Your first MX bike

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Lone Wolf 2/1/2013 4:20pm
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My first motocross bike was given to me by the local police when I was 10 (in 2000). They recovered a 1985 RM80 in a drug bust, and gave it to me as a replacement for a DS80 I had stolen a few years beforehand. We tidied it up and I completed my first season of racing aboard it.
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DanDunes818 2/1/2013 4:21pm
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My first bike was a Indian 50 peewee.. I think it was a 73, or 74, but I got it in 1975--I was 3 1/2. My...
My first bike was a Indian 50 peewee.. I think it was a 73, or 74, but I got it in 1975--I was 3 1/2. My pops painted it look just like his Husqvarna that year--chrome on the tank and all. The bike was kind of famous, because I got to ride it in a episode of CHiPs I was in. Some of you might remember the episode where John dates a chick with a kid, and John takes the kid to his first MX race at Indian Dunes. That was my 15 min of fame.


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Was that you Dan? wow I always wondered who that kid was in that episode of Chips!
Yep, well I did all the riding for the main kid during the race at Indian Dunes. They had other stunt double kids for other scenes. One was actually a 35 year old dwarf. True story..lol It's actually this bike too. I get kicked over in the race through the S turns on the mini bike track..lol My first and only film stunt gig. I was 6 years old at the time. I still see the episode once in a blue moon on TV, but I got the DVD set as a gift from the wife a few years back. Kind of fun to watch, mostly to see Indian Dunes again.
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GHR 2/1/2013 4:28pm
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I posted this in another thread last night, but my first bike was a 1980 CR80 and man was I pumped. I was 11 when I got it, it was a hand me down from my best friend Dave, who to this day 31 years later is still my best friend. He races Vet Pro and I race Novice Vet class. We grew up in Cypress Ca and rode Saddleback and Victorville / Barstow alot as kids. Best child hood ever. So blessed to have met Dave. Changed my life forever.
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Bigshow 2/1/2013 4:42pm
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I started wanting at bike at 4, my dad had a machine/welding/mechanic shop and made me a deal to clean tools and gave me an allowance for doing so. I learned to ride on a friends XR75. Then in 1981 the local Honda shop bought a load of leftover 80 model CR80 Elsinore and had a special on them for like $550. I had around 400 saved up and without my knowledge dad took my savings and added the rest and brought home a brand new CR80 Elsinore for me. That little bike was wicked, my mother tore the rear fender off of it the 2nd day we had it. She grew up riding 4 strokes and this was the first 2 stroke anyone in the family had ever rode. I rode the wheels off that bike, crashed it alot also. When I was 12 I had out grown the 80, and begged my dad for a CR250, as I was 6'1" and 210 pounds already. He found a 1975 XL175 and brought it home. Talk about a let down and a step back wards. I finally at 18 bought my first CR250 and raced my first race.

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Sully 2/1/2013 5:20pm
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KMC440 wrote:
What a bunch of PUSSIES ! ! !

First mx bike 82 YZ490 ! ! !

Go big or go home.
Don't you mean 'Foul a plug and go home'? Laughing

My first bike was a '71/'72 Indian Mini, then I transitioned to a 75 GT80, but my first "real" bike was an '82 RM 80. To this day I don't know how Bruce Bunch made that turd go so fast!
Kartwheel84c 2/1/2013 5:33pm
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GHR wrote:
I posted this in another thread last night, but my first bike was a 1980 CR80 and man was I pumped. I was 11 when I...
I posted this in another thread last night, but my first bike was a 1980 CR80 and man was I pumped. I was 11 when I got it, it was a hand me down from my best friend Dave, who to this day 31 years later is still my best friend. He races Vet Pro and I race Novice Vet class. We grew up in Cypress Ca and rode Saddleback and Victorville / Barstow alot as kids. Best child hood ever. So blessed to have met Dave. Changed my life forever.
Dude! I wanted one of those SO bad!
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Deming, NM 1988 - '86 YZ80 i bought from mowing lawns and washing cars in the hood as a kid. Bought it from a motorcycle salvage joint with a broken case, worked at my friend's dad's yamaha shop for a summer and the lead mechanic took pity on this 7th grader and helped me rebuild it. moto in southern new mexico back in the late 80's was a frikin blast.
backinthesaddleagain 2/1/2013 6:16pm
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1974 my grandmother and great aunt took me to local hardware store / honda shop (just a honda car dealer now). Aunt said she was picking out a bike for her friend's kid. Spent a couple hours going back and forth between MR50 and Z50 (thought the lights were cool). Probably drove them crazy. Saw the older kids were all over the XR75, so I picked the MR50. Later that day the MR was delivered to my house. Happy 10th birthday.
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Myke 2/1/2013 7:07pm
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This was mine:

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Can't remember details but it was a 1969 Bultaco 250 with hardly no time on it.
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reded 2/1/2013 7:14pm
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Learned to ride on the iconic XR.


First MX bike..

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Sully 2/1/2013 8:00pm
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gsxrcr28 wrote:
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Nice starting technique. Did you save it?
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fencepost 2/1/2013 8:09pm
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@ Indian Dunes. There was a track near the Shadow Glenn track that was a huge circle with little jumps. This is me in action. Blue jeans, work boots, crappy kidney belt, and my brothers DG helmet. Heaven.


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gsxrcr28 2/1/2013 8:11pm
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gsxrcr28 wrote:
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Sully wrote:
Nice starting technique. Did you save it?
Ha yes. I had a few pictures of the same start technique that look the same all taken within a few minutes of each other, funny now but at 7 years old it felt cool Laughing Blush

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jemcee 2/1/2013 8:15pm
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my brother had a bike and I hassled relentlessly for one of my own
then at my 7th birthday party freshly showered after a killer mud fight with my mates, my parents surprised me with this



I'm the blonde kid on our right either politely sharing my new bike or about to push the other kid off
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dean122 2/1/2013 8:36pm
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1982 CR80. My dad bought this for me at Circle City Honda in Corona, CA. I was blown away when he took me down there to pick it up, was a complete surprise. This bike put in some laps at DeAnza Cycle park every weekend

Some awesome collectible stickers were on that bike. The front and rear fender had my best rare stickers as I was a huge collector as a kid. How about that trick red duct tape on my Factory Honda visor?! lol

I have a pretty cool story. After I got this, I went camping with my next door neighbor and his dad at Bell Mountain. 2 guys ride up asking us for some quick directions to some big jumps near by that were known and my buddy and I ride them there. Those two guys were Scott Burnsworth and Ricky Johnson. We couldn't believe what was happening was real. We rode with them for about 3 hours watching them blast huge jumps and riding a little track near our camp. They gave us each a couple pairs of brand new goggles with some autographs. One of the best days of my life riding dirt sickles!


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throttle77 2/1/2013 8:40pm
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KX80 big wheel. I was 14 and kind of in between the size of an 80 and a 125. In retrospect, I really wish I'd gotten the 125.

In any case, man was that an exciting day when we picked it up. I'd been hankering for a dirt bike for a long time and only been able to take rides on a friend's for short periods of time.

Bike served me well, never had a problem with it.
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Cutshall 2/1/2013 8:49pm
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RM 80. I think it was 1981, got bumped up from a Honda 50. That was an awesome day.
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TankSlapper 2/1/2013 9:39pm
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My Pops riding the soon to be mine 1969 Yamy AT1 125 Enduro:



After some of my handy work (at the ripe age of 13). Candy apple green paint job, "donkey dick" grips, J&R Pipe, Preston Petty fender (with mud flap). I eventually laced up a 21" front wheel and got actual knobby tires. It had a battery and the generator didn't work. I had to hook it to the truck with jumper cables in between motos. Good times.



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mxtinter 2/1/2013 9:53pm
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Man!! To this day I still miss my '76 XR 75. I think the first year they were red. I actually ditched a cop on that thing after he spotted me doing a wheelie across the highway. I payed $176 dollars for it, the amount of fun was priceless. I rode it every day after school and never change oil in the 2 years i had it, always ran perfect, not even a flat.
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dirtnapper 2/1/2013 9:55pm
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LOVE the pics. boys! I wish I had more pictures of my first bike, but my parents were so anit-dirtbike, they wouldn't even go pick up my first bike that was GIVEN to me, a1972 Honda CT Trail 90.( I was 8 years old )

A few years later I saved up all on my own and bought a 1985 XR 100, when I was about 12, and rode that thing ENDLESSLY!

Smile

Good memories. Just me and my brother, we taught ourselves, dad wanted nothing to do with bikes. Stll doesn't...........
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Parris 2/2/2013 2:24am
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I got my first MX bike in 1974. I was 13 and it cost $610.00
johnmx250 2/2/2013 2:55am
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first bike was a '88 yz 125 the first with rear disc brake and it was faster in the straights than many 98 cr's,kx e.t.c.....love'd it\
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mx317 2/2/2013 5:52am
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This is like the one I started on. I restored this a couple of years ago.
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Slow450 2/2/2013 6:41am
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Got the bug when I was 10-11. After a couple years of it being all I talked about other than bmx ( which I was pursuing in the interim) mom relented and allowed me to buy a bike with the money I had been saving. I finally found an '86 CR80 I could afford. The guy didn't even complain when I paid the last 40 bucks in change. I never raced until getting on a 125 a couple years later, which she paid for and allowed me to "finance" through her, but that first bike was amazing! Sometimes I would get home from school before she was home from work and go in the garage and start it and just be stoked that I had a dirt bike.

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