"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 8/20/13 9:33 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


In the past 12 years I rode one of them once for about 50 feet.
Did
nothing for me. The only things I'll ride must have an ignition
on/off
switch or pedals.


You'll appreciate this. When I was in Kansas, I dated a girl for a
short
while whose daddy owned a commercial stables and a number of horses.

Being a lad from the *countryside* of New Haven, I wasn't much
interested in horses and I never ever went horseback riding with her.
Instead, I told her, I brought my horse with me...which, at the time,
was a 305 cc Honda SuperHawk that I had bought used after selling off
my
250 cc Honda "Dream."

I really liked that SuperHawk. Looked exactly like this, and was
reliable and a delight to ride.

http://tinyurl.com/mn57hvv

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I had one also ... except it was a 1965. Bought it while living in
Zion, IL when I was attending the Navy ET schools for 2 years.
I rode that thing year round, from our apartment in Zion to the Navy
base and back, even in snow storms. Mrs.E. had our car (a 1970 Fiat
Sports Coupe) because we had a then young daughter and she needed
transportation.

Traded the SuperHawk for a Honda 350 when I received orders to
Puerto Rico. We rented a house off base and within a month a guy
walked up our driveway one day, looking at the Honda 350. He spoke
Spanish of course, and I couldn't completely understand him. But then
he pulled a wad of bills out of his pocket, peeled off $600 of them
and offered them to me while pointing at the bike. I gave him the
keys and waved goodbye.