Motorcycle Alabama

Open House => Open Discussion about Motorcycles => Topic started by: lk2rd on November 16, 2016, 09:38:58 AM

Title: Remember when...
Post by: lk2rd on November 16, 2016, 09:38:58 AM
...motorcycles were called "motors"?  Example; "Are you going to ride your motor, today?"  My mother in law asked me about my "motor" the other day.  I hadn't thought of that expression in years.

Got any more motorcycle "remember whens"?  Post them up.
Title: Remember when...
Post by: Nice Goat on November 16, 2016, 12:39:40 PM
Never heard that one.

Remember when motorcycle shops were small, hole-in-the-wall type places instead of the big corporate boutiques that many of them are now?
Title: Re: Remember when...
Post by: lk2rd on November 16, 2016, 01:58:56 PM
... the engine covers were held on by butter-soft phillips head screws that could only be removed with an impact driver.  How did the factory get those buggers on so tight?
Title: Re: Remember when...
Post by: jrobinson on November 16, 2016, 02:14:13 PM
...every bike was used for off road riding
Title: Re: Remember when...
Post by: sctparker on November 16, 2016, 04:32:09 PM
Remember when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous
Title: Re: Remember when...
Post by: lk2rd on November 16, 2016, 04:35:03 PM
... Goodyear made motorcycle tires?  I put Goodyears on my first bike- a  Kawasaki H1 Mach III.  I sure they did wonders for the handling of such a sublime motorcycle.
Title: Re: Remember when...
Post by: 2smoke on November 16, 2016, 06:50:15 PM
Yes, I remember a motorcycle being called a motor. Brother in law has used that term in recent years. I still have my impact driver from Smith Brothers in Tarrant. The shop was in an old house. Just bikes lined up, parts hanging on the wall and a counter. Lots of folks wore the snap on 'bubble' shield on an open face helmet then. Many of them were amber. I had a 'full coverage' blue/black/gray metal flake helmet. I really wanted the Bell Star. But it cost a whopping 60.00  :o