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On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:20:48 -0400, hk wrote:

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On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:58:39 -0400, hk wrote:

Eisboch wrote:
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Larry wrote:
"Jim" wrote in news:g79lts$k5k$1
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She lacked motivation?
I made errors on two of my Hondas. I traded in my 305 Honda Dream
on a Triumph 650....I was young. The other mistake was selling my
Honda 600 sedan:
http://www.honda600coupe.com/Honda_6..._22_Honda.html
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I
don't think it was ever on the road!

I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream.
Used and just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served
me well for a couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure
looked sweet compared to the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had,
because...my Honda started when I wanted it to...and their bikes
sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.

My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter
in Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.

Eisboch

Ahhh...the smooth fendered Honda. The fenders on mine looked like
they came from an early Japanese horror movie.
???



You've never seen the fenders on a 250cc Honda Dream? The fenders came
with a "crease" in the center and looked like some sort of Japanese
cartoon art.

??? The 250 Dream (247cc) had the well known, and quite distinctive,
"roman helmet" style fenders, Harry. Just like the 160 Dream and the
305 Dream.


Is that what the edges of the front fender were called? Roman helmet?
Whatever. I thought they were inspired by Japanese cartoon art. Anyway,
there was a "folded edge or crease" on each side of the center of the
fender. The joke then was they were made out of old Japanese beer cans.
But I sure liked that bike.

Mine looked like this, but this one wasn't mine:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ream250_65.jpg


Oh...it was a hell of a long time about, but I don't recall that mine had
whitewall tires.

I had a black version of the CB 160
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/classics/bike.asp?id=61
There was a 150 Honda dream that seemed a bit clunky with the heavy plastic
fenders. http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2001/...a/MVC-469F.jpg

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Don White wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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hk wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:20:48 -0400, hk wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:58:39 -0400, hk wrote:

Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Larry wrote:
"Jim" wrote in news:g79lts$k5k$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

She lacked motivation?
I made errors on two of my Hondas. I traded in my 305 Honda Dream
on a Triumph 650....I was young. The other mistake was selling my
Honda 600 sedan:
http://www.honda600coupe.com/Honda_6..._22_Honda.html
I bet they want a pretty penny for this perfect specimen....I
don't think it was ever on the road!

I got you beat! My *first* motorcycle was... a 250cc Honda Dream.
Used and just carefully broken in when I bought it, and it served
me well for a couple of years. Ugly little bike, but...it sure
looked sweet compared to the BSAs and Triumphs my friends had,
because...my Honda started when I wanted it to...and their bikes
sometimes ran and sometimes didn't.

My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter
in Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.

Eisboch

Ahhh...the smooth fendered Honda. The fenders on mine looked like
they came from an early Japanese horror movie.
???


You've never seen the fenders on a 250cc Honda Dream? The fenders came
with a "crease" in the center and looked like some sort of Japanese
cartoon art.
??? The 250 Dream (247cc) had the well known, and quite distinctive,
"roman helmet" style fenders, Harry. Just like the 160 Dream and the
305 Dream.


Is that what the edges of the front fender were called? Roman helmet?
Whatever. I thought they were inspired by Japanese cartoon art. Anyway,
there was a "folded edge or crease" on each side of the center of the
fender. The joke then was they were made out of old Japanese beer cans.
But I sure liked that bike.

Mine looked like this, but this one wasn't mine:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ream250_65.jpg

Oh...it was a hell of a long time about, but I don't recall that mine had
whitewall tires.

I had a black version of the CB 160
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/classics/bike.asp?id=61
There was a 150 Honda dream that seemed a bit clunky with the heavy plastic
fenders. http://www.jwoodandcompany.com/2001/...a/MVC-469F.jpg





Those fenders were very similar to the ones on my old Dream.

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Don White wrote:
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Larry wrote:
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drive them up and down the driveway. Big deal, huh?

We got to drive the huge John Deere 720 2-cylinder diesel monster
tractor across the snow.....pulling the ****spreader full of
yesterday's feed spraying out in all directions behind us...Yum Yum!

The trick was to get it spread out of the ****spreader BEFORE it
froze solid as it was -30F that early in the morning....

If it froze in the spreader, my grandfather would do unspeakable
things to your ass....THEN make you wait in the warm barn until it
thawed so you could correct your mistake...in the fumes!



I was wondering how you could tolerate the rec.boats stench...you've
had training.

That remark wasn't civil, troll.

How did you know he was referring to you?

Arrrgh. I've got Florida Jim in the bozo bin with the rest of the Seven
Little Schitts...you're not helping... :)

He's flippin' out. Actually has the nerve to refer to other posters as
not "civil".




Ahh, well. If memory serves, "Eisboch" vouches for him. Makes you wonder.
But not much. FloridaJim is from the same batch of vomitus as the rest of
The Seven Little Schitts.

Did you ever see that photo he posted of that old, clapped-out Wellcraft?
There was one just like it down at the local marina that had been
abandoned by its owner and was being broken up for dumpsterville.





Jim is very good at what he does.
Whatever it is.

Right now he's playing with you.

I also *would* trust him with my life. There are only a few people in that
category.

Eisboch

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"hk" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter in
Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.

Eisboch


Ahhh...the smooth fendered Honda. The fenders on mine looked like they
came from an early Japanese horror movie.

http://zamm.home.att.net/Bike.htm

Eisboch

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"Don White" wrote in message
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You have to wonder what the ships social committee made off those deals.


"Ship's Social Committee"?

What the hell is *that*?

You Canadians have a strange Navy.

Eisboch

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Larry wrote:
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drive them up and down the driveway. Big deal, huh?

We got to drive the huge John Deere 720 2-cylinder diesel monster
tractor across the snow.....pulling the ****spreader full of
yesterday's feed spraying out in all directions behind us...Yum Yum!

The trick was to get it spread out of the ****spreader BEFORE it
froze solid as it was -30F that early in the morning....

If it froze in the spreader, my grandfather would do unspeakable
things to your ass....THEN make you wait in the warm barn until it
thawed so you could correct your mistake...in the fumes!



I was wondering how you could tolerate the rec.boats stench...you've
had training.

That remark wasn't civil, troll.
How did you know he was referring to you?
Arrrgh. I've got Florida Jim in the bozo bin with the rest of the Seven
Little Schitts...you're not helping... :)
He's flippin' out. Actually has the nerve to refer to other posters as
not "civil".



Ahh, well. If memory serves, "Eisboch" vouches for him. Makes you wonder.
But not much. FloridaJim is from the same batch of vomitus as the rest of
The Seven Little Schitts.

Did you ever see that photo he posted of that old, clapped-out Wellcraft?
There was one just like it down at the local marina that had been
abandoned by its owner and was being broken up for dumpsterville.





Jim is very good at what he does.
Whatever it is.

Right now he's playing with you.

I also *would* trust him with my life. There are only a few people in that
category.

Eisboch




His behavior here is almost entirely negative, which qualifies him for
membership in the seven little schitts. If you reviewed his last 1000
posts, I'd bet that close to all of them were nothing more than petty
little insults.

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On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:32:39 -0300, "Don White"
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:50:14 +0000, Larry wrote:



The only thing it lost was the master cylinder in the hydraulic brakes.
The hand brake worked good until I saved up enough money to buy a new
master cylinder on my measily $100 Navy check....

Reminds me. In the Med in '64 I signed up for stateside delivery of a
Triumph Spitfire. $500 down, taken right from my Navy payroll.
One of those deals where vendors come aboard.
Back in the states my ma talked me into not going through with the
deal. Lost the $500, about half a years salary.
No biggie. Didn't need much money then. But it does **** me off now
when I think about it. Could have invested that in IBM. Uh huh.
Think I spent the same with another ship vendor the next Med trip for
Encyclopedia Americana delivered to my ma's house, but that was
actually worth it.

--Vic

You have to wonder what the ships social committee made off those deals.

Social committee? Never heard of that, and never gave any thought
about the vendors got aboard, or how they were vetted.
Seemed they were on the up and up, and I bought some nice stuff to
bring home as gifts for family. German cutlery and Venetian glass is
what I remember.
I was a kid and probably waited too long to cancel the deal, and maybe
didn't read the fine print. Can't remember the details, but never
considered blaming the Navy. It was my fault, and the experience
always kept me on my toes in future transactions.
Only thing I had against the Navy was them pulling a molar of mine
that was aching in Naples. I'd still have that tooth now if they did
a root canal. We were in for a few days, but the guy was pull-happy.
Maybe even penicillin would have fixed it. I still remember the Lt.
with big forearms straining to pull it out.
His swabby assistant walked away not wanting to watch and the Lt.
yelled at him, "Get your ass back here and hold his head!"
Lots of blood. ****ers. But hey, that's the Navy.
Another Lt. at NAS Norfolk did an excellent job saving a dead front
tooth I had chipped as a kid. Win some, lose some.

--Vic

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"Don White" wrote in message
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"hk" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Jim" wrote in message
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"hk" wrote in message
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Larry wrote:
hk wrote in
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drive them up and down the driveway. Big deal, huh?

We got to drive the huge John Deere 720 2-cylinder diesel monster
tractor across the snow.....pulling the ****spreader full of
yesterday's feed spraying out in all directions behind us...Yum Yum!

The trick was to get it spread out of the ****spreader BEFORE it
froze solid as it was -30F that early in the morning....

If it froze in the spreader, my grandfather would do unspeakable
things to your ass....THEN make you wait in the warm barn until it
thawed so you could correct your mistake...in the fumes!




I was wondering how you could tolerate the rec.boats stench...you've
had training.

That remark wasn't civil, troll.


How did you know he was referring to you?


Arrrgh. I've got Florida Jim in the bozo bin with the rest of the Seven
Little Schitts...you're not helping... :)

He's flippin' out. Actually has the nerve to refer to other posters as
not "civil".


Lessee. Youse guys have me filtered yet you're trolling your little brains
out. How will you ever know if your trolls are working? Dumbkoffs!

GM loses big-time
 

Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
My first was a Honda 305 Superhawk. Drove it all summer and winter in
Illinois, mainly because I couldn't afford a car.

Eisboch

Ahhh...the smooth fendered Honda. The fenders on mine looked like they
came from an early Japanese horror movie.

http://zamm.home.att.net/Bike.htm

Eisboch




That Superhawk was a groundbreaker for sure. It was a gorgeous bike.
Amazing how we thought 250 or 305 cc's was more than adequate in those
days, hey?

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On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:01:28 -0500, Vic Smith
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Another Lt. at NAS Norfolk

Oops. Make that NOB. Don't want to alarm the Navy guys.

--Vic