Gyrobob
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Posers ain't motorcyclists
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My first riding two-up was with my brother when I was 13 and he was 11 on a Cushman Highlander with 3hp. No transmission,.. just a centrifugal clutch. Our new found independence was wonderful, but we soon got tired of having to get off the thing and actually push it up hills.
Then I got a 1956 Lambretta 150d. It had a real clutch and transmission and 5hp. We thought we had died and gone to heaven. We could actually stop at a stop sign on a hill, and start moving without having to get off. That thing was good for about 45mph with both of us on it.
BTW, we were both big kids. When I was 14 and he was 12, we probably weighed about 300lbs together.
I wrapped that Lambretta around a 54 Chevy when he ran a stop sign.
Two years later, after my Mom got over the terror of me getting crumpled up on a two-wheeled vehicle, I got a Ducati 250 Monza with about 22 hp and a four speed trans. OMG!! We weighed a total of around 400lbs now, but that thing could haul us on the freeway at something like 65 mph. Nirvana!!
If someone back in 1965 would have complained about a 650cc motorcycle being too small for taking a trip, I would have wondered about that person's sanity.
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