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greetings from silicon valley
« on: March 22, 2010, 08:43:24 AM »
long time honda owner / rider, new member to sohc with a story about our K6 you might find interesting:

when i bought this bike for dirt cheap (from a young widow) back in the fall of '95, it had ~5,380 miles on it and was in near-showroom condition.  unfortunately, my eyes were bigger than my stomach so given my work / family schedule and the other bikes in our garage (we had 6 others @ the time), i only drove it 10-15 miles over the next 5 years.  when i added a sports car to our garage in early 2000, i gave a few of my bikes to good friends who were anxious to ride them (and in some cases, to get re-licensed and to ride them) - all with the provision that if they were ever to get rid of them, the bikes would return to me or my survivors. the K6 was among that group.

unfortunately, the good friend i gave the K6 to never registered or rode it... so there it sat for 9 years until late last year when - after several years of asking when he was going to register and ride it - i said, "it's time for the 750 to come home - today, tomorrow or the day after?".  turned out it was the day after and i've registered and ridden it routinely since then.  (in that same time, btw, i xferred the 160 to our now 34 year old son, who has replaced many aged gaskets, tuned it and rides it regularly with his so. cal. friends and his 13 year old daughter.)  btw, the good friend and i remain good friends :)

gotta say i love riding the 750... takes me back to when i was a puppy and they ruled the road.  also gotta say i have learned a great deal from sohc in the short time i discovered it - very cool!




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Re: greetings from silicon valley
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2010, 09:48:10 PM »
Welcome! Good story!
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Re: greetings from silicon valley
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2010, 08:23:10 PM »
thanks, scottly.

update:

our son and his daughter are visiting us for the week and he brought the 160 up from L.A. so he could spend some of his vacation riding it around town.  this morning we woke to a bee-utiful day, both went on bicycle rides and then decided to take the 160 and 750 out for a cruise.

as we were riding along (i was on the 750, he on the 160), it occurred to me that this was the first time we'd ever ridden our own bikes together... for all the years we rode when he was a kid, he was always on the back of one of my gl's or the 900 we had "way back when".

when we arrived at our coffee shop destination and had parked / were walking away from the bikes, he turned to me and said, "do you realize that's the first time we've ever ridden separate bikes together?".

yep....

(later in the afternoon, when i was harvesting honey from our hives, i caught him in the garage working on the ct 70.  good kid :)
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Re: greetings from silicon valley
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2010, 09:23:04 PM »
Dang, maybe you should produce commercials Ala Hallmark cards for Honda!!!!
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Re: greetings from silicon valley
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2010, 01:49:17 PM »
Dang, maybe you should produce commercials Ala Hallmark cards for Honda!!!!
(just now checking in since my last post)

great suggestion!  he's a good kid.  the weekend before last he emailed me a picture of himself and the actor, ewen mcgregor, when they met at the local sunday classic bike ride - there he is with his big honda patch on his jacket.  (several weeks before it was he/the 160 and jay leno/his turbine powered bike)

i'm writing hallmark / honda right now!  ;)
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