Who have pain? At least, i DONT have any, so can it be Higgy????

I felt pain only when I dropped with my Paso

Really, I broke my limbs only riding the scooter. No serious damage riding the bikes....
Ciao

My first Ducati is a 1992 907IE

lovely looking machine you have there du907!

my first, too. 12 years later, she sits in the house, waiting for the day I decide to put her magnificence back on the road. i've been considering an early M750 as a daily rider.

My first bike - bought for the sole purpose of passing my test - was a Kawasaki KMX 125cc. Brilliant at what it did but . . .

However . . .

My girlfriend at the time bought for me, as a present for passing my bike test(!!!!), a brand new 750 Paso! On the same morning - from the same dealer - she also bought me an 850 Commando, and a Laverda 1000. She - still to this day - has never been on the back of a bike. The dealer, still a mate of mine - unsuprisingly, was well pleased. Beat that boast I dare you.

So as far as I'm concerned my first bike, not just my first Duke, was a Paso.

I loved that bike as I have said elsewhere. She started, stopped, gave great fuel consumption and I never had a moments trouble with her, and she stopped girls in their tracks wherever I went.

Is it any wonder then that, despite owning some seriously beautiful and seriously quick bikes that, having decided to return to two wheels after 20-odd years - it HAS to be a Duke?

My mates all think that I'm called Rhino because I have a fast and nasty temper . . .

but

fortunately also a very, very, thick skin.

My girlfriends all say I'm called Rhino coz I've always got the horn!!

After a small "Aprilia red rose 50" (can we call it "motorcycle"?) Mi first bike has been my Dukess... as they use to say, first love will never end!
Afterwards I had another red paso (sold) and a grey st2 for daily use

first and second dukes both 907IEs

1st bike 1977, Yamaha RD400D - rode it far faster than what I can now
then Suzuki Across GSF250 - painted screen red to mimick a 906
Honda NX650 Domoinator - lotsa fun
Lambretta Li150Ser3 , now awaiting restoration and a clutch fix
Vespa baja 150 , also needs to be restored. wifes bike when she was excited about bikes before kids!

1975 my first bike was a Honda CB175
1980 a blue Honda CB400 four
1984 a Kawasaki GPZ550 shaft drive
1986 a Honda XLV750 also shaft drive
1988 another XLV750
1992 Ducati 907 my first and only Ducati
2004 Honda XR400
now the 907 is the only bike left...