This is my baby that I am selling come spring time. I am making an adult decision to slow down and live to watch my two boys grow up. People are terrible drivers nowadays. They just are not paying attention to anything anymore on the roads. I then get to spend more time, and cash, on my newly acquired watch hobby and my ‘57 Chevy 3200 Pickup I have been neglecting despite my 5yr olds pleas to start “making it cool”.
Back in the early 1970s my parents got me a brand spankin new Honda CT-70. I was about 12 and we lived in a pretty rural area. All summer long my buddies and I rode our minibikes and junior motorcycles all over the place. 4 or 5 years later I got a Honda SL-125 and put the well-ridden CT-70 in the barn for storage. I had put thousands of miles on it. Over 100 miles in one long and fantastic summer day! When I had kids, the first grandchildren for my parents, they took the Honda 70 to a local shop and had it freshened up so my son could begin riding just like I did. He enjoyed riding it on weekends at the grandparents' house but never really got bitten by the motorcycle bug like I had, and like my father before me had. Dad was a Norton/Triumph guy. I was always a Honda guy. Street for dad, trails for me. Anyway, my son had some friends over one day and they all enjoyed the CT-70. So easy to ride, fast enough but not too fast. Apparently the new modern gasoline with it's ethanol content is different enough from the gas in the 1970s and the fuel line was eaten away. Below are the "before" and "after" pictures. RIP my little Honda. Nobody was hurt. My son was taking his turn, wide open in third gear across the field, when he notices his buddies yelling and jumping up and down. When he looked back he saw he flames and jumped off.
Bikes, did someone say bikes?!!!! My trip to the North West Territories, received two groovy stickers for the trouble.
How did you bend a rod? I had a GPZ 900 back in the mid nineties on an "H" plate, think it was a 1990. I just remember them being quite small and rather rapid. It got nicked in Glasgow sadly.
Some young motorcycle mechanic (probably used to fuel injection) left the fuel tap on prime overnight. One of the carb Float valves hadn’t shut off properly, fuel filled No1 cylinder and hydraulic locked it when he tried to start in in the morning. They were rapid in their day, the fireblade makes it feel like an overweight dinosaur. (Bit like me lol)
I've been wanting a classic tour bike from Ducati but my finances are currently focused on making my Ford F-150 more off-road capable. I'm just waiting for my new set of xd wheels and nitto tires to try on this weekend.
Just added a fancy corbin seat to the wing and dropped the 1290 off for the 18k service. Weather is finally starting to shape up around here!
Some great bikes here. My two Harleys, a 2001 T-Sport & a 2009 Road Glide. Replaced the Roadglide with a 2019 model 2 weeks ago, can you guess the color.....
Been after the Italia Independent for a while now, limited to 1077 worldwide in 2016, the copper on the frame and wheels looks fantastic in the sunlight. Picked mine up last week.
No photos but the first Saturday in July every year the small town where I live just outside Dublin Ireland ( Skerries ) becomes a hub for motorcyclists from far and wide as the annual motorcycle road race takes place. On the Thursday night there is a vintage run where hundreds of vintage bikes , big and small take to the streets to parade. Testing is on Friday and the serious racing takes place on the Saturday. Really good event for the motorcycle faithful.
My first was a Ducati 750SS - this pic is from a movie set where I was an extra on a bike (yellow bike on the left side of the pic) My next was my favorite - Honda VFR 750 - I bought it used off ebay from a guy in Cincinnati. Someone t-boned me and totaled the bike.. so I bought a newer version VFR 800 in red. I was in a book of women riders, so the b&w pic is from a shoot at the Rock Store here in LA. Ans the last one is just a miscellaneous Yamaha that I sat on at the Yamaha MotoGP party at the Aquarium in SF when they used to hold the races at Laguna Seca. I miss those events.. the race and the parties
I have a Vespa GTS250...I have done 60K miles in 10 years. Shot of a couple friends after happy hour back when new... OK Ok so not a Harley or sport bike but I daily ride and it does 80mph and fun fun fun!
