Where Were you in 1975? - ThrowbackThursday

[WingStuff]

The Goldwing was announced 40 years ago this month for the 1975 model year. What memorable moments happened for you during that time?

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[Ixol Phaane]

Junior High. :icon_biggrin:

[six2go]

I was in my 11th year of working at GE. Only had 25 more to go until I "hung it up".

[Scotrod]

4th grade,,,

[Lancer]

Daycare. :nono:

[Scotrod]

Junior High. :icon_biggrin:


4th grade,,,


Daycare. :nono:


Probably NOT what the OP (older poster?) anticipated!!!

[SpeedyWho]

I was negative 5. :shock::icon_biggrin: I'm in the younger demographic of Goldwing owners

[DMAGOLDRDR]

I was still in High School and riding a KZ400, BUT eventually owned 6 different GL1000s.
All but a 1977. 75, 76, three 78s and still now have 78 and 79 along with a Valkyrie and F6B.
Yeah I'm kind of addicted to the old Wings.

[badpapi]

my moms belly :)
4-8-1976:shhh:

[Elroy]

I was a twinkle in my father's eye as the saying goes....born in '87

[opas ride]

I was at Anderson's Honda in Bloomfield Hills, MI purchasing the exact same bike as posted on this thread...Second one in the area to own it and rode it for a year or so...If I remember it was a nice bike but to heavy for me?? ..Traded it for a Yellow Super Sport Honda 750 which I liked much better....I was 35, married with three kids working for Ford Motor...The rest is history....Almost 40 years later, 5 kids, and 16 Grandkids...Where did the time go???? Now at almost 75, I am riding an F6B which I am sure is heavier than the 75 model...Go figure!!!

[shooter]

Junior in high school. The next year I bought a new CB750. Man that was a great bike. Over the next two years I put a 4 into 1 header on it , rejetted the carbs , and put a single K&N on top of each carb. Also went with a bigger chain and sprockets for durability and changed the gearing to help in the eighth mile.She was a runner.

[hiflyer]

I was riding my CB 450 over to my hippychic's house. My first GW was a 78 model complete with Califia fairing and bags.

[Scotrod]

it was a nice bike but to heavy for me

Now at almost 75, I am riding an F6B which I am sure is heavier than the 75 model...Go figure!!!

NEVER say NEVER, right!!??!!

HIGH FIVE Opa!!! :yes: .notworthy.

[DaWadd]

Not working and hitchhiked across western Canada then down the west coast of the US and ended up in Mexico. Then back again through the MidWest. Pretty wild for a 18 year old but lots of great stories and memories.

[bigbird]

In my second year of Industrial Arts teacher education. I was running around on a 1973 Yamaha RT360 Enduro.

[Deer Slayer]

Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Riding north central Montana.:cheers:

[Watchdog]

Junior high.

[Steve 0080]

Junior in High School, riding a 550 Honda and going to a Kaw 900.... long hair and running from the PoPo.....

[ruouthere]

Junior year of college riding an MT250.

[CheckpointChcky]

Dancing disco under the mirror ball and drinking a whole lot of beer.

[F6B1911]

I was on a cruise in the Pacific, and other bodies of water.

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[Retired Army]

That is where I got started riding Gold Wings and will retire on the F6B.

[cwjj2001]

My parents were still practicing on having me!!!!:icon_doh:

[Big Jay]

I was in 4th grade and riding a 1974 75cc Indian, not on the street of course. It was my first MC. :icon_biggrin:

[Jerry S]

Racing around on a Penton 175 and a Maico 440 - Those were the days!

[Elin in So. Cal.]

I was living and working in Europe, having divorced my spouse, and spending every weekend in winter in Switzerland skiing my buns off. In summer I was carousing with other folks, and one who happened to have this monster bike--a 650 BMW.8936
Yes, I was a hippie chick!!! Hell, I still am!

[MarcPW]

Waiting to turn 14 and get my first motorised two wheeler... the magestic Solex 49cc, followed very shortly by a littke Yamaha 50cc four speed. After that I had only Hondas; 125XLR, 750XLVR 1200GW, 1500GW and F6B

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[Injun Joe]

Just graduated high school, riding my first motorcycle -- a Honda 500/4, and helping a friend rebuild his Triumph Trident while working at a muni golf course as a grounds keeper. Working on a summer theater production of Man of La Mancha, living on my own for the first time. Did mushrooms and peyote for the first time. Reading Carlos Castenada. Between bands. Life was good.

[4bobo]

Seventh Grade....pick up my first Gold Wing Saturday so I have to make up lost time.

[Scotrod]

My parents were still practicing on having me!!!!:icon_doh:

Even with all that practice, they STILL didn't get it right!!!!

:icon_doh:

'mooning'

:icon_laugh:

[powercruzer13]

Graduating High School & starting my freshman year in college. :shock:
Married two years later then my first street bike came two years after that. Honda CB550. :yes:

[Brian D]

i wasnt born yet till 76 so i guess you could say i was still swiming in the sac lol!!!!

[Texas TC]

2 years out of college. Riding my third motorcycle, a Honda 450.

[Convert]

Working in a shop making power tools and riding a '38' Indian Chief.

[Kirkster1520]

I was a junior in high school. I didn't get my first bike, a Kawasaki KZ400, until March of 1978. Rode that for a few years and then bought a slightly used 1978 GL1000 Goldwing with Vetter fairing, bags and trunk.

[53driver]

6th grade...fascinated with girls.

[ISLANDER1089]

I had been married nearly two years and had a daughter who will be turning 40 in a couple of months. I was an engineer and just hired on at Ford Motor Company in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Money was tight so no extra cash for a bike.

[Hornblower]

By 1975, I had been working for 8 years with Duke Power Co., had 2 sons (ages 2 & 4), and was racing dirt bikes (Bultaco and later Maico). At the power company, we had some pretty cool guys working as linemen. Very often, these characters were adventurous and real characters. I'll never forget first talking to one of those guys who was the best motorcycle racer around. When I asked him about the best way to learn about riding, he simply replied, "start racing, you'll learn real fast". Well, I did that and he was right, I learned real fast but it was pretty painful along the way. Those were good days :icon_cool:.

[hossners]

I was a kid, and that was about the time I drove my uncle's 50cc Honda into an irrigation canal. "crashnburn" I was very fortunate it was full of water. The bike, not so much ...
He has since offered to come visit and ride my motorcycle into my swimming pool. The great thing about families - they never let you forget anything! :catfight:
Steve in OR

[edgeman55]

Third year of College and playing Div 1 baseball as a pitcher on a full ride.I was riding a 70 Honda 750 four that I had bought new with all my High school summer earnings.Little did I know a year later I would own a 75 Goldwing in Green that I outfitted with full Vetter gear.Loved that bike and wish I still had it.It set me on a 40 year course full of different Wings.My 13 F6B is by far the best one I have had.

[Fla_rider]

Goofing off in High School graduated in 76.:yes:

[SCMike]

I was a sophomore in high school. I was fascinated by a friend's moped, but it would be five more years before I bought my first bike, a Honda 360CL. That little bike took me all over the back roads of Teton County, Wyo., where I worked in the summers (and where I bought the bike) and back and forth from my home in Connecticut and college in Rhode Island. Unfortunately, once a I graduated and got married, the bike got sold.

[srt8-in-largo]

Who's got some cool pics from 1975?

[hiflyer]

Who's got some cool pics from 1975?

Are you kidding? I couldn't afford a motorcycle AND a camera!

[erazor55]

Just got married...

[flyboy]

Back in graduate school after Vietnam and riding a 500 Yamaha street bike, my second bike!]

[srt8-in-largo]

I sure don't miss dialing zero's or nine's on these things.


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Are you kidding? I couldn't afford a motorcycle AND a camera!

:lolup:

Oh c'mon, things were cheap back then

[srt8-in-largo]

However... it was sure great hanging up on someone with those phones. You could really SLAM that receiver down hard!

Hanging up on someone nowadays is lame; pressing a button... whatever.

[cwjj2001]

Even with all that practice, they STILL didn't get it right!!!!

:icon_doh:

'mooning'

:icon_laugh:

It took a lot of practice for them to produce "Big Sexy":clap2::hump:

[ReserveBum]

A young airmen at Clark AFB in the Phillipines....running the streets of Angeles City

[Jimmytee]

I was like 6 or 7 :icon_mrgreen: Born 18 Dec 1968

[BubbaJePH]

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Graduated High School

[hoglaw]

Sergeant in charge of the Vice Squad, Oakland, Ca, PD. Rode an old iron head Sportster which I would sometimes used undercover.

[Injun Joe]

Who's got some cool pics from 1975?

I'm getting a real kick out of this thread! (Pic is actually 1974 -- by 1975 I'd considerably hippie'd out.)

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[hoglaw]

A young airmen at Clark AFB in the Phillipines....running the streets of Angeles City

Angeles City...the Disney version of Olongopo.

[srt8-in-largo]

Cool pics! Those take me back; wish I had some to share.

[Kirkster1520]

This wasn't 1975, more than likely 1978. On my Kawasaki KZ400.

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[53driver]

A young airmen at Clark AFB in the Phillipines....running the streets of Angeles City
Back when it was "sexual disneyland"......

[BadDawg]

7th grade trying to learn how to use a clutch on my first real motorcycle,72 CL350. Dad wasn't a big fan of teaching, if you wanna ride it figure it out. He got a new CB750 and I got the keys to the 350 along with several scrapes, bruises and a big ass smile. He was good at hand me downs, I eventually got his 750 and then the Goldwing that followed. :icon_lol:

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[red dog]

the eleventh grade.....trying to get my girlfriend alone any where I possibly could......trying to keep that stupid clamp that held the front exhaust pipe on my sportster from coming loose again.....racing around out the desert on a 360 Yamaha mx I purchased from a another kid who destroyed his knee on it ......attending great big giant open parties with a rather jaded assortment of biker,hippy,lowrider kids while I should have at home studying algebra and chemistry .............'' momma tried to teach me better ......momma tried, momma tried . I have only me to blame cause momma tried......god bless Merle Haggerd,Johnny Cash,Jimmy HEndrix and all the others from that time period that are no longer with us as we journey on this ship of fools.........hope to see you up on the mountain.....red dog

[gray rider]

Working on post graduate studies and compulsively riding. I sold everything I owned and traded in my BMW R75/5 which had over 120,000 miles for a new smoke R90S. Unfortunately, I only got 28 miles on the R90S when a drunk driver came out of a one way alley going the wrong way and I center punched her. I hit her so hard the bike stuck in the side of her car which was an old heap. I flew and flipped landing on my backside. The good news was I had full leathers on with gloves. I didn't walk away but I was ok. The bike was terrible and what wasn't wrecked was finished off by the towing company when they wrapped chains around the bike and let it swing around smashing into the back off the tow truck all the way to the impound lot. The bike was totaled and I bought it back from the insurance company and repaired it with new parts throughout. I rode it 119,000+ miles before selling it. Anecdotally, I heard that the bike ended up with around 350,000 on it, which I can't prove, but like to believe is true. Like others, I continued to ride while living the middle class mundane existence of wife, kids and career. Oh yeh, I seemed to have changed wives somewhere in there, all for the better and even more riding.

[ReserveBum]

Back when it was "sexual disneyland"......

$10 in your pocket made the whole night. Drinks for you and guests, dinner, hotel, and a jeepney ride back to base in the a.m.

[WingStuff]

Wow, so many great memories, am I right? You all had me laughing. This thread turned out far better than I could have imagined!

I remember I was racing motocross as a teenager and when I saw the first GL1000 the first thing I said was, "Look at the size of that engine!" As big as it seemed to me then, I look at it now and realize how much smaller it is than the current Goldwing. That was the beginning of a legend and at the time I didn't even realize it. Good times...keep riding and making more memories :)

Rick

[bstroh59]

Junior in High School and hitting the trails on a Suzuki 185. The pic below isn't my bike, but this was the color.

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[MSGT-R]

High School, riding a Honda Mini-Trail 50 all over town. :icon_cool:

[XKnight]

I was riding around the Bronx on one of these getting ready for the bicentennial.

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[RcBtx1999]

I was in College following my Discharge from the US NAVY at the end of the Viet-Nam War. I was riding a Norton 850cc Commando, It was White (mostly) red and blue.

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[FF-Ed]

Paper route money, living in Yorktown VA. ( I hated those winter mornings, getting up before the sun to deliver those papers ) I was the only boy in the neighborhood who had a dirtbike, everyone else had those mini bikes with lawnmower engines. Yeah they can suck it...

The 1975 - XR75 (me and Evil Knievel, kickin ass & takin names):icon_twisted:

[valkmc]

Jr. in high school. 17 years old and thought I knew everything. Three things were very important to me. Wrestling on the high school team, my 1968 Mustang, and my 400 Super Sport Honda. Wished I still had the last two.

[fxdl2051]

Had just spent a year hitchhiking cross country and left a Berkely commune feeling disillusioned with it all, was going back to college to study estuarine ecology, sleeping in the backseat of the car since college was about 80 miles from home...Funny thing about the good old days, I thought they kinda sucked at the time.

[mikey]

The Goldwing was announced 40 years ago this month for the 1975 model year. What memorable moments happened for you during that time?

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i was a sophmore in h.s. & bought a 1968 honda cb 450. all was well in my world for the most part !

[Arkf6bRider]

I was 25 years old. Finished a tour in Vietnam, and getting ready for my first son.

[av8rdave]

We had just moved to the Baltimore area. My Dad's business partner was one of the first in Maryland to own a 1975 GL1000. It was an aqua-marine color. I couldn't wait to see that bike! To me, it was like seeing a UFO at Area 51.

Flash forward 25 years. A friend of mine had a bike he was selling for a friend. I went to take a look. It was an aqua-marine 1975 GL1000 with a Windjammer fairing (remember those?) It had all of 15,000 miles on it, but hadn't been ridden in years. The carbs were all gunked up, and it needed all new rubber - tires, shock seals, the works. He wanted $1000 for it. I passed.

I've kicked myself ever since.

[TnHeath]

Just finished college in '74, starting my second year as police officer in Johnson City, Tn.

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[srt8-in-largo]

How cool is that. I think I saw you on Smokey and The Bandit :icon_biggrin:

[Deer Slayer]

Minute Man III Missile Silo, near Great Falls, Montana. :yikes:

[TnHeath]

How cool is that. I think I saw you on Smokey and The Bandit :icon_biggrin:

That's a good one :icon_biggrin:.....I later became a pastor...guess you also saw me in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"? ☺️ Wish I had Jackie Gleason's nest egg (that he left behind; cause he sure didn't take any with him).

[Trike lady]

Working in a print shop in 1975.
Nice looking trike TnHeath.

[Spewey Griffin]

21 years old and working in an Aboriginal Mission on the tip of Australia. I ordered a Yammy 175DT from my 'local' (400 miles away) dealer and had it flown into the Mission on Bush Pilots. That's where and when I learnt to ride.

Memorable moment was kicking up dust coming down a red dirt road to be greeted by a Bush Python (2nd to the Anaconda) crossing the road. It's head was somewhere in the bush to the left and it's tail was somewhere in the bush to the right. I gave way to it.

The following day a crocodile ate a dog at one of the close by settlements.

Some big incentives not to fall off.:yikes:

[Navvet]

First year at Ohio State, Riding a Kaw 400......

[srt8-in-largo]

Could anybody imagine Kawasaki, or anybody, would have a 300 hp motorcycle on the road back in '75?

[Big Dawg]

I was working in my fathers machine shop and I was the first guy in Savannah to buy a 1975 GL1000. Mine was the blue/green one and I installed a white Vetter fairing on it. Three years later, I traded it for a Black 1978 GL1000.

[FJR919]

A junior in high school riding a Honda SL100.

[JackB]

I was 20 years old and I was riding a Yamaha 175 a year later I broke my leg on it. Good times

[Ryo]

I was in my Pa's scrotum...:icon_razz:

[Zteve]

Two years out of the Army and riding a Kaw Z1.

[wjduke]

In the AF, a lineman, stationed at Minot AFB, ND.....having fun?????

[Rickc]

Discharged from the Army on 9/10/1975. Road a Norton 850 Commando home to Indianapolis from Ft. Hood Tx.

[Ewreck]

3rd grade in beautiful San Jacinto CA.

[tpwood]

NAS Norfolk VA, HM-12 , Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12, Riding a 1975 Suzuki GT380, Red.

[imported_NMRed]

Air Force Tech school seeing how fast the new wing could make the run between Rantoul and Champaign Il.

[jm21ddd15]

Was riding my 1975 gold Wing, with a Windjammer III fairing, custom touring gel seat, and aftermarket hard bags. Took it from Wisconsin to Mexico. Crossed at Juarez, had lunch, and came back. Didn't need passports back then, either.

[Old Ryder]

Trying to make a living working as a mechanic to support my 1 year old daughter and wife of 3 years, at the time.

[crossbowme]

Staff officer in an engineer battalion. I have one of these in my shed - 16000 miles and #1000.

[Blk6bgg6]

Gotta tip my hat to you elders.I was 12. 6th grade.But you dudes many x military. Much respect.All others great you rode the original. God bless and be safe

[RTaz]

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[Fingerz]

In Harrisburg, PA attending grade school.

[TandemGeek]

9th grade in the Chicago suburbs (Arlington Heights / Rolling Meadows HS), recently re-located away from my dirt-bike riding friends in Northern New Jersey / Southern New York State. Bicycling became the steady substitute for my two-wheel habit until buying my first read road bike, a 1977 Honda CB550F SuperSport.

[DaWadd]

Summer of 75 I was hitch hiking down the PCH on my way to Mexico. Blurry times."coffee"

[Great Gazoo]

Riding an Arctic Cat mini bike in Walnut Creek, CA.

[Xrider57]

The Goldwing was announced 40 years ago this month for the 1975 model year. What memorable moments happened for you during that time?

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I graduated high school and was riding a Yamaha 650! My dad bought his first GW in '79 and I bought one In 1980. I dressed it with Vetter fairing, bags And trunk.

[soupbean]

Well, in 1975 I was 10 years old. My best friend at the time (Jeff) lived across the street and he had three older sisters. They had a mini bike, not exactly sure but it must have been a Z50 Honda, I remember yellow with chrome fenders and it had a transmission.
Jeff's one sister Jan, a beautiful long haired brunette, probably about 16 at the time, use to put me on the back and take me for rides around the yard. I would hold on tightly around her waist as her long hair would fly up in my face. Didn't know really know why at the time, but I loved every second of it..!
Looking back, that was probably the start of my two biggest passions.

[VStarRider]

I was born in October 1975, so I was swimming and on an Easter Egg hunt.

I didn't get into motorcycling until 2010, though I did ride dirt bikes as a kid. I have been on snowmobiles since 1998, rolling up 35,000 miles on the white stuff on six different sleds during that time.

[Pringle]

I would have been 8 years old and playing "pop warner" football right now. Not a care in the world!

[Dirtstiff's F6B]

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15 yrs old. Stripped down my Dad's 360 Yamaha and raced it in motocross and enduros.

[ths61]

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[gfnk106]

I was not even though of then. I would finally come along in 1982.

[Sorcerer]

Just finished a 2 year Votec program for welding. Just moved out of my parents house, "as long as you live in this house you'll not have a motorcycle". Girlfriend/ wife liked motorcycles so I bought a used 500cc 4 cylinder Honda. We were living in a apartment with only on street parking so the bike was kept in her moms garage.

[BuzzzPhotos]

Started riding a Honda trail 90 in 1967 at 14. Then had a 450, 500 & by the time the first Goldwing came out I had 2 kids and was doing my best to take care of them by myself. Just a few years later I bought a 1976 Goldwing & ran across a deal on that original 1975. So I had 2 Goldwings at the same time for a few months. :lolup:

[stepbill]

I was at Dyess AFB, Abilene Texas. My first Air Force assignment after Tech school.

[Big Jay]

I was riding the wheels off of a 1974 Indian 75 dirt bike, and starting 4th grade.

[cody13]

11th grade riding on my Honda!

[aledge]

Ansbach, Germany