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[argonsagas]

Scotty: The Chinatown you saw is gone. Still a bit of it exists, but mostly it shifted west and got much larger. All the later versions of David Carradine's Kung Fu were filmed there. Chinatown also split into other areas of the city, mixed with Korean and Viet Namese shops. The city has been re-amalgamated, to make a larger single entity...now you drive 45 miles on the freeway to cross Toronto itself, and even longer if you add in the connecting municipalities. Highway 401 (east-west) across Toronto was 4 lanes and brand new then; today it is 12 in parts, and traffic moves slower.

Hmm....35 years ago I was just getting into biking, riding a Jawa 250. No cross-country touring on that, but I drove it about 25-30 miles to work, and then back, and played with it afterwards and on weekends.

I even tried 2-up driving a few times. Bit difficult on the highways, but it worked. (Both of us were light). What a difference with the GS1100!

 

[Anonymous]

Hmm....35 years ago I was just getting into biking, riding a Jawa 250. No cross-country touring on that, but I drove it about 25-30 miles to work, and then back, and played with it afterwards and on weekends.

I even tried 2-up driving a few times. Bit difficult on the highways, but it worked. (Both of us were light). What a difference with the GS1100!

I HAD A JAWA 250 AND SO DID MY BUDY BIGDADDY--ONE WAS A TRIALS AND ONE WAS AN ENDURO--I DONT REMEMBER WHICH ONE I HAD BUT IT WAS THE TAME ONE THAT WAS EASILY RIDDEN AT SLOW SPEEDS AND IN THE DIRT--THE OTHER ONE WAS A BEAST AND WOULD WHEELIE WITH JUST A BIT OF THROTTLE AND ALSO WOULD STALL IF YOU TRIED TO DRIVE IT EASY

 

[argonsagas]

Jawa 250

Jawa 250

I had neither of those. Just a little street bike that never knew the meaning of wheelie, except when I took it over the top of a little knoll at about 40mph. and it got a bit of air. A great first bike. It stood up very well to my driving, and it was pushed hard, and often.

It wasn't even mine, actually. A friend who had been on bikes forever wanted me on one, and gave it to me to learn on. I had it for two years, then bought the Triumph I wrote about in your post " Now the Forum's are up and running". I don't remember ever going down with the Jawa, but with the Army Triumph ....adventure time!

That bike taught me a lot of respect for British soldiers. The Triumph proved indestructible, but it treated you like a western rodeo horse: if you made a mistake, you were either off it or under it (I've been both). Those soldiers had to be tremendously good riders to stay on it and ride like hell in war zones. Hat (and helmet) off to them!