I just purchased a 2023 Honda 125 Trail in Green. I live in Michigan so it’s gonna be a few months before I can ride it. Living vicariously through you. 😂. you make your coffee and everything like I do keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.
Daryl, Thanks for watching and your comment, much appreciated. When I made that video, I thought that old crane had been sitting there for a decade or more as it showed up in Google Maps satellite view. It has now been moved and is no longer at the quarry. Maybe it was sold for scrap or sold to a restorer of old equipment. It is still on Google Maps though here: www.google.com/maps/@29.0826612,-82.6854108,145m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu I have two red Trail 125s and two green Trail 125s and you made a good choice.. Please check back in when yours arrives... much appreciated.
Dario, Thanks for watching the video and your question. I bought my first motorcycle in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1971, while stationed there when I was in the Army. It was a Yamaha 250 twin. When I finished my tour with the Army, I moved to Miami and worked at European Motors there in the evenings while going to school. That shop mainly worked on Triumph and MG sports cars, and that is where I developed an interest in all things British. I wore the Yamaha out and began a 40 year interest in Triumph and Norton motorcycles and had many through those years. I also developed an interest in British racing cars, and did a weekly TV show about them in the early 2000s. If you look back in my RUclips videos, you will find those old shows about British racing cars. One of those shows has a short clip of one of my Triumph motorcycles. About 10 years ago, I met "Lightfoot" and she had a scooter. I bought a 1984 Honda Gyro so I would have something to ride with her. That led to more Gyros, Aero 50s and Elite 50s. After I turned 65, I realized that when I came home from a ride on the Triumph 650, I was hot, exhausted and tired, and thankful that I was still alive. When I came home from a ride on a small scooter, I was cool and relaxed, and had a grin on my face. That day, I sold my last Triumph and began buying and restoring small Honda scooters.. LOL.. I made many trips to Japan and Thailand over those 10 years, and wanted a Super Cub 110. When the Super Cub 125 came to the US in 2019, I bought one, and that swung my interest toward Cubs.. I currently have about 25 small scooters and motorcycles, all licensed and running, and I ride each of them in rotation, so each one gets ridden once a month. The complete list, with photos of each is on my web site www.vintagegarage.com.
@@Vintage_Garage I so much appreciate you taking the time to share your connection with motorsports, what a colorful life! It is undeniable for all of us motorcycle riders that the passion for riding stays on forever, even if it be a bicycle with a motor in our golden years... Just like you, everytime I would come back home from a mountain ride I would be completely spent, mentally spent mind you, mind completely blank from stress (I had mostly sport 900cc Hondas). Common sense started to creep on my after my 50's and a bout with cancer. I knew that my body reflexes and the mental ability were diminishing with age. I also knew that it is next to impossible to ride a sport motorcycle slow (is like trying to go for a relaxed Sunday stroll in the beach with a purebreed!) so, eventually traded my CB 900 RR for a Silverwing scooter, and as you, now ride with a silly grin in my face, come back from rides totally fresh, enjoy the surroundings and smell the nature smells, to this day, at 67. Watching you on those short trips also puts a silly smile in my face. Thank you for your services to our country, and thank you for sharing a portion of your life with us, all your followers! Cheerio!
Thanks for your kind words and also your story. I have 7 years on you, and that Silverwing might be too big for you in 7 years. Better have something smaller in reserve..for about 6 years from now, maybe a PCX.. LOL When I am too feeble to ride Cubs, I have a couple of Honda Sprees in reserve... LOL LOL
@@Vintage_Garage Ahhhhh, it actually is beginning to be to heavy now... But yes, unless Honda invents a scooter that levitates by then, it will be between the PCX, or the Cubs, the Super or the Cross, and the truth right now is that I am leaning more toward a red Cross.....
Love your videos. Glad to see you're enjoying your Honda Trail 125. I'm still on the waiting list at my dealership. Just as well since it's still snowing and the roads are covered in snow and ice here. Take care.
John, Thanks for the kind words.. glad to hear from Alaska. I spent a couple of summers at Barrow when I was in the Army in the early 1970s. My favorite place in Fairbanks was "Bill's Root Beer Stand".. long gone by now, I imagine..
Of course you know that this will be one of my favorite videos ever reminiscent of all of our Japanese friends and their incredible peaceful accounts of traveling through their country and stopping to make coffee camping overnight etc. you have brought the entire feel of that I'm here on Google maps on the satellite view looking at that old rusty crane and wondering why it is there and what used to happen in that man-made lake that was being dredged I hope you can fill me in on the details about that so incredibly happy you presented this to us thank you so much.... Beautiful
Greg.. thanks.. also I appreciate the mention of our Japanese friends. I had forgotten to include the Thai and Japanese translations in the description for the video.. now fixed.. much appreciated.
I really enjoy your videos and hope someday to make some of my own. I envy how you spend your time in your retirement. Being retired myself your videos inspire me to take more time doing what is enjoyable to me.
Thanks for the kind words.. yes, every day that is left unused is a day lost.. My health is still very good, but there are not that many days left for me , so I should try to do something new every day.
Thanks.. I wish I wasn't so "old and slow", but at least I am enjoying life out there.. I think my next video will be back at Gulf Hammock, riding though the swamps north of that crane...
Love it, so when I do the same remember that imitation is the best form of flattery. I follow a Japanese fellow that does this but goes to the vending machines for noodles.
I hear you.. back when we were all waiting for our Honda Trail 125's to arrive at the dealers, we were planning to each make a coffee video with them. I look forward to watching yours when it is ready, and certainly won't find fault with any of it. No hurry though, I am subscribed to your channel and will see it when you have it ready. I also follow the Vetch-Channel at: ruclips.net/channel/UC7kwBBzjzreWm5Y1fOdgLxA and enjoy his "Ramen Touring" videos, such as this one: ruclips.net/video/8x-ibORBw0Q/видео.html He sets a very high bar, but I think I'll probably make a Ramen video as well, done in his style, but it will be tough for me to duplicate his artistry and story telling, so all I can do is give it my best shot.
Daryl, I hear you. That is a good idea.. The video would have to be mostly old photographs though, as I don't have much old video, except for the TV show videos I made 20 years ago. The reason I don't speak in my RUclips videos is that I don't speak Thai or Japanese very well, and RUclips analytics tells me that 1/4 of my viewers are from Japan and almost that many from Thailand. I'm 76 years old now and have been retired in Florida for about 15 years. I get a lot of comments that my videos are too "old and slow".. LOL.. if you start watching one while laying in bed, the next thing you will see is morning daylight, and you will have missed the second half of the video! If you go to my channel at: ruclips.net/channel/UCF-t41lQEe8TyrBpFx1Xjvw and then click on the words "and 13 more links" and scroll down, you will see a list of my favorite channels. I think you would enjoy watching the videos from any of those channels.
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I just purchased a 2023 Honda 125 Trail in Green. I live in Michigan so it’s gonna be a few months before I can ride it. Living vicariously through you. 😂. you make your coffee and everything like I do keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.
Daryl, Thanks for watching and your comment, much appreciated. When I made that video, I thought that old crane had been sitting there for a decade or more as it showed up in Google Maps satellite view. It has now been moved and is no longer at the quarry. Maybe it was sold for scrap or sold to a restorer of old equipment. It is still on Google Maps though here:
www.google.com/maps/@29.0826612,-82.6854108,145m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
I have two red Trail 125s and two green Trail 125s and you made a good choice.. Please check back in when yours arrives... much appreciated.
It would really be nice to know how and when you got started with motorcycling, what kind of motorcycles have you had until today.....
Dario, Thanks for watching the video and your question. I bought my first motorcycle in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1971, while stationed there when I was in the Army. It was a Yamaha 250 twin. When I finished my tour with the Army, I moved to Miami and worked at European Motors there in the evenings while going to school. That shop mainly worked on Triumph and MG sports cars, and that is where I developed an interest in all things British. I wore the Yamaha out and began a 40 year interest in Triumph and Norton motorcycles and had many through those years. I also developed an interest in British racing cars, and did a weekly TV show about them in the early 2000s. If you look back in my RUclips videos, you will find those old shows about British racing cars. One of those shows has a short clip of one of my Triumph motorcycles. About 10 years ago, I met "Lightfoot" and she had a scooter. I bought a 1984 Honda Gyro so I would have something to ride with her. That led to more Gyros, Aero 50s and Elite 50s. After I turned 65, I realized that when I came home from a ride on the Triumph 650, I was hot, exhausted and tired, and thankful that I was still alive. When I came home from a ride on a small scooter, I was cool and relaxed, and had a grin on my face. That day, I sold my last Triumph and began buying and restoring small Honda scooters.. LOL.. I made many trips to Japan and Thailand over those 10 years, and wanted a Super Cub 110. When the Super Cub 125 came to the US in 2019, I bought one, and that swung my interest toward Cubs.. I currently have about 25 small scooters and motorcycles, all licensed and running, and I ride each of them in rotation, so each one gets ridden once a month. The complete list, with photos of each is on my web site www.vintagegarage.com.
@@Vintage_Garage I so much appreciate you taking the time to share your connection with motorsports, what a colorful life! It is undeniable for all of us motorcycle riders that the passion for riding stays on forever, even if it be a bicycle with a motor in our golden years...
Just like you, everytime I would come back home from a mountain ride I would be completely spent, mentally spent mind you, mind completely blank from stress (I had mostly sport 900cc Hondas). Common sense started to creep on my after my 50's and a bout with cancer. I knew that my body reflexes and the mental ability were diminishing with age. I also knew that it is next to impossible to ride a sport motorcycle slow (is like trying to go for a relaxed Sunday stroll in the beach with a purebreed!) so, eventually traded my CB 900 RR for a Silverwing scooter, and as you, now ride with a silly grin in my face, come back from rides totally fresh, enjoy the surroundings and smell the nature smells, to this day, at 67. Watching you on those short trips also puts a silly smile in my face.
Thank you for your services to our country, and thank you for sharing a portion of your life with us, all your followers!
Cheerio!
Thanks for your kind words and also your story. I have 7 years on you, and that Silverwing might be too big for you in 7 years. Better have something smaller in reserve..for about 6 years from now, maybe a PCX.. LOL When I am too feeble to ride Cubs, I have a couple of Honda Sprees in reserve... LOL LOL
@@Vintage_Garage Ahhhhh, it actually is beginning to be to heavy now... But yes, unless Honda invents a scooter that levitates by then, it will be between the PCX, or the Cubs, the Super or the Cross, and the truth right now is that I am leaning more toward a red Cross.....
I meant Trial, not cross
Love your videos. Glad to see you're enjoying your Honda Trail 125. I'm still on the waiting list at my dealership. Just as well since it's still snowing and the roads are covered in snow and ice here. Take care.
John, Thanks for the kind words.. glad to hear from Alaska. I spent a couple of summers at Barrow when I was in the Army in the early 1970s. My favorite place in Fairbanks was "Bill's Root Beer Stand".. long gone by now, I imagine..
Of course you know that this will be one of my favorite videos ever
reminiscent of all of our Japanese friends and their incredible peaceful accounts of traveling through their country and stopping to make coffee
camping overnight etc.
you have brought the entire feel of that
I'm here on Google maps on the satellite view looking at that old rusty crane and wondering why it is there and what used to happen in that man-made lake that was being dredged
I hope you can fill me in on the details about that
so incredibly happy you presented this to us
thank you so much.... Beautiful
Greg.. thanks.. also I appreciate the mention of our Japanese friends. I had forgotten to include the Thai and Japanese translations in the description for the video.. now fixed.. much appreciated.
@@Vintage_Garage I'm glad you did they will appreciate seeing these sorts of videos over here in North America
Awesome! Thank you for the video!
Thanks for the kind words.. much appreciated.
I really enjoy your videos and hope someday to make some of my own. I envy how you spend your time in your retirement. Being retired myself your videos inspire me to take more time doing what is enjoyable to me.
Thanks for the kind words.. yes, every day that is left unused is a day lost.. My health is still very good, but there are not that many days left for me , so I should try to do something new every day.
Thank you sharing. You have a prefect set for taking a break🙌
Thanks.. I wish I wasn't so "old and slow", but at least I am enjoying life out there.. I think my next video will be back at Gulf Hammock, riding though the swamps north of that crane...
Love it, so when I do the same remember that imitation is the best form of flattery. I follow a Japanese fellow that does this but goes to the vending machines for noodles.
I hear you.. back when we were all waiting for our Honda Trail 125's to arrive at the dealers, we were planning to each make a coffee video with them. I look forward to watching yours when it is ready, and certainly won't find fault with any of it. No hurry though, I am subscribed to your channel and will see it when you have it ready.
I also follow the Vetch-Channel at:
ruclips.net/channel/UC7kwBBzjzreWm5Y1fOdgLxA
and enjoy his "Ramen Touring" videos, such as this one:
ruclips.net/video/8x-ibORBw0Q/видео.html
He sets a very high bar, but I think I'll probably make a Ramen video as well, done in his style, but it will be tough for me to duplicate his artistry and story telling, so all I can do is give it my best shot.
It’d be awesome in one of your videos if you could tell us a little bit about yourself.
Daryl, I hear you. That is a good idea.. The video would have to be mostly old photographs though, as I don't have much old video, except for the TV show videos I made 20 years ago. The reason I don't speak in my RUclips videos is that I don't speak Thai or Japanese very well, and RUclips analytics tells me that 1/4 of my viewers are from Japan and almost that many from Thailand. I'm 76 years old now and have been retired in Florida for about 15 years. I get a lot of comments that my videos are too "old and slow".. LOL.. if you start watching one while laying in bed, the next thing you will see is morning daylight, and you will have missed the second half of the video! If you go to my channel at:
ruclips.net/channel/UCF-t41lQEe8TyrBpFx1Xjvw and then click on the words "and 13 more links" and scroll down, you will see a list of my favorite channels. I think you would enjoy watching the videos from any of those channels.
@@Vintage_Garage awesome, I don’t find them boring at all. You are living my dream. Keep up the great job. Thanks for sharing and responding.