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My first five motorcycles

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First Name
Jack
Last Name
Giesecke
Found pix for all of 'em, so thought I'd post it. Feel free to do the same.

Here's my first. I was 13 years old in 1966. I traded $30 and a daisy CO2 bb pistol for this baby. It lasted three months upon which I holed the piston. Didn't know what happened back then, but I remember now and know. :lol: A 1962 Allstate Compact, Puch built.

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Then, my step dad, in a rare moment, bought me a new bike. He said if I was going to ride the &#%& things he wanted me on something reasonable. Mine was a 67 model, had the leading link fork. A 1967 CT90 Honda.

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After two years and 40K miles, I was a confirmed biker fanatic. I got a summer job and bought this. I really wanted a CL175, but figured out I'd have had to work two weeks into the school year to do it. I was too lazy for that, so I bought this, a 1970 SS125 Honda.

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I sold that bike in college when I had to buy insurance for a 67 Chevelle SS I bought. I sold that car when I finally got tired of feeding it at 12 mpg and paying for it and the insurance and bought this, a 1972 GT550J in this exact same color.

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Then, I traded that for this and this is the bike I had when I graduated. It's the bike that got me into road racing when CRRC was formed and ran their first race at Texas World Speedway. They later changed their name from the "Central Road Racing Club" to "Central Motorcycle Roadracing Asso." or CMRA. It's a 1975 Yamaha RD350 and it was cool. I was your typical street squid with tickets for wheelies to prove it. :-?

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Nice bike history Jack. I remember the 2-stroke triple's ....with DRUM brakes......and the RD 350. Ring ding ding ding.

Still have the Camaro ?
 
I started this way, as you see its been a long and mostly Honda road for me.
Z-50
Indian Mini Mini
SL70
XR75
SL125
CR125
CR250
CR480
CB350
CB400F
TL125
TL250
CB750F
CB1100F
VFR500
XS850
CB1100F
ZXR1100
 
Jack Giesecke said:
Then, my step dad, in a rare moment, bought me a new bike. He said if I was going to ride the &#%& things he wanted me on something reasonable. Mine was a 67 model, had the leading link fork. A 1967 CT90 Honda.

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****, Jack, you were really into long-haired, bell-bottomed hippie mode in that pic.
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These are not my bikes, just bikes LIKE my bikes. And, I never owned a Camaro. My SS Chevelle was my only hot rod and it was rather expensive and drove me back to two wheels where I should have never left in the first place. :lol: I'll admit, the Chevelle was great for the college single guy, though. They still had drive in movies back then... ;-)
 
I find it interesting that most of us old timers started off on small displacement bikes, that are no longer sold.
My bike history:
Suzuki T10 250cc
Honda trail 125cc
Kawasaki H1 500cc
Kawaski KZ 400cc
Kawasaki KZ 1000cc
Harley Low Rider 1540cc (65hp)
Yamaha FZR 600cc
Suzuki Bandit S 1200cc
 
My first new bike, a 1971 Kawi Mach 3. Please focus on the bike instead of the jeans.


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I regret not taking any photos of my first (and only other bike) but here's a similar shot...
Mine was the standard KZ though, not the SR.

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I lusted after a KZ650, but never bought one. I tried to get a Kaw dealer in Huntsville to sponsor me in '79 on one. He decided to back some MX kid rather than road racing. So, I went out and won the CRRC championship in 650 production with my RD400. Won it by a few points, but lost the 410 production championship. Anyhow, showed him, eh? NObody had a KZ, though, in the 650 class. It was RDs running up a class. Why that KZ didn't catch on I don't know. At places like TWS, it definitely had a speed advantage and I think it could have been set up to handle rather well. I don't know if I remember a KZ650 being raced back then. But, they sold a ton of the things for the street and they were exellent all around good motorcycles.
 
i do have pics of all my bikes, i'll post some day. anyway here is the list:

1971 (or 72) kawasaki 500 (same as klaus' pic above)
197? honda elsinore 250
1986 honda vfr 400 (in japan)
1987 honda vfr 400 (in japan)
1987 (or 8) honda nsr 250 (in japan)
1990 harley fsr
2002 kawasaki vulcan 800b
2004 honda goldwing
2004 suzuki sv650s
 
I have no photos to post, but I imagine that most of you wouldn't have any trouble recalling them.
1995 EX250 black
1999 YZF600R red
2000 ZX9R green
 
Here are renditions of my first five bikes. Remember folks, the thread title is "first five bikes" :lol:

Sure are a lot of H-1 owners around here 8-)

I've got some great wheelie shots on film, need to scan those to digital someday. Along with about a thousand other pics :-D

So here ya go, can anyone name these bikes? Make model and year?



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Hmmmmmm?

1964 Honda 90 1968 to 1970 10K
1968 Honda 350 1970 to 1972 15K
1972 Honda 450 1972 to 1979 26K
1976 BMW R75/6 1977 to 1980? 50K
1999 BMW R1200C 2000 to 2004 72K
1998 BMW R1100RT 2001 to present 44K
2000 BMW R1200C 2004 to present 2K

Loved them all!

Don't have a place to put pics up.
 
My bikes

1964 Honda Super Sport 50 (paid 30 bucks for it - everyone wanted to ride it)
1967 Yamaha YLM-1 100 (Rotary Valve - would smoke Hodakas)
1969 Tamaha DS6B 250 (Fast twin - 105 mph)
1969 Yamaha CT-1 (Jon Easton of Jemco fame made it a screamer)
1967 Yamaha 305 Big Bear Scrambler (65 mph tops - PIGG)
1970 Sears Twingle (Made by Puch - given to me and I should have gave it back)

I have owned over 3 dozen bikes and enjoyed them all. Love mostly dirt bikes but now trying street bikes.

The pictures look like a 1967 Honda SS90; 1967-8 Bridgestone 100 (Rotary Valve); 1969-70 Bridgestone 200 Twin Hurricane (Their race bike was a 175 Hurricane Scrambler so I'm guessing Hurricane); 1974 Kawaski Mach III 500, 1969 H-D Sporty. Well my best guess anyway.
 
antiques

1972 Penton trials bike 125 Sachs with 6 neutreals 1975 Honda TL 250 trials way to heavy for trials 1985 KLR 600 went every on that one 1986 Husky 250 EXC Loved that bike 1987 KTM 250 Enduro Good bike but I didnt fit it 1998 Valkyrie Still ride it when sombody wants to ride on back 2000 Cagiva Gran Canyon 904 Duc in a semi DS frame best bike I own 2004 KTM ninefiddy Big grin factor still making adjustments First 5 are gone . I havent learned how to post picks yet , this computor stuff is new to me , too busy riding . X wife took the pictures and finding that 125 Penton trials might be tuff . SEYA
 
Well photos will be a *****, as my move here stateside 5 years ago lost me almost all my records of life before Texas.

The list, and it isn't long because I keep bikes forever, this is 30 years worth.

1. 1976 Honda CB400F Super Sport
2. 1984 Honda CX500 (bored to 650) V-Twin (thats it in the picture in the great Oz outback desert below)
3. 1986 Suzuki GS1000L
4. 1985 CX500 (another long road trip through the outback)
5. 1981 XV1000RH Roadster (stroked to 1100) <- really liked this one !
6. 1982 XV920RJ Roadster (first bike purchased in America, in 2000)
7. 1998 Triumph 900SS (current ride in avatar shot at left)

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