Australian Road Rider

109, BY MISTAKE

Other than having a Honda 250 “Dream” in the early ‘70s, I had a very late introduction to road motorcycles and had never even sat on a cruiser. I had owned and rode several trail bikes in my 20s and had assisted with mustering on my son’s property. I still had the old Suzuki TS 185 that I preferred to ride when on the station. Those 400s were just too high to get my weary old legs over and were too big for me to manhandle in the sand hills.

Just prior to my 60th birthday a friend bought a Harley and set about trying to convince

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