Glad I found the site

Welcome to the forum. Yes, I wanted a motorbike so badly as a boy. I would see Whizzer ads in magazines like Popular Mechanics and even ads for little bumblebee motors, I think they were called, which were friction drive and fit on the front fork. It took more pop bottle to cash in than I could find to buy one so like everybody else, put playing cards against the spokes held on to the frame with clothes pins. Sounded kindalittlebit like a motor and great gas mileage. I had to wait half a century to get my first motor and have now satisfied the 12 year old who is the real me, wind in the face, smilin', smilin'. Ha!
SB

Ol' silver has some cool stuff to be sure & while I hope he's got the time to share some of it w/you - in the meantime I figured I'd mention that if ya click his (or anyone's) username & "view public profile" on the drop down menu that appears, you'll be brought to their profile which includes such wonderfulness as "Find all threads started by..."

Good ta have ya here woodsman, ya may find this of interest: http://motorbicycling.com/f28/age-poll-how-old-we-15847-3.html

Barely,
Flattery, sir, will get you everywhere.
Woodsman.
I am a motorbicycle addict with no parents to rein me in and say, "Enough already!" The first time I just wanted to be able to ride and couldn't get it together fast enough, a 63 Schwinn American. (Well, there had been a few bikebug builds prior to that, but they don't count... I hit the 'big time' with the 2 stroke china girl engine and was now hooked. Then I built another 63 American even though there was nothing wrong with the first one. Then a 1939 Elgin step through. This summer a Worksman News Boy and just finishing up a 1950 Schwinn Motorbike with a four stroke. And already need my builder's fix with a new project, a 1934 Elgin step through. I still love riding with the dog in tow behind me, but now the process of planning and building a bike is every bit as rewarding as riding it. I like how I feel when the creative juices flow and I have a project to figure out, lavish my meager financial resources on and devote my full attention to making it as well as I know how... so my skills are improving and some things that were once hard are now easy. It's nice on a blustery winter day to be inside near the wood stove working on a build to be tried out in the spring when the snow is gone and a new riding season has begun. It gives me something to do in my geezer years and this forum gives me a community of like minded people, young and old, to share things with. Pretty cool fun.
SB