My first was a '67 Kawasaki J1TL: a two stroke, rotary disc valve, 4 speed rotary shift, maroon colored (yeech!
), moving speed bump.
I ordered it from Alden's catalog for $200 something and picked it up from their loading dock. Kawasaki still was trying to bank on their "Aircraft Company" name,
and the Chrome was covered in some blue anti-corrosion during shipping stuff.
If it were not for the short, skinny, gawky-lookin', pimply faced kid usually sitting on top, those white walls made it
a real chick magnet!
It died, on a Friday evening on west Diversey Ave. in Chicago in a head on colision with a '61 Pontiac that crossed the centerline. I lived, with a scrape on my International Orange Bell helmet
and a sore wrist. The centerline of the front axle ended up behind the centerline of the crank shaft. The Pontiac?..it had a clean spot on it's front chrome bumper where my front tire hit it.
It's demise wasn't all bad as it made me get my
first GTR......a
Bridgestone 350 GTR, now that
was a chick magnet! (as long as my helmet and sungasses were on.)