03-12-2021, 08:42 AM
I'm the first in my family to have a motorcycle. In high school (60's) it seems many of my friends either had a Cushman, Vespa or one of the new Japanese bikes. My father despised motorcycles and forbid my having one. A friend bought a BSA 441 when I was 18 and I learned to ride on his bike, I was hooked. My younger brother at 14 had the bug and we started buying dirt bikes and he went on to become a pretty fair motocross racer. I remained a bachelor till 31 and was lucky to find a woman with as much enthusiasm for bikes as I had. Sparky had her own motorcycle when we married, a Kawasaki KZ650.
