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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on November 03, 2019, 09:11:48 PM
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Owned a couple of Honda bikes while wife and I lived in San Antonio during my combat medic training at Ft Sam Houston.
Was thinking today about the bikes I saw during my visits to the dealership.
So many years later these are the bikes I remember.....in the same colors, I think.
Triumph Trident, BSA Rocket 3, BSA 441, and the superbly sexy Norton Commando in bright yellow!
(https://i.postimg.cc/kXVwHwzy/00001.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/ZRMpFzbz/0001.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/B6KHgwX8/000001.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/J0CJdckp/0000001.jpg)
Wish all motorcycles still had seats like these. (much safer for the wife back there!)
(https://i.postimg.cc/8cTc6yWg/00000001.jpg)
I loved both the economical* Hondas (one was stolen) and we relied on them as our only means of transportation.
Stig
*You wouldn't believe how little a married "entry level" soldier was paid in those days!
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Nice bikes! I recall $75.00/month as an E-3 in 1960....
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My take, all those Brit Bikes shown were junk if you road them a lot---Spring 1958, I was in San Antonio for Air Force Crypto School---riding Maico 250 Blizzard....nice bike except for Bosch electrics. Dealer I liked to visit I think was Zundapp and whatever else (I forgot) but had a Messerschmitt on the floor. In Germany, Sept 1958, I bought a used Messerschmitt for $400...nice in winter.
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My take, all those Brit Bikes shown were junk if you road them a lot---Spring 1958, I was in San Antonio for Air Force Crypto School---riding Maico 250 Blizzard....nice bike except for Bosch electrics. Dealer I liked to visit I think was Zundapp and whatever else (I forgot) but had a Messerschmitt on the floor. In Germany, Sept 1958, I bought a used Messerschmitt for $400...nice in winter.
Don't know if they were 'junk' - but a start would likely be 50/50 on a cloudy day.
While my Hondas would start at the bottom of a pool!
(sign I saw over the parts counter at a British car dealership, "Do you know why Brits drink warm beer? LUCAS makes the refrigerators!"
Stig
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I still say Brit bikes were and are junk...if you like to ride, based on new Royal Enfield Bullet (Indian Woodsman) 1957, 1961 new Triumph TR5/AR( shook itself apart), 1962 Triumph Thunderbird----I learned my lesson they were junk in practical terms, 1963-64 new MG Midget sealed the deal---Brit industry go what it deserved, they really opened the door for the Japanese who made stuff that ran and didn't fall apart at nice price.
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San Antonio is where I live! Just throwing it out there. Lol.
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San Antonio is where I live! Just throwing it out there. Lol.
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See a punk kid riding by on a blue Honda 175 - throw a stick in his spokes.
He stole it from my apt in 1969!
(probably a little rusty by now - Still - nail him!)
Thanks
Stig
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See a punk kid riding by on a blue Honda 175 - throw a stick in his spokes.
He stole it from my apt in 1969!
(probably a little rusty by now - Still - nail him!)
Thanks
Stig
Lol. Will do.
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