For a period of time spanning almost 50 years...

[Inusuit]

Looks like a thumper. Is that a single cylinder? I thought BSA was the only one of those from that era.

I had a couple of 441 BSA thumpers, a Victor Special and a Shooting Star. Triumph, Matchless, AJS, Yamaha and others made single-cylinder bikes.

 

[Imissedagain]

The only two bike allowed at Castle AFB, in the mid '60s, were my older NCO buddies BSA and Triumph Thumpers.
When I made NCO the base Commander gave me permission to buy and bring a bike on base. He told me I must wear a helmet and no bell bottom pants.
What he didn't know was that I was building a Harley hard tail chopper with '54 K/KH parts and got a 61' XLCH engine from Modesto Harley that was geared tall.
One of my smallbore team mates, was OIC of the motor pool, so I had access to lotsa tools.

 

[Imissedagain]

Looks like a thumper. Is that a single cylinder? I thought BSA was the only one of those from that era.

IIRC the Diana was a 250cc.

 

[Eagle 477]

Been riding since the mid 60's Everything from Yamaha DT250 dirt bike to Harley Road King my current is a 2010 Harley FatBoy Lo designed for us short legged older people... Haven't ridden in several years due to the wife's medical condition and way TOOOO many close calls with younger people that think split the line / and crossing the yellow line driving is normal. Also Road rage is not a good thing while carrying My Tolerance level for stupid drivers is getting shorter daily

 

[chief38]

Back in the day we'd call them bar hoppers-lol

 

[walkin jack]

Some of my scooters:
Honda V-65 Magna
Honda 125-Dream (Had this one on Okinawa)
Hodaka 125 ( I'm on the Yellow
Kawasaki 500

 

[The Big D]

Sold my Harley yesterday.

Pardon the thread drift; sold my 2018 HD FXLR yesterday.

Five (5) problem free years with but simply did not ride enough lately. I believe one must ride regularly to maintain critical skills.

Sold it for $15K. Cost of ownership was a mere $4K for those years. (Cost of bike new plus pipes, bags, windshield, etc.)

Pretty good deal, I think.

Had $4K worth of fun certainly. That included the 9/11 ride from Shanksville to the Pentagon to WTC site in 2018.

To all of you, ride safely and have big fun!

Cheers!

 

[Rich Richardson]

Still riding at 72. I ride the Ducati in Arizona in the winter and the Suzuki in the Colorado mountains in the summer. I'll ride until I can't.