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What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
What bikes did you start with, and how did you evolve to a RoadStar?


For me it was
5hp mini bike
450 Kowasaki
550 Suzuki
650 BSA (chopper)
800 Suzuki Intruder
1200 GoldWind Aspencade
1602 Road Star Silverado

Whats next? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm more power!!!
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
2006-2008: V-Star 1100
2008: Roadstar 1700

I never had the chance to grow through any other bikes. But I'd be more than happy to give any a try.
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
Let's see:

Honda CB200
Honda CM400
Suzuki 750
Virago 920
Virago 750
'86 Venture Royale 1300
'07 R* 1700
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
For me 3.5 hp pullstart chopper
Kaw 100 72 or 73
Honda 125 76
Kaw 750 I think was CSR
Intruder VS 800 95
Honda XR 200 For trail
Silverado 05 Love it
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
83 honda magna
94 shadow 1100
71 ironhead chopper
the big bad roadie...

i am never satisfied with things i always look for things better, and i honestly have not found a bike i would want to replace the roadstar with...only thing i would consider to grow into next would be building a bike

love this bike
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
Honda QA50, Then Ithink something like a 125 dirt bike of somesort, then a Hodaka Combat Wombat, then a Penton , then a Bultaco, Then first street was a Honda 650, then a 750, then a Kawi kz 1000, then a couple of Harleys then a 20 year Hyatis and now my Stable, Road*, V-* and Blvd.
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
Suzuki 380
Kawasaki 400
Kawasaki Z1 900
Honda 750 Shadow
Yamaha XV1600 Road Star
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
Started in my early twentys with a yamaha sr500 single cylinder kickstart only. Rode it for about a year and a half then took a long break. After years of going to Daytona I wanted a bike my 3 choices were:
- a custom, or a kit and build it myself; one was too $$$$, and the other wasn't the best choice for my first cruiser.
- a softtail standard or a fatboy, standard was too small and both were at the time still too $$$$$$.
- a roadstar, why? It was a carburated,air cooled,belt driven, softtail. Sorry to some but I NEVER considered any other
metric. Found a '01 midnight* with 7,900 miles for $6,500. Easily half the price of a Harley.
I've had my R* for over 3 yrs. and now realize that it shouldv'e been my second choice.
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
For me it was...

Honda 90 (5hp)
Honda CL175
Yamaha DT250
Kawasaki 350 Triple (2 cycle) hang on tight!
Honda nighthawk 500 or 550
Kawasaki 700 vulcan
Honda Shadow VT1100

and they were all a blast to ride!
 
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Re:What Bikes Did You Grow With? 2 Months, 1 Week ago  
1968 Minibike
1969 Hodaka Ace 100
1964 Honda Trail 70
1966 Honda Dream 150
1983 V45 Magna 750
1978 Yamaha YZ 250
2000 Kawasaki KLX 650
2004 Road Star SE Silver Edition
 
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