Not the normal bike comparison, but I posted this on Senior Motorcyclsts 50+ last week on FB and since it is my ST I thought it might work here. I apologize if it would balong in a different area. 
50 year comparison
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The ST has 97000+ miles and I am deciding where I want to be when it turns 100k.Not the normal bike comparison, but I posted this on Senior Motorcyclsts 50+ last week on FB and since it is my ST I thought it might work here. I apologize if it would balong in a different area.
Welcome to the forum from Cornwall UK!
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Very good! So you have at least a 50 year riding history- I started in 1989, so I’m only at ~35 years- I hope to be riding into my 80’s as long as it’s safe to do so.
LOL.. I started in 1999... darn, I didn't take a picture.... I'll be 85... not planning on stopping 'til I can't remember what a motorcycle is....
Great picture Terry!
Started around the early 70s on 1955 BSA and moved to a 1972 Honda 450 Scrambler
Got forty years of sure joy under my belt. Congratulations ,and keep on looking good
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Just turned 70. Started with a Rup trail bike at age 12. Had a bike every day since. Have had a long list of bikes to my current 02 ST1100 for the last 10 years.
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Congrats Trussellcma and to all the other long time riders. We are blessed, aren't we?
74 years old. I started street riding in May, 1965 on a new 1965 Harley M-50 (made by Aermacchi in Italy. I wanted a Honda but my dad being a WW2 vet hated the Japanese and wouldn't let me buy one)...
this was 1968 (Honda 305 scrambler with tt pipes ) oldest pic I can find. I was 18 by then and bought what I wanted...a Honda lol
and 2024 ... still riding daily year round ..today will be 231st day riding this year....(missed 15 days in January due to Ohio winter weather and 9 days when I flew to Alaska with my wife in July for our 50th wedding anniversary) other than that have only missed 3 days of riding this year.
74 years old. I started street riding in May, 1965 on a new 1965 Harley M-50 (made by Aermacchi in Italy. I wanted a Honda but my dad being a WW2 vet hated the Japanese and wouldn't let me buy one)...
this was 1968 (Honda 305 scrambler with tt pipes ) oldest pic I can find. I was 18 by then and bought what I wanted...a Honda lol
and 2024 ... still riding daily year round ..today will be 231st day riding this year....(missed 15 days in January due to Ohio winter weather and 9 days when I flew to Alaska with my wife in July for our 50th wedding anniversary) other than that have only missed 3 days of riding this year.
That was my first bike, a '72 CL450, bought on the day of my 18th birthday, same paint as this one:
Great memories!
My 1972 Yamaha YDS7 250. November 1971. I put over 14,000 miles on that thing in one year.
Last year (May 2023) on my way to WeSTOC 27, Prescot AZ
My 1972 Yamaha YDS7 250. November 1971. I put over 14,000 miles on that thing in one year.
Last year (May 2023) on my way to WeSTOC 27, Prescot AZ
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I started riding in 1972... how many years is that?
No matter.
No pictures, but I definitely remember.
Uncle puts me on his Honda 175, shows me how to start it.l and how to take off.
Nary a word about how to turn it around, or how to stop the dang thing.
Think it was intentional? I forgot to ask him.
No matter.
No pictures, but I definitely remember.
Uncle puts me on his Honda 175, shows me how to start it.l and how to take off.
Nary a word about how to turn it around, or how to stop the dang thing.
Think it was intentional? I forgot to ask him.
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Great idea and photos. Let's keep the thread going.
Way back in 1968
and just a few short years later, lol.
Way back in 1968
and just a few short years later, lol.
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You guys have me beat by a decade or so, still, you never forget your first. Only known photo, circa 1987. Boy did I ride the H E double hockey sticks out of that bike. 1979 Honda CM400A first DCT?
This was my 3rd Honda, a CB400NC, so would have been taken in 1983.
Somehow all the dark seems to have washed out of my hair now...about 40 years later...
Somehow all the dark seems to have washed out of my hair now...about 40 years later...
1971 and the first bike - a Honda CB125 with the huge chrome rear fender. Took me all over 3 countries in Europe my senior year in HS then shipped it to the USA for college. Oh and I look the same now......
Erdoc48
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All good…we’re all ‘distinguished’. That means anyone can distinguish us from someone of younger age.This was my 3rd Honda, a CB400NC, so would have been taken in 1983.
Somehow all the dark seems to have washed out of my hair now...about 40 years later...
Mine was blue, put a set of Jardine 2 int 1 after doing the kill switch backfire "trick" knocked baffle loose. I am not counting the trail 90 as the first, had that until I got license.
Hey, that was my first bike....Not the normal bike comparison, but I posted this on Senior Motorcyclsts 50+ last week on FB and since it is my ST I thought it might work here. I apologize if it would balong in a different area.
My first bike was also the mighty CB125T but in 1982. Two tiny pistons going nowhere rapidly.
1971 and the first bike - a Honda CB125 with the huge chrome rear fender. Took me all over 3 countries in Europe my senior year in HS then shipped it to the USA for college. Oh and I look the same now......
