Going Down Memory Lane; Show Us Your First Motorbikes & Your Current Spyder

Had a used HD 125 in the late 1950's as my first motorcycle. The Arizona 2018 is my second RT and I have the third 2018 in Washington. The first 2018 RTL "Champaign" was sold in Sept 2025.

Port Angeles, Wa as an early teenager -

Arizona -

Washington -

First road bike in the early 1980's was a Kawasaki KZ 650 SR. Lots of Honda 4 stroke dirt bikes before that.



I actually converted a 175 Honda twin to a trike in the 1970's, with a kit that was produced in the Seattle area. Had an ATC 90 back then also. So two trikes and three reverse trikes.

Unfortunately, not many pics available of previous bikes. However, here's my 2013 STL & 2006 Yamaha Roadstar.



2003 Anniversary Ed V-Rod (traded for the Roadstar)



Before that, a Honda Twin Star, unknown year, & that’s the street legal list.

Cool thread idea!

1972 Yamaha JT2 (First bike) - 1984 Honda VF-1100S

1984 Yamaha RZ-350
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2015 F3S

Several others in between, but the F3s and the RZ-350 are the only ones I still own.

I am not sure where my 'old photos' are and what condition they are.

I have the wife looking for them. Maybe she will find the photos when she gets the Christmas items down from the storage room.

Time is on our side.

So everyone Please post up.

I can't find a Pic of my first bikes. I started on a Dirt bike when I was 13. My First street bike was a Honda 400/4 (attached pic I found on the web). Then I owned a 1980 KZ 1000. I let a good friend take it for a short ride one night, he got into a wobble and totaled the bike. Didn't do him much good either, he was in the hospital for quite a while. I replaced it with a 1976 KZ 900 that I put a big bore kit on and made it an 1100. I rode that for many years till it died (I still have it, one day I want to tear it apart and restore it). I then got a VMax, a very fun bike to ride, just no range with a 3 gallon tank. When I retired, I got an FJR, another fun bike. I have devoloped arthritis in my hip, making it hard to ride the FJR for more than a couple of hours at a time. So I got a Spyder RTL.

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This was kinda like my first ride. Home-built with scavenged parts, sometime in the mid-'50s. I terrorized alleyways and open fields until a wrecked, repaired Honda 50 came my way. Then came the Triumph Tiger Cub, followed by a long line of miscellaneous bikes, and some I hardly remember. A CB-160 was in the early mix there for quite a while, too. The only time I've been without a scooter was a couple of years I spent with Uncle Sam.