So True For Me By kz1000st (Read 1,623 times)

[kz1000st]

rideapart.com/2014/02/how-it-begins/

A bicycle was my first motorcycle too.

[cyborg]

So true ,,, good read

[JR]

[cyborg]

Now i'm jealous JR you lucky slob,,,,,

[kz1000st]

My first bike.



Trimph Terrier. My second bike. And it was that color too, although stripped for dirt duty.

[cyborg]

HEY KZ you still got that thing???

[kz1000st]

No, we wore out the moped and dumped it. The Terrier ultimately blew up and was scrapped too. I saw the same moped in a museum in Maine once and you heard him say that most Terriers were no longer around. It's the way of it with bikes. Fifty years from now everyone will be saying, "I wish I had that 2008 Bashan. It would be worth a bundle now."

You can't tell from the video but the moped had a clutch and two speed, hand shift transmission like a Stella has now." I had to learn how to use a clutch when I was 10 years old.

[JR]

Feb 12, 2014 13:30:07 GMT -6 cyborg said:

Now i'm jealous JR you lucky slob,,,,,

Bike was a 52 Schwinn for my 6th birthday and the scooter is a two speed 52 Eagle, learned shifting at 6 and on my grandpa's farm I also drove a 49 Willy's Jeep truck when getting hay in the barn in the summer. Kids back then were told jump in and let's go while the older boys and adults loaded the truck down. By the time I was 12 I could drive anything.

But here is a model of the Eagle that if you run into is rare and very valuable:

This is the Model 762 Springer Eagle with centrifugal clutch and no transmission introduced in April, 1952. This was to be an economy model and came less the rack above the rear fender. Production lasted only about one year. Very rare.

We have a big car show in June on top of the mountain:  www.motaa.com/auto_shows%2013.htm

More and more motorcycles and old scooters are showing up, people swap, buy, look for parts and they have a auction too. I live 10 minutes from this and in 2012 a guy from Ft. Smith had one on display, it wasn't in mint condition  but would run. It auctioned for $7,300.

The old Allstate scooters by Sears were just rebranded machines from 48 to 54 if I remember right they were just plain Jane Cushmans, Sears didn't build any motorized scooter. They also were made by Puch and some were good machines, some were junk:

cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/sears_allstate_troyce.htm

Cushman never did build a eagle series copy for Sears. I'm sure when Sears goes under soon and they will then old Allstates will go up in value. Most people who bought Sears products back then was because one if they had good credit could pay $5 a month for just about anything Sears sold. That's why they were always branded as "the working man's store".

Who sold this one?

 

[kz1000st]

This was my second bicycle. I got it for Christmas. It even looked like a motorcycle.

schwinncruisers.com/bikes/panther2/#1960-panther2

Where I grew up on Long Island the cops were everywhere and you couldn't even drive in a parking lot without them checking for permits. Riding a motorcycle at 10 was an oddity. My brother was 7 when Dad taught us and that was almost considered child abuse/neglect. What can I tell you, it was the suburbs. Up here I have a field and we taught the boys to drive so they'd be ready when the time came. They both passed their road tests the first time as a result, in my Grand Voyager.

The oldest kid took the MSF BRC course, passed and got his "M" license. The younger kid's not interested. My daughter started riding last summer and is anxiously awaiting better weather. The biker blood is strong in her.

[cyborg]

Is the grey scoot a lambretta?

[jct842]

When I was 11 I bought a new 3 speed english bicycle with paper route money.
In 1958 when 16 I bought a wards mitsubishi scooter, the "Nassau" model which was 6 months old. Twist and go cvt. I was pretty hard on things then and put the rod thru the crank case after adjusting the cvt to stay in low longer. Then I bought a "james" with a 2stroke 125cc villiers engine. It had a handshift 3 speed and solid rear axle which I broke jumping with it. That was right before I left for the navy when I broke that one. When I got back my dad had got rid of both of them.

[JR]

Feb 13, 2014 9:23:26 GMT -6 cyborg said:

Is the grey scoot a lambretta?

cybermotorcycle.com/euro/brands/wards_riverside.htm

[jct842]

The gray scooter is supposed to be a wards nassau, but it is not the same as the one I had in 58. Seat lifted for the gas tank and it had a rack to put a passenger on. As I remember the rear was higher. The body tipped up for service. The model I had came in only one color, a two tone cream and baby crap yellow.

[JR]

www.midamericaauctions.com/motorcycle/riverside/riverside-nassau-c-80/ = C80


bringatrailer.com/2012/01/28/obscure-japanese-montgomery-wards-riverside-scooter/ = C74 Silver Pigeon

inventory.dezercollection.com/1959-silver-pigeon-c-80-built-by-mitsubishi,-fully-restored!!!!!!!-c-524.htm

[jct842]

The first a c-80 is pretty much it as I remember except wrong color and mine did not have the second seat, just a wire rack. You can see the hinge bolt in the center of the floor board back by the bottom front of the tub. The tub hinges up for service. Used a clutch pack on a jack shaft, chain drive on right side and the variator on the engine shaft. The horn used a d cell. Lights were lot to be desired, no dc on board. Some where on the internet I found a scooter club with one of the members in a club picture sitting on one like mine.

In a lot of ways scooter makers have gone backwards. Took releasing a catch to service it, in less than a minute. The damn majesty takes about an hour and a half to remove and replace all the crap plastic to be able to see the motor. Take one in to a stealer to do just about anything under there and a min of 1 1/2 hours X their labor rate, then they tell you it will be two weeks to get the part in and scooter repaired. Mine came real close to being a ruckus look a like with a 400cc engine. Yamaha is insane.