What was your first motorcyle "love"?

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

I guess my "first love" bike was a Triumph. Waaayyy back in the day, I must have been 12 or 13 when I sent away for a Triumph catalog. It finally arrived, and I remember poring over it for hours at a time, until it finally just fell apart. I fixed it with scotch tape and kept it going for a little while. It was smudged, dirty, torn, dog-eared, stained with french-fry grease and ketchup, but I still loved it. The first bike I rode was a Honda 350, rented from a vendor at the Thai beach in Pattaya when I was stationed at the Deep Water Port in Sattahip in 1969. Good times!