(07-05-2018, 07:19 AM)RockHop_imp Wrote: No signs at the city limits, but Slaton TX has a large mural just off the town square. The railroad history is prominent with the train and the Harvey House. Locomotive 1809, the "Cotton Special", delivered cotton from the area to the Gulf ports in Houston and is on display in the town square.

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(07-06-2018, 04:02 PM)noroomtomove_imp Wrote: One month late, apologies for the illegitimate parking but so it be to get the photo.

Regards NRTM

(07-07-2018, 07:33 AM)Inhouse Bob_imp Wrote: Great shots and it looks like it was a good ride, ZBill.
I'm looking at your profile photo. Looks interesting and like there might be a story. Anything there?

(07-07-2018, 12:12 AM)peterbaron_imp Wrote:

(07-06-2018, 04:02 PM)noroomtomove_imp Wrote: One month late, apologies for the illegitimate parking but so it be to get the photo.

Regards NRTM

Aaaaaah, white is always nice = beautiful bike

(07-06-2018, 04:02 PM)noroomtomove_imp Wrote: One month late, apologies for the illegitimate parking but so it be to get the photo.

Regards NRTM

(07-07-2018, 08:03 AM)zbillster_imp Wrote:

(07-07-2018, 07:33 AM)Inhouse Bob_imp Wrote: Great shots and it looks like it was a good ride, ZBill.
I'm looking at your profile photo. Looks interesting and like there might be a story. Anything there?

So that's me (right, on my Batavus moped) and one of my older brothers (left, on his CB550 he bought in England while he was in the USAF and had it shipped back) circa 1978.



And me on his CB550 ... a la carte ...



The CB550 would be stolen while he was grocery-shopping by two teenage runaways from a military school ... the police caught up to them ... they gave chase ... and wrecked it. He hobbled it back together, but he didn't use it much after that.

The Batavus ceased to start after a few weeks (magneto got shorted out when a wire was pinched reattaching the side cover) and another brother with electrical skills bought it off me and used it for a while.

I would later graduate to a Motobecane moped (and from high school), which lasted for 10,000 miles till it died of malpractice (a shop wired it backwards and blew out the electrics). Then I would put 40,000 miles on a CT90 while I finished college.

In later years, a Honda Twinstar (with rusty gas tank), a CBR250R and then my current CB1100.

(07-07-2018, 12:12 AM)peterbaron_imp Wrote:

(07-06-2018, 04:02 PM)noroomtomove_imp Wrote: One month late, apologies for the illegitimate parking but so it be to get the photo.

Regards NRTM

Aaaaaah, white is always nice = beautiful bike

I love the white ones ... perhaps a secret desire to pull people over?

(07-07-2018, 09:16 AM)misterprofessionality_imp Wrote:

(07-07-2018, 08:03 AM)zbillster_imp Wrote:

(07-07-2018, 07:33 AM)Inhouse Bob_imp Wrote: Great shots and it looks like it was a good ride, ZBill.
I'm looking at your profile photo. Looks interesting and like there might be a story. Anything there?

So that's me (right, on my Batavus moped) and one of my older brothers (left, on his CB550 he bought in England while he was in the USAF and had it shipped back) circa 1978.



And me on his CB550 ... a la carte ...



The CB550 would be stolen while he was grocery-shopping by two teenage runaways from a military school ... the police caught up to them ... they gave chase ... and wrecked it. He hobbled it back together, but he didn't use it much after that.

The Batavus ceased to start after a few weeks (magneto got shorted out when a wire was pinched reattaching the side cover) and another brother with electrical skills bought it off me and used it for a while.

I would later graduate to a Motobecane moped (and from high school), which lasted for 10,000 miles till it died of malpractice (a shop wired it backwards and blew out the electrics). Then I would put 40,000 miles on a CT90 while I finished college.

In later years, a Honda Twinstar (with rusty gas tank), a CBR250R and then my current CB1100.

(07-07-2018, 12:12 AM)peterbaron_imp Wrote:

(07-06-2018, 04:02 PM)noroomtomove_imp Wrote: One month late, apologies for the illegitimate parking but so it be to get the photo.

Regards NRTM

Aaaaaah, white is always nice = beautiful bike

I love the white ones ... perhaps a secret desire to pull people over?

man....i can't fathom how your brother didn't have one of those scumbags duct taped to a chair pulling out fingernails until they told him how they were going to buy a new one for him...I have no chill about things like that.