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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: kballowe on July 01, 2022, 09:08:01 AM
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I don't have any pictures of my first bike, but here's a brochure.
At the ripe old age of 13, I pooled all of my lawn mowing, hay money, etc. to purchase this brand new 1971 Honda SL100. $485, I think.
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50679967973_16fdc7b99e_c.jpg)
This was a time when there was an "explosion" of small bikes. Those Honda 70's were everywhere. A few Honda 90's. Various others. The Honda 90 guys had racks on the back of their bikes, so we made them carry all the sack lunches for the day.
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My uncle gave me a derelict Honda CB160 that became my first road bike. It needed a lot of work, but it proved to be solid transportation. I put knobbies on it and a larger rear sprocket. The speed limit went to 55 in March of 1974... and I don't think that 160 would do 70 mph anyway.
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Well my first dirt 2 wheeler was this.. [after a few years with a early Honda ATC]
(https://i.ibb.co/GJgTsq4/z50a.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GJgTsq4)
My first street bike was a 77 Suzuki GS400. Great starter bike.
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1965 Honda S65
(https://i.ibb.co/YppsD3r/B3-E14-F46-6014-4-D32-95-B2-22-F2-BB74-D538.png) (https://ibb.co/YppsD3r)
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1966 Honda Super 90 with a 103 kit. Bought it from my brother when he up graded to a Yamaha big bear.
(https://i.ibb.co/MnJGbX0/super-90.png) (https://ibb.co/MnJGbX0)
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At age 14...1965 Yamaha YG1-K, 80cc Rotary Jet, two-stroke, 4-speed, just like this one!! :thumb: :boozing: :cool:
(https://i.ibb.co/0mkXyRh/Screen-Shot-2022-07-01-at-7-16-56-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/0mkXyRh)
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(https://i.ibb.co/MSkYtKW/1966-bmw-r27.jpg) (https://ibb.co/MSkYtKW)
One of these (but not this one) in 1970.
But it was preceeded by a fun Vespa that I blew up by repeatedly raising the compression ratio to increase top end.
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Honda CT70H, the 4 speed with the clutch. I got the first one the dealer received, in Burnt Orange, and bought the Honda helmet to match. I was 12 and paid for it with lawn cutting and newspaper delivery money. It was a GREAT bike and I had fantastic time travelling the trails and dirt roads. I have a picture of me riding it someplace.
scott
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(https://i.ibb.co/YWPmqZX/download.jpg) (https://ibb.co/YWPmqZX)
I hope this picture posts. If not, the bike was a 1981 Kawi 250 CSR bought new in spring of 1982. Harley wannabe bikes were all the rage in the early 80s. My wife and I zoomed all around on that little guy, most of it at 7,000 rpm. Great starter bike and for a guy only making about $250 per week, I could afford it. At the time, I bought 2 Nava full face helmets for $100 each. A whole weeks net salary. Although my home state was a helmet optional state, I knew that for me, that was a non starter. Sadly, next spring, upgrade-itis got ahold of me and it was off to Japanese 4 cylinder land.
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Honda CL90. Before me, it had been owned by the University of California, Riverside. The odd thing was that each of the spoked had been tied together, where they cross, using a wire wrap tool. I never was sure why.
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Honda CL90. Before me, it had been owned by the University of California, Riverside. The odd thing was that each of the spoked had been tied together, where they cross, using a wire wrap tool. I never was sure why.
Tying spokes at the cross was a way to make bicycle wheels more rigid in "the good old" days. Wire wrap and solder when spokes were still steel.
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One of these. Not this one, but identical. 106cc Sears. Gilera I believe.
(https://i.ibb.co/n01hS1X/s-l1600-61-1280x960.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n01hS1X)
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The first one I actually owned at age 22. 77 GS 400.
(https://i.ibb.co/52B8LfX/DSC06205.jpg) (https://ibb.co/52B8LfX)
GliderJohn
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This was my first back in 1978;
(https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/data/photos/l/2/2185-1380571968-bc20fc5c4d5d6be5fde652ad81114dc6.jpg)
1968 Ducati 250 Scrambler
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1969 Yamaha “Trailmaster 100” with 3 speeds low and 3 speeds highway gears. Only mine was red.
Man I thought it was fast.
Bought with money from selling a mini bike.
I was 13.
My brother “fashioned” an expansion pipe for it.....
inditx
(https://i.ibb.co/80yPFmt/Yamaha-Trailmaster-100-Right-Side.jpg) (https://ibb.co/80yPFmt)
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1970 CB175 375$ I was 16, it was my only transportation for 3 yrs. I lived on it!
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(https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/27ee9f10-c519-4a6b-a251-57688a8a031d_1.8f7c1b22fc15a361be84829a95bc56c9.jpeg?odnHeight=580&odnWidth=580&odnBg=FFFFFF)
Something about like this... not as nice, a home-built job my uncle put together with scrap and trash and a blown up 5hp Briggs & Stratton engine he pulled out of a shed. I can't remember the particulars, but he did bore out the cylinder and put in a bigger piston.. and a carb off I dont know what. It would run over 50mph, so my grandma made him put a 'governor' on it... but that was just a spring connecting the throttle cable to the throttle linkage. He showed me how to take off the spring and replace it with a paperclip to get full power after I got used to the ride.
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Honda 350cc 4 cylinder 1974 I think
(https://i.ibb.co/QCkJGkh/8173-FDA0-85-EE-4-DFA-A125-EEB5-D9-CB4188.webp) (https://ibb.co/QCkJGkh)
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Honda QA50. Around $200 I think. My dad thought it would be better than the rope pull mini bikes with the rear brake that mashed against the rear tire!
(https://i.ibb.co/DW2CVFc/QA50.jpg) (https://ibb.co/DW2CVFc)
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Honda CL 77, 305 Scrambler .
$85.00 basket case. Litterly in a basket, put it together took my motorcycle test with it..
Well that was 50 years ago.
I'll try to find a pic a d add it here.
TOMB
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Mine was a DT175. I used to haul it in my old pickup (complete with "Yamahauler" sticker :wink: ) down to the sand dunes and palmetto flats near St Pete and Sarasota. I love those things. I always try to keep a dirt bike around. file photo: (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.A-lp5KkCvhKvWz1kdGVX0gHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1) (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastguystuff.com%2Fv%2Fvspfiles%2Fphotos%2FFG-481-2T.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
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First bike I owned was a Yamaha RD400 two stroke. Ring a ding, ding, ding. Looked like this. Many interesting crashes on that thing. I carried an alligator bag full of spark plugs because it would usually foul one or more plugs every 200 miles or so.
(https://i.ibb.co/232bDjH/877-E77-C9-B211-41-DD-BB8-F-997-A819029-A0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/232bDjH)
The first bike I ever rode on was on the back of a mid 1970s Kawasaki Z900 when my older cousin came to visit from out of state. That wild ride with him around Atlanta is what hooked me on motorcycles.
(https://i.ibb.co/bNTFh7g/FCBB573-C-34-AA-4-A37-ACEF-ABC8696-AC7-A7.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bNTFh7g)
Oddly enough, more than 40 years after that formative Zed 900 experience, I’m now riding the new incarnation of the same bike, a Z900 RS Cafe. I’ve come full circle I suppose.
(https://i.ibb.co/D5jstBN/58-CB3-F9-D-3358-4-C1-A-8-A27-0-DA2-A9-ED7-B5-B.jpg) (https://ibb.co/D5jstBN)
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My first bike was my 1971 Ambassador. Not as shiny and clean now, little rough around the edges. Bought it 20 years ago. Still have it, though in the shop right now.
(https://i.ibb.co/xMW6n88/62792.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xMW6n88)
-AJ
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My first street bike was a 1973 Yamaha RD200 with a very powerful and easy to lock up drum(!) front brake. These were equipped with an alternator that doubled as an electric starter- I was so impressed. It fouled plugs regularly (I, like most RD owners, never figured out that you could lean out the 2 stroke oil pump considerably once the engine was broken in.) but it was a hoot to ride for a skinny 17 year old, especially once the peaky engine hit the power band. Wing! Wing! Wing!
(https://i.ibb.co/C6tHGSJ/yamaha-RD200-1973.jpg) (https://ibb.co/C6tHGSJ)
(Pic is not my bike but exactly the same model and colour scheme.)
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A 1959 BSA C15 Star 250, purchiased disassembled in two boxes, for $100, in 1965. After assembly I sold it to a greater fool for the same $100. He couldn't believe his luck. Neither could I.
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Used '52 Allstate (Cushman) when we moved off the farm and I had to sell my little mare. The scoot was cool but I missed the horse. I was 13 and cannot figure out what my parents were thinking?? After I got out of the AF, bought a 250 Zundapp which was a good all round scoot!!
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(https://i.ibb.co/S6ZDCs0/motom.jpg) (https://ibb.co/S6ZDCs0)
Just like this one at 15 years of age, in Italy. 4-stroke, 50 cc moped.
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My first bike was a 1968 BSA 650 Lighting. I bought it 45 years ago from a friend who had bought it from an aircraft mechanic at RDU (I went with him when he bought it.)
It was mostly as BSA had assembled it (complete with oil leaks) with the exception that it had no mufflers and the lovely humped seat had been cut off in the rear. I had to rebuild the engine before I could ride it.
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Had a Cat mini bike w/Briggs 3 hp at about 10 yo. Got a Aermacchi/HD SX175 at 15 yo.
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This.
Could not believe how I could be so fortunate….(still can’t).
(https://i.ibb.co/xCdL8k2/18-CBC022-4-A24-465-A-B911-2-EF4191-A8-E07.png) (https://ibb.co/xCdL8k2)
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69 CB350. $735.00. Bailed a lot of hay.
(https://i.ibb.co/zhzQGT5/001.jpg) (https://ibb.co/zhzQGT5)
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https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=JxpfBVRC&id=837293219E4EE4DFBDBCCBCD75F8C15D77580596&thid=OIP.JxpfBVRCtUJC_NNlHFlI-QHaJ4&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR.271a5f055442b54242fcd3651c5948f9%3frik%3dlgVYd13B%252bHXNyw%26riu%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fautomotoclassicsale.com%252fsites%252fdefault%252ffiles%252febay_292033318557_2.jpg%26ehk%3dyWq%252feRXYXNyAYn%252fKgIL5TyxgwjwRHOcaem1MdwhkxYY%253d%26risl%3d%26pid%3dImgRaw%26r%3d0&exph=640&expw=480&q=1967+yamaha+yds3&simid=608054918655132023&FORM=IRPRST&ck=A6EB67FD1A63548E0A2BD8E04B5F50B0&selectedIndex=12&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0
Same bike, same color, 1967. Paid 300 for it.
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1970 YaMAha R5 350…after my high school graduation in 1976
Against my parental wishes …
Found another one a few years ago and brought it back to life
(https://i.ibb.co/WWsV099/192-CBFA5-D615-48-A7-AC53-25-B8-E9-D73-FF9.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WWsV099)
Really really really lucky not have injured myself. Could have used some 2x wheellearning experiences before launching that rocket
First time giving my brother a ride, he straightened up so fast on the back seat in a corner it sat the bike up straight and put us off the road, between two trees, and down 10ft into a ditch…we dragged it out…
“Don’t tell Mom…”
That first incident probably scared me enough to keep me alive …
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My first bike a 1975 Suzuki GT380 that I bought as a left over in 76 from New England Cycle to the dismay of my parents (they got over it), put 9k on that bike in one year and didn't really go anywhere, you just couldn't keep me off it. It was very smooth, didn't get very good MPG, and dragged a lot of things in the corners and all my other riding friends rode 4 strokes and didn't like breathing my exhaust so I had to bring up the rear. I would love to ride one again for an afternoon.
(https://i.ibb.co/Wcvq8c2/ame.png) (https://ibb.co/Wcvq8c2)
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(https://i.ibb.co/ckS3Fp4/9-EB4456-F-5339-4-A12-8-E1-E-B935-E4068976.png) (https://ibb.co/ckS3Fp4)
Not the actual bike but identical to it. 1972 started my road to ruin.
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Not the exact bike. I put 17,000 miles on mine.
kk
https://www.google.com/search?q=yamaha+yg1t&oq=yg1t&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i5i30.6441j0j9&client=tablet-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=xi6gF4slhspq1M
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(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/1a/d3/291ad3183d55978eaf9af4eebc6d8dbd.jpg)
(web photo)
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A non-running Kawasaki H3 tripple. Borrowed Mom's wagon to bring it home, had it stripped in the basement before she got home from work. 17 years old. Rode the crap out of it, then bought an Intercepter.
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Honda 1966 CB160.
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Sorry, no pics, but my first bike, acquired in ~1973, at age ~30, was a Honda CB77 Superhawk 305 cc. It was VERY used when I acquired it, and I kept it for several years, including a stint in NYC.
Fast-forward several decades, at age 71 in 2013, I got a new Moto Guzzi V7 Stone. A couple of years later, I sold it and got a '16 V7 Stone with AMS/TC and 6-sp gearbox. I really enjoyed that bike and rode it for ~5 years and ~35,000 mi, until it was totaled in a crash (not my fault, but still my pain and suffering). A year later, I optimistically got a V7E5 850 Stone. That'll likely be my last bike. Post trauma, I'm having difficulty riding it because of a combination of fear, insecurity, and poor balance. I did manage to get in a ride ~a week ago on my 80th birthday, but I don't know if/when I'll ride it again. So it goes.
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First bike was a Rump Roadster, I was about 13-14 years old and it was a blast. We had a big long hill near to own house that led up to a large public playground. Fun times.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/1968_Rupp_TT-500_Ad.jpg)
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1970 YaMAha R5 350…after my high school graduation in 1976
Against my parental wishes …
Found another one a few years ago and brought it back to life
(https://i.ibb.co/WWsV099/192-CBFA5-D615-48-A7-AC53-25-B8-E9-D73-FF9.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WWsV099)
Really really really lucky not have injured myself. Could have used some 2x wheellearning experiences before launching that rocket
First time giving my brother a ride, he straightened up so fast on the back seat in a corner it sat the bike up straight and put us off the road, between two trees, and down 10ft into a ditch…we dragged it out…
“Don’t tell Mom…”
That first incident probably scared me enough to keep me alive …
I had the last year R5, a 72. It was my 1st real "jet".
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A 1971 Yamaha AS1 in my case although well into my twenties by then. 125cc 2T twin with oil injection and 5 speed box was quite a revelation on such a tiny bike then. You had to watch the torque when pulling away from standstill when cold, as it would easily lift the front wheel. The hot UK summers of 1975/76 had me using it every day in preference to car and seeing 80 mph with a tail wind.
(https://classic-motorbikes.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AS1-static-049001.jpg)
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In 1977 I was offered a 1966 Suzuki 150 Twin, that was not running. I think I paid either $100 or $150 for it.
Bought a battery and cleaned up the carbs and got it running.
One thing I did that later bit me in the backside was, I did not tighten the main needle valve coming into one carb.
So as it eventually loosened up it would restrict fuel to one cylinder.
I finally found the problem, but a few weeks later I put a hole in that piston.
Two Stroke. I had to mix the oil while I filled it with gas.
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1975 Honda CB125S. Bought it used with 500 miles on it.
Great bike!
-Stretch
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Well my first dirt 2 wheeler was this.. [after a few years with a early Honda ATC]
(https://i.ibb.co/GJgTsq4/z50a.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GJgTsq4)
My first street bike was a 77 Suzuki GS400. Great starter bike.
Mine too. a '70 model my Grandad got at a garage sale for $70.
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1974 CB750 here. Bought it brand new at 19 years old.
(https://i.postimg.cc/RVYN6nr5/honda-cb750.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/qz8kWqMj)
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First bike was a 1946 model EL Harley Knuckelhead purchased for $350.00 in 1955 on the "Pay as you ride" plan.
$10.00 a week was doable at age 16. Since I had often ridden a friends Indian Chief, there was a bit of a learning curve getting the HD home!
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Mine too was an orange RD400. I ran it out of 2 stroke oil one morning on the way to school. Went from 70 to zero mph in about 3 seconds. Then I too carried extra spark plugs!
First bike I owned was a Yamaha RD400 two stroke. Ring a ding, ding, ding. Looked like this. Many interesting crashes on that thing. I carried an alligator bag full of spark plugs because it would usually foul one or more plugs every 200 miles or so.
(https://i.ibb.co/232bDjH/877-E77-C9-B211-41-DD-BB8-F-997-A819029-A0.jpg) (https://ibb.co/232bDjH)
The first bike I ever rode on was on the back of a mid 1970s Kawasaki Z900 when my older cousin came to visit from out of state. That wild ride with him around Atlanta is what hooked me on motorcycles.
(https://i.ibb.co/bNTFh7g/FCBB573-C-34-AA-4-A37-ACEF-ABC8696-AC7-A7.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bNTFh7g)
Oddly enough, more than 40 years after that formative Zed 900 experience, I’m now riding the new incarnation of the same bike, a Z900 RS Cafe. I’ve come full circle I suppose.
(https://i.ibb.co/D5jstBN/58-CB3-F9-D-3358-4-C1-A-8-A27-0-DA2-A9-ED7-B5-B.jpg) (https://ibb.co/D5jstBN)
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My first was the Metropolitan, ninety days later the Anniversario arrived, and five months after that came the Vespa. In less than
a year we had six motos in the garage. :evil:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49749726011_7e5e9c405c_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iNdmhK)
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My first was a late 70s Puch Monza:
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTnlcmUKtVZmg3ghr_hnv0zKt14BlO4CmxiijGca-BUOjOLKT9PKZ9uOkODSuDeQRqS1Oc&usqp=CAU)
Not the actual bike, since I foolishly let it go :(
Second one and first 'real' motorcycle as far as the laws here are concerned was a Brixton BX125R a.k.a Sunray:
(https://i.ibb.co/74qY9gk/DSCF0075.jpg) (https://ibb.co/74qY9gk)
I had to sell it too for lack of space but am strongly considering getting another one now that I have space.
One can't beat the easy fun of a light motorcycle.
Cheers,
D.
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Kawasaki KV75 - the one with the handlebars that folded up - but I never did that. I think I was 8 or so. No brakes to speak of, no air filter, tyres had seen better days. I thrashed it around Bulls Hill Quarry which was just off the Woy Woy Road, and also in the Dubbo Valley, and at Jillaby and Hungry Creek.
It was my main bike until I was 11 and got a disc vale 100cc Ag bike that again had seen better days, but I absolutely loved that thing!!!! Fun times at Mooney Creek with Dad and his mates on the dirt track and the trails.
The joys of a Central Coast childhood. :grin: As the infamous song (Central Coast State of Mind) goes...."beachside paradise north of Sydney, I'd give my left kidney, to be a Coastie.........."
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1975 Honda CB500T
Bought new, sold it 16 years later.
Here is an image of one.
(https://i.ibb.co/rbSt0yb/honda.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rbSt0yb)
I do have a black and white photo somewhere?
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Kawi KE175 a looooong time ago
(https://i.ibb.co/n8NzqQJ/20210616-104123.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n8NzqQJ)
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No one ever asks about our second or third motorcycle....
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No one ever asks about our second or third motorcycle....
OK, my second bike was a 1974 Norton Commando, and my third bike was a 1980 Ducati 900SS.
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Age 15 I bought a 1975 Yamaha DT175. The beginning of a life long obsession. Photo is right color but not my original bike.
(https://i.ibb.co/prQZwbH/DT175.jpg) (https://ibb.co/prQZwbH)
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2nd and 3rd bikes...
CL175
(https://i.ibb.co/N3VXjKY/bbcc15b7d8374a53b00ff88090a7d77c.jpg) (https://ibb.co/N3VXjKY)
Sachs 125
(https://i.ibb.co/JzVkMHw/sachs.jpg) (https://ibb.co/JzVkMHw)
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1972 Honda 350 CL, circa late seventies.
I put my 1939 Buick Special up as collateral while I made payments.
Someone I knew told the owner of the bike "Don't worry, you'll get your money. His mother would kill him if he let that car go."