I was riding down the road on my honda last a while back and felt something hit the inside of my knee, then the bike went dead. Luckily there was a small parking lot right off the main road so I coasted in, got on my friends bike and went and got a truck. The cylinder head stripped out and blew the plug right out (thats what hit my knee) I've been lazy but I finally ripped it apart and used the rethreader kit(slug type) and fixed the head. She started right back up. What a good little bike, it has a 1969 motor in it on a '70 frame. Is it noon yet? Time for a drink 

whoopidy freekin do.

Dave       and why are you never on yahoo anymore you b@st@rd

cause i'm too lazy to download it again.

Babe if you start drinking before noon I am gonna have to call you Bertie. 

Woot on the resurrestion!

Spark plug to the knee!??!?!? Ow......

Yep I had a nice little bruise...the honda is just my back up bike. I put 30,000 miles on it between my ex500 and my gs. My lil bro is using it as a starter bike now before he moves up to the cb550 I got him  in October.

1969...............What model? Hell I was there and 14 years old. WUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
Now that's my kind of woman that's ridin' a damn 1969 model!!!!!!!!
WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ......................just teasing you.................but I do want to know what damn model it was!

and I'm drinkin' some of that "Black Jack Shellac" ( a Wilsonism")............ so get you a drink and come get you some baby..................you need to come sit on Uncle Wilson's lap and let's talk Hondas!!! hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahhahahha!
Was it the 305 SuperHawk? Was it the Black Bomber? Do you remember the Honda 65? Second gear was NOTORIOUS for stripping out!!!!! (I know I shouldn't end my sentences in prepostions).
God that was a long time ago. It seems like only yesterday though. I find a tear welling in my eye.
Later chick. Tell your brugh I said Hi.                            Wilson

It's a cb350

I can dig it baby.

If you were a teenager or in your twenties in the late sixties and seventies, was it some kind of rule that you had to have a CB 350?  I heard freaking loads of stories about them, my dad had one and on and on.

  yeah all these old men come up and look at it when I'm riding it. Especially with the huuuge sissy bar on the back. It was my dad's bike that he bought when he was in high school and then he parked it when I was a baby and then I stole it out of the barn when I was 15.

There were no kinds of rules young chicken. Well.......I didn't follow the crowd very much. There were also Ducatis and Bridgestones and Harleys. Yes Aermachhi (Italy) made Harleys. I had a Rapido (125) in 1968, the Sprint 350SS in 1969 and due to a crash the Sprint 350SX in 1970 (both Sprints were 4 Strokers).  Many will say the Aermachhi (sic?) Harleys were not "real" Harleys. But google
177.225 mph.             It was the Harley 250 Sprint single cylinder at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
That is in "Harleys Record Book". THEY WILL CLAIM they were REAL.

That's correct. Harley Davidson Sprint 250...............NOT 350...................177.225 MPH

Amazing isn't it? High geared but effective................a long long time ago. Hell I was there.
Not at Bonneville but I surely would like to take my tent, go there, and watch all those speed demons run one year before I die.

Damn I was 15 years old. Excuse ME! Too much Black Jaque Shellaque!!!!!!!! Old #7.

Quote from: richbomb on June 02, 2006, 08:00:06 PM
If you were a teenager or in your twenties in the late sixties and seventies, was it some kind of rule that you had to have a CB 350?

I guess if you were 31 it didn't have to be a Honda ... but apparently it DID have to be a 350.     Here's my Dad at Key West in 1968 on a brand new Kawasaki 350cc A7 Avenger.  The caption he wrote on the back refers to it as the "greatest little bike I ever owned":




I would have been 5 or 6 at the time, so I wasn't real "aware".  But around this time I remember that he had to ride his MC "up a tree" to avoid a less-than-alert driver or something.  I'll bet the one he wrecked was the Honda 350 below, and that's why the Kawasaki was brand new.




Three years later, while in Taiwan on a TDY assignment, Dad sent us this picture of another Honda 350 that he rode all over the island.  The caption started out "My 9th Love".  I couldn't understand that, 'cause there were only 7 of us kids.     Years later I figured out that we were Loves 2 thru 8, and that MOM must have been #1.  (Duh!)

wow, cool stuff Kerry. Thanks for sharing.

-ash

My dad graduated high school in 1968.  He had a 350 Kawasaki like that.  He talks about it all the time.  He got in trouble for taking my mom's cousin too fast on it. 

Kerry, was Papa Hemmingway still running around Key West in 1968? 

I went there one time just to sit at Sloppy Joes and take in the aura. 

Quote from: Jake D on June 05, 2006, 07:29:00 AMKerry, was Papa Hemmingway still running around Key West in 1968?

Apparently not.  According to this article, he lived there from 1928 to 1940, and his home had already become a museum by 1964.

 

I meant his spirit and his 6 toed cats.

I forgot he killed himself years before that.  That photo of your dad looks like it is from the proper era.   But it is obviously not. 

I can't find a place to hide my shame.