Where it all started

Red CB1100F Joined: Jul 19, 2010 Posts: 6422 Location: Ct

Yup

Hawk Joined: Jan 15, 2009 Posts: 406 Location: Plymouth

I want that riding gear😄

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:39 am

Interesting - it started for me when I asked my Dad about the scars on his face and he told me about losing control of his Indian Chief and riding thru a barbed wire fence. Shocked

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:35 am

As a prelude to Travis Pastana replecating Evel Knievel's most famous jumps, Janet and I were watching a tribute to Evel, was very interesting that after he beat up his former agent with a baseball bat, when that happened they pulled the sales of his stunt cycle, which unfortunately lead to his downward spiral.........and money issues Sad

Twinstar Joined: Sep 25, 2010 Posts: 241 Location: Vermont

The beginning for me was an old 80's Yamaha 50cc scooter I bought well before I could drive, I've been hooked ever since.

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 7:56 pm

For me it was a home made copy of a Deltek Grass Grub (no suspension), with a Victa lawnmower motor I was 8. It had a disc brake, pushbike brake working on the rear sprocket!! Every time I oiled the chain I had no brake!!!
Cheers

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:45 pm

I spent the entire summer of my 13th year assembling Hondas for my cousin's dealership. Still never owned (or rode other than as passenger) a bike until I was 21 and in the Navy. A '69 Triumph TR6C chopped with hardtail, springer, the works.

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:55 pm

He was definitely an influence but I would have to say it started with my Dad taking us on rides areound the block on his CB550 when we were toddlers. Smile

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:08 am

For me it was getting rides a few miles down the road and back sitting on the tank of my mom's purple CB350.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:35 pm

I was in 5th grade, it was a 1965 Honda step thru 50.