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Originally Posted by oldE
Boy, did this bring back memories! My first bike was CL K5, differing from this only in color. Mine was green and white. 
The good: it would carry two of us over just about any hill in 5th gear.
The bad: it was turning 1000 rpm for each 10mph in high gear. We put a lot of miles on that poor beast. Sold it to help make the down payment on our first house.
Thanks.
Les |
Memories here as well. In my early 20's I had a bout of endo/pericarditis from an abscess following a botched wisdom tooth extraction. A couple of unsupervised UM students didn't know what they were doing. I ended up slouching in a spare bedroom that summer with the parents way out in the countryside. Had some money saved up working overtime hours at the pizza job because no bars or concerts and 20/$1 ramen and bicycles.
I ended up buying a 1971 Honda 350 which didn't run right. Then bought a junker 1970 350 for spares. Total of a couple hundred. Took both engines apart. Compared parts to see what "looked better". Put together a combo engine using the same gaskets etc that summer. Didn't know what I was doing at all. And I still don't. It ran, but one cylinder was not firing at all. Never figured that out. I still took dad on a 50mph run down the street and back. The best 1/2 mile of road ever.