Author Topic: Motorcycle Memories: Pictures & Stories Of Bikes Of Family & Close Friends (Read 90889 times)

bill440cars · « **Reply #75 on:** September 01, 2008, 05:26:00 PM »

Quote from: ofreen on September 01, 2008, 11:47:17 AM

Nice idea for a thread, Bill. Here's my Dad, who passed away in June, 2 days before his 78th birthday. That is a '64 Duo Glide that I later bought from him when I was 19.

Thanks ofreen, Cool to see some of the pictures and hear about them too! Sorry to hear about your Dad too!

Having something of theirs does seem to give a kind of connection to them. Thanks for posting the picture of the Duo Glide too!

Take care guy, Bill

bill440cars · « **Reply #76 on:** September 01, 2008, 05:33:29 PM »

Quote from: Grizzly on September 01, 2008, 01:17:56 PM

When I look at old photo's I feel that they are still here in some way, not gone. I can still hear the old tales such as fixing snapped drive belts with a hair pin and so on. A can remember me grandads comment when I took my new 550K3 to show him " my god four pots that'll crack the ton and then some eh!" and me gran wanting a go on the back!

Cheers

Grizly

I enjoy looking at the old photos also and when I tell my Dad about some of the things on bikes nowdays, he just can't believe it. Only thing he wants now days is an Old Indian 45. He wants a bike with a Flathead motor, no overhead valves for him.

I told him that, if I could afford to buy one, he's have it.

bill440cars · « **Reply #77 on:** September 01, 2008, 08:25:29 PM »

Can't help you with any info on the bike, but enjoying seeing your pictures being added to this thread.

Hate to hear about your Dad too!

Take care, Bill

Grizzly · « **Reply #78 on:** September 02, 2008, 11:16:47 AM »

Sorry to hear bout your dad John. That big C certainly has a lot to answer for.

Loved the pics and thanks for posting them. I can't help with the bike either. Mind I do like that term you used "REHYDRATING". Think I'll add that to my vocabulary.

Cheers

Grizzly

754 · « **Reply #79 on:** October 26, 2008, 09:26:46 AM »

dustyc...nice 48 Pan..only year they had the springer, 1st year of that engine..

dustyc · « **Reply #80 on:** October 27, 2008, 04:35:02 PM »

Thanks for the ID 754. My family moved away from where my grandparents lived when I was 5, so I didn't get to be around him and his bikes much. He had a bunch of Harleys, I believe he had 16 at one point. I'll try to dig up some more pics.

754 · « **Reply #81 on:** October 27, 2008, 09:12:37 PM »

What happened to Granpa,s Bikes??

You could not post enough pics of them for me to get tired of looking, I can probably ID most of them..

When was the pic taken, Not sure of your age..

Artfrombama · « **Reply #82 on:** December 28, 2008, 04:38:23 AM »

Bikes I have owned in order;

1. Fox mini
2. Vespa scooter
3. " "
4. Honda 150 dream 1964 I believe (dream?)
5. CL350 Scrambler
6. CL450 Scrambler
7. XS650 Yamaha
*Long dry spell with no bikes*
8. Honda XR650L*
9. CL70 (Mini Trail, three of them)*
10. 1969 Mini trail 50*
11. 1972 CB750*
12. 1972 CL100*

*Bikes I presently own

HondanutRider · « **Reply #83 on:** January 18, 2009, 06:42:59 AM »

Artfrombama: The fourth bike you listed in your ownership, as a "dream?" was properly known as the "Benly". That word in Japanese presumably means "convenient" which is what that 150cc twin really was. The 305cc version, which was very similar in styling and which could easily be mistaken for the same model (except everything was a little larger) was known as the "Dream". Hence the little 150 version was often called the "baby Dream", or even misnamed just the "Dream". There also were 125cc and 250cc versions of these same models, the same except for a smaller bore. And initially, Dreams were dry-sump but later became wet Dreams...

Artfrombama · « **Reply #84 on:** January 18, 2009, 09:25:02 AM »

Quote from: HondanutRider on January 18, 2009, 06:42:59 AM

Artfrombama: The fourth bike you listed in your ownership, as a "dream?" was properly known as the "Benly". That word in Japanese presumably means "convenient" which is what that 150cc twin really was. The 305cc version, which was very similar in styling and which could easily be mistaken for the same model (except everything was a little larger) was known as the "Dream". Hence the little 150 version was often called the "baby Dream", or even misnamed just the "Dream". There also were 125cc and 250cc versions of these same models, the same except for a smaller bore. And initially, Dreams were dry-sump but later became wet Dreams...

No, didn't know the proper name for the bike at the time, apparently still don't

. As a matter of fact, I rode the thing around for 2-3 days in 1st before I discovered the "gears". I was 12-13, my dad knew nothing about motorcycles and neither did I.

Thanks Hondanutrider for the correction.

Hush · « **Reply #85 on:** February 28, 2009, 03:27:52 AM »

here's something my partner's nephew built for some American event, he built it here in NZ and took it to some sort of bike show, he's a clever little fellow isn't he?
Not sure why he sent me the pole dancers bike picture but hey everyone likes poledancers don't they?

malcolmgb · « **Reply #86 on:** March 27, 2009, 03:29:26 PM »

Thought it time I add to this. A photo of my then girlfriend now wife sitting on my CB72 in about 1968. Note her 60's riding gear

bill440cars · « **Reply #87 on:** March 27, 2009, 04:51:03 PM »

Quote from: malcolmgb on March 27, 2009, 03:29:26 PM

Thought it time I add to this. A photo of my then girlfriend now wife sitting on my CB72 in about 1968. Note her 60's riding gear

Hey Malcolm, Great photo of your Hawk and I'm wondering what you had to do to rate such a fine looking lady?

That was along about the time that I had My 66' CB72. Coincidence, huh?

Take care, Bill

Ecosse · « **Reply #88 on:** March 27, 2009, 05:15:33 PM »

That's one cool picture. Aside from that whole East Asia thing and the culture clashing and the civil unrest and lousy economy... I envy you guys!

Great cars, bikes, music.

malcolmgb · « **Reply #89 on:** March 28, 2009, 01:44:50 AM »

Thanks Bill & Ecosse, I have a picture of myself taken at same time somewhere, I will try to find it and upload if vanity will allow. The photo of my wife/CB sits on the computer desk to remind me of simpler and happier times.

malcolmgb · « **Reply #90 on:** March 31, 2009, 09:38:09 AM »

Here is a photo of me taken at the same time as previous one.

Now we need to go back and take one in the same place with my 400

bill440cars · « **Reply #91 on:** March 31, 2009, 09:53:36 AM »

Quote from: malcolmgb on March 31, 2009, 09:38:09 AM

Here is a photo of me taken at the same time as previous one.

Now we need to go back and take one in the same place with my 400

Hey Malcolm, mighty cool to have those shots of you AND the misses, from back then AND with the old 250 also.

Thanks for sharing.

Ecosse · « **Reply #92 on:** March 31, 2009, 10:04:28 AM »

Quote from: malcolmgb on March 31, 2009, 09:38:09 AM

Now we need to go back and take one in the same place with my 400

please do! those 'now and then' pictures are great to see and i would imagine a treat for those who do it.

mcpuffett · « **Reply #93 on:** April 15, 2009, 05:06:17 AM »

Great photos Malc,

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martino1972 · « **Reply #94 on:** May 02, 2009, 05:24:18 PM »

just found this picture back......it made my eyes well up......the little newspaper cutout glued to it reads"oh,golden times of my youth,never will you return,i could cry about it sometimes"........

I most have been 11 or 12 in that picture.....that was my very first moped,that's where it all started.....
It was a moped given to me by my now late uncle Koos,brand name was berini.....on this picture i was just done putting a engine under it from a puch maxi,cause the other engine had died.....I attached it with 2 strips of metal,rope and what not....
no mufler,carb I made fit with an old rubber hose etc.... hardly any brakes,but boy did I ever have fun on that thing.....
The little newspaper piece I taped on there when I was around 18 years old....I'm 36 now..
What I would give to be back in those days for abit.....

you have to excuse me,going back now for a trip down sweet memory lane....

Magpie · « **Reply #95 on:** May 02, 2009, 06:51:42 PM »

My first CB750, purchased new in July 1969 and met a tragic end in August 1969. It's parked behind my parent's house in East Vancouver, B.C. Sorry about the pic quality, it's a scan of a Polaroid, another relic of the age.
Cliff.

martino1972 · « **Reply #96 on:** May 02, 2009, 07:24:37 PM »

what happened to it....

Magpie · « **Reply #97 on:** May 02, 2009, 10:49:35 PM »

A girl in a red Cortina blew through a Stop sign and I T-boned her in the driver's door. She went on to wipe out the front fender on a lamp post. I woke up with a fireman wrapping a bandage around my head, then code 3 to the hospital. The bike was a write-off with front wheel in the pipes, steering head bent, etc. I got stitches in my chin, fractured my radius bone and it's come back to haunt me. I would say the helmet saved me. Took me until '71 to get another 750, one of the ones in my avatar.
Cliff.

Grizzly · « **Reply #98 on:** May 12, 2009, 08:07:02 AM »

Here's my ten bobs worth.

Me and my first ever brand new bike, a 1980 GS1000 EN. Taken in the summer of 1982.

The girlfriend now wife taken in the mid eighties.

lowmileage · « **Reply #99 on:** June 18, 2009, 12:59:54 PM »

My dad was a Harley guy till "the Big One," WWII. He didn't get a bike when he returned home. My mom and dad didn't want me to get one - too many people on the road nowadays (the '70's) they said. Boy were they pissed when I told them, and I was 27, I bought the 350 in 1973. I bought my Harley the year after he died. I know he would have liked it.

I'm not sure if it's his bike in the 1st photo but it's his in the 2nd.

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Author Topic: Motorcycle Memories: Pictures & Stories Of Bikes Of Family & Close Friends (Read 90889 times)