Then and now....... motorcycles i owned as a kid and what i look like now...

[Steve Swan]

This'll be fun ...... !

Age 15, 1967, Yamaha Rotary Jet 80


2009 AMA vintage days, age 57

[Steve Swan]

I'm still eagerly waiting for someone, anyone to post on the "then and now" thread i started under "general discussion." 

C'mon you guys.  Expose yourselves for who you really are !!!!

[Wayne]

I would Steve but only have pic's of my first 2 bikes without me in them. hmmm, the latter "Expose yourselves for who you really are !!!!" ... you guys really want to see that?? 

[Steve Swan]

Hi Wayne, something like my self expose'.........  i'm up too late writing stuff on the bb..........  stuff sorta just rolls out.......  i think i meant somethign like expose what you used ot look like and what you look like now......   

[Wayne]

haha, I just re-read my response Steve. That didn't come out right at all either! lol I just meant, you guys sure you want to see what this old Biker looks like now?? 

[Steve Swan]

Then, when we were young and now a few some years later.........  got pics ?

[Erling]

No idea how to do pictures. Even if I could find some. Sorry.
  Erling.

[sandydogg]

unfortunatley i have no pics of me on the kawasaki 1968 g2tr "road runner" 120cc bike i grew up on 

if i can get my scanner to work i will post some of me from that "era" and now, fun idea!

40 some years ago, remember it like yesterday, two stroke oil burning, black lab barking, neighbor kids looking on in envy, haha

[Steve Swan]

Help me resuscitate this thread !  Nobody has pictures from then and now ?   Really ?     Nobody ?  

May 1969, Junior year in high school, traded the 1967 Lightning for the CB750 Sept.1969.  Note no tail light; shaking/breaking it's self apart.

August 1970, young, cool and straight off the farm.  Leaving again for California, '52 panhead.  Clorox bottle has gas in it.  The sportster tank would go 95 miles.  Short story, by the time i got to Longmont, Colorado, i was ready to be back on the CB750.  I turned around and came home.

2004, racing Colorado MRA with yonger son 2004.  VP racing fuel was $17/gallon...  

October 2006, ten cylinders !  Henrik on the 79 CBX.  I'm on the gold K1.

[tomcourtney]

Hi Steve. Im in on my ex cop 1957 Triumph Thunderbird 6T Late 1969



My first Harley a 1942 WLA with some mods in 1970


My CB750 K1 in about 1974


My Chop 1977 with RC Eng 970cc Cobra Engine


1968 Shovel about 1979


1974 ex LAPD shovel i bought at auction this pic early eighties


taken late eighties Sammie and my Green K1


My Mum and my '92 Fatty that got Stolen 1994


Just what i need another K0 2009 VMD me on the right


If one is good more is better right... i needed that beer VMD 2009


The sandy i sold


Pure fun, Larz and the Monkeybikes they got Takegawa engines with 5 and 6 speed boxes this year and go heaps good.



In 2003 Honda did a tribute Z50 to the CB750, I needed one to match my Blue Green Bike and its in the works now getting a Takegawa
124 5 speed with a dry clutch should go as fast as the CB

[Steve Swan]

Tom !  Fantastic !!  I love the picture of you and the WLA !  The engineer boots and flip flops are great !