Scripto VU
Dukes Speed and Custom
"Roach" 1948 Hiawatha Super Doodlebug - worth a kings's ransom to me (1965)
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first bike ........this never gets old.
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"Roach" 1948 Hiawatha Super Doodlebug - worth a kings's ransom to me (1965)
first MC ha ha dad welded a frame n forks, with springs! out of mild steel, wheels were from an air powered front end jack! Once a year the 4 HP B&S motor had to go back on the roto-tiller. The tiny sprocket centrifugal clutch we ordered didn't show til years later. So direct drive, no brakes, the throttle was the slide from the rotor tiller mounted on the top frame tubes. Rode it all over, LOL Let a buddy ride it, straight into a guard rail, bent the forks back til the front wheel hit the engine. three of us straightened them enough to ride it home. After that it was the Cushman rebuild, then a Yamaha 100 street twin that I never got to run right, finally at 15 a CL77 scrambler. A real MOTORCYCLE, lots of adventures on that one!
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