The OLDEST photos of you on a motorcycle

Me in 1968 on my Sears mini-bike, 3.5 hp Tecumseh engine. Dressed in my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.


I had progressed a little over the next 6 years, this is 1974 with my Elsinore at Brighton MX track, Michigan.


My brother with his CT90 about the same time frame.


Fast forward to 1990. Me on my FJ1200 in the Smokies. Still have that bike.


The torch is passed. My son at age 2 and a half waking up Christmas morning 1988 to his JR50.


One of his first rides.


Love this thread. What great memories.

Anybody know how to scan a daguerreotype.

On my brother's Suzuki DR 250 back in '83.

Here's one from about 73 or 74, Yamaha 250MX. Damn thing had way too much power for the frame and suspension to deal with.

My Dad and I, 1958, next to his Indian, in the front yard of the house I grew up in....

A beautiful photo.......it captures the 50's so well. I can see the caring eyes of your dad and his protective gestures.

Early 70's, got me some trophies with this baby. Good times.



Late 70's, riding my brother's R100RS from Texas to Alaska. Ride on, Mark H.

My first ride, a '71 Yamaha CT175.....this is probably from around '77 or '78.

My 250MX, '70 or '71;

AT1 125cc Yamaha, 1972 ish ish. Thats me waiting for the gate, back then a rubber hose, to drop. That track was Cloverfield MX at the Cloverfield Airport in Friendswood Texas.

My first true Dual Sport - 1968 Yamaha DT-1 250





My current D/S - 2008 Yamaha WR250R






Did someone say "Life is a circle"?

The first (only) new bike I bought, a '94 Ninja 600. On the seat is my girlfriend at the time's son.

Early 70's in Kinshasa .
I brought that bike back in France in 74 swapped the original fork to a Marzocchi to upgrade and
race local enduros and sold the original to a friend building a trials hack .

This count?

You want old? I got ya old right here:



Picture taken in 1947. That's me on the tank, kids. Servi-Cycle, manufactured in New Orleans, USA! (Mi Papa at the helm)

If that pic was taken in 1947 you'd have been around 35 at the time right?

1971 on my brand new Suzuki TC90. dual range transmission.

My first bike. Brand new cost IIRC $425.00

Note the lace up boots. I was so proud of those. Also my hunting/fishing license pinned to my red plaid jacket.





after a year on that bike (18" wheels and 4"travl) I bought my first competiyion bike

'72 Puch 125 Learned to ride 1/4 mile wheelies on that baby and entered my first enduro. super trick Jofa mouth guard was standard equipment then.

It was 1972, and I already had me an incurable case of 2-wheeled fever:

1984 on my 78 KZ700

My bad it was a KZ650 my second bike was the 700