Sometimes I forget how cool it was.
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Custom Chopper was probably my favorite magazine at that time.
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I usually don't dig chops with stretched frames and long narrowed wide glides as much as I do on this ride. This bike is just about perfect. It was somewhat rare to run a rear 18" at that time.
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Fashion was still influenced by the 60's. It was cool that they just used the guy's girl friends for models instead of the (strippers), poser models of today.
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Peace signs and...
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... bell bottoms.
Hopefully this post will keep M.D. from getting the blues again.
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