Thought it may make an interesting thread to see how we all evolved in to the greasy, hairy or hardened bikers that we are and sorry if its been done before. So ill start.

16 - 38yrs of age

Kawazaki AR50
Yamaha TZR 125
Yamaha YZF600
Honda CB 500
Kawazaki ZZR600
Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird (fuelInjected) 99T
Yamaha WR400 00X (Same time Blackbird)
Honda SP2 05 plate
Honda CBR 100RR Fireblade 05 plate
Break for 7 years
Yamaha XT 660R 08 plate

Not as colourful as some im sure but thats how I got here.

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Second hand 1960 Vespa 125 !

Honda P50
Honda CD175
Honda CB250 G5
BMWR45 / Yamaha DT175 / Ossa 250
Moto Guzzi V50 Monza
BMW R80ST
BMW K100RS
Suzuki GSX550es (absolutely rubbish)
Yamaha RS350YPVS
break for 8 years
Honda Transalp
Honda Varadero
Yam XT660r / Yam XT600e



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started when i was about 13 with a old 1979(we think) dt50 messing about off road

first legal bike was a brand new Yamaha wr125x 2011 had it from new put 11500 on it in 18 months then did my test in February 2013 and bought my 09 xt660x with 10k on it now its got 15 and all the performance mods and LOVE IT!

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Yamaha xt660x 2009 blue/gold mods= iridium plug, stage1+2, removed snorkel, blocked ais, akrapovric pipes, power commander pc3usb (pre made map), adjusted tps, dynojet 02 optimiser 30amp aux relay, smoked puig screen, oxford heated grips and brembo carbon ceramic pads, rfx 30mm bar raisers, puig long adjustable leavers, plus much more and a cheep �30 alarm which stopped it been stolen

Started riding at 19, now 31. They're all in my sig, but in approximate order of purchase (but not of sale)...

Honda CG125 - learnt to ride on it, then sold to this girl I knew at uni. Started going out with her a couple of weeks later. Married her six years ago. Bike's still in the garage. Got nicked by local scrotes a few years back and ragged round the fields for a couple of weeks before being recovered. Will get round to putting it back on the road eventually.

Suzuki GS400 - It was cheap and about 33bhp. When the original exhaust fell apart I put an aftermarket 2-1 system on it which meant there was no ground clearance on right handers. This was a small handicap when going around roundabouts. Sold it to someone who came down from Newcastle to pick it up in a Nissan Micra. No really.

Kawasaki ZXR400 - Much looniness. Rode it everywhere. Toured Europe, trackdayed it, crashed it, rode it some more. Then just stuck it in the back of the garage for a few years. Currently in the process of breaking it because I couldn't be arsed to get it running again and prices for complete bikes seem to have tanked.

Kawasaki GPZ500S - Belonged to Mrs UT after she passed her test, ruined by me using it as a winter hack - they're not exactly built well. Traded in for her ER-6F

Suzuki DR800S - Bought when I got bored of the GPShed, and the bike which got me into big trailies and rallying. I still love the stupidity of an 800cc single. It turned out to be about as good as you'd expect for �700, and one of the gearbox bearings exploded about six months later. I gave it to tripletom in pieces. He, amazingly, managed to sell it to someone, despite every part of it with any value (engine cases, frame, bodywork, tank) being in some way knackered.

Suzuki DR-Z400E - Bought to race Hare & Hounds on. Did so for a year before replacing it with the GasGas because I wanted something lighter.

Yamaha XT660Z - I had a bit of cash, and wanted something like the DR800, but less shonky. You know the rest.

GasGas EC300 - Bought to replace the DR-Z for enduros. Was about as reliable as a 2T bike built by a small Spanish factory then owned by half a dozen muppets might be expected to be. Failed to make first race because it wouldn't start the day before. Completely rewired it. When I did eventually race it, it pissed fuel everywhere, kept stalling, I had the biggest over-the-bars crash I've ever had racing, and I had to stop every lap to zip-tie bits of bodywork back on. Despite all that, it was insanely funny, and I'd love to have a go on a less shonky example (particularly as I think I'm a much better dirt rider than I was then).

Kawasaki ER-6F - Again, belongs to Mrs UT, used by me to get to work on whenever I've broken the Tenere.

Yamaha MT-03 - Bought at the start of the year so I could swap its 4,000 mile engine with the 38,000 mile one in the Tenere before going to the US. Then I broke that engine. Was good fun for the few hundred miles I did on it before taking it apart. Need to get it back together again.

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I spent a lot of money on travel and racing motorcycles - the rest I just squandered.

XT660Z - Commuter, Adventurer...Racer?

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Other bikes >> MT-03 / CG125BR-J / ER-6F
Departed >> ZXR400L3 / EC300 / DR-Z400E / DR800S / GPZ500S / GS400

Puch maxi at about @12
Pc 50
Honda cg 125 @14
Brand new Suzuki ts50x at @16
Yamaha dt125r derestricted @17
Yamaha tzr125 derestricted
X7 250 @18
Bit of a gap
Roadlegal 250cc quad @ 34
Roadlegal 450cc quad
Honda cr250r ( lunatic 2stroke )
Yamaha xt 660x @36

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K+N filter, snorkel removed, homemade kev mod (with his blessing), co raised,
Pipeworx cans, r1 led back light, under tray removed, small indicators, handguards, cnc short levers,

from 6 to 52...
36 bikes.. possable more....
had a Benelli scooter cut down into a mini bike sort of thing at 6yo..
my first real bike was a 1974 Suzuki TM125M at 16 , I raced MX on for a couple
years... then moved onto bigger & better bikes..well not so sure about
the better part...

I'm now 52 with a 09 XT660R / 06 TTR250 / 77 Montesa cota 348 / 80 Montesa 125 H6 Enduro

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Harley Davidson..
The easyest way to turn gasoline into noise with out the side efect of horse power...

If you are counting all the field bikes and stuff then when I was youngster I had ( or rather we had - about 5 of us in our village pooled resources to buy beg borrow but never steal) .....
About a dozen Honda C50/70/90s. These were stripped down and almost indestructible.
A James 150 (real shame we killed that one),
Yamaha DT100 with a filed nail for a carb jet,
Lambretta 200 - rubbish off road but could carry all 5 of us),
3xCG125 (very very tough bike). There's more. All the bikes were knackered really and heading for the breakers but we would strip them, bodge them and get them going and raced around a sand quarry in the village and across fields and farm tracks. No one ever tried to stop us. We also tried a few cars but they always properly broke after a few outings.


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Honda monkey 50 1975
Vespa PX200
XT660X.

Ok were to start. Got my first bike from my parents a old Husqvarna with two gears and was built in the swedish weapon factory Bofors in 1958. Was really angry when my father trash it a way when he clean up the garage. This Husqvarna was faster than my Yamaha DT50 -90 but the suspension was a little bit scary when you drove faster than 50km/h ha ha ha. Here is my list starting with the first one.

Husqvarna
Yamaha DT50 -90
Kawasaki KX125 -90
Kawasaki KDX200 -95
Yamaha YZ250 -98 was to powerful for me!
Yamaha XJ600S -98
KTM 640sm -01
Kawasaki KLX650 -93 really nice bike I imported from Germany because my 625 -02 didn,t arrive correct.
KTM 625sc -02
KTM 660smc -03
Yamaha BT1100 Bulldog - 03
KTM 625smc -04
KTM 400 LC4 -99
Yamaha YZ250 -91 rebuilt it almost as new
Honda CR250 -92 rebuilt it almost as new
Suzuki DRZ400sm -06
KTM690sm -09 was damage from former owner but fixed it and sold it.
KTM 690 EnduroR -11 This is the most fantastic bike I ever owned, rode this in a Desert Rally in Marocco but had to sell it because the rallye was bit of expensive. Miss the bike really much
Today: Yamaha XT660R -07 special edition