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1973 my first Honda, 1963 C110 Sport Cub. Now my 2nd red Honda 41 years later. No helmet laws then, how did I ever survive? The push rod motor of that old bike had a top speed of 50mph, lousy tires and all. I rescued that motorcycle from under a pile of hay in a barn, owner didn't know if it ran so he gave it to me. A little oil, gas, a clean spark, and a couple of tire tubes and I got that little bike running. Having owned several dozen of motorcycles since then, that C110 still makes me smile.
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Love the duck hunting boots!
Safety gear!? What's that!?
I too wonder how I ever survived my youth.
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Great picture!
My best friend bought one in 1964. First Honda I ever rode. The thing was indestructible, I know we tried. I wanted one badly but my dad being a WW2 vet wouldn't co-sign on anything Japanese so I ended up with a Harley Davidson M50 (rebadged Aermacchi made in Italy) . Guess he forgot the Italians were in the alliance with Germany and Japan during WW2.
i've made up for it and bought lots of Hondas since.
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I'm diggin' those "riding boots"! Ha! great pic.
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Reminds me of my first bike. It was a white 1968 Honda "65". My Dad bought it for me and rode it home from the dealer.
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I remember walking to the tire store 2 miles away to buy a rear tire for it, I ran the old one to the cords and it was very weather checked. Paid the princely sum of $14, quite a lot for a kid who worked the winter months for $1.25 an hour 6 hours a week. Most of my money came in the form of summer work i.e. haying, christmas trees, farm labor. I am not sure that I ever really spent much time washing the bike, I ran it everywhere I could, street, woods, fields, gas was .25 cents a gallon and that little engine was pretty economical. Those boots were a necessity since I couldn't afford to get my tennis shoes dirty. Kids are missing out today IMO, I learned a lot about engines and mechanicals with that bike. My dad wasn't a guy who worked on stuff and was gone a lot anyway so I taught myself to do the work, right down to replacing tires and installing tubes. I even flipped the silly thing upside down and aligned the spokes, not different than the bicycles that I scrounged then. That farmer that let me dig it out of the barn ( I did feed his animals for a week later when they were out of town as a favor for the bike) did a lot for me by giving me that bike. And it's interesting that the police never really made it to big a deal with me as an underaged 14 year old running around town on a bike that wasn't licensed.
Me today and my new to me red Honda, I am really enjoying this bike, almost too much!
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So, have you bothered to get a license for that bike?
