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Originally posted by Racerbvd
... Having a newer Sportster, I'm sorry, that is a chick bike after the 80s
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I tend to agree nowadays but if you are anywhere near my age you remember "Then Came Bronson" with Michael Parks (one of the MANY intended and failed James Dean replacements) and his red Sportster. I LIVED for that bike when I was a boy.
..........until my brother-in-law's best friend showed up with his brand new candy red with dual gold stripes '69 Honda 750 Four.
To say it turned me on is the understatement of the decade. Talk about a MAN'S bike? At that time, oh man was that a stud bike.
P.S. That SAME bike is quietly rusting under a cover in that man's garage. Hasn't been started or ridden in decades. I could probably get it for $1000 and I keep thinking of it. I'm no longer a bike guy but would LOVE to do a bolt-by-bolt restoration of that one bike only. I'd never sell it. Its a dinosaur now but it'd make me 15 again just sitting on it. Back to the Man-card thing