Can You Recollect Your First Bike ?
Written by author on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 in Harley Davidson.
Can you conjure up your first scooter? I remember mine was a used motorcycle, a 1972 Honda . I bought it used in 1972 for $700.00. I remember it had something like 3500 miles on it when I purchased it. For what it was it was a great motorcycle.
Next I bought a used Norton 750 Commando. Now this was a fast bike for its day.
It was sweet, it was about 60hp @ 7000rpm and would top out at just around 120 to 125 mph. It was a four speed, I can still remember red lining it and thinking how much faster it could have gone if it only had one more gear.
In those days I was into used motorcycles bikes. Well it was not that I was so much into them as it was all that I was able to buy complex didn’t last forever though and in 1975 I joined the United States Army and the next year I bought a brand new bicentennial Harley Davidson Sportster. Although it was one of those AMF Harley’s, it was a sweet little motorcycle. I got it while I was in over seas and I road it all over Europe. I road my sporty for a good ten years after that, in 1987 I had to lay her to rest though because I had an accident. Alas, my 1976 AMF bicentennial Sportster was totaled
I have owned quite a few bikes over the last 25 years. I have purchased just about
every kind of scooteryou can perceive. I had a Harley Fat Boy for a while, I owned a KZ LTD. 1000cc Kawasaki Police interceptor, and I’ve also had a Yamaha 250 Enduro and a 1975 Bultaco Alpina 250cc for playing in the dirt.
Good times and gret motorcycles all, but time marches on, I have grown a bit older and although my taste in scooters hasn’t changed very much I do prefer a more comfortable motorcycle these days. The bike I ride now is a Honda VTX 1300.
Although to some, riding a motorcycle that isn’t made in the USA might be considered un-cool or traitorous. To
them I say, GET OVER IT! Long gone are the days of my, it’s got to be a Harley or nothing at all. Believe me I would still own and ride a Harley
they are stupendous motorcycles. I’m just saying, it doesn’t matter what the motorcycle is, what matters is that I can ride.
I must confess my Honda VTX 1300 has a nice comfortable ride, it is very comfortable over the long haul and it has all of the power I need.
The one thing about my VTX though is, it is a 2005 and it’s getting a few miles on it. I am thinking about getting rid of it and getting something different. I haven’t decided yet what kind of motorbike I want. I am thinking that I might not buy a new motorcycle this time. Oh well I am not in any great hurry but I just might start searching for a used motorcycle for sale.
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