Just a dream...
When riding your bike... If you don't look where you're going, you'll go where you're looking.

I was remembering my first motorcycle. Thought I'd share it with y'all. It was 1961

I took a 20" Bicycle BMX type frame and removed pedals, chain, sprocket, brakes, and bearings. I had a plate made, 6x6x1/4", with bracing, and had it welded to the frame. I put it just above the hub for the peddals, parallel to the ground. I mounted a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower motor on the plate with the drive axle going out sideways. I put another plate on the seat post tube, about half way down and mounted a transverse jack shaft, with sprockets on each end. I put on a centrifugal clutch and made up a chain to go back to the jack shaft, and another chain back to the bike's original sprocket. Although at this point it would offer good opportunity to adjust gear ratio and speed, at that time I didn't have a clue. I went 1:1 on the shaft and figured I would work it out later. I ran a piece of string arount the steering neck and to my thumb, and put some old deck shoes on my feet for brakes. I was going to install racing bike brakes later, but I just had to test the motor and drive. I started it and with a pull on my thumb it was off! Good speed at part throttle. Acceleration was good too,... wow this is great. OK faster and bigger loop around the parking lot... leaning on corners... faster... and suddenly I was looking at the wall of a building on one side of the lot. I had to turn (lean) more so as to not drift out into the wall. It was like coming into a corner too Hot... and I was frozen looking at the wall coming at me. And, you know, I did go where I was looking. I glanced off the wall, hard, and slid on forearms and knees several feet. I was AFU, totally! Body Armor...? What's that? Faulty brakes? no I never tried to use them.
I had to dress my wounds myself because I didn't want my Dad to call me Stupid. I knew I was and didn't need him to agree!
Sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes you're the Bug!

My first motorbike. No work involved.

Still got my first motorcycle.

It was my dads from when he was young.

OMG... that's beautiful. I had one like that when I was attending U of Hawaii... 1967! Im traded a VW bus for it. I had trouble carrying my surfboard though. Boards were 10 ft and 35 lbs in those days.

My first lol Dad gave me a apprentist mechanics book on two & four cycle car engines and said fix it, had to split the bottem end to replace the sheared kick start,did it in four attempts lol

'86 Yamaha Radian 600

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Suzi, 500cc, Walter Wolf special addition - dropped by former owner, restored by Wolfman and rode it like I stole it. Circa 20 years ago

If I had that bike right now...man!

81 Yamaha 650 Special II. With the freaking banana bars and everything. Tried hanging off around corners on it because I was retarded. Luckily my roommate totaled it into a Dodge Dart when I had had it 3 months. So, to show how much more I knew about REAL sportbikes, I bought a Yamaha XS750 Triple. I guess I was STILL retarded...

Mad

1982 Virago. Bought it off from a farmer in 1994 +/-. Only had 1000 miles on it, covered in bird shit and a gas tank full of rust. Gave a grand for it, got it running and had a blast on it. I couldn't find a pic of my original bike but it was pretty clean.

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