I still remember my first Honda motorcycles which were the very best bikes I have ever had. The first bike I got was near new in 1994 and was a 1993 model NSR500 which for those of you that don’t know is a street version of the racing bike that has won many motorcycle champion races such as the TT and the Superbike series. The second bike that I brought was a wrecker’s version of the NSR500 because unfortunately I had dropped it going around a fast corner just a little too fast. After a while I was not going so fast anymore because of the bumps and scrapes that I was enduring so in 1999 I decided to change to a completely different style of bike and upgraded to the 1500cc Honda Valkyrie which was the big laid back touring bike that resembled the Harley version only on a Honda.

This Valkyrie was the first version of the high performance tourer and I still have it on my garage though it is not used anymore. After riding this big monster of a bike for six years I decided that again it was time for a change. In 2005 I chose my next bike straight from the catalog. Again I chose a touring bike but one that was not so big because my knee could no longer hold up the weight of a big bike and I was always dropping the Valkyrie when I stopped quickly at sets of lights. The Honda 919 was an uncovered or naked version of the CBR900 which had more appeal to me because there were no fairings. I still ride this bike everywhere I go now and it has always been a reliable vehicle like all the Honda motorcycles I have owned before it.