01-07-2015, 03:48 AM
Gentlemen,
That is some pretty hard core riding. I've done some adventitious stuff but not that. The closest I've come to such an experience was back at age 14. I had a 4 speed Honda Trail 70 with a clutch. Top speed just under 50 mph. A sturdy luggage rack on the back to haul my gear. I was too young to have a drivers license so I wore a helmet with a face shield so police couldn't see how young I was. With 20 dollars in gas money, a sleeping bag, and all the food I could pirate out of my Mom's pantry I would take off for 3 or 4 days at a time. Paved roads, dirt roads, and desert trails all over Arizona. I can't believe my parents let me do it as there were no cell phones and they had no idea where the heck I was. I slept under mesquite trees at night and hung out under gas station canopies when it rained. McDonalds hamburgers were 15 cents back then and one and a half gallons of gas to fill that little bike up cost 30 cents. $20 had a lot of purchasing power back then. That little Honda was as reliable as a stone hammer and it never stranded me.
To a 14 year old boy in 1969 riding through towns and areas I'd never seen before, that was high adventure. Great days.
Chip
That is some pretty hard core riding. I've done some adventitious stuff but not that. The closest I've come to such an experience was back at age 14. I had a 4 speed Honda Trail 70 with a clutch. Top speed just under 50 mph. A sturdy luggage rack on the back to haul my gear. I was too young to have a drivers license so I wore a helmet with a face shield so police couldn't see how young I was. With 20 dollars in gas money, a sleeping bag, and all the food I could pirate out of my Mom's pantry I would take off for 3 or 4 days at a time. Paved roads, dirt roads, and desert trails all over Arizona. I can't believe my parents let me do it as there were no cell phones and they had no idea where the heck I was. I slept under mesquite trees at night and hung out under gas station canopies when it rained. McDonalds hamburgers were 15 cents back then and one and a half gallons of gas to fill that little bike up cost 30 cents. $20 had a lot of purchasing power back then. That little Honda was as reliable as a stone hammer and it never stranded me.
To a 14 year old boy in 1969 riding through towns and areas I'd never seen before, that was high adventure. Great days.
Chip