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Maybe titled as 2005 but takes me back to riding hardtails in southern Cal in the 70's as a young Marine. Get I love your bike every place I stop!! Before helmet and eye protection laws I rode a rat 70ish oiler frame Triumph with a weld on hardtail. That was crocked so it tracked out of line. 6 bend bars with railroad spike hiway pegs and 8" over tubes. No front fender and it rained every day the late winter early spring of 78. Road from the apartment (that 3 poor Marines shared) to MCAS Tustin with the blimp hangars. You know right there off of Redhill. I would blast to work with rain standing on the road because it never rains in Southern California. So there wasn't adequate drainage. It threw a rooster tail of water off the front tire over my left shoulder on to the windshield of the car that was tail gating me!! God life was good!! Parked the bikes in the living room, right next to the couch I slept on. $120 for a room the couch was only $80 a month!! God life was good!!!
Oh by the way today 1/6/2017 is my 60th birthday. Just got off work and am drinking a cold beer waiting for the muscle relaxers to kick in!! LMAO
GOD LIFE IS GOOD!!!
I remember those rains of 78'. I had just moved from Michigan with my bike & furniture in the back of a pickup. My living room flooded while living in Huntington Beach. Spent a lot of cold nights working on my bike in the garage & then going to the bike swap meets, buy hey, I was in sunny California where I could ride year around, helmetless.
This is what I rode in the late 70's into the 80's. All work done by myself. Frame was made by Hal Hammer before Jammer made them. He only made 2 that I know of. Ran 24 x 24 gears, never knew what top end was. Still have the bike in the garage and plan on putting it back together when money is right
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My 2013 over a pic of a 1959 I wish was mine. Greatest compliment I've had was someone coming across a parking lot saying, "Good lookin' Pan!" Then when they got up to me, they were like wait a minute.
I said nope, you can't take it back now! lol!
It's like who still likes young strippers. Everyone, but like bikes, my back can't take it; my wallet can't take it; they require too much work, but they will always have that place in my memory, which is where they should remain.....a perfect image.
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