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I spent much of my childhood either on my bicycle, a beautiful black 3-speed English Racer, as they were called then, or my Flexible Flyer, roaring down snow-covered hills hills. No exposure to powered bikes until age 13, when I managed to snag a couple of rides on a friend of a friend's mini-bike. Later I saved and bought a 15' racing sailboat when I was 17, and mostly sailed it solo, fast as I could. When I was 34 and had spent most of my life slogging through school, then graduate school, plus working at the same time, I decided, pretty much out of the blue, that I was going to get a motorcycle, or go nuts. I looked at HD's but in 1990, they still had a pretty bad reputation as far as reliability, so I looked a Yamahas, and bought a 750 Virago. Not an easy bike to learn on, but within a year I bought a 1980 Yamaha XS650, parallel twin paint shaker that was more fun the the English Racer, Flexible Flyer, and sailboat combined. Another Yam in 92, and then traded it in for what I really wanted, a new Bonnie. I have no idea of where the urge for either the sailboat or motorcycle came from--I certainly did not have anyone encouraging either activity, but I pursued both on my own and with much passion.
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2005 T100
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