My first motorized two wheeler was a 1947 Cushman. One of those with the body covering the engine and a centrifugal clutch. I was 14 and too young for a car but old enough for a license. Once I had a car motorcycles were forgotten until my first hitch in the U.S. Navy. On Okinawa in 1962 I picked up a used 125cc Yamaguchi two stroke (the one in the picture). It was a real dog but reliable to a fault. I rode that thing all over the island, sometimes packing a buddy. From then on I owned a variety of bikes until I gave them up in the mid 70's. There just didn't seem to be enough time for riding and being a family man and maybe I matured a bit.
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