Old Enough To Remember?

Shuey said:
Glad I saw your post! 2024 wasn't a great year for me health wise, but 2025 looks to be a good one.

I run across our pictures 2 or 3 times a year as I browse down memory lane - great memories for me. Young enough to be daring, lucky enough to survive, and . . . it was an exhilarating adventure made more so by sharing it with new found friends!

Hope life is treating you well.

Shuey
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Glad to know you're doing well. I've been retired now since 2017 and am fine health-wise. Biggest motorcycle-related news is that I bought myself a red 2023 Goldwing Tour DCT in December of 2023. I'm liking the paddle shifting! I still have the ST, and ride it from time to time to keep my clutch technique passable.
 
Uncle Phil said:
@jwayden - Does your brother Ron still live in the Huntsville area (used to work for Adtran) and still ride? (Unless I am confusing you with someone else. ;))
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Hi Phil. Yes, Ron is still in Huntsville and is on the verge of retiring from Adtran. He still has his ST but hasn't ridden it in a while. I'm trying to talk him into getting something new, and I think he's close to getting a 2024 FJR.
 
jwayden said:
Hi Phil. Yes, Ron is still in Huntsville and is on the verge of retiring from Adtran. He still has his ST but hasn't ridden it in a while. I'm trying to talk him into getting something new, and I think he's close to getting a 2024 FJR.
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John - The next time you talk to him, tell him I said hi and I am still riding ST1100s (4 of them to be exact)! ;)
We used to get together on occasion and do some riding - and I miss it.
I reckon I lost his email somewhere along the way or it changed.
He has one of the cleanest ST1100s I've ever seen! :biggrin:
 
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UP said:

"He has one of the cleanest ST1100s I've ever seen!" :biggrin:

Yes it was clean! :thumbsup-2x:

I would suggest an offer to buy it but as I remember it wasn't an ABS model. I do happen to know a guy that knows how to convert one.
 
drbuzzard said:
i never had a pager i had a bag phone and it is in my basement somewhere
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The first "mobile" phones came later, you looked like you're about to call in an airstrike with those:

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But people went down reverently spotting you, they were really expensive back then (like € 6000,-), hence you'd been considered quite important with one of those bricks...
 
gunsmoker said:
I remember when a couple of my friends parents phone numbers started with a series of letters of the alphabet not numbers.

EXAMPLE: My uncle for example... his number, as I memorized it,
was TX2-6127, not 892-6127.
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We had ATlantic (28) 2, 5, and 8; ELgin (35) 3, 5, and 8; and MIlton (64) 3, 4, and 6.
 
Anyone remember the draft lottery? Only drawing I ever got lucky with. Mine was toward the last of the second set of dates. Never got a draft notice. Buddy of mine was number 3 out of the hat. He went for six years of National Guard instead of the jungle.
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Mophead said:
Anyone remember the draft lottery? Only drawing I ever got lucky with. Mine was toward the last of the second set of dates. Never got a draft notice. Buddy of mine was number 3 out of the hat. He went for six years of National Guard instead of the jungle.
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Oh yeah, mine was 93 or 95 so I joined the USMC.
I figured if I was headed to the jungles I might as well be with the boys that knew how to shoot.
I ended up stateside for my entire tour programming their computers. ;)
 
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