My main ride is a 91 Honda VFR 750 Street Fighter (the red one)I've modded out a bit. My scoot around town is a 2006 Yamaha Morphous 250 cc cruiser scooter (the blue one). The black one is quasi my wifes, but she really doesn't ride and hasn't been enthused really to learn enough.



Old pic by the way, from just before we moved back from the east coast.

 

Here's my main ride:


1947 Indian Bonneville. I have 5 more of them. My son Harley and I are just starting to build another stocker.

Harley is the go to guy for Jap bikes around here. He has a bunch of bikes including a restored 1971 Kawasaki KZ900, a hot rodded 72 Yamaha 650, and his Kawasaki Ninja.

 

Corvallis is truly a great place for restaurants. I worked there for almost 15 years and I miss some of the great places to go.

Flat Tail is such a major improvement over Fox & Furkin (the previous place). I wasn't surprised to see Fox & Furkin go under.

You should also try Local Boys. It is at 14th and Monroe upstairs in the mini-mall. As well as treating your wife to either Big River or Iovino's for a expensive but good dinner on your anniversary.

Just don't go to town when there is either a football or basketball game. The owners of all of the eating establishments don't have the sense to check the schedules and adjust staffing on game days.

 

Nice bike! I like indians. One day I'll get an american one. Probably when my dad throws his at me! LOL! I really wood like an authentic wwII military bike.

Thanks for the recommendations Joe. There sure are plenty of restaurants there in Corvallis. The fish and chips at Flat Tail are great! I guess I should start up a list and start working through them.

 

I ride a 85 VF700c Magna and I gave my son in Portland a 82 VF750c Magna. The 700 I have had sense 1986,bit has 62,000 miles. The 82 had 13,000 on it when I fond it, gave to the boy last year and he ran it up to 18,000.

 

I have a 76 Z1 KZ900 Kawasaki. Had it since 78. Project bike right now, one of those many projects I've got to get back to. I miss riding.

Here's a pic of a some of the guys from the motorcycle "gang" I used to ride with.............

 

Cool picture, are you in it?

 

Awesome! When and where was that taken?

Also is your Kwaker the police version? Nice bike! I've owned lots, but never a Kawasaki.

 

Yes, on the left.

Taken in Newberg after the Old Fashioned Festival Parade and I think that one was in the early 90's a year or so prior to OSP getting motors. Most are Oregon agencies, but there were a couple of officers from Washington there.
If someone had something big going on and didn't have the resources locally they would put out an all agencies with motors call. If those agencies could spare them, they would send a couple. In Newberg it was mostly a "training" and recruiting thing.
We would ride formation in the parade and do silly stunts. (Well, they seem silly now). We also helped them out with traffic and crowd control. Not counting funerals for officers killed in LOD incidents in Oregon or Washington, there were about a half dozen events around the state we made plans for every year.

My Cow is a civilian bike - a demo machine used by the Kawasaki Regional Rep. It's the same model though that Kawasaki took to CHP as a bare bike and said, "tell us what to do to make a Police Bike". Shortly thereafter Jon, Ponch and CHiPs was born.