1. 12 years old, 1970, 2 1/2hp Ta come see rip cord mini-bike "Lil Indian"
2. 14 years old, 1972, Kawasaki KE100 ($569 brand new off the showroom floor) tore the lights and directionals off first thing and rode it exculively as a "Dirt/Trail Bike"...then at 15 years of age i got my restricted DL in florida where I could ride 1 up during daylight hours and put just the headlight and tail-light back on....as using arm signals was legal...and then i hit the streets as well...back and forth to school everyday...at 15!
3. at 16 years of age?..1974?....with a real "Operators License" in hand?...I bought a slightly used '74 hond "CB360 T"..then installed a "honda poweroll big bore kit" and a Jardine 2:1 exhaust...the following year I picked up this "Caf'e Race Body/Kit" some dude had ordered for his kaw 500machiii...he ordered it with a deposit than wrecked his bike and never picked it up...all done in red fiberglass....the owner let me buy it for the balance due...so i bought it and adapted it to my CB360T...I couldn't retrofit the stock chrome front fender but the bikini fairing, and one piece tank/seat/rear fender went on well with minimal home-made aluminum brackets I drill out, filed/sanded to shape and bent up and bolted up and it actually wound up fitting up to the bike real well....as i was das shid back then with my riding buds..with a red caf'ed out 2:1 Jardines big bored CB360T!
After that?...things got seriouse.
750
FOUR. then a 750
FOUR SuperSport and then by '86 I bought a Honda 700 NightHawk "S" Model..list...
Did a short stint while in the USMC out in el toro, ca. on a Honda XL250?...base bike and used it in the mountains and the mojave on the weekends.
'89 goldwing,
'00 Kawi ZRX1100
'01 Yami FZ1
Curent: '03 Sil/Gry Hayabusa.
