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Old Feb 21, 2022 | 06:05 PM
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I has going through some stuff and found a bunch of photos from over the years. Wanted to get them digitized but then figured I could just use my cell phone and take a photos of the photo. This one is of me and my ex on my '76 FLH and my '72 Corvette in the background. Taken around 1984. I guess it's not really that old but thought it was a cool photo.

I have a pretty large Easyriders magazine collection going back to 1970 and up to mid '90s. After finding this photo I went down the rabbit hole of looking through the collection and all the old photos in them. Got me reminiscing about how things used to be.

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1973 , I was 19, my second bike.



1984, 10 years younger than I, my then 18 year old brother on his first road trip . On his own harley and had been riding 7 weeks when this was taken. We're at the highest point on the Trail Ridge rd in Estes Park Co. Was a 3000+ mi. trip for him. From KC Mo. to Sturgis, down through eastern Co. back to KC then him soloing back Baltimore MD.

He became my traveling partner after that, we went on to some crazy adventures on future road trips.



 

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Old Feb 21, 2022 | 07:15 PM
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this is my dads Honda,I think I was 3.

and this is me when I was 21 (Im 59), look at those guns.

 
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18 yrs old, bought my first street bike in 1981. Yamaha 850 Special......






 
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Best friend in the whole world. Been gone 37 years. Finished school together, worked at three different companies together, introduced him to his wife. And moved him out when they got divorced.
 
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Ironhead Sporty I bought in 1992.....





 
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First street bike. New in 1974. riceburner. Hit my first (and last) car with it. Walked away. Sold it to my old man later that year and he rode it for twenty years.
 

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Sometime in the 80’s, ‘79 Ironhead I bought when I got out of the service.
 
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The first picture is my wife's grandparents soon after they were married in the late '30's. The second is my wife and I when we were married in '96.



Not an old picture, but here's our 25th anniversary last year.



 
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Those are some awesome pictures guys!
 
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My first street bike taken in 1983. And my first Harley taken in 1996 or so


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1983 Sportster 1000
 



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