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soda7o
08-05-2005, 04:16 PM
Just want to know.

i got my license in April 2002 and bene riding legaly since than.
I used to ride without a license on my friends bikes for about a year before that.

Qetesh
08-05-2005, 04:30 PM
This is my 6th season riding the street and 2nd season riding the track.

When I was growing up I rode mopeds and the occassional dirt bike, until I pursued my license in '98 through a private motorcycle school.

My first bike was a cruiser, a little Rebel 250, but I outgrew it really fast. I continued to ride it for another year and a half. Went to a dealership one day to look at a newer, bigger cruiser and saw a red Ninja ZX6E and had to have it :LOL:

Since then I've never looked back. I have a Honda F4i for the street now and another from the track.

Yeah, I'm hooked.

Vin
08-05-2005, 04:34 PM
Since early '02.

njf4i
08-05-2005, 04:50 PM
I rode on an expired permit for about a year. Then in April of 04 i finally became legal.

RCM78
08-05-2005, 04:57 PM
19 years...

Kawibabe
08-05-2005, 05:12 PM
I've been riding as passenger for a lot of my life. I finally was able to afford my own motorcycle in 2003. :D That's all she wrote. he he

HondaGalToo
08-05-2005, 05:12 PM
Bought my first bike in '86. Learned to ride in '74, but until I got my own bike it was just bummed rides on friends' bikes now and then.

Cakes206
08-05-2005, 06:22 PM
April '01.

DougZ
08-05-2005, 06:26 PM
Been riding for about 12 years. Been riding agressively and using a motorcycle for what it is meant for, for about the last three. This is my first year on the track....many more to come.

1st bike: 1985 Honda NightHawk 450
2nd bike: 1996 Katana 600
3rd bike: 2003 HD Sporster
4th bike: 2003 SV1Ks
5th bike: Track Gix6

ronin_01r1
08-05-2005, 06:47 PM
riding since 03. not ready for the track......yet. maybe next year, i'll take the plunge and buy a track bike. :nod2:

Mack
08-05-2005, 07:20 PM
March of 2000....5 years and counting

Ripp53
08-05-2005, 07:41 PM
13years

92 started with a canoftuna then a 97 gixxer then a 00 gixxer

sterling
08-05-2005, 08:32 PM
I guess I'm still a newbie. I've only been riding since March of this year.

soda7o
08-05-2005, 10:13 PM
Damn some of youpeople are old....:lol: kiddin..
But there is a nice mix of seasoned and newb riders here... BTW sterling we all got to start sometime right.

sterling
08-05-2005, 10:18 PM
Damn some of youpeople are old....:lol: kiddin..
But there is a nice mix of seasoned and newb riders here... BTW sterling we all got to start sometime right.

Yep, you are right. I just wish I had gotten into riding alot earlier in my life.

soda7o
08-05-2005, 10:20 PM
Yep, you are right. I just wish I had gotten into riding alot earlier in my life.


better late than never

Kennedy
08-05-2005, 10:20 PM
Been riding since March 23

Qetesh
08-06-2005, 12:07 AM
19 years...

Showoff :LOL:

IrocRob
08-06-2005, 12:16 AM
I don't really remember when I started,
maybe 10-12 years old for me. :biggthump
So 30+ years on 2 wheels... :wave2:

High_Revs_17
08-06-2005, 10:22 AM
Long enough to know that crashing hurts. :wow:

benellis
08-06-2005, 11:18 AM
been riding for just over a year now (I even rode through the winter). It's taken me a year to get totally comfortable on the bike. Before I was just riding to get from point A to B, and it was fun, but ever since doing track days, street riding no longer fancies me.

~Donna~
08-06-2005, 11:44 AM
For me learning the mechanics of motorcycles began just playing on a kx80 and an rm125. Wasn't til later in 2001 that I even sat on a street bike. My then husband was trying to sell his 94 ZX-9 and I asked if I could try it. I really thought how cool would this be if we could make a hobby of riding together..... wrong. I knew the day I rode that Kawi I wanted to take the sport more seriously and Memorial Day weekend of 02 I picked up my GSX-R600. We rode less and less together and eventually I sought out people in the area that rode as well, riding solo for 9k got to be a bit boring. I never formally took any instructional courses (but I strongly reccomend them) but simply observed those with more riding skills than myself. I don't always have as much time as I'd like to spend on riding and also wish that I had gotten more into street riding at an earlier age. :)

Islandmon
08-06-2005, 12:51 PM
I got my license in Aug of 98. I learned on my buddiesd Kawasaki LTD 550 (83). Then the next season I bought my Katana which I still own. One day I will be able to afford a new one ;) . I have not ridden since oct 03 since I'm on this damn island though. :evil2: I won't be riding til April 07.

CBRBob
08-06-2005, 01:35 PM
Rode in late '90. I was working at a car dealer that had Kawis and My 1st ride was a Vulcan 1500, 2nd ride was a ZX11!!!

Took the class in March 01. Bought a 600F2.
Started teaching MSF in 93.
Mid 95 bought a Magna1100(what was I thinking?!) then sold it late 05.
Went to the track once or twice a year in 98 and 99.
99 bought a XX, the F2 became track only.
Early 02 bought a 929 for the track, sold the F2 to a friend for street use(now it's her track bike). Also became a TPM coach then.

oskarjr
08-06-2005, 03:23 PM
Been riding since 1974. But now I am the old man that rides slow :lol:

High_Revs_17
08-07-2005, 01:07 PM
Been riding since 1974. But now I am the old man that rides slow :lol:

Yeah right...the only tortous I know that rides a Gixxer Grand. :lol:

sterling
08-07-2005, 06:00 PM
Long enough to know that crashing hurts. :wow:

+1

NeonspeedRT
08-08-2005, 01:55 PM
I haven't been riding too long compared to alot of people on here. I took my MSF class in 03 and bought my bike in 04. Been riding since then.

Gear Dog
08-08-2005, 02:38 PM
Wow do I feel like a newb!!! 2 seasons for me so far. The truth is that I waited till I was more mature to start riding. I know too many people that got hurt or died from riding. Buyt now that I'm on the bike I hope to ride until they take my license for being too old.

NeonspeedRT
08-09-2005, 09:39 AM
The truth is that I waited till I was more mature to start riding. I know too many people that got hurt or died from riding. Buyt now that I'm on the bike I hope to ride until they take my license for being too old.

Thats pretty much exactly how I feel. I waited to start riding till I was 30. I'm really glad I did.

pmdez
08-09-2005, 10:57 AM
since '03

oldgixxer
08-09-2005, 11:09 AM
dirt since '74
street since '85
Damn,thats a whole lotta miles....

sassichick
08-11-2005, 11:24 AM
two weeks :nod2: July 05

JasonB
08-12-2005, 09:16 AM
4 years and love every minute of it.

First bike 98' Kawi zx-6r
Second bike 02' GSX-R1K

njracer
08-12-2005, 01:03 PM
Got my MC license in 1984.

Got my CCS/LLRS/GPpro racing license in 1995 and have been racing every year since then.

njracer

Tonupboy
08-15-2005, 08:55 PM
Since 2000!!

LuvDog
08-15-2005, 09:14 PM
got my license in 94

Fuzy_GSXR1000
08-19-2005, 06:55 PM
Bought my 1st street bike in 89 rode that lil hurricane for 11yrs. had a four laps of riding saw biker boyz lol then went over to a dearleship with my bro to pick up his quad saw my 954rr and had her for 2 1/2 seasons now so I guess 12 years plus but never rode on the level that i attempt to do now lol!!! :LOL:

Cakes206
08-19-2005, 07:17 PM
but never rode on the level that i attempt to do now lol!!! :LOL:

Hittin the track?

pillaka
09-03-2005, 07:13 PM
took msf in may 03, got a sv650. Never rode a motorcycle before in my life. March 04 I bought a used cbr 600 f4i. May 04 I did my first trackday down at VIR memorial day weekend.