Photo of your first motorcycle

[caroledee1]

Originally Posted by Graydog

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

It sounds like you've had plenty of character building jobs. My son bailed hay this summer. You haven't missed much as far as bean-walking goes. I used to get 50 cents an hour back then! :lol:

[Graydog]

Hey Music Man...did you wind it up with a key :lol:

Actually I worked for AMF back when they owned Harley. At the plant in Little Rock
they dabbled with making some Mo-Peds just like that. They needed testers and I had
two young sons. We tried everything to kill those things (they wanted us to trash them
as much as possible). I had my kids ride them into water then sand, dropped them,
wrecked them, they just wouldn't die! They were like that damned battery rabbit...they
just kept on going. I have no idea if they ever went into production.

[Graydog]

Hell I started the topic and forgot to add my picture :retard:

Now isn't this beautiful! Dig that headlight.

[Sarris]

Hey Grey;

I'm guessing its a Jawa, but you didn't say.

:oops:

[Graydog]

Originally Posted by Sarris

Hey Grey;

I'm guessing its a Jawa, but you didn't say.

:oops:

Double :retard: :retard:

Yep. 1958 Jawa. Mine never looked this good except maybe the first day I brought it home.
It was all downhill from there. 5 years later I had cut and slashed it so much I was using it as a hill climber and for rocket runs.

[Sarris]

I'd damn sure like to have that one today. How 'bout you??

[music man]

Hey Graydog, did those AMF's have the whole bicycle pedal to start backup on them by any chance? And no actually it was electric start with a kick start backup I think, too long ago to remember if it actually had an electric start.


Later

[Graydog]

Originally Posted by Sarris

I'd damn sure like to have that one today. How 'bout you??

Oh yes. I was surprised to find on the net a Jawa collectors group. I know there were quite a few of us back then so I shouldn't have been surprised. Before the Asian bike invasion everyone rode Trumpets, BSAs, (If I remember right you could buy a BSA through Sears then). O_o
Jawas, Harleys, and Indians. The Jawa was the bottom feeder of the group but for an "Iron Curtain" bike it was pretty good.

Actually I never got rid of that bike. I was going overseas so I disassembled what was left of it it and put all the parts in the shed. I guess my folks figured I would never survive my tour as it and everything else I owned was gone when I returned. :cuss: They CNKed (claimed no knowledge) on the matter and I let it drop. Fooled them though...still here! :crackup

[mrlmd1]

Here's my first bike, a Honda Superhawk 305, picture taken in Iowa City, Ia. in 1974. My son is sitting on the tank holding on to a crossbar connecting the handlebars.
Haven't been on a bike since ?Nov-Dec.'07 when I got my used '99 GZ 250. Don't know why I waited so long.

It's amazing - back then you got on a bike 10 min after someone showed you the controls and you were off, figuring out everything by yourself, not having a clue what you were doing or what could go wrong, but you managed to get the hang of it, ride, have fun and stay safe and alive.
Now, you have to take a 10 hour course with written and road tests, and your mind is so filled with things to think about every second, and the dire consequences about what can happen if you don't pay attention for a fraction of a second, it's amazing any of us survive.

[NoMates]

Heres a pic of my first bike. An 05 YZF 250. I tell ya it taught me to stay upright pretty quickly.. Blasting through the forests here in NZ taught me some valuable bike control lessons. And hurt me some too.