Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader - November 2008 - (Page 33)

SPECIAL FEATURE STORIES stopped arriving, although I was never told any reason. I later learned that the end was already coming for Bridgestone they were simply too nice and better built, and MORE EXPENSIVE. OUR WINNER’S STORIES! TOM SUTHERLAND TO BREAK IT IN!!! GO SLOW!!” Well that little stinker of a bike got broke in and I mean BROKE IN in less than 10 minutes, and the darned thing would never go over 35..DOWNHILL smoking like a chimney!! I went to take my motorcycle Driver’s test on it and the State Trooper LAUGHED at me. For part of the test I was asked to “Accelerate briskly down the road and upshift gears at least four times..” “But Officer,” I replied.. “IT ONLY HAS THREE GEARS!!!” Ultimately I passed and received my motorcycle driver’s license!! Then it ‘Happened’ One day Carl took me out back to a building where there was only one lone crate remaining, sitting in the middle of the room. “It’s yours” he said, “for 150 bucks—OUT THE DOOR!!” The bike in the crate turned out NOT to be a Sexy Hurricane but rather a TINY, MEEK, PLAIN-JANE BRIDGESTONE 50+ STEP-THRU!!! But I immediately fell in LOVE all over again. That night I took the Owner’s Manual home and read it over and over, memorizing and savoring each word and picture, while trying to figure out where the heck I’d get the money. Between the bike assembling money, lawnmowing money, some GRIT newspaper money and probably my mother’s grocery money for the whole year, I was able to get it!!. My dad was NOT impressed as I tried to sneak it over two doors to our house thru the back yard. He wasn’t aware of the deal till it was too late hahaha. The last thing I ever remember Carl to yell at me leaving the shop that day was “Don’t over-rev it ..YOU NEED WALNECKS.COM But I was crushed. The Madness had already started you see. Soon after, a silver and black Honda 305 Super Hawk waved to me from the side of the road with a large handprinted “FOR SALE” sign and that night I was pleading with my mom for 300 bucks!! what a deal??. Somehow again we found the money and I now was in the big time world with a bigtime machine. It was drastically different from the little Bridgestone, and on the 2nd day of our ill-fated relationship I failed to negotiate an abrupt right hander on a road that I’d been on only a few thousand times before. I remember | November 2008 33 I WALNECK’S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER® http://www.WALNECKS.COM

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Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader - November 2008 Contents American The Buzz w/Buzz Walneck Our Winners Stories! By Rick Weiler 1962 Henkel Tourist Motorcycle Tips w/Mike Brown Our Winners Stories! By Tom Sutherland Event Listings & Advertisements Bench Racing w/Mark Zimmerman British Biker of the Month: Hagon Shocks European Japanese Davenport Show Recap Motorbikes & Scooters 1956 Maico Mobil 197cc 1952 45cc VeloSolex Memorbilia Antique Cycle Clubs Parts, Accessories, Want Ads How to Place a Word Ad How To Place a Photo Ad Area Code Directory How To Subscribe Let Us Help With Your Event

Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader - November 2008

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