Captain Jim
Shiftless
Sounds identical to my experience as a lad in Texas, only in Lubbock. Not a clapped out Honda but a sketchy Yamaha 80,keeping with the graduated license approach in force at the time. Graduated to a Hodaka, 100 or 110cc to run amok.
Neighbor had a CB 350, was an aspirational machine once we got our “real “ licenses. Then came the 750 4, a vision on a far horizon….
David
I had a Triumph Bonneville the first time I came upon a Honda 750/4. It looked like a wide beast to me... when the light turned green, all I saw was his tail lights.