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[Jimbuna]

That is one nice looking bike mate

[DeepIron]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

That is one nice looking bike mate

Thx Jim. It's a '94 R1100RS BMW and she's my "baby"... Best dang sport touring bike I ever rode, she'll carve corners like a hot knife through butter and I can do 600+ mile days without shoulder or back fatigue. Even the Harley riders like her...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Thx Jim. It's a '94 R1100RS BMW and she's my "baby"... Best dang sport touring bike I ever rode, she'll carve corners like a hot knife through butter and I can do 600+ mile days without shoulder or back fatigue. Even the Harley riders like her...

I never progressed beyond a Honda 500CB Four

[DeepIron]

What a classic! Personally Jim, I think Honda makes great bikes, very reliable! Of all the bikes I've owned over the years, Hondas were usually my first choices. As a matter of fact, the Honda ST1100 almost got me to sell the Beemer...

The only downside to the Beemer is as my wife says. "You can't buy anthing for it less than $100!"

[Jimbuna]

That Honda shot dates back 28 years....I had hair in those days

[DeepIron]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

That Honda shot dates back 28 years....I had hair in those days

Well, at least the bike still looks good... (My hair is just about departed too. That is, its so sparce I can't find where I parted it anymore...)
Seriously, back in '76 I rode a '73 CB350F to and from the Naval Air Station I was based at. I looked like Icabod Crane on that thing...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Well, at least the bike still looks good... (My hair is just about departed too. That is, its so sparce I can't find where I parted it anymore...)
Seriously, back in '76 I rode a '73 CB350F to and from the Naval Air Station I was based at. I looked like Icabod Crane on that thing...

Now that was a bike I always wanted but never got around to getting.

I'm sure they came in a variety of colours, but I only ever saw them in green personally

[DeepIron]

Yep green, just like that one! Now, imagine the guy in my earlier post as a 6'2" 165# 19 yr old kid straddling that thing... Yeah... the gate guards used to laugh too...

One thing I remember about it, it used to be as smooth as glass on the throttle and sounded a bit like a sewing machine once you got it wound up a bit...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Yep green, just like that one! Now, imagine the guy in my earlier post as a 6'2" 165# 19 yr old kid straddling that thing... Yeah... the gate guards used to laugh too...

One thing I remember about it, it used to be as smooth as glass on the throttle and sounded a bit like a sewing machine once you got it wound up a bit...

Well in those days, Honda was the only Jap 4 stroke......the rest sounded like either petrol mowers or sowing machines (depending on engine size of course) to me

[DeepIron]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Well in those days, Honda was the only Jap 4 stroke......the rest sounded like either petrol mowers or sowing machines (depending on engine size of course) to me

I remember seeing a few go-karts built with that little 4 stroke 350cc engine some years later... Very fast, scary kind of fast... A true "crotch rocket" in those days...

The other bike I remember seeing back in '71 I think, was the Honda GL1000. I lived on Guam then and the guys would bring stuff over from Japan duty free. The GL1000 looked at lot like a regular bike except for the engine, no fairing or bags yet...

[Sailor Steve]

Honda 350, 500. I split the difference. Twenty years ago I briefly had a red 400-Four. And yep, sewing machine describes it pretty well. But then back in 1967 I learned to ride on a step-through 50.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Thx Jim. It's a '94 R1100RS BMW and she's my "baby"... Best dang sport touring bike I ever rode, she'll carve corners like a hot knife through butter and I can do 600+ mile days without shoulder or back fatigue. Even the Harley riders like her...

Nice!

My father in the early '70s was a semi-pro dirtbike racer in the Yucaipa, California area, riding a 125cc Rickman Matisse. He was a really good rider, getting his name and picture in the motorcycle mags of the day back then (Motorcycle News? - can't recall right now; I'd have to look it up in his scrapbook). When I was growing up I always loved seeing the pictures hanging in the garage of him kicking up the dirt on the turns in the racetrack. He got me into riding quads while I was growing up, but dirt-bike racing was never my thing.

[LukeFF]

Oh, and a bit about myself, to go along with the pictures I posted:

-Born and raised in SoCal, graduated from Cal Baptist U. with a degree in Information Systems in 2001. Did IT work for a construction company for about 18 months before getting laid off. Decided to the join the military, went off to boot camp in January of 2003. Did four years of active-duty in the army as a medic, with 12 of those months in Iraq. Currently on the second of a two-year stint with the National Guard. Currently in the hiring process for two different police academies for sheriff's departments here in the SoCal area.
-Other accomplishments/certifications: licensed state and national Emergency Medical Technician, ambulance driver certification, certified Emergency Medical Dispatcher with the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch. Combat Medical Badge, U.S. Army, along with two Army Commendation Medals and the Good Conduct Medal.

[Onkel Neal]

Very nice photo, DeepIron.

Luke, I salute you, thanks for your service. Proud to have you on this forum.

Neal

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Honda 350, 500. I split the difference. Twenty years ago I briefly had a red 400-Four. And yep, sewing machine describes it pretty well. But then back in 1967 I learned to ride on a step-through 50.

Yeah the old Honda 50.....the one with the windshield. Not for protecting your legs from the elements, but more as a means of preventing you from reaching take-off speeds