Topic: Motorcycle Memories: Pictures & Stories Of Bikes Of Family & Close Friends

[kansasford]

Hey all,

This thread it totally awesome!  I love all the old stories and pictures!  I work for a group called the Historic Vehicle Association and we are starting a new movement called "This Car/Bike/Van/Truck Matters" where we feature stories just like this on our website [urlhttp://www.historicvehicle.org/][/url].  I did a little post on my Honda SL175 and there is a great post on a CB750!  Here is a video we did to accompany the movement!

Check it out it is on the Rollie Free Vincent!   HVA: This Bike Matters - 1948 Vincent Black Lightning

I have a picture of my pops on his Shovelhead from back in the day I will have to throw up later with a story for you guys! 

Thanks,
Casey

[piute]

       In memorie of Pops (1940-1975)N his/are Bike
 Grew up on bikes come from a family of Hog's
  Pop's died at 35 left me an ols stk.(basketcase)50 pan head his was chopped 48,carried that bike every were's as i grew up Pictures worth 1,000 words so here's afew.
  1st Pop's in early 70's,had a(sporty hunter) 750 also .Bike on mygirls car(just got in from wash).,in shed at sis.Ore.,In Apartment living roomin cal,"O" had my cb 650 in kit.pic stuck to "X's" Rebel,  Been A while seen these THX.
 

     My pan is now 1/8 mile drag out of John's cycle shop.
           Have lots of fam pics.

[MOTOJESUS]

This is the longest thread that ive read every post, great pics!

[piute]

Coming back to these post bring back memories over again Thx
   back in 70-80s in washington

[754]

 Flame cut springer..cool I remembering thru Wenatchee around 75, met some bike people at a bar, we're partying and stayed at their place.. Looking time ago..had my first 750 back then..

[piute]

  Maggilla ,Great story thx.If I ever head there I'm making a point to see N say Hello.

[754]

 Here is one of my first bikes..

[754]

 Another hope it's clearer..

[jas67]

This is my father's 1966 Honda 305 Superhawk with my daughter.  That is him in the background.  Photo was taken about 1983.  I still have this bike.

Love the Superhawk!   Is it still in nice shape?

[starsnbars89]

When I turned 18, I drug home a Kawasaki 440 LTD... and a box of parts...  That pissed mom off to high hell and back.

The rides we shared still live on as I ride CASSANDRA, Dad's old 550.  I sold the Kawasaki when I put dad's bike on the road.

Interesting. I pretty much rebuilt my buddy's '81 440LTD two years ago from a pile of parts. I was 18. Last summer he sold her to me dirt cheap when I helped him put together two wrecked '05 Ninja 250's into one good one. The spring before that deal, I bought my '80 CB650... which I, upon seeing her, named her Cassandra. How neat-o is that?

BTW: Sorry for the post resurrection; I've been reading over just about every thread in this entire forum in my free time

[72 yellow]

This is my father's 1966 Honda 305 Superhawk with my daughter.  That is him in the background.  Photo was taken about 1983.  I still have this bike.

Love the Superhawk!   Is it still in nice shape?

Yup, Still have it and it looks the same.  Fenders and side covers are now the proper silver.  When I am gone it will go to my daughter.

[Vicman]

This was my third bike but the one I rode the most back in the day.
I was a Michigan boy who never swam in the ocean so I packed two weeks worth of clothes in a garbage bag and strapped them on the back of the Sabre and headed for the South Carolina coast. This pic was taken while I was on that trip.

The girl walking in the background I met while on that trip too.
We just celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary.

The Sabre is long gone but I have been recently re-uninted with my first two bikes...the actual ones, a 73 CB 750 and a 78 GS 1000.

[bear]

Here's a picture from the heady days of my youth.
An old K2 and sidecar heading up to the showers in the camp ground at the Easter Bathurst Bike Races circa, 1981
Unfortunatly the bike, like a couple before it did not survive the trip. 

Cheers,
Brian

[jas67]

Love the Superhawk!   Is it still in nice shape?

Yup, Still have it and it looks the same.  Fenders and side covers are now the proper silver.  When I am gone it will go to my daughter.

 

[dhall57]

Ive posted this pic in another section, but it needs to be here to. Me on my first Honda a CT70 or Mini Trail 70 in my parents front yard. Now days right where Im sitting their is a interstate hwy The date on the pic says 1971 but by this date I already had my 1971 SL175 so the pic must of been taken earlier and not developed until later.

[754]

Two more of mine..pic of a pic gets grainy..

[mark]

A couple years ago, Pop brought up a box of old family pix and I finally got to poking through it.

Found a box of slides in there with a couple of surprises... At some point in the mid '70s my uncle had got himself a motorcycle and posed it for some snapshots. It looked to be about a '76 550/4 kinda like mine.

He apparently talked his Granny into sitting on it for a pic, so, here's Mark's Great-Grandma sitting on a Honda 550.

[jas67]

A couple years ago, Pop brought up a box of old family pix and I finally got to poking through it.

Found a box of slides in there with a couple of surprises... At some point in the mid '70s my uncle had got himself a motorcycle and posed it for some snapshots. It looked to be about a '76 550/4 kinda like mine.

He apparently talked his Granny into sitting on it for a pic, so, here's Mark's Great-Grandma sitting on a Honda 550.

Look like a '74 550/4.

[mark]

??

Looked like root beer brown on a nearly 40 year old slide to me.

I could ask The Unk but he's kinda hard to get a hold of.

<shrug>

[bluezboy]

 Here's a photo of one of fellow school bus drivers' dad,  on his bike. This is in Atlanta, not sure of the year. Anyone know what this bike is?

[754]

Loos like a 20-27 indian probably a Scout... Simlar motor to Burt Munro,s starting point..

[bluezboy]

Loos like a 20-27 indian probably a Scout... Simlar motor to Burt Munro,s starting point..

  Hey thanks for your observation about this bike. I know no longer work with him but it will be nice to know what it is.

[dhall57]

How time flies. Found this pic of my youngest son when he was about 8 years in 1996 on on his first Honda. Not sure of the year of the bike but think it's a mid 7O's mini trail 50.He out grew this bike years ago now being 6'2 and 250 lb. He had several other Honda's through the years and did some moto cross racing also. The last I think was a CR500(now that was one wicked bad a$$ bike) He's more into hunting, taxidermy(does great work) now but still has a place in his heart for old Honda's. I wonder why

[MoMo]

Lousy photo but this is me standing next to my Ossa Pioneer with my friend's, Mike, Penton 175 Jackpiner in the foreground.  Probably taken in the early 70's, then me several years ago standing next to the HO Depot #20 car....Larry

[ewanhughes]

Brilliant thread.  I love looking at all the old bikes and reading the stories behind them.

This picture was taken on 17th July 1982 at my older brothers wedding.  The bike was his mates 400/4 and was the reason that I HAD to have one albeit 30 years later!  I absolutely adored that bike, I don't know if it was the gorgeous looking exhaust headers or the sound it made when it took off but I was smitten.  I was 19 at the time and skint so had to make do with my wee TS100.  As time went by and priorities changed the yellow  400/4 was forgotten about and cars and houses bought, marriage, children arrived, etc. etc. 

It's only in the last few years (mid-life crisis?) that i've got back into bikes and finally got my yellow 400 in October 2011.  Bit of a heap at the time but she's looking good now. 

A wee aside to the wedding story.  This being the first time i'd been a best man I didn't really know what my duties were.  I was told that I had to keep the rings safe, make a speech, and most importantly, look after the bridesmaids.  Well....i've always taken my jobs seriously and i'm still looking after the chief bridesmaid some 32 years later! (27 years married).  It's certainly unusual (and some say illegal) for 2 brothers to marry 2 sisters.