Issanman

Honda CL350 at Camp Drake, Japan 1970.
Honda S series mini sports cars and a Ford Galaxy convertible in the background. 

7 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Great stuff lost all my pictures on a number of move abouts when young.

What a good photo library to have. ????

I have lost or misplaced many of my original pictures. But I always kept the negatives.
About 10 or 15 years ago I scanned all of my negatives into my computer memory and keep several copies. 

19 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Good looking bikes, unlike many bikers I've never been one for 2 stokes.

 

 

That little NSR showed me over 160kph with my wife riding on the back. 

Great brakes and easy handling.  I think it was 75000฿ new.

I quickly grew tired of the riding position. No more crotch rockets for me after that.

Some of the guys I rode with in Japan during the time I had my A7 Avenger. 1970-1971

We were called the Auto Duck Club. 

About 50 members in all. Based at Kitatama Motors Kawasaki shop in western Tokyo. 

May 1973 I bought new, one of the very first Z1 Kawasakis sold in my area of Florida. $1995

Largo, Florida 1973

Seaside, California 1974, now with Dunlop TT100 K81 tires and Koni shocks. 

Kawasaki Mach III 500 

Upper Arlington, Ohio 1972

A friend and I did a round trip from Columbus, Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee summer 1972. 
He rode his brand new 1972 H2 750. 

During our return trip coming back from Nashville on a cool and humid night ride on I-75 through Kentucky, we got into a high speed top end race with a 429 CobraJet Torino. Somehow my H1 ended up in front of both the H2 and the CJ. Go figure. My friend wasn’t thrilled about it and the CJ guy lost the race or maybe just chickened out.
From a stoplight, my H1 couldn’t get near the H2. Not even close. 

Less than a year later and I had an actual DL. My dad payed for half of this 1967 Kawasaki 350 Avenger. 

My first bike. Tokorozawa Japan late 1969. I was 15 years old. 
The bike was previously used as a shuttle at a Toshiba factory and was painted the Toshiba colors of red and yellow. It was slightly refurbished and presented to me for helping out in a small Honda shop during the summer of 1969. 

Honda Super Cub, unknown year

19 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

They reckon to be classified as classic it's 30years old. 

What bikers here have bikes that are 30 years old or more. 

How about cool bikes we once owned but no longer own?

Is that OK?

I have pictures. 

I moved to Phuket over a year ago and I love it.

The traffic is starting to suck now, but I am walking distance from anything I need, other than immigration. 

If you think it is too expensive here, then you didn't stay long enough to learn where the bargains are. 

I have my own wheels. So I never need expensive taxis or minivans. 

There is a lot more here to see than tourist areas and traffic jams.

I lived in a rented house outside of Udon Thani in the mid 70s. We were buying Thai sticks wrapped in newspaper, 3 layers of 7 sticks per bundle. 

21 sticks for 20 baht or $1. 

I found a couple of pictures from back then.

Back to the present day, I recently bought a very fresh batch of NKP red string from a distributors house on the Mekong river in NKP. I had lived near that area for years (now living in Phuket) and have some good friends there that pointed me in the right direction during a road trip we recently took up there.

This is the best brick weed I have sampled since forever. The very clean and clear quality of the high is far better than any of the old brown brick weed from the past and made me think of the old Thai stick days. The smell is also very similar to the original Thai stick weed, as I remember it.

Where I am staying now in Phuket, I can walk to 5 or 10 different weed shops in a few minutes. Seems like a new shop opens every day. But they will no longer be seeing my face in any of those shops. The weed they are selling looks very nice, but costs hundreds of times more per gram than the 3.3฿ per gram that I paid for my NKP brick weed. And there is very little difference in the strength. I still have some of the megabuck weed that I bought before our road trip to compare it to directly.  

Happy days are here again. "Highly" recommended.

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