Originally Posted by goof2

You sure that isn't Alex Barros on the 500?

Edited to add: I first noticed bikes around 1985 when Honda was advertising the Interceptor and Suzuki was doing the same with the GSX-R, but at that point I just thought they looked cool. I took notice again around 90 or 91 when one of the bike mags put out an article with tuner bikes. If I remember there was a turbo Hurricane, a turbo ZX-11, and a few other bikes. Again if I remember correctly they were running around 190+ top speeds and it really caught my attention. All that stuff was nibbles though. Seeing, and more importantly hearing, a Ducati 851 with an exhaust on it really set the hook. That was almost 20 years ago and I can still recall the "What the fuck is that thing!" feeling.

Which interceptor? The 500, 700, or 1000?

[derf]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I liked 'em all until I saw this:

Did It Make You Go Bling And Not LikeBikes Any More?

[dReWpY]

For me it was the card board cut out of the rc51 when I worked @ honda of troy and was currently racing quads in harescrambles and had never really seen a bike that looked so fast

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

95 GSX-r 750

then later I got into being able to see the power plant and switched to drooling over nekkid bikes.

When the SV came out in '99 I darned near crapped myself

My experience is similar. I grew up watching chinese tv that had girls riding motorcycles and I knew as soon as I was able I would be riding. My cousin's boyfriend took me riding on the back of his GSXR1000 when I was 14 and since then I always loved the GSXR's, any size, I just loved the blue and white paint scheme.

Not exactly sure how it happened, but I started liking the naked bikes. First one I really drooled over was the BMW Dakar. I saw a Z1000 at the dealership and also drooled over that. After I got licensed, I saw a 2nd gen SVS and fell in love with it. The SV650S became my 2nd bike and the SV650 naked became my 4th.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Porkchop

Which interceptor? The 500, 700, or 1000?

It was probably the 500 but it was 25 years ago and my memory isn't quite that good.

[Smittie61984]

When I was 12 (around 1996) my neighbor got a CBR600 F2 that was like this one.

(best pick of it I could find)
I fell in love with street bikes while everyone at my school wanted dirtbikes or ATVs. I lost interest about highschool but regained interest around 21 or so.

Funny part is I may have looked at my bike when I was 12 while walking the Honda dealerships lusting after them.