sorry for de f**k up on the image. think this it.


for me 20years,
got my first bike for free....a '69 Honda 90. A neighbour had bought it new, drove over another neighbours kid, and then threw the bike in his back garden for 17 years.It was fairly rotted but for me it was a schoolboys dream come true. well, without the *****. a lotta cleaning, and a tin of red paint and it got me to school for the next few yrs.
then lots of honda 125's, 400 and 750/4's, some other big japs, z1000 -lotta fun, and then brit twins, after that i was converted!..including a bsa a65 which i rebuilt a few yrs ago, still have it and have the 90, and am rebuilding a '40 bsa m20 now.

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This is a great thread!

I have less than a year, the bike in my sig is my first bike, and I waited several years to get what I wanted.

Wouldn't change any of it.

 

Started on a Rupp Mini Bike back in the 70's, then a Suzuki TS185 converted into a dirt bike, and all these years and I finally got my first harley last year.

 

That's a cool story about that first ride irl.

I remember when you could still buy the beezers on the showroom floor.
I had forgotten about those tanks with the chrome sides.

Bought my first new machine in 67, a Triumph 650, I think the BSAs were around a hundred bux higher.
If I remember correctly the trumpet was about 12-13 hundred.

Your beezer below looks to be around that same era, maybe 69-70??
Seems they went out of production around the time the foot controls were standardized,
moving the shifter over to the other side.

I'd like ta see a picture of the 1940 you're workin over.

mud

 

Been riding for 27 years. Got my first bike at 10 and only spent 6 months since then without a bike...at times I've had more than one. I've owned 18 bikes, 6 of them being HD. i'll scan some pics one of these days and put them up.

 

Yeah KB, no doubt. And the fact that the title had my name on it, looked all the better.
That red and black was really nice.

I think it was around 2500 out the door in 77. 5-6 hundred less than the HDs.

These pix really don't do justice.

mud

 

Started rideing in 1958 on a 1957 H.D. XL have not been without a bike since then, I'm now 66 but I ride with a older guy that is 10 years older {76} when I was a wee lad he was my hero, lived down the street from me and rode a Indian..Always wanted to be a biker. never owned a car untill I was 27, brought 2 kids home from Hosp..on the back of Sportsters..neither ride today? go figer.

 

Hi Mud, ya spot on, its a 1970 model. they changed slightly start of that year. The next year i think they went to the oil in frame with the foot change as you say. although the paperwork says mine was first registered in the U.S. in '69. In conneticut. It was then shipped out to europe about 10 years ago.Found some paperwork stuffed under the seat when i bought it. i drove it for about 8 years, then 1 weekend took a couple of parts off toclean up, 1 day later the whole thing was stripped out all over the housefor a rebuild. I love the Brit twins. Would love a commando. but need to save some more.$$€€
Will root out a photo of the m20 tonight, and attach it on. Hope to get it on the road this year.

 

bought my frist bike 1971 honda cb350 rode the **** out of it. wanted a harley liked the way the front wheel vibrated. 1975 bought a xlh because i was small afraid of v twin. 1978 bougth fx super glide rode it till 1985 got a softail custom in 86 rode till I got my current ride 94 fxdwg with 70,000 miles on it. Saw a new fxstsse last week fellin love ordered one last weekend 3 months off can't wait. there are only two kind of bikers those that ride HARLEYS and those that wish they could. peace out!!!

 

Hey Mud....
I don't have a lot of old photos from the start out days, but here is one of my Eagle when it was new. I am at the handlebar end and my younger brother is to the left wearing his 50 Missions Cap. Time was 1957.

I will post another one that I found of my buddy in 1957 with his interesting set of wheels. I bet you have never seen one like this before. We called it the 'Wistang'.


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