That's a Hodaka "B". My first real motorcycle was the earlier version called an Ace 100. It used to go through 'shift springs' all the time. When they wear, you'd miss a lot of shifts.

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Yup, Hodaka Wombat.
My brother had one of these super rats when I was real young and i wanted one so bad. When I finally had enough money saved up from paper routes and from fixing the neighbor's cars (at 13 years old ;) ) I bought my first bike, a wombat. The super rat and the combat wombat were both competition versions of the street legal bikes.
Couldn't sleep the night before. One of the best days of my life.





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A friend had a Hodaka and every time we would go out to Mojave to dirt bike I would grab it.

Sup, I heard the 750 commando is the Norton to have... not sure why.

Random:

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Yep, I remember them. Mine is for sale. $1200

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1318/...042169a7_b.jpg

http://www.dieselduck.net/seafarer.htm
http://www.dieselduck.net/seafaring_page/Terms.01.jpg
These two drawing are from a great little book by Bob Basnight, "What ship is that ?"

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php...&highlight=
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Shelley Ley photograph, Grenell Island.
http://www.thousandislandslife.com/On%20the%20water%203.html
http://www.thousandislandslife.com/CanoeGren600.jpg

http://www.koehnline.com/TIMELINE.htm
http://www.koehnline.com/TIMELINE_files/image004.jpg
Compiled by James Koehnline from diverse sources.

That's really frickin' cool.

Friday, 4:45pm EST.
Almost time to go home!

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Bikes will be my Friday theme. Here's mine. I took this after a long day of painting my garage today. Nice to clear the head with a short ride.

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Here's the bike version of the recent ugly women posts. Was a Honda 45o until someone got "creative". As seen on Ebay-

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4926/cdf812mu5.jpg

Well... if we are having a bike day!

Circa 1977, my BMW R100S:

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Which morph'ed into this:

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Then this:

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R1100RS

Now reverting in my old age... my current ride:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1191017508.jpg

Ok, I play:

here is my ride when in visit my folks in Germany. It is an all-original XT600Z. I still love to ride this thing.....

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Really nice bikes guys!

Obligatory-

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Where did you find that perfect looking /5?
Mark

Denver, and its really mint. They are out there and the nice thing about the old Beemers is that the parts are really available. DrDogFace is looking at several right now trying to find the right one to buy.

What I REALLY want to do is put a sidecar on the thing....

I saw one of these yesterday. It had a funny exhaust sound, It was yellow. I had never seen one before.

More info on this bike? I can see it's a BMW, but what year/model? I would guess early 1960s from the skinny tires. In any case, it's a beautiful bike. I have recently begun to gain an interest in motorcycles, but really know nothing about them, other than I really like the look of early 70s Triumphs...

CJ,

Its a /5 version of the BMW's. There were various flavours, a 500, 600 and 750cc version. The one above is a R75, or 750 cc. They run from 1970 to 1973 or so then get "modern" with front disk brakes and such.

They really are bulletproof and nice to ride. No, its not a 2000 model bike and does have drum brakes so you have to plan ahead. All of the older BMW's shift like a Morris minor, in that you are not going to be doing any speedshifting.

All that said, they are a lot of fun, run forever and are a very good investment as well. They are around in all different shapes.

Cafe racer is one very very nice way to restore these:

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Not to change the subject or anything. Here I am with a main engine control and fuel pump off a 737. Cell phone pic.

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There's an annual show in Milwaukee called the "Rockerbox". Tons of very cool bikes. More BMWs than you can shake a stick at.
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6577/p1010620mo6.jpg

Bad boy version of Joe's bike. (okay - it's just a seat)
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6795/p1010667vw0.jpg

The elusive Vincent Black Shadow - complete with oil leaks.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3061/p1010666wl8.jpg

At first glance I thought Honda too.
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6935/p1010658rx1.jpg

You want cafe?

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6630/p1010689ea1.jpg

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/4242/p1010691ku1.jpg

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2765/p1010664aa3.jpg

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6719/p1010683uc1.jpg

this bike was way cool-
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5454/p1010680gx4.jpg

the exhaust was a work of art-
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9490/p1010681gu5.jpg