Tales from the Toolbox

Ed Milich asked, so here it is.

Or some of it.

I'm glad that others also keep pieces of motorcycles from the past, souvenirs.

There are several around my garage somewhere, one of the most notibly being the tachometer from my 1972 Kawasaki H1B - or what remains of it.

Back in 1978 or 1979, Jon Gershin and I lined them up in the school parking lot. During school, of course. He rode a RD350 and it was neck and neck until he slowed suddenly, in time for me to broadside another motorcycle that was wheelying inbetween parked cars.....

The tach is in a box somewhere.

And then there is this one -



That bike ended up being crashed (stupidity again on my part) and ultimately sold with a GS550 front end slapped on it.

But I still have the emblem.......

Thank you Ed Milich for the memories - I need to remember many of those to help keep me from repeating them.  

Valve cover from a 1979 Honda



Bought the bike cheap, no title, from a repo-man. It had been in a barn for years and the carbs were gunked. I learned you had to loosen the upper ending mount and tilt the engine down to get the carbs out. Eventually sold most of the bike to a fellow in town named Leon - he had a pristine CBX and even let me ride it, great guy.