05-21-2019, 11:10 PM
50 years ago I was getting ready to enlist in the Air Force. I was going to college and my draft number was 6. I wanted to better the odds of coming home so I enlisted. I'm grateful to this day of being around and still riding.
My bike at the time was a '67 305 Scrambler. Growing up in Oakland and the Bay Area that bike took me everywhere and even a road trip down Highway 1 through Big Sur and then the Pacific Coast Highway.
I'll be riding that 305 today, yep, still have my 1st bike along with a 2013 CB and a '74 CB 750 in Orange just like you remember. They're all watershed bikes in my opinion. A testimony to Honda's engineering and visionary design.
I was having coffee with a riding buddy yesterday and I brought up why other existing motorcycle companies before Honda didn't make and bring an inline 4 to market for "mass production?" His answer was change and complacency. I'm thankful Honda took the leap and the others followed.
Keeping the rubber side down CD
My bike at the time was a '67 305 Scrambler. Growing up in Oakland and the Bay Area that bike took me everywhere and even a road trip down Highway 1 through Big Sur and then the Pacific Coast Highway.
I'll be riding that 305 today, yep, still have my 1st bike along with a 2013 CB and a '74 CB 750 in Orange just like you remember. They're all watershed bikes in my opinion. A testimony to Honda's engineering and visionary design.
I was having coffee with a riding buddy yesterday and I brought up why other existing motorcycle companies before Honda didn't make and bring an inline 4 to market for "mass production?" His answer was change and complacency. I'm thankful Honda took the leap and the others followed.
Keeping the rubber side down CD