I'll start
When I was a little kid like 12 the neighbors down the street in Venice Beach LA had 3 Suzuki 90's and a Honda mini trail. I got to go with them out the the desert a bunch around LA and ride dirtbikes, so much fun. They were a Italian family and Mom would come and cook in the desert! Great people.
When I was 19 in 1978 a guy where I was living, in June Lake Ca, being a ski bum, had this 1976 Honda CB 750 with a full windjammers fairing. Gold with black pinstrips. I saw it in his garage and it never seemed to move. One day I went up there to meet him and ask him about it. He said he had bought it new and one day" it wouldn't start". The tires were low and it was covered with dust and a dead battery, but it looked almost brand new. 7000 miles on the clock.
I offered him 1000 cash. He took it. I had some real mechanic skills growing up in a VW family as they always were blowing up on us. I filled up the tires and pushed it up to my trailer and bought a battery. I opened the points up with a screwdriver and it started right up! Ha!! I was mobile. I commuted to Mammoth Mt. all summer for work on that thing with a friend and ended up riding it all over the Western US border to border. The fairing was nice in cool/ bad weather. I always lived in the high mountains.
I kept it waxed and cleaned up, and covered. One day in Telluride where I live now, a guy came up to me to see if I wanted to sell it, back in say '95. It had over 100 k on it and I got 3500 for it.
That was a very nice luxury ride for a young rider. Fast, Smooth, very reliable, easy to maintain.
Nick
When I was a little kid like 12 the neighbors down the street in Venice Beach LA had 3 Suzuki 90's and a Honda mini trail. I got to go with them out the the desert a bunch around LA and ride dirtbikes, so much fun. They were a Italian family and Mom would come and cook in the desert! Great people.
When I was 19 in 1978 a guy where I was living, in June Lake Ca, being a ski bum, had this 1976 Honda CB 750 with a full windjammers fairing. Gold with black pinstrips. I saw it in his garage and it never seemed to move. One day I went up there to meet him and ask him about it. He said he had bought it new and one day" it wouldn't start". The tires were low and it was covered with dust and a dead battery, but it looked almost brand new. 7000 miles on the clock.
I offered him 1000 cash. He took it. I had some real mechanic skills growing up in a VW family as they always were blowing up on us. I filled up the tires and pushed it up to my trailer and bought a battery. I opened the points up with a screwdriver and it started right up! Ha!! I was mobile. I commuted to Mammoth Mt. all summer for work on that thing with a friend and ended up riding it all over the Western US border to border. The fairing was nice in cool/ bad weather. I always lived in the high mountains.
I kept it waxed and cleaned up, and covered. One day in Telluride where I live now, a guy came up to me to see if I wanted to sell it, back in say '95. It had over 100 k on it and I got 3500 for it.
That was a very nice luxury ride for a young rider. Fast, Smooth, very reliable, easy to maintain.
Nick
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