Your First Bike.... Images?

also had a rokon for a very short time as a kid :laugh:

had a couple of these also,learned about compression release riding these!:S :laugh: i might be picking up an old 250xt yamaha i spotted the other day,just what i need for beating the backroads and fields in louisville looking for more classic junkto drag home!:woohoo:

PLUMMEN wrote:

had a couple of these also,learned about compression release riding these!:S :laugh: i might be picking up an old 250xt yamaha i spotted the other day,just what i need for beating the backroads and fields in louisville looking for more classic junkto drag home!:woohoo:

compression release was definately your friend with these!!!

Plummen, that's an old Hodaka correct?
Sweet, you know how much that thing would be worth today....

BTW, Is that you? :blink:
Uh, handsome guy aren't you :blink: hahahahahaha.

Hey like I can talk with my RED helmet and all... :huh:

OMR

my first bike was a 68 yamaha yr2c 350. got it for 50 bucks seized due to broken ring stuck on crank weights. replaced crank asssy had it bored new pistons and rode it hard for about 1o years till i got my kz!! it was a beater but she ran and ran, couldnt kill the thing and damn did it have some twitchy steering lol

i should add it didnt always look this bad. it got a black imron paint job and new tank badges. its now owned by a guy thats the electrician for my comapany who collects older japanese iron

Old Man Rock wrote:

Is this the bike?
Sweet, bet you wish you still had it...

OMR

Well I'll be dog gonned OMR, that is my old bike and looks like like my basement too :laugh:

my first street bike was a 1973 rd 250 it had 300 miles on it when i bought it. i learned how to not kill myself with that bike. i only knew 2 throttle positions with that bike fully open fully closed. i am so thankful that there were no zx6's in my day or i would have never survived. i must have crashed 20 times with that bike took my first long road trip with that bike calgary, alberta to san deigo, california what a trip i was 16 years old . i loved that bike and i beat it to death. i've been looking for another one ever since.

Who here is from Wyoming?

Old Man Rock wrote:

Plummen, that's an old Hodaka correct?
Sweet, you know how much that thing would be worth today....

BTW, Is that you? :blink:
Uh, handsome guy aren't you :blink: hahahahahaha.

Hey like I can talk with my RED helmet and all... :huh:

OMR

the 1st shot with the chrome tank was a hodaka,you could get any hodaka any color as long as it was chrome!:laugh:

Old Man Rock wrote:

Who here is from Wyoming?

thats cruising ram on his way to the prom!:laugh:

Wholly Crapola.... I just received my Dec. copy of Cycle World and on the back page I find this....

Plummen, is that really you? :laugh:
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OMR