03-05-2015, 03:18 AM
(03-05-2015, 01:54 AM)twiin640_imp Wrote: I bought mine at 50 this past year. I've been a Honda fan for many years. Built a chopper and a couple of cafes from Hondas.
I've also always been a sportbike fan. My last sportbike was a Buell which is the cat's you know what when it comes to cornering and riding fun. I still love sportbikes just don't like the riding position any longer. In my opinion, the CB is a good mix between sportbike and cruiser. It's light and powerful enough to have fun riding and cornering and also has a great riding position like a cruiser. Not to mention it looks cool as heck.
I'm early 60s ish.
The very first chopper, in the early 70s, I ever saw in person was a Honda 750 with step seat and long forks, small front wheel, ape hangers and a two foot high sissy bar, custom helmet with a top fin made of fiberglass. I think it was blue-purple. I saw it at Shaw AFB and he and another guy would bring their bikes into their barrack rooms and clean and even tear them down on weekends for repairs. The other one was a Suzuki water buffalo which means joining the service lets you see a lot of America all in one place. I also learn Brooklynese from an Italian guy from there, the first two weeks I could not understand him but by the sixth week I was fluent and he taught us how he stole hubcaps for spending money back home.
Yes, this was a "war story". Welcome to the pack here...word of advice, don't put rubber thingies on your downtubes or lever ends, in spite of what some miss-guided types might try and talk you into doing. It's like snipe hunting in your early days, don't go for it. Trust me.