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01-27-2023, 11:26 AM | #3 |
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I don't have an actual picture of my first bike but this is exactly what my 73 Honda CB200 looked like.
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01-27-2023, 11:29 AM | #4 |
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I can wait till quadz gets this picture issue resolved.
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01-27-2023, 04:19 PM | #5 |
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01-27-2023, 04:55 PM | #6 |
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One of these, in black.
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01-27-2023, 08:30 PM | #7 |
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My dad had one of those Honda Cubs. It was fun and very reliable.
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My mom felt so bad for us chasing our friends around on mini-bikes and small motorcycles. She's be looking out the kitchen window (picture typical 60's housewife, apron on. June Cleaver, if you will) as our friends went riding by the house, and we'd be trailing along on our bicycles. So, our uncle had the Cub behind his shed. He'd broke his jaw on it a few years prior, and put it out to pasture. Obviously, it was in deep need of repair and didn't run. So, after much of moms pestering to dad, he picked it up for $50.00, plopped it in the garage with a new, cheap helmet. "If you boys can get it running, you can ride it". I was 9 years old at the time. Two weeks later, we were tearing that little Cub up and down the dirt road in front of our house, and riding all the trails in the area with our friends. Dad wasn't happy.....and probably never forgave my mom, but he kept his word!
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01-28-2023, 01:52 PM | #9 |
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My first bike (not my picture) a 1983 Suzuki GS450 I bought new in 1984 and paid about $1800. It had a claimed top speed of 100 mph and I think I got it up to about 105 mph. Only had it about a year before I sold it. Second bike is a 2022 KPX 250.
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01-30-2023, 08:38 AM | #10 |
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thats a LONG time between bikes!
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01-31-2023, 01:49 PM | #11 |
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I wanted a small bike to start riding again after hearing "Its more fun to go fast on a slow bike than to go slow on a fast bike". Its been fun but I think that quote came from the same people that say "Being rich won't make you happy"
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01-28-2023, 02:19 PM | #12 |
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We used to have to scratch pictures in dirt with a stick when I had my first bike.
That's a Ducati Falcon 50. This story has been told here before. My Dad picked up a lot of three boogered up bikes from a police auction for about ten bucks. This would have been in the late sixties. There were two barely there Sears/Puch mopeds and the Ducati, minus its' rear wheel. Dad told me and my brother to clean the pile of junk out of the truck and if we, meaning me, could make one work, we could keep it and ride all over the vacant lot next door. I took the rear wheel off one of the mopeds and shoved into the Ducati frame. I Rube Goldberged the rear brake, cleaned the carb, the plug, and the petcock on the tank. Dad came home from work the next day and saw me riding it around the vacant lot. If I recall, Mom shot daggers at him and Dad said that he didn't think that I could do it. Bwahahahaha! If I'd had another season with it, I could have figured out how to defunk the goofy 3 speed twist shifter/clutch control but I think Dad got rid of it for that reason. He was probably figuring that the Ducati was a gateway to bigger, better bikes and wanted to nip that in the bud quickly. Then Mom & Dad discovered snowmobiles. And they thought motorcycles would make me nuts.
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01-31-2023, 01:50 PM | #15 |
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That's for sure.. that ZX14R was mind-bogglingly fast but these achy wrists and elbows would have none of that leaned forward position even with risers
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