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Got out of the Marines in Aug. 1971.. Was home on a weekend leave about a month before I got out. Friend of my dad's had a local auto repair/gas station and had a beautiful 1970 Honda 750cc 4 cyl. he was selling. Don't remember what he wanted for it but he took about a hundred bucks down and a few weeks later when I got out I paid the rest of it off monthly from my regular job and by pumping gas a few nights a week at the station. It spent the winter of 1971/72 in my parents basement; put it on the road spring of 1972. Put a LOT of miles on it that year, then sold it in the fall of '72 for money to sink into a project car. Wound up kicking myself for selling it.
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This was my second bike. 1980 or 81 yz50 full manual transmission. I was 5 or 6 in the picture in 1981 or so. I threw a leg over a mini bike at 4 and a husquvarna sno tamer the winter of 3.5.....dad set a throttle stop and made a track with a bobcat that I could just go in circles on. ![[Linked Image]](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z16/gyonemura/gregage5copy.jpg) Dayum Greg, you sure your name isn't Bob Hannah? I grew up chasing this slightly older kid by the name of Joe Kopp. He was much faster than me.....but I always placed on the podium in the backyard.
I would not buy something that runs on any kind of primer given the possibility of primer shortages and even regulations. In fact, why not buy a flintlock? Really. Rocks aren't going away anytime soon.
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... ![[Linked Image]](http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s33/orangeokie/motorcycles/40ff7e07-3e41-4f0c-8e78-c41cb1980147_zps6e685944.jpg) #8 was my last purchase and was sold a year later for a profit. 1960 Motoguzzi 250 Stornello Sport. Oh my! You should have kept this.
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
"...most of us would be better off losing half a pound around the waist than half a pound on our rifle."--dhg
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"72/'73 250 SuzukiRM. Raced the crap out of that bike in the SoCal deserts. Just couldn't keep up with those damn 6 gear Husky's!
But, Lordy, I had fun! Ran District 37 for about 5-6 years. I believe you were thinking Suzuki TM 250 if it was a '72/73, the early RM models didn't hit the scene until 1975.
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Yep,you're probably right, Little memory fade there. I tried laying down the rear shocks to help on the whoop dedoo's; that helped, but, those dang Euro's and that 6th gear on the flats!
As said, buckets of fun. Thanks for the correction.
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First Motorcycle was a 64 Honda sport cub 55. Much like a 90, but only a 55. It did however have a real clutch and 4 speed transmission. went from that to a Ducati 250.. I was 12 at the time.
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I came late to the fold... Didn't own a bike until I got back from Africa and went to grad school. Threw a leg over my first one at age 28 and didn't get off for another twelve years and about 240,000 miles. Finally owned a car again at age 40. The first bike, a used '82 550cc Yamaha Vision w/5,000 miles on it., a tad faded about like this one.... ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148/Sharpshin/24hrcamp/vision_zps7819176b.png) Can't believe I rode it from College Station TX to Moscow Idaho and back, pulling 1,000 mile days each way, without fairing or ear plugs  Anyhow rode it for a year and 25,000 miles. Followed by an '83 920 Yamaha Virago, uncrated new in '87. Holy Schizzizle, I had some good times on that bike  Three years and 74,000 trouble-free miles until the front timing chain broke. likely from being flogged so hard. Then an '88 Kawasaki Ninja, bought used from a roommate, two years and 40,000 miles. After the Ninja ate the valves for a second time I traded it in for a '92 KLR 650, two years and 45,000 problem-free miles the first time around. About to get married I bought the one bike I could keep forever, a '94 BMW R100 G/S Paris/Dakar. Three years and 45,000 miles. OMG it sucked, couldn't hardly drive it around the block without problems. Sold it, good riddance. Brung the KLR out of storage and put another 10,000 on it. Rode it to New York and back a few years back. Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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79 honda cx500. bought it off my ncoic when i was 20. about 25 years ago i bought my first harley & still have it.
My diploma is a DD214
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Mine was a brand new 1976 Honda MR-50, and I was 9. It was a two-stroke, 3-speed manual tranny dirt bike, and it would ride circles around my friends Z-50. Then in 1978 I got an XR-75 which I still have. Over the last year I have also bought a 1974 AMF Harley-Davidson Z-90, made for Harley by an Italian Company, Aermacchi. I also bought a 1965 Honda Sport 65. The Honda runs, but needs some cosmetic work and the Harley hasn't been run for awhile, so I've got a few projects ahead of me.
"Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs".
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Suzuki 120 3 high and 3 low  , I was 10. Gunner
Trump Won!
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1967 Yamaha 305, Big Bear they called them. I still have what's left in the barn. I was 17 in 1971. kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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1979 Honda XR-80- age 10.
THAT is the bike I wanted at 10 or 11! I had a CT-70 trail bike. pretty interesting little thing but man wanted that xr-80.
Last edited by Crockettnj; 01/17/14.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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![[Linked Image]](http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/~/media/Images/MCC/Editorial/Articles/Magazine%20Articles/2010/03-01/1969%20BSA%20441%20Victor%20Special/BSA-Victor-4.jpg) This. I was 18.
I'm better when I move.
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wbyfan1,
Did you race in Texas from 1980 to 1989?
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I'm a big fan of the courtesy flush.
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In 1989 a 1983 Honda Shadow 500, I was 18.
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God, Family, and Country.
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The first one I BOUGHT was a Zundapp 50 CC, to tear up on the farm at age 13. Upgraded to a Kreidler 50CC at 16. Upgraded to a Honda CB750FI at age 18. Got rid of it after realizing it only had two throttle positions "closed" and "open".
Getting blown off the road on the Autobahn by a Porsche while doing over 100...... priceless.
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Proudly representing oil companies, defense contractors, and firearms manufacturers since 1980. Because merchants of death need lawyers, too.
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Steve, the bike I learned on was a Honda 305 Dream at 17 Sweet flared fenders!
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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mine was a 750 Matchless
Man that was a beautiful bike...
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