| My first Motorbike was a 1929 Harley-Davidson with | | | | The year was 1953 and the cost of this old-timer |
| sidecar. My father with my younger brother took me | | | | motorbike was $20. I held on to that bike for about |
| to pick it up and we towed it home with a rope | | | | 4 years and then decided that it was worthless and |
| behind the car and me, at the age of 18 years, | | | | sold it for $25 in order to buy a real motorbike the |
| hanging on to the wide handlebars for grim life. | | | | latest ' Red Hunter'. |
| I didn't have a motorbike license at the time but | | | | If only I had known that by the time I retired 50 |
| quickly had it out on the back roads with my brother | | | | years later the Harley Davidson would have been |
| in the sidecar. It wasn't the fastest of motorbikes | | | | worth my total retirement package and more. But |
| but it could have pulled a house down with two | | | | that's life none of us could have thought in the 1950s |
| 650cc pots in a V. | | | | the eventual collector value of machines and books |
| I remember well on the first outing when my brother | | | | and comics were to be some 50 years later. |
| pushed the handlebars to onside sending the machine | | | | Some years later while a college student I bought a |
| out into the center of the road he could see the | | | | second hand BSA 500 single pot and graduated to |
| parked car, which the sidecar was heading straight at | | | | other bikes along the years. I did many trips on |
| while I was concentrating in just working the gears | | | | different machines and even tried motor scooters |
| and the clutch system of the old-timer classic Harley | | | | but I still remember with great fondness my first |
| Davidson. | | | | motorbike the 1929 Harley Davidson with sidecar. |