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HERE IS PART OF MY MOTCYCLE BRAIN

My history with motorcycles goes all the way back to the late 1940s when my cousin let me ride his "bumble bee" scooter. That was all it took to get my attention. Later my attention was focused on  hot rods and sport cars, but when I got out of the Navy, one of the first things I did was to buy me a motorcycle. I wish I had a photo of my Indian because it was unique. The builder stuffed a 500cc in a smaller chasis. For its day it was quite a hot rod. We called them "bobbers".

The day I picked it up I only made it half way across Denver when the engine seized up. What a terrifying experience for a M/C newbee. It happened that the painter had put a rag in the oil tank to keep the paint out. He forgot to remove the rag and it prevented oil from getting to the enginen and the engine seized after only a few miles. Bummer. By the time it was rebuilt it was late November so when I went to pick it up there was 10 inches of snow on the streets. What a way to be introduced to winter riding techniques! I loved that bike and put many miles on it before it turned into a fireball one day with me on it. I gave the remains to a cousin. But that, as they say, is another story.

 

DEFINITLEY MY FAVORITE SCOOTER

I put 24000 miles on this beauty. 8000 in the first year alone. I rode it all over Washington, to Colorado and back, around New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and finally ended up here in Phoenix. After I got rear-ended I took the insurance money and had it "souped up" and it would haul butt! I miss it a lot.
M/C FANTASY #1

I recently began experimenting  with some abstract m/c art. This is one example.
FUN, FUN, and more FUN

I had a ball riding my "thumper" (m/c slang for big single cylinder bikes). I lost track of how many miles  I put on my beloved Suzuki 650. The last one I had I ran over a deer with and lived to tell about it. A witness to the incident was so amazed by the fact that I didn't wreck or even lay my scoot down that he just hung around for about thirty minutes and could not stop talking about it. I think HE was in shock. The lesson: a deer will never go the way you think it will.
M/C FANTASY #2

I guess until I go out and get a REAL job the closest I'll get to having a new bike is drawing one.

MY FIRST AND ONLY HONDA

This is not a picture of mine (I had the green version). This was a great motorcycle and is one of the main reasons the Japanese took control of the m/c market. I sold my 450 to a technician in my lab. One day I borrowed it to run an errand and ended up T-boneing a guy who "didn't see me".  My worst injury was from trying to hit the guy as I was going over his car. I caught the crook of my elbow at the top of his open window. As I slid down onto the hood of his car I used some rather abusive and "sailor-like" language on the driver. Later on at the Emergency Room a policeman came up to me and said that he was told what I had said to the driver. I thought I was in for it but he said that he would have told the guy the same damn thing! My lab rats later presented me with the mangled headlight from the bike nicely mounted on a wooden base. I kept it on my desk for a long time.
M/C FANTASY #3

You can never have too much chrome.
M/C FANTASY #4

I'm more into "bobbers" than "choppers".
M/C FANTASY #5

I would like this embroidered on my leather jacket.

ENGINE FANTASY #1

Actually my fantasy m/c engine would be a rotary like in the Suzuki RE 5.

M/C FANTASY #6

Is this actually a TONKA motorcycle?


PIJASOM RULES!