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?

[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.

[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

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by derf

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

No, it just made me realize that someone out there was reading my mind.