08-03-2018, 08:35 AM
My first motorcycle to ride (and crash the same day) was a friend's Honda SL100.
A year later a bought a used 1971 Honda CL450 Scrambler. The front brake cable was frozen up (this was after a front brake lock-up in gravel on the above-mentioned SL100)......
My thoughts were "Why does anyone need a front brake"?
Well, only good things were going to come from this mentality, right? I t-boned a car on a wet street. Fortunately I only suffered a broken left wrist.
Due to some extraordinary circumstances, a few months later I went to work for a small Honda dealership.
Working there, along with a couple of seasoned and gifted riders, I actually learned "how" to ride a motorcycle.
The first new bike I ever owned was a 1975 CB750SS. The rest is history as they say.
A year later a bought a used 1971 Honda CL450 Scrambler. The front brake cable was frozen up (this was after a front brake lock-up in gravel on the above-mentioned SL100)......
My thoughts were "Why does anyone need a front brake"?
Well, only good things were going to come from this mentality, right? I t-boned a car on a wet street. Fortunately I only suffered a broken left wrist.
Due to some extraordinary circumstances, a few months later I went to work for a small Honda dealership.
Working there, along with a couple of seasoned and gifted riders, I actually learned "how" to ride a motorcycle.
The first new bike I ever owned was a 1975 CB750SS. The rest is history as they say.