Photos of classic motocycles or motocycles in general.

There was a place down along one of the rivers like that, went for miles. Only went there once, we put three bikes in a truck and drove down.

 

Looks beautiful!
It's important to me to be able to stand up on the pegs. Like today I went for a ride and was checking some work I did on my shock over bumps and such, hit a domed RR xing at supra-highway speed (on a rural road) sailing through the air. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that on a bike I couldn't plant my weight on the pegs and grip the tank with my knees. And have at least a halfway reasonable suspension.

 

I had the 250 for a couple months I was working on for a friend. I'd break it loose in first then bang through the next four gears in two or three seconds holding the throttle wide wide spinning the whole time. And hanging on for dear life! At 13-14 years old. Good times...

 

An older friend took me and my bike along on a trip to Tennessee where they had family near an abandoned strip mine very popular with dirt riders. It was insane! I wish I could remember where in TN it was. Undoubtedly it's shut down now due to liabilities anyway. I don't know how I got my parents to let me go... That was long before cell phones, I wasn't even old enough to drive. I rode the entire thing except the one biggest hill climb that bikes kept tumbling down because very few actually made the top.

 

nope, not those, much sillier looking, and much more like those plastic trikes with the great big wheel in front and little tiny wheels behind. the kind that had the pedals on the big wheel in front, only these had big bike motors turning them. imagine a bike designed by the ministry of silly walks, only a bike (well trike)

 

The ol' CX500...

I helped a fellow traveler with one of these. Turned out to be the battery after all but for awhile he was stuck and stymied.

 

I wanted an Ariel square four years ago, but never managed to get one.

 

Motor Maids Outside the Long Island Motorcycle Exchange "The House of Chrome"

 

Shirley Temple

 

Sold in the USA by Sears Roebuck & Co in 1969,

The last year Gilera was in business before going bankrupt in 1970