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`79 got my first road bike, an S50 b1 M.Z. simson. cracking bike that i did over 6000 miles on in 1 year. bought a garelli 50 at the same time and rebuilt it and painted it and sold it for a profit.
traded it in against a new CB250na honda. lotta fun and learned about the downside to credit
swapped that for an XS500. cracked head, bought another cheap, also had a cracked head. broke them and sold for parts.
gpz500 - now that was an interesting little thing. had a hardtail frame built for it but ran out of cash so sold it as a project bike.
the following years of the late 80īs was spent running around on various communist built M.Zīs of various capacities that no-one wanted. hey! 3rd class riding is better than 1st class walking!
then came the comboīs. first a jawa 350 and sidecar that i bought with a mate, which was followed by a newer jawa 350 and lighter sidecar. took the chair off after somone vandallised it, and ran around on it for the next few years as a solo.
then came a cheap honda cb400 auto. had a lot of fun with that and sold it for what i paid for it.
i then bought an old B.M.W. r65 with about 89,000 miles on it which i stripped it down, rebuilt, and ran around on for quite some time. that bike taught me more about setting up for a corner than any bike i had ridden.
after selling that one to an ex-girlfriend, i bought a VF1000F honda for pennies, fixed it up, rode it round, then rode it down here to spain. some asshat ran me off the road on it, so i repaired the damage and sold it (the bloke who bought it stuffed it 4 months later. sad end for a good bike)
with the insurance payout and the money from the VF, i bought the lardmobile. had it over 9 years, which is the longest iīve owned a bike for, and i have no intentions what so ever of selling it or trading it. after all those years i found my perfect bike.
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) in late '80 had a Suzuki 400cc single cylinder thumper, then about '82 bought a '75 or so Honda 550 four ( orange one ),then about '88 a '77 Triumph Bonne 750 ( blk/org ), in about 2003 a '90 Venture Royale and last year May 2009 my '01 R* Silverado. Of them ,I really regret not holding onto the Bonne just to show off !!!!!
My 1st bike was a little Honda 70 i rode around on the farm. My 2nd was a Suzuki 400 great get around town bike when i was in College. Then a 1969 Norton 750 i got from my brother. Then my 1st Harley, 1200 sportster, rode that for many years and bought my very 1st new bike, a 1995 Heritage Softail. Traded that a year later for a Gold Wing which i rode until i traded up to my Roadstar. All of them were great rides and miss them all, 
But my favorite bike besides my roadie would have to be my old reliable Sportster. Started every time, looked awesome and sounded awesome. 
