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Motorcycle & Scooter

JohnnyRingo

(19,324 posts)

5. Honda Dream 305.

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 06:13 AM

Dec 2011

I've had Harleys as did my dad before me and I loved them, but now I see a certain bad to the bone geek factor in the old Hondas from the '60s.

Back then the slogan was "you meet the nicest kind of people on a Honda", and that is more true now than ever. Imagine the crowd that will gather in a gaggle of factory fresh Harleys, all looking vaguely similar, when you pull up on a truly unique symbol of the past:

A Dream rider can wheel up and look over at the HD next to him and say "Nice Harley, what year is it?" Hahaha

Both my sons had HDs too when they started out riding years ago. Because of the conformity and proliference of weekend warriors, the oldest now has a Buel and my youngest rides a Ducati.

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