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I'm old...
1967 Honda CB160T. Bought in 1975 for under $200.00. I stripped it and rode it off road for a year before I got my license. I put all the street stuff back on it and it looked pretty sharp.
I should try and find a photo of the actual bike, but for illustrative purposes, here is what it looked like:
I LOVE those bikes. Hobbs sold one to AJ when I was picking up the 74CB550 I got from Doc (which happened to be stored at Hobbs'). I was really jealous, but wanted something I could comfortably 2 up on and somehow that didn't seem like it. The 2 girls in my life at the time were not exactly small either...Originally Posted by Ken C
I'm old...
1967 Honda CB160T. Bought in 1975 for under $200.00. I stripped it and rode it off road for a year before I got my license. I put all the street stuff back on it and it looked pretty sharp.
I should try and find a photo of the actual bike, but for illustrative purposes, here is what it looked like:
I've since traded in the girls, so if I ever get another chance...
LRRS/CCS AM #319 - Piston Pit Racing
This is why you do not run 21's.PIN IT TO WIN IT
Bet you wish you still had it!!
2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250...paid 3500 msrp plus 300 in fees so 3800 for everything total from Naults in Windham
crashed car= no bike...at the moment
1987 EX500, puchased for 1200 and rode for a year, at which point it sat for a year before being taken to the track, crashed, sat for another year, and finally sold via ebay to some crazy canadian who drove out from Toronto to buy it for $500.
LRRS #(Compy)386
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
1966 Honda Super90 mine was in almost as good condition as the one in the picI paid $50, every other kid in town had already owned it before me, it was 3 or 4 years old, it ran good, faster than the next 73 CB125S that I had. Only had it 3 months before the engine swallowed a valve @ 80mph on a gravel road, best the 125 could do was 70 maaybee 73 if the hill was steep enuf
RandyO
IBA#9560
A man with a gun is a citizen
A man without a gun is a subject
and then Andy traded it to me.
"I'd rather ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow"
Bikes: Ducati: 748 (Track)/ S2R1000 (Street) Honda: RC31 (Race bike), CRF 110 Mini Motard/ CB125s project
BOMO Safety Nazi
LRRS/CCS #116
Wish I never sold it.
back when $200 = $2000 today
RandyO
IBA#9560
A man with a gun is a citizen
A man without a gun is a subject
Ha, I had the exact same model as a winter bike one year, it was damn near indestructible. I used to regularly bet 65+ out of it 2 up!
When it finally blew up, I rebuilt it using 1 piston from an old CB250 twin... the good old days!!
74 Yamaha RD-350 the Year was 1977. paid $700.00. Been riding ever since...........
1989 Honda Hawk GT.....aka NT650.
Shoulda kept that one...
John
2007 MV Agusta Brutale 910R
My first bike is the same one I'm riding now, but will probably be replaced pretty soon. Here's a pic from when I first got it.
It's a 1983 Honda Vt500c "Shadow."500cc's of pure 1980's UJM awesomeness, complete with square headlight and mini sissy-bar. I bought it in the summer of 2009 and have put over 13k miles on it (yeah I need to ride more, lol). I've since re-painted the gas tank, re-covered the seat, and added luggage.
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2006 yamaha r1. Got it in 2006. Paid a lot.
Blow me.
Got a 1991 kawasaki klr650 as my first bike. Got it from working a few hours for my neighbor in 2008. I miss how obnoxious the colors and big gun exhaust were...
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LRRS/CCS #316 ECK Racing Tony's Track Days | Pine Motorparts/PBE Specialists | Phoenix Graphics | Woodcraft | Motorcycles of Manchester | Street & Competition | MTag-Pirelli | AestheticRAIN | OnTrack Media
2011 Pit Bike Race CHAMPION!
2000 Honda F4, black and yellow. Paid $5k for it in 2002 - looped it the next year learning to clutch wheelies (what a squid I used to be)
2007 Ninja 250 and i paid $1600?!?!
rf900r
4k in 2000
1981 Kawasaki GPZ550
Paid $1,000 in 1984
Bought it late October 2005...
1993 Kawasaki EX500 - $1,300
Shortly after, I sold it for a 2002 Honda F4i - $4,000 (as you can see in the pic)
1990 Kawasaki ZX750R Ninja
(mine not pictured)
Purchased in 2001-ish for $3000
Zip-Tie Alley Racing
WERA - # 794
Boston Moto//Duncan Moto//Code Red Assembly//Continental Tires//EBC Brakes//Vortex Sprockets
First bike was a 1975 Honda CB550Four I got for free from my Uncle.... Never ended up riding it and sold it to a buddy who fixed it up. I then bought a 1972 CB350Four and rode that for a season until I bought the fixed up CB550Four back from my buddy and sold the CB350Four to BIGRED...
CCS/LRRS #380
Mike
1971 Suzuki T250
I guess I'm old. 1977 or 78 Kawasaki KZ400 Deluxe. Bought around 1980 from a friend's brother. Rode that bike everywhere.
Funny thing was, first job out of school had a co-worker that had the same exact bike.
Pic is not of my bike, but same color, etc.
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1982. The specials and the clash top the charts alongside sugarhill gang and grandmaster flash. I'm bombing down the cycle paths on my Suzuki AP 50. 70mph downhill with a tailwind, bleached flock of seagulls hair flowing in the wind.. Bought for 90 pounds and sold a year later for 110.
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