12-12-2017, 04:34 PM
Thanks for sharing Jim & Bill. Those are some great recollections and some truly wonderful photos. I grew up about 80 miles south of you guys and about 10 years later on. No celebrity here. To my fellow classmates i was just the scrawny, geeky kid that liked bikes (in the photo with my '77 RM100). There wasn't a whole lot to do growing up in a small rural Illinois town so when I wasn't playing in the dirt, I was working in it — literally (my first few jobs were working in the fields for local farmers. Until I managed to snag one of the choice jobs at the local grocery store that is. Can't imagine why anyone might have seen me as geeky (the scrawniness was undeniable), um well never mind lol...
