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Offline Freebirdbeachbum

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Original Flooring Under Old Carpet
« on: April 05, 2021, 08:10:25 AM »
I pulled up some of the old carpet and found this. What were they thinking?
1972 Honda CB 750
1980 Honda CX500 Custom
1968 Wards Riverside Benelli 125
2017 Triumph Tiger Explorer XRT
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1965 Moto Guzzi Lodola Gran Turismo

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Re: Original Flooring Under Old Carpet
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2021, 08:21:17 AM »
 Everyone wanted their bike to look "different" than the other ones in town. Now that all our friends don't have one too we feel differently.
No matter how many times you paint over a shadow, it's still there.
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Re: Original Flooring Under Old Carpet
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2021, 02:44:19 PM »
At some point in time all old bikes had little or no value.  When I was a kid I watched 38 Indian Chiefs get cut in half and hauled to a scrap yard.  When I worked at the local Honda shop in the 70s we hauled tons of bikes, parts and accessories to the land fill.   
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Re: Original Flooring Under Old Carpet
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2021, 06:04:46 PM »
 When I see a 70's bike with a custom paint job, chrome everywhere, accessories bolted all, over I see a bike that somebody loved enough to spend his hard earned money for those things.
 I was one of those guys. Now I don't love the modifications, I prefer the way it was.
No matter how many times you paint over a shadow, it's still there.
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Re: Original Flooring Under Old Carpet
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2021, 09:52:56 AM »
When I see a 70's bike with a custom paint job, chrome everywhere, accessories bolted all, over I see a bike that somebody loved enough to spend his hard earned money for those things.
 I was one of those guys. Now I don't love the modifications, I prefer the way it was.

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