11-08-2021, 09:06 AM
It's really impossible to pick my first motorcycle love because I literally grew up with motorcycles and have always loved them. My dad was a rider, my mother was a rider, my older brother was a rider, one of my two older sisters was a rider.
Was my first love the one I remember seeing first? (Harley Panhead) The first one I actually wanted? (Honda C110) The first one I bought ? (Harley M50) My first "big bike"? (Honda CL77) The first one to take me out of state? (Honda CB350). The first one to take me cross country? (Kawasaki KZ1000)
My first was a new 1965 Aermacchi (badged Harley Davidson M50) like the one below. I was 15 when my dad took me to Ray Conkler's Harley Davidson in Cincinnati to buy it. $388 if memory serves me. Bought it with grass cutting, paper routes and a $1 an hour bus boy job after school. It was an Italian made 2 stroke, 3 speed in the left grip, kick starter on the left. Oh what freedom that little 3(ish?) HP mc gave me.
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I've had singles, twins, triples and fours, 2 strokes and 4 strokes, automatics, 3 speeds, 4 speeds, 5 speeds, 6 speeds and now a DCT. I've had CVT, chain, belt and shaft drives, air cooled, air/oil cooled and liquid cooled, electric start, kick start (and at times have resorted to push start lol). American, British, Italian, and Japanese.
Pick a first love? I can't. I have honestly loved them all
HARLEYS: 65 M50,59 XLCH, 49 56 & 57 Pans, 94 XLCH
HONDAS: 66 CB160, 67 CL77, 69 CB350, 73 CB350F, 67 CB450, 76 CB750, 85 VF1100S, 00 CB750, 06 ST1300, 13 CB1100, 14 CB1100, 14 CB500X, 21 NC750X DCT
SUZUKI: 74 GT750, 76 GT750, 81 GS850G, 83 GS1100E
KAWASAKI: 77 KZ1000
YAMAHA: 73 RD350, 73 TX650, 79 XS650, 81 XS650, 04 FZ1, 01 FZ1, 06 Majesty 400, 08 Majesty 400, 18 FJR 1300
TRIUMPH 03 T100
BSA 69 750 Rocket 3
Was my first love the one I remember seeing first? (Harley Panhead) The first one I actually wanted? (Honda C110) The first one I bought ? (Harley M50) My first "big bike"? (Honda CL77) The first one to take me out of state? (Honda CB350). The first one to take me cross country? (Kawasaki KZ1000)
My first was a new 1965 Aermacchi (badged Harley Davidson M50) like the one below. I was 15 when my dad took me to Ray Conkler's Harley Davidson in Cincinnati to buy it. $388 if memory serves me. Bought it with grass cutting, paper routes and a $1 an hour bus boy job after school. It was an Italian made 2 stroke, 3 speed in the left grip, kick starter on the left. Oh what freedom that little 3(ish?) HP mc gave me.
I've had singles, twins, triples and fours, 2 strokes and 4 strokes, automatics, 3 speeds, 4 speeds, 5 speeds, 6 speeds and now a DCT. I've had CVT, chain, belt and shaft drives, air cooled, air/oil cooled and liquid cooled, electric start, kick start (and at times have resorted to push start lol). American, British, Italian, and Japanese.
Pick a first love? I can't. I have honestly loved them all
HARLEYS: 65 M50,59 XLCH, 49 56 & 57 Pans, 94 XLCH
HONDAS: 66 CB160, 67 CL77, 69 CB350, 73 CB350F, 67 CB450, 76 CB750, 85 VF1100S, 00 CB750, 06 ST1300, 13 CB1100, 14 CB1100, 14 CB500X, 21 NC750X DCT
SUZUKI: 74 GT750, 76 GT750, 81 GS850G, 83 GS1100E
KAWASAKI: 77 KZ1000
YAMAHA: 73 RD350, 73 TX650, 79 XS650, 81 XS650, 04 FZ1, 01 FZ1, 06 Majesty 400, 08 Majesty 400, 18 FJR 1300
TRIUMPH 03 T100
BSA 69 750 Rocket 3