Photo of your first motorcycle

[Graydog]

I wonder how many of us have pictures of our first motorcycle? My son called me the other night and mentioned that his mom (my first ex) had brought over a scrapbook with a picture of the bike we used to run around on. It got me to wondering if I remembered the old girl correctly (the bike not the bitch) :roll: so I Googled and there she was in all her glory! Of course it wasn't my exact bike but the same model and year. There were so many things I had forgotten about that bike.

Wonder what the chances are of finding that exact bike if it still exists?

On Speed channel last night I saw a discussion about old farts who have made a quest of finding a car they owned as a teenager (the exact one...not one like it). Some of those cars were still around and the old guys bought them back.

Well I guess this is sort of a silly thread on a board that is full of new bikers who still own their first bike....but it was a thought. I must be bored?? :yawn:

[alanmcorcoran]

My first three cars were two pieces of shit and a moped. One of them is rotting in a junkyard in Cincinnatus NY where it was towed after I plowed it head on into a Ford Station wagon at about 50 mph each. The other is quietly resting (rusting) in Poughkeepsie, where it is slumbering about three miles down an unpaved road where it gave up the ghost back in like '82. The moped was ripped off. That's the only one I might be interested in seeing again, if only to give the current owner a good swift kick in the balls.

Now, if you wanna talk old girlfriends...

PS. If you want to see a picture of my first motorcycle, take a look at my avatar.

[Sarris]

This is a photo of a Hodaka Ace 100B that looks like my second bike. It's one that I should have kept. I don't have any pictures of any of my first few bikes, but I found this Hodaka photo a few years ago and saved it because the photo is the exact model and color of the one I owned.

[Graydog]

Sarris, I remember seeing those bikes around for a while in the early 70s if I remember right. What happened to them?

[music man]

Here was my first HOG. This is not the actual one but it is the same year, size, and color, it is a 1983 Suzuki FA50. Now I know all of you are very impressed, especially when I tell you I got it when I was ten, I rode that thing to hell and back.


Later



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[caroledee1]

I saved up my money from detasseling corn and bean-walking to buy my 1st motorcycle in 1976. A Yamaha 125 Enduro just like this one.

[Sarris]

Grey;

Those babies are long gone. The parent company Pabatco (Pacific Bay Trading Company) couldn't make the emission standards with their 2 stroke motor. It was a fast and well built little bike. Not many survive today.

[Graydog]

Originally Posted by caroledee1

I saved up my money from detasseling corn and bean-walking to buy my 1st motorcycle in 1976. A Yamaha 125 Enduro just like this one.

Bean walking???

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by Graydog

Bean walking???

Another city boy, I see !!

You walk through the soy bean fields and chop out the weeds.
Not done so much anymore 'casue of improved herbicides.

[Graydog]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

Another city boy, I see !!

You walk through the soy bean fields and chop out the weeds.
Not done so much anymore 'casue of improved herbicides.

Well I've shucked corn, picked and shelled peas, picked cotton, defuzzed peaches, etc. but I have never "bean walked". :??: