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Wow 55 years of riding. Amazing! Which was your first bike?

1964 Yamaha YG1KT. 80cc of pure excitement, :) For the record, it was RED.

I googled it, what a cool bike! Do you still have it? Many people always have an attachment for their "firsts"

It carried me quite a ways for a small two stroke. I learned a lot about wrenching from it and had a LOT of fun with it. It started my love of two wheels.

I finally wore it completely out, wasn't worth fixing any more. So I used the wheels to build a welding cart and it stuck with me for another 20 years. I'm sitting here smiling just thinking about it...

Oh how beautiful! We can always keep small parts of old stuff, just to remind us from where we have started. I also tend to do that, use the old and incorporate it into something new.