So what bike did you ride before you got your V-Rod? I was going to add a poll but there are so many options ... what did you ride before add photo is you have them.
Started on a early 80's Yamaha GT 80
Then my first new street bike was an 84 Yamaha RX50 Midnight Special. I was 14 when I bought it.
Three years later I was riding a Honda CB900C
Next bike was a Yamaha Radian (YX 600?)
Went 10 years without a bike before buying a 2006 HD 883 Low
Kept it for two years before buying my 08 Night Rod Special abs
Here is my previous bike .I always rode air cooled Harley,Dyna and softail bobs ,I did all the work to it .Including big bore,cams and tts tune.I was putting out 107 hp/ 107 tq .She only went straight wot.
Quite a few bikes but most recent ride has only been the mrs. She's getting a little old and tired so it was either a GF or another bike. The bike is way cheaper, more fun to ride, and much easier to get along with than any GF would be.
66 SHL M11
Rode it for about 6 years and sold it to get my first car. 9 years of no bike then got
03 Buell XB9S
Sold it about a month ago and got
09 VRSCF
when i could (was much faster/lighter than my huge (to me at the time) 125
then my dad got a Polaris trail blazer 250 annnd then I got a yamaha warrior. The v-rod is my first street bike
Started on a Yamaha 80 in 1963
Yahama 100 twin
Yamaha 250 Big Bear
Yamaha 305 Big Bear
BSA 441 Victor
Kawasaki 350 Samari
Kawasaki H1 500 triple
BSA(2) one single carb then a dual carb
Triumph Bonneville....
Graduated from college!
Kawasaki W1 650 ( really an old BSA engine in a Kawaski frame)
Then I started on Hondas 500, back to 350(3)
A bunch of Hondas I can't remember them all.
Then
Harley Sportster,Dyna,Fatboy,Duece,07 W Vrod, C14 Kawasaki,Back on a Dyna and now a Muscle "F" V Rod.
I bought this 1998 SRAD 750 my first motorcycle back in 2008. I rode it for 2 years then I sold it right after I went down on the canyon back in 2010. (leathers save my a**.)
then I bought this used 2008 YAMAHA R6 which I only use for track days. (still have this bike.)
then October of last year I got me this... 2007 v rod night rod.
1954 BSA (got hit by a car while riding when I was 17.Never rode again for nearly 30 years)
1997 Honda VT1100
2003 Kawasaki Mean Streak
2006 Suzuki M109R
2008 Yamaha Roadliner (wish I still had it for 2 up)
2011 Muscle
1983 GOLD PLATED SPECIAL EDITION 750 MIDNIGHT MAXIM ..... written off but not forgotten and the best bike ever,too much motor for the chassis and much better than it's successor the VMAX which I passed on for the v rod
2007 CBR600R......painful to ride for a crippled ,see above
2007 CBR125R....more fun you would think, cornered like it was on rails
1980 HONDA CMT 400.....boring but still have it (kids)
1981 HONDA CMT 200..... super boring but still have it (kids)
8th new bike last road bike was a Yamaha R1 and also had a Suzuki DRZ 400 road trail neither compares to my new ride.
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