Once upon a time, there were "Catalog Bikes" I got my first "catalog" bike in 1967. Escondido, CA Montgomery Ward store had the mighty 450SS on sale for $159 at Christmas time. My dad bought it, and we brought it home in the trunk of our 1966 Ford LTD. After 2nd gear ran and hid about a year later, I moved "up" to a Sears (Gilera) 106SS. It served me well, even though a college friend fried the engine and we spent many late nights shoehorning in a MotoGuzzi 125 ISDT engine. But that is another story entirely. |
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