CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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Ok, how about this: since some of us are still riding while others have already had to put their bikes away for the season, here are two options. We might have done this before, I’m not sure.

If you are still riding, your CB with a train. Could be a whole train, part of a train, a currently running train, a static, historically displayed train.

If you can no longer ride this month, your bike shown with your oldest motorcycle-specific tool in your arsenal.

I can and will still ride this month, but "oldest motorcycle-specific tool in your arsenal" made me think a bit...

While it could be used for many things, for 15 years this orange beauty of a toolbox has been used to store my tap sets, and they have been used specifically for mc repairs, so I hope that's close enough.



When I was 5 years old, my dad gave me this tool box. It had a big gold sticker on the front in the shape of a star that claimed "7 year guarentee". Or maybe I was 7 years old and the guarentee was for 5 years. No matter, I was pretty happy about that guarentee because it was for longer (or nearly longer) than I was old.

Anywho...this ol' toolbox has with-stood the test of time, travelling from Kansas to Arizona to Oregon, and maybe soon to Costa Rica. It always makes me smile when I think about my dad buying it from Sears Roebuck for his youngest of 4 sons. I was--by far--the least mechanically inclined of the boys. He likely bought it thinking it would help me take an interest in things mechanical.

By the time I took up motorcycling in earnest 20 years ago, my dad was on the decline with dementia and couldn't hold a conversation. I've never really thought about what he might have said of my motorcycle adventures. I think he would have taken a keen interest in the trips I've been able to do, and maybe even have been proud that I try my best to maintain my motorcycles without my brothers' help even.

Oh...and orange was his favorite color.