How many years have you been riding a motorcycle?How many years have you been riding a motorcycle?I was put on a cycle by my older brother when I was seven, that was 1950. It was a 125 harley. I rode it around the front yard and back by the house and around the pump house a hundred times a day. After and few months I could ride to the corner a 1/4 mile away and back, that helped a lot. After a year I could go a mile each way on the gravel road. Boy what freedom that was for a young boy. By the time I was 13 or 14 teen I could go to my buddy's 6 to 7 miles away on the back roads. I must stay out of town and keep just on the gravel. My friends all got little harley's later in the 50's so we could ride together. In 1961 I got my first Honda CA 77, my buddy got one the same day. A few months later another friend got one. We had a ball riding all over the U.S. for the next year. I grew up in Iowa farm country.
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Got my first bike when I was 15 (1965) it was a step thru Honda 90. I had to share with my younger brother. We sure had alot of fun on that stupid thing,beat the hell out of it but it always ran! At 16 I got a real Motorcycle,1965 CB77 I truly loved that thing! I bought it from a kid in the neighborhood that bought it without mentioning it to his parents. He owned it for one day and sold it to me. He took a whipping on the price and I got a great deal. Stupidly I traded it two years later for a chopped BSA 500cc twin. And a line of bikes ensued after that till now. Iv'e lost count! But now I happily have one CB77 and one Kawasaki Drifter, both very cool and fun to ride !! Kustommusic
My father bought my brother and I a 1973 Bridgestone Chibi Deluxe minibike on May 18, 1973 exactly one month before my 11th birthday. He paid $210 for it. How do I know such details? I'm looking at the bill of sale for that bike right now :)
We rode the fool out of that little 6hp two stroke screamer on the farm for I guess 2-3 years. Then my oldest brother started getting into real off road bikes, starting with a 100cc Kawasaki. Over then next few years he bought several "trail" bikes and I rode them quite a bit. Then my brother got into street bikes, still Kawasaki's, and went through a 400, a 650 and finally a 1100 LTD. My father bought a CA77 in the mid 70's also and I rode all of these bikes some as well. But no bikes for the past 20 years or so until I bought my CA77 last year. Hopefully I'll be riding here a lot in the next few months.
I've only been riding for about 1.5 years. I took the BRC and got my license in the fall of 2005 and bought my V65 Sabre in March of last year. Put 6000 miles on it so far. With a set of large saddlebags, in good weather it's a very capable substitute for the car for 80% of my trips including commuting and groceries.
I rode a Yamaha 1972, 250, 2 stroke for one summer in the early 80's I bought from my brother.Only rode with a permit then and sold it the next year.Three summers ago my son and I drug what was left of a CA77 out of a collapsed barn with my Bronco and I got it started(what was left of it).The next year and a few scrap bikes and other parts later I had my bike together and got my permit and I then took my test on my CA77.Been tearing up the raods here in Pa. ever since.
I started out at 12 years old with a used little Honda 50 mini trail. Went up to a CT-70, XL250, CB350 Four, CB550 four. Had a Cub In between them somewhere. I remember Dad saying "Your going to kill yourself if you don't slow down"
There was a couple of times he was just about right! Hey how could I argue the fact when he was looking down at me in the hospital room. I'd tell him," that's it for me, no more bikes and the next thing I would come home with a bigger one. All together I have had 28 bikes and although I enjoy the new wing it don't even come close to the enjoyment I got out of my first bikes. Paul
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