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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 3293172" data-attributes="member: 1535">I do... Motorcycles were the center of my world growing up in the 60s and 70s, I wish I had every one that I owned back then now. When I was born in 59' my dad was a Marine in San Diego and was an old biker who had a big red Indian Chief at the time, besides some old dirt bikes. Ive been riding ever since I was could walk- my first bike was a lil Benelli mini bike then he bought us a Honda Trail 70. As we got older we had a bunch of enduros and pure dirt bikes- from Hodaka superrats to all kinds of used Japanese bikes in the 70s. We did alot of racing on dirt tracks in our area and my next door neighbor went on to ride factory for Yamaha and became a champ, later he had a dealership in OKC for awhile and I think he is still involved in putting on races around OK. I remember my dad modding everything we had- expansion chambers, etc. I worked at Sonic my very first job just so I could get my motorcycle street license at 14 on a used Yamaha 72' LT2 100 (green tank) then saved up and bought a brand new 73' LT3 100 (purple tank); later moved up to a 74' DT 175 (blue tank): that 175 we stuck a 100cc sticker on because of the law at the time, lolll. My first road bike was a Honda 350, then a 750, then a Norton my dad gave me, and then my first brand new road bike that I bought myself was a Harley Sportster- I was a senior in HS in 77'. In the 80s I collected a bunch of old Honda and Yamaha road and dirt bikes before just sticking with Harley and Triumph road bikes in the 90s; now I just have a few Harleys but I sure miss having a dirt bike, just too old with bad knees for that now.</blockquote>

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