Previous motorcycles

[petec_imp]

Well I've had a bunch over the years; this is about the oldest picture I have though. This was taken in Aug '68 and I had just turned 18.
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This bike is a '69 XLCH that I traded in my 6 month old Honda CL450 for. I forgot what I got for the trade-in but the price of the CH was $1899. It's getting its first tank of gas at a little mom n' pop just down the road from where I worked in Springfield, IL. during my lunch hour. We were very busy at work and the dealer delivered it to me and I hadn't even had time to take the plastic off the seat.

The two other kids in the photo worked at the station...I had a crush on that girl but her Dad wouldn't let her go out with me because I was a high school drop-out and rode motorcycles to boot...
I wish I could see the price of gas on that pump...I'm thinking it was about .25 cents a gallon or so...

Anyhow, I owned it for two years and about 25k miles. Believe it or not ( it was an AMF Harley after all ) except for some initial teething problems, I never really had any problems with it.

Pete C

great photos and great story !

As far as the Dad is concerned, not only were you a drop out and riding a motorcycle, but it was a Harley Davidson to boot. Back when Harley had a real image problem (something that kids in general today don't have any idea about :-) )

Since that time I've always had a soft spot for Sportsters and thought, at some point, I'd own another. When the XR came out a 3 years ago I couldn't resist and went and bought one but it just wasn't the same. Decent bike and all that (kept if for a year and a half) but I never really bonded with it like I did with my original...

T Wolfe...you really can't go home again, etc, etc...[url=http://s596.photobucket.com/user/pacwnc/media/SN851727.jpg.html]

Pete C