(05-10-2021, 12:39 PM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(05-10-2021, 12:20 PM)decarmine_imp Wrote: Ref "ten dollar head...ten dollar helmet"...

Many years ago -- 1974, to be exact -- I had a rear tire blowout and dumped my CB750 on a Florida turnpike. While still in the air, and flying through my handlebars, the thought that actually went through my head was "I wish I had paid more than $10 for this helmet..." I had actually bought three helmets at $10 each during a clearance sale at S&K cycle, a Long Island cycle shop.

I am impressed one wore a motorcycle helmet in a 1974 Florida. From what can be reasoned this evening, it looks like all turned out quite well.

(05-10-2021, 08:38 PM)decarmine_imp Wrote:

(05-10-2021, 12:39 PM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(05-10-2021, 12:20 PM)decarmine_imp Wrote: Ref "ten dollar head...ten dollar helmet"...

Many years ago -- 1974, to be exact -- I had a rear tire blowout and dumped my CB750 on a Florida turnpike. While still in the air, and flying through my handlebars, the thought that actually went through my head was "I wish I had paid more than $10 for this helmet..." I had actually bought three helmets at $10 each during a clearance sale at S&K cycle, a Long Island cycle shop.

I am impressed one wore a motorcycle helmet in a 1974 Florida. From what can be reasoned this evening, it looks like all turned out quite well.

I was actually a 30-year-old (at the time) New York resident on an "adventure" trip to Florida. I was not aware of individual helmet laws in any of the states I had passed through but continued to abide by NY law. I'm now a Florida resident but always wear a helmet as a result of the memory of meeting that pavement at 65 miles an hour in my $10 helmet. At the time I thought my head had not really hit the ground until I later realized the snaps holding the face shield to the helmet had been ground away from sliding along the pavement...

(05-10-2021, 10:50 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Best $10 ya ever spent huh?

(05-11-2021, 04:57 AM)decarmine_imp Wrote: Seeing the CL450 brings to mind my own '69 CB450 that I owned somewhere in the progression of bikes from my first CB350 to the CB750 that met its demise on that aforesaid Florida turnpike. I got the bike through a trade -- the details are a bit murky now but, as I recall, it involved a 500cc BSA, a minibike, a floor shift conversion kit, and a chevy 4-barrel manifold. No cash changed hands, but there were 3 people involved in the trades.

The bike had a six- or eight-inch extended front end, because that's what we did in the early '70s. Any pictures I might have had are long gone...

AND -- apologies as we have certainly strayed from the original intent of this thread.

(05-12-2021, 01:08 AM)Whoops_imp Wrote:

(05-11-2021, 04:57 AM)decarmine_imp Wrote: Seeing the CL450 brings to mind my own '69 CB450 that I owned somewhere in the progression of bikes from my first CB350 to the CB750 that met its demise on that aforesaid Florida turnpike. I got the bike through a trade -- the details are a bit murky now but, as I recall, it involved a 500cc BSA, a minibike, a floor shift conversion kit, and a chevy 4-barrel manifold. No cash changed hands, but there were 3 people involved in the trades.

The bike had a six- or eight-inch extended front end, because that's what we did in the early '70s. Any pictures I might have had are long gone...

AND -- apologies as we have certainly strayed from the original intent of this thread.

Ah hell no... Keep it going. I am enjoying the campfire tales.