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   07-26-2008, 10:13 AM
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Re: Poll: who is younger than their motorcycle?
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well the bike is a 79 and im an 82

79 cx500 custom (sonofabitch)
any day there not shoveling dirt on your face is a good one
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   08-03-2008, 7:07 PM
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Re: Poll: who is younger than their motorcycle?
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im 9 years younger than my bike haha

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   08-06-2008, 11:53 AM
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My '79 cx is 9 years the senior of me, but my yamaha dirt bike only has 6 years up on me. There's just somethin about that time in motorcycle design... 
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   08-12-2008, 8:29 AM
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I'm 6 years older than most of my bike (79D), 7 years older than my engine(80C).
1979 cx500D/1980 CX500C engine
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   08-29-2008, 7:09 AM
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youngin here. bikes a 79, im an 85
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   08-30-2008, 9:51 AM
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Re: Poll: who is younger than their motorcycle?
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the Cx is older by 2 years, the XL is older by 11 years, the BSA is older by 14 years, but im older than the sabre by 2 years. Vintage bikes just follow me home, i swear.


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   09-21-2008, 6:44 PM
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i'm 24, my 82 cx500 is 26. but many of my other bikes are in the late 60's and early 70's. my favorite being my 1968 honda dream 300 (305 cc)!!!!
1968 Honda 300 Dream
1971 Suzuki Titan 500
1982 Honda cb750k
1982 Honda 250
1982 Honda cx500 C
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   09-29-2008, 5:44 PM
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My son just bought his first bike, a 81 CX500 Custom, he was born in 1989 so that makes him 8 years younger than the bike!!!

1983 CX 650C
(1980 CX 500 Custom) my first bike bought new
(1981 CX 500 Deluxe)
(Bikes I have owned in the past)
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   10-01-2008, 12:55 PM
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Depending on when mine rolled out, I'm the same age. Bike is an 81 and so am I =) and I just hit the 27 year mark yesterday
Don't do anything I wouldn't do, but if you do, name it after me!
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   10-01-2008, 1:17 PM
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Happy Birthday!

You can find the Date of Manufacture in the upper corner of the headstock label.  It will say something like "11/80."

R


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   10-01-2008, 3:13 PM
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My cx500 is an '82. My cj360 is a '76.

I'm just a few months shy of 20.



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   10-01-2008, 5:21 PM
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I was 6 the year my bike was made. I love to think that maybe it rode past me sometime. We have both been in New England our whole lives...

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   10-04-2008, 3:23 AM
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Not me, but my son has an 1980 CX and he wasnt born until 1982

Down to one project/rat bike now, when I get a 'round tuit'
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im about 3 years younger than my 78, but we seem to have aged about the same, but at least the bike can be made beautiful again, lol
Sad too see her go, but love to hear her leave!
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I have a '78 and I was born in '88. I cant wait to get plates and start riding!
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I gotta stop reading this thread.  It makes me feel old.

R


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My mid-life crisis has two wheels.
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+1 Randall    My cx was born in '81 and I was born in '66 . There hows that make you feel now?

Keith


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Three years less old.

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