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[Scuba Steve]

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Good choice. That was mine too. It was fine but I dont lust after it. Subsequent bikes were better at almost everything (except jumping, that bike was a great jumper). It was close to 20 years old when I bought it and I doubled the mileage on it in a year. Kept it for a few more and traded it for a beautiful k75 (that kept trying to kill me).

I had a cm450e similar but with drum brake and spoked wheels. Was fun did the job rode it all over Ontario.

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[NEED FASTER]

My older brother and I bought a heathkit mini-bike in '69 or '70. Basicly a motor and a box of nuts & bolts & other stuff with build instructions. We could never get the throttle to work properly, had to twist it in the opposite direction. We had a blast, but forget what happened to it. Heathkit Boonie Bike GT18 mini bike information guide minibike info collector buying

 

[matthew]

 

[Ash]

This isn't me or my bike/pic, but my suit was almost as hideous. My suit was red with a white lightning bolt on the chest, as I recall...

 

[Deleted member 50930]

2006 Suzuki sv650

 

[J_F]

1981 RD350LC

I had such wood over that bike
16 years old and working at the Keg I couldn't afford an Elsie
bought a '73 that was a hoot, not my pic, but it looked like this one

 

[Baggsy]

This was similar to mine:

Edit: This is mine:

 

[Mina]

First and last:

 

[slowbird]

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1988 Honda Hawk GT NT650 (Bros in Japan and Europe). Such a good looking bike and so far ahead of its time. Not many bikes from 1988 would look at home on a showroom floor today...

Love the Hawk GT

 

[Saitou^.~]

1987 Honda CBR250R (still running and photo was taken over the long weekend)

 

[slowbird]

1987 Honda CBR250R (still running and photo was taken over the long weekend)

NOICE!

 

[thwak]

Looked something like this. 1956 Harley ex-police hand banger

 

[GreyGhost]

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Looked something like this. 1956 Harley ex-police hand banger

That's cool.

 

[thwak]

That's cool.

Lots of crazy stories and great memories about that bike. Saved up from various part time jobs and bought it in 1961 when I was 15 years old. At that time in Ontario there was no motorcycle licensing and you could legally ride at 15 years old. Rode it summers and most of some winters around Toronto.

 

[GenuineChevy39]

My 99 600. Miss this bike

 

[canuckwr250]

1974 Suzuki TS 185 2stroke I was 16 at the time and really wanted a Honda 350 four,but my mother wouldn't let me have one.Family members told her it had to much power lol.

 

[Mango Rider]

Kawasaki 2004 ZZR250
Crap condition bike when I got it, 3 months of riding, 3 carb cleans, a couple falls and 1 oil starved engine on the highway later, sold to someone willing to do an engine swap...
As much as I hated it, it taught me so much! I never wanna own another one.

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[Delboy]

Can't find any pictures but I basically worked my ass off pumping gas to get one of these (although mine had a little more "patina")



The worst thing about that job is that they had a cassette player in the station but only one tape... Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Even today I have to change the station if any track from that album is played on the radio.

I then traded the Suzuki for one of these. I wish I still had it. It had no problem hitting an indicated 58 MPH on the speedo... LOL

 

[Wingboy]

Organizers of the Thistle Off Road Festival (which was cancelled) gave this away yesterday. The winner is selling it.

 

[Delboy]

Organizers of the Thistle Off Road Festival (which was cancelled) gave this away yesterday. The winner is selling it.

Beautiful. That's a lovely restoration

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