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Highwayman

Highwayman

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Alot have come and go..... The ones I've been attached to Ive seemed to hold onto....

BUT there was one.... One year only color combo and it was love at 1st sight in Sportrider magazine. Still miss this one to this day... Bought new in 92 after just getting the ins check from wrecking my ZX6R. Went through a couple bike clubs, rode all through my wild 20s, met my wife of almost 30 yrs now on it and sold it 12 years later for the "all new" R1.... No the R1 isn't around (never clicked with that bike), but the love for my 93 ZX7 still is.

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robp

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1985 BMW K100RS - found it as a beat up barn find, did a full R&R with paint. My first bike after quite a number of years of no motorcycle riding. The short OEM windshield/fairing funneled air straight to my head for an annoying bobble-head effect so I added the detachable Aeroflow screen. Turned out to be a good high speed distance cruiser. Sold it after getting my S10 as the primary bike.
 
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AusTexS10

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My first ever, a 1965 Honda CL72 250 Scrambler. Pic is the actual bike on showroom floor before my parents had it crated and shipped to me from Texas to China Lake, CA at the north end of the Mojave Desert where I had my first duty station after USN boot camp in San Diego. My favorite bike, and in the category of one we all wish we still owned, came a year later, a 1966 Triumph T100SC. One of the early Triumph scramblers, it was a 500cc twin with a single carb, high pipes, no battery (magneto) and weighed in at 335 lbs wet. The headlight was designed to be easily removed for off-road riding (supposedly to prevent damaging it, lol). The T100SC became known as the Steve McQueen bike as he often rode and raced one in the desert. I had a few Bultacos along the way, the last a 360cc Pursang, a Honda CL-77 305 Scrambler, and a 1971 Yamaha RT1 Enduro 360 which was stolen in 1972. I then went from 1972 to 2017 without a bike (married a medical professional), when I felt olod enough at 70 to make my own decisions and bought a Yamaha SCR950 Scrambler (one year build based off of their Bolt which was Yamaha's cousin to the HD Sportster); it was a fun town bike but whose engine got too busy (buzzy) for my liking for highway runs (it really needed a 6th gear). I traded it in for my last and current girlfriend, a gray 2013 Super T with 5,600 miles, quite appropriately on Valentines Day of 2020. Took my first highway ride on her the next day and it was true bliss.
 

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AusTexS10 said:
My first ever, a 1965 Honda CL72 250 Scrambler. Pic is the actual bike on showroom floor before my parents had it crated and shipped to me from Texas to China Lake, CA at the north end of the Mojave Desert where I had my first duty station after USN boot camp in San Diego. My
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I spent a lot of time in the Red Mountain-Ridgecrest area chasing jack rabbits. Sand washes, hills, gullies, rocks etc. could be found there. AWESOME riding country and an occasional night show from the bombing range for the evening entertainment

you did have to watch out for abandoned mines and you learned NEVER to run over a bush OUCH!

I suspect they have now closed off that part of the Mojave from riding
 
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