"(still have parts of it)"
yeah, me too, not my 1st, but a Kawi 500 triple, a '71, I think I still have the speedo w/11K mi on it. It has the local community college parking decal on it from probably 1976. I ran across it when I was throwing a lot of stuff out but I couldn't part w/a relic like that! It's a souvenir of embarassing my electrician friend's 1000 cc Sportster every time we rode on I-95 through Ft. Lauderdale. I gave a ride home from the fire dept. to one of my buddies, he also had a Sportster (iron barrel) and when we got there, he said, "I knew I was in for trouble when you took-off and all I saw was sky all the way down the block!" He still uses it as a reference to "being barely in-control!" Personally, I wasn't that scared, but the way he grabbed-onto me, I thought he was gonna pull me off the back with him. I later bought a Honda 750F and a KZ1000 from him. All great bikes, all fun. I have pics of us on our bikes going to Spring Break on Ft. Lauderdale Beach about 1984 when Mike Love of the Beach Boys and Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean played there along with a couple of the British bands who were in heavy-rotation then, not too-long after MTV began. That was the year Easter /spring recess for colleges and universities unleashed 600,000+ students onto Ft. Lauderdale, which made the city government pass ordinances about restricting future spring break activities. They worked, they killed the spring break, the students went to Daytona Beach, Panama City, San Padre Island, and MX.
Here's a reason the city fathers wanted "Spring Break Ft. Lauderdale Beach" gone:
Here's one of the reasons spring breakers came here in the first place:
And another reason. Those three boys on the left must have had a long cold winter until they came to FL! Much of the "local talent" allegedly provided the "contests" at the oceanfront bars with contestants in-order to entice the Northern and Midwest college students with reasons to drink and to frequent the establishments. The cash awarded was another reason to show-up and to "show-it-off."
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