Tell Me About Your Ride

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Tell Me About Your Ride

Yesterday, I inadvertantly hijacked a Bible Thread in the Religion Forum to talk about my Motorcycle. Since I started riding in late Autumn of 1972, next year will mark my 50th Anniversary on two wheels. At the time, women were not as avid bikers as they are today. My Present Bike is pictured above, and is a 93FXR in "Sapphire Blue". I bought it at Hampton Roads Harley Davidson on the way home from attending Rolling Thunder. I traded in my Sportster and did the 700 mile ride home on that beautiful bike. From the VIN, we have ascertained that she was born in the York, PA Plant sometime in June 1992, so next year, "Blue" will be thirty. Blue and I have done 8 Rolling Thunder Rallies together, one Daytona, Blue Ridge Parkway, The Colonial Triangle, Laconia and the Kangamangus Highway, Alligator Alley and Florida's Gulf Coast, The Florida Keys, I95 the whole way, and the Appalachians in West Virginia (Monongahela State Forest and Blackwater Falls). We have gone through Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Flash Floods together. I'm posting this thread so we can share our stories without having to hijack a Bible Thread LOL!

Let Me hear From You.

ML/LTOS

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Tell Me About Your Ride

[Red Badger]

MOTORCYCLE PING!....................................

[Red Badger]

I and my wife and then 7 year old daughter rode our Honda Gold Wings thru a tropical storm on I-10 in about 1993 or so...................

[setter]

“Tell Me About Your Ride”

Building a “Bitchin Rides” caliber 1964.5 Mustang. Stupid money involved.

Just got it back from paint and body. Will be assembling it over the winter.

[Seruzawa]

57 years riding. Owned about everything at one point in time. Had a Ducati Time Bomb and a Honda Magna and an HD Shovelhead all blow up under me. Currently I have a 2010 Triumph Tiger 1050 and a 1996 Suzuki DR350.

Past bikes:
64 Honda 50 Supercub
64 Yammer 80 Trail
70 Kawasaki W2 650 twin
71 Yamaha XS650
54 BSA 500
77 Kwacker 650-4
75 Honda CB750F
81 Honda CB900C
72 Yammer R350
81 Honda Magna 700
85 HD Sportster XLX-61
80 HD FXEF Fatbob Shovelhead
81 Kwacker 750-4
82 Suzuki GS1000
71 Norton 750 Commando (positive ground electrics lol)
69 Triumph 650 Bonnie
67 Ducati 250 Time Bomb
2000 Kwacker ZRX1100
82 Honda GL1100 Gold Wing
1996 Suzuki GSX1100G
90 something Suzuki DR400
80s Yamaha YZ175
72 Honda CB350
94 Suzuki DR350
2010 Triumph Tiger 1050

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In 1972, against the vigorous objection of our parents, Mike and I got married. Since we were as poor as dirt, we lived on the Third Floor of a Triple-Decker in Boston's Jamaica Plain Neighborhood. Now, that area is very chic, but in 1972 was was considered a blighted area. We had neither a couch nor a car, but we made do with a single bed mattress on the floor covered with pillows (very "BOHO"), and took the unreliable Green-Line trolley to work. Anyway, somebody gave us $200.00 to buy either a couch or a car, and the only thing available at that inflated price was a used 68 Honda CB175. So that's what we got. I learned to actually DRIVE on it, amid the trolley tracks and cobblestones of Boston's Inner City. The tracks threw me more than once, but I just right back on and kept riding. However, 175 cc's were hardly adequate for two people, groceries, and laundry, so just a few months later, I traded up.

ML/LTOS

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Awesome! Do you have a picture?

[Red Badger]

Unfortunately not. That was before the age of smartphones and digital cameras were still in their infancy...............

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I love Mustangs. My Mom had a Red 67 Ragtop that my brothers restored for her. It got stolen from the Dedham Mall Parking lot. Mom has passed and Dedham Mall is gone, but I bet that Mustang is still rolling...somewhere.

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What an AWESOME List. Ride On, Brother. :-)

[V_TWIN]

2009 Electra Standard K&N breather Dynoojet fuel management Rhinehardt 3.5" exhaust Progressive Low profile rear shocks Upgraded with all LED lighting SOLD IT 4 MONTHS AGO

[V_TWIN]

2009 Electra Standard K&N breather Dynoojet fuel management Rhinehardt 3.5" exhaust Progressive Low profile rear shocks Upgraded with all LED lighting SOLD IT 4 MONTHS AGO

[V_TWIN]

Sorry for the double post

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I don’t have pictures of my old bikes either, so I enter the description into “DuckDuckGo” and find something similar.

[Seruzawa]

Do the low profile shocks reduce the rear wheel travel?

[CodeToad]

My favorite bike to date, after owning a number of bikes, is this 1200cc 2014 BMW GS Adventure.

(not my bike but same thing)

[wally_bert]

I have some powder coating ready for all the jalopies, mostly misc pieces.

The biggest is a crossmember for my Willys jeep.

I’d love to farm my 750 or blazer out but with the economic situation, I dare not think of taking on any big expensive liabilities.

One piece at a time ala Johnny Cash.

[Red Badger]

... Mine was a 1984 Blue Gold Wing.

... My wife and daughter were on a 1986 Maroon Gold Wing.................

[Scarlett156]

I had an old BMW that I put a lot of miles on - it was a 900cc BMW R90/6 (metallic purple). They are great bikes, but when they need work.....

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The CB175 soon proved to be inadequate for our needs, so Mike and I rode two-up to Boston Cycles (no longer there) and traded it in for a Honda CB350. We did everything with that bike, including camping out in the Berkshires. We loaded our tent, sleeping bags, all our camping gear, and both of us and camped under the stars in some nameless forest. We saw Richie Havens in an outdoor concert (it rained, but then the sun came out with a magnificent rainbow, just as Havens was singing "Here Comes The Sun", and on the way back to our campsite, we were knocked over by some guy with New Jersey Plates. Since he didn't stick around to exchange papers, and since we were in the middle of nowhere with no cell phone, we just righted the bike, got back on, and rode home. Perhaps all the camping gear piled onto the bike cushioned our fall? Who Knows.

ML/LTOS