Photos of you as a kid on a motorcycle

[Clovis]

Simple rules. Post the earliest known photo you have of you on a motorcycle and the story behind it.

This is me at 4 years old (1985) with my grandfather. I inherited my love of motorcycles from him and some of my best childhood memories are riding to the Shriner parades in Lamar and Alamosa. He only stopped riding a few years ago for health reasons (he'll turn 80 this year). My younger cousin Don got the same treatment as a kid and rides a Harley, but I don't hold that against him.

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/400251_2807067465510_1523371748_32746268_161726326 9_n.jpg

[grim]

I'm the only rider in my entire family even grandparents and cousins :(

[dirkterrell]

Me and my dad around 1968 or 1969.

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/%7Eterrell/bikes/dad_me_bike_small.jpg

[biikChiQ]

How cute!

anyway, I'm with grim on this one too.

[longrider]

I'm with Grim and biikChiQ, no riding for me until I was 16 and a friend got me started. It is starnge how something like that can change your whole life.

[Fumet5uNo]

Clovis so little

[Fumet5uNo]

How cute!

anyway, I'm with grim on this one too.

http://www.teluguone.com/funtime/imagesnew/babyBikeRacing1.jpg. I found this pic for biikchiq when she was 4 lol sorry had to

[Fumet5uNo]

And now .... Grims daughter

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd218/cookeetree/misuzu.jpg

And I'm spent good night all

[grim]

And now .... Grims daughter

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd218/cookeetree/misuzu.jpg

And I'm spent good night all

Lmao

[biikChiQ]

http://www.teluguone.com/funtime/imagesnew/babyBikeRacing1.jpg. I found this pic for biikchiq when she was 4 lol sorry had to


LOL, good one!

this was me with my fam, before i turned 4.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3371/dth.png

[Clovis]

I said real pictures! you guys are ruining my thread.

[madvlad]

My dad and I are the only ones in our whole family that ride, he called it quits back in 86' when he almost died in a wreck a year before I was born so unfortunately no pictures of me on one. Didnt come to own my first bike till 18 (03' VFR800).

[mdub]

:puppy: :cry:
I said real pictures! you guys are ruining my thread.

hang in there lil chief squirrel it'll get better...:cry:


I dont have one...my parents were no no....you'll kill yourself......

[Lomax]

Ah the good old days.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b327/lomaxcm/Bikessmall.jpg

This is the earliest photo I could find and I think it was around 1969 or so. I did start riding at age 4 on a Cushman scooter that was WAY too big for me :eyebrows: But what the heck. My brother would put me on it and give me a push, I would ride around the block and then he would come out and catch me when I got back.


Marc

[rfranks303]

I used to ride with my dad on the back of his custom built trike. That started when I was six or so. Sadly I dont have any pics but I wish I did. He had to sell the trike when I was ten but if I could find it I sell everything I own to get it back.

[Clovis]

Nice picture Lomax! You and your brother look like the Hardy Boys :)

[~Barn~]

hang in there lil chief squirrel <Snip...>
:spit:

Great pics guys; keep sharing.

[Jmetz]

My first ticket for riding without a license.

http://buffetoblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/kid-pulled-over-on-motorcycle.jpg?w=600

[FZRguy]

Around 1974 at a race in OK at a track named Blood, Sweat and Gears. I have earlier ones but will have to scan them at work next week.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/mcqueenj/yzmx.jpg

[Clovis]

Nice! I lived in Lawton, OK from 93-95 next to Fort Sill. They had a dirt track for training and in a pre 9/11 world kids like myself could ride our bikes onto base and use the track.

[bluedogok]

I had a 71 Yamaha Mini-Enduro 60cc MX model from ages 9-12, a 1972 Kawasaki G5 100cc enduro after that, my dad rode a 72 Kawasaki F7 175cc enduro. We used to ride at the track near Amber, OK. I think it was Amber Valley or something like that. Most of our riding was trail riding around Lake Stanley Draper, some around NW 10th & Council before the houses went in and what is now Stinchcomb Wildlife refuge where NW 50th ends at the North Canadian River before it dumps into Lake Overholser. Snowman rode the 100 some and I rode my dad's 175 trail riding. We rode some at Fort Sill as well in the mid-70's. My mother has all my childhood motorcycle pics, I need to scan them in when we are going through OKC on the final move from Austin next month.

[sloridr]

This was taken about '82-'83 time frame. Mom, Dad, my older brother, and me poking out of the side car. Dad had to get this after the local sheriff pulled us over riding 4 deep on a '66 Elecraglide... Dad still has the '66!

http://i981.photobucket.com/albums/ae300/sloridr/IMG_20120108_111914-1.jpg

[MisterDeadman]

anyway, I'm with grim on this one too.

+1 to that.

[Xtremjeepn]

The bike is brand new:eyebrows:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6662805263_b407612957_o_d.jpg

[mastap07]

I'm the only rider in my entire family even grandparents and cousins :(

me too....

[mdub]

he is my youngest one....practicing her wheelie on a non motorized bike first....

http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee491/walkermi/Bigwheelie.jpg

[FZRguy]

1971

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/mcqueenj/YZ1971.jpg

[Clovis]

that hair style looks like it could be on any teenagers head today. trippy

[bluedogok]

1971

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/mcqueenj/YZ1971.jpg
That looks like a Yamaha from the red stripe on the tank.....

A full-face helmet, those were heavy and expensive back then. I had a red, silver and blue metal flake open face helmet with lightning bolts and stars on it (it was the early 70's). The first full face that I remember trying out was Snowman's Bell in the early 80's, it was real hot in Oklahoma summers as there was no such thing as venting on them back then, of course they were quiet because of that. I might see if my sister can scan in my old pics at my parents house to get them up here, then you can see the helmet in all it's glory.

[Snowman]

1984
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/37730_470856930277_579120277_6361467_6957729_n.jpg
CBR900F2 (Before the fairing)

[bluedogok]

Didn't you get the Bell not too long after that.

I know of a silver 900F sitting outside a duplex in Austin, I have never seen it running though, always parked in the same spot.

[Snowman]

Yep, Bell Star, Sliver. Never did get a good jacket.

[FZRguy]

That looks like a Yamaha from the red stripe on the tank....

It's the very first model YZ125. Right after I got it, the Honda Elsinore six speed came out. It was quite better than my YZ. Helmet is an old Bell Star, I think.

[FZRguy]

1984
CBR900F2 (Before the fairing)

Nice. I had a 1981 750F around that time.