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RE: your 1st time - 1/19/2008 9:27:24 PM
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Kewl Breeze
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First time: Promptly popped the clutch .. did a perfect semi-circle .. got up close and personal with asphalt. Ignored the strawberry on my knee and got right back on trying to act like nothing happened while friends watched silently and made my way on to the main road on the Honda CR125 with knobbys that had no business on the road. But keep in mind MJ's Thriller album had just been released and nobody knew the definition of squid yet so yeah I as the OG pimpin squid while most of you where still living in your daddy's nads.
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RE: your 1st time - 1/19/2008 10:00:47 PM
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Onarom
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NOT MY 1st Time, BUT...
it was 1993 (I bet I just lost a few readers) and I would go to the Honda dealership almost every weekend and just look at the 900RR. One day the sales person told me that I could put a couple miles on the bike (6.3 to be exact, because he wanted to keep it under 10 miles). He knew I couldn't afford it (mainly because of insurance) but he let me take it for a test drive anyway.
It was the happiest 6 miles of my life.
Unfortunately, they went out of business. Otherwise, I would have drove all the way back to Illinois just to by my new bike from them simply because of this guy from years ago.
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RE: your 1st time - 1/19/2008 10:45:21 PM
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thirdgenlxi
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Ohhhh boy... I remember every detail perfectly! But it'll more than likely turn into a huge novel like pretty much all of my "short stories" do, and I'm really tired now so I'll post it up tomorrow when I'm awake, lol
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RE: your 1st time - 1/19/2008 11:19:03 PM
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jaynd
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haha something tells me you'll even have pics in the post, Jared!
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RE: your 1st time - 1/19/2008 11:29:36 PM
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hellboytt
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My first time was when I got my bike home by a truck, I unloaded the sucker, jumped on the bike, started it, and my garage is kind of steep so I killed it like 4 times, then I just gave it gas and flew in the garage, ended up locking the front brake, sliding little bit, but ended up stopping at the right moment, that was it. The next day I jumped on the bike again, no helmet or anything, just wanted to ride it in the subdivision, killed it 3 times ( i think I put in in 3rd gear), turned the bike around and rolled it back to the house, relaxed and jumped on it again, and this time it didn't die and I rode around like that for about 3 days ( no more than 25mph, and it felt fast as hell), till my neigbor cop told me not to ride without a helmet and no licence . So I got my licence, helmet and took the bike to get inspected about 10 miles away. As soon as I turned into traffic I got scared, all the cars were around me, I felt very uncomfortable but excited at the same time, 4 mins later I was cool. And then I jumped on the highway, as soon as I hit 65mph I felt the wind, and got down real low, people were flying by me and I was like, man, I felt like I was doing at least 240mph, I was scared shitless, the wind was freaking me out. On the way back it was much better, I even got on it little bit, but didn't go faster than 70 mph for the next 2-3 weeks, was too scared. I think it took me like a month to get used to the wind, and now I am very comfortable, wind doesn't bother me one bid.
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RE: your 1st time - 1/20/2008 3:03:13 AM
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fishfryer527
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A 1970s Yamaha XS650. College buddy gave me a two minute briefing and set me loose. I didn't crash, I remember the bike was complicated since I didn't know how to really drive a manual that well. That was 20+ years ago, he was my best man at my wedding and I was his. We still try and get pizza once a week together.
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RE: your 1st time - 1/20/2008 10:04:05 AM
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My little Ninja 250 came all shiny from the dealership along with my two friends' little ninja 250s. We got em off the flatbed, the only thing the guy said was 1 down five up.... so without any helmets we decided to try to learn how to ride the damn things. I couldn't figure out how to change gears, often stalled it, and came around corners fishtailing lol. Somehow I never dropped her :) Once we got helmets, we went to go ride around town, rode for a whole day and I ran out of gas lol. For never ridiing a bike before, I never put her down. Learned how to wheelie on a 250 haha.
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RE: your 1st time - 11/23/2008 3:05:10 PM
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jaynd
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 bump.....
came accross this thread while doing a search for a different thread (totaly unrelated to this, but somehow it was mixed in). lots of new members, so lets hear it.
1st ride on my RR (2nd bike, lol). got home and unloaded it from my truck. went in the house and grabbed my gear. the bike felt so increadibly different from the F4i i had been used to for 30k miles/13 months. the clutch was different, brakes so much touchier, throttle..WHEEEEEW, the throttle......so much more power at lower RPM''''s  . took it out and rode it around my area for a hour or two. then spent the next day on it almost all day (see bottom right sig. pic lol). we''''re getting along great now. although the F4i gives the new ride dirty looks when i pull into the garage, lol.
< Message edited by jaynd -- 11/23/2008 3:06:16 PM >
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RE: your 1st time - 11/23/2008 3:18:00 PM
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lonewolfcbr
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my first time was outside and i had mosquito bites on my ass that next day...whoops wrong first time lol...i remember my first time...it was a dreary day but riding down the road for the first time was awesome...i remember my first highway ride...i went through the tunnels...now that was SO odd being there on a bike...and the sound was soooo nice lol
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