What were you driving 40 years ago (1971)

[prmurat]

40 years ago... Just got my MC license at 16

An Honda 125S
Philippe

 

[effgjamis]

AH... com'on people lets go back 50 + years.....

Or perhaps 60 years




1937 Indian Chief .. My first ride..Which got me hooked... NO NO not in 1937 but in 1950.... Other than the cushman and james.

 

[ARtraveler]

I was thinking of that--just wanted to see how this thread worked out.

 

[swspyder]

Sold my bike Dec 71 & went in the service Jan 72.
H-D 56 FLH full dresser in a 57 straight bar frame.Paid $550 for it.
"I wish that I knew what I now now-when I was younger".Ooh La La - The Faces 1973.

 

[Bob Denman]

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:shocked: :thumbup:

 

[Tx web rider]

40 years ago hmmm let me think

that's right i was on the sneaker express

 

[Gordy]

1938 45ci indian that I restored, wish I still had it

 

[TuckMiddle]

40 yeara ago

We had a 1962 Corvair mini station wagon until 1974. Can't even remember the model of it. I had just traded my first Spyder in on a nice used Chevy 11 Wagon. The first Spyder of course was a 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder convertable. Think that's the proper sequence for the name. Anyway, it was turbo charged, 4 speed and I loved it. Where a regular 60 to 75 HP Corvair died around 75 or 80, That Spyder just began to breath. I don't know the max speed, I always chickened out around 100. Ralph Nader had already called em "Unsafe at Any Speed" always thought that was not true. 10 MPG draging a U-haul from New Hampshire to Pittsburg. Gassed up every 100 miles at 28.9 or what ever it was back then. Gees, I didn't even have a bike in 1971, but I made up for it later!! Boy, that seems like another lifetime - guess it was. Young and bullet proof. Now I'm old and shot at and missed, but sh*t at and hit. Must be a deep philosophical thought in there someplace. :doorag:
Tuck

 

[NancysToy]

AH... com'on people lets go back 50 + years.....

Or perhaps 60 years

OK, 50 years ago it was a step-through Cushman that the neighbor gave me when he got his Eagle. I learne to ride on that when i was ten. I'm afraid that 60 years ago it was riding in between my Mom & Dad on my uncles' Harley or Indian, though. I'm just a pup, you know.

 

[granpa in Cincy]

Anyone remember the wizzer? They were all green.

 

[chris56]

the KTM factory is 20mls away from here - the pic looks like yesterday ???

 

[ARtraveler]

For older than 40 years: My first was a 1966 Yamaha 80cc 1 lunger. I seized the engine within the first 100 miles---oops.

I then got a used Suzuki 250 X-6 Hustler. Very snappy and fast for its size. Fun to drive.

 

[draboo]

1971?? You guys actually REMEMBER the '70s?? I was so "attitude enhanced" back then, I can't remember much of anything!

I do have a pic of me on a '68 Bridgestone 175 "Hurricane Scrambler" somewhere,tho..

 

[Sarge707]

40 years ago I rode a Suzuki 250 5 speed for ONE summer (Sold It) and never rode a cycle again till I got the Spyder!!!:clap:
The M was still on my license and racing jet skies for several years was Great training for the Spyder!!

 

[mxz600]

:roflblack: Hey George, my tricycle has one of those brakes! Come to think of it, I rode that in 1971, too.

Nice head of hair Scotty. Good subject for another thread maybe. Who had the longest hair with a picture to prove it.

As far as this thread. My parents wouldn't let me have a motorcycle until I was out of high school. So my two wheeled motorized vehicle was a 5hp Bonanza minibike. After graduating high school I purchased a 1974 Yamaha RD350 two stroke with reed valves. Fairly quick for a 350.

 

[retread]

Anyone remember the wizzer? They were all green.

Oh, yeah, they were built in my hometown, went to school with the owner's son. Had a Sportsman for a while.

john

 

[AMTJIM]

A set of cloth diapers and a onesie.

 

[Dragonrider]

1971 Triumph Bonneville T120, 1968 30hp Dune Cycle, 1968 Honda CL160…..

 

[zrc]

I was rocking that sparkle in mah dad's eye.

 

[eagle]

1971 ride

have to bring this up as being in the ARMY at the time, i was riding, if you will, choppers, not the biker type, but helicopters in VIETNAM. any one else? i am sure there must be.