This Honda 450 was my first street bike. Bought it in high school and had a blast. Was run off the road by some idiot which scared me away from bikes for a couple of years..
Do all of you find the peace of sweeping gently through curves and floating down the straight away as rewarding as I do? I found motorcycles in the 60's. My first ride as a passenger was on the back of my cousins' Honda 450 Hawk. I knew that I would own a bike one day. Four Yamahas, one Honda and a BWM later, I purchased my V Star 1100. I instantly relax just sitting in the saddle. It fits me well and feels like a friend after one year together. I don't ride fast... I cruise. The fast bikes were my youth. I am older, wiser and more content now just to experience the sensations of riding. No radio or cell phone. Just the wind in my face and my thoughts. Well, there is also the necessary vigilance that goes with riding, but it's a peaceful awareness. Your bike is like your life. Enjoy the ride, you reach the end soon enough.
I promised Kyle send him the Creme brulee recipe because he took mine at the Restaurant LOL

mmmmmmmm !! Look the caramelized sugar on the top !
Ingredients for 6 servings :
6 egg yolks
100g sugar
40 cl heavy cream
25 cl milk
90g brown sugar ( to caramelize the top )
Vanilla extract
First !
Put the sugar into the egg yolks
Beat until smooth
Add heavy cream and the milk. Mixt the whole
... OKAY
Now, you can add the vanilla extract
Put the mixture into 6 ramekins, preheat the oven and place in to 212°F ( 100°C ) for about 30 mn
Then, allow to cool the room temperature before refrigerate ( about 4 h ).
When you're ready to serve, put about a teaspoon of brown sugar on the top, and caramelise with a cooking torch or an iron
Leave to cool for a couple of minutes, and then, ENJOY !
Hoppe Kyle won't eat mine anymore now ! LOL 
THATS MY BABY.... WHAT A MACHINE!!!! RELIEABLE, POWERFUL,COMFORTABLE, SMOOTH HANDLING THE COMPLETE PACKAGE.... 200 WATT 4 SPEAKER CD/SD/USB RADIO,GARMIN 450 NAVIGATION,BLUE LEDS, TONS OF CHROME GOODIES,POWER COMMANDER 3,VANCE & HINES OVER AND UNDER SHOOTGUN PIPES.(ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A HARLEY EVEN BETTER I THINK LOL
1969 450 Honda after alterations 1
Wiley College is a four-year, private, historically black, liberal arts college located on the west side of Marshall, Texas. Founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, it is notable as one of the oldest predominantly black colleges west of the Mississippi River.
The original college library was a Carnegie Library. In 1907 Wiley received the first Carnegie college library west of the Mississippi. The building is now the business office.
In 2005-2006, on-campus enrollment approached 450, while an off-campus program in Shreveport, Louisiana, for students with some prior college credits who seek to finish a degree, was about 250. As of Fall 2006, total enrollment was about 750. Wiley is an open admissions college and about 96 percent of students receive some amount of financial aid.
The success of the 1935 Wiley College debate team, coached by professor and poet Melvin Tolson, was the subject of the 2007 movie The Great Debaters, directed by and starring Denzel Washington. In 1935, the Wiley College debate team defeated the reigning national debate champions, the University of Southern California. In 2007, Denzel Washington announced a donation of $1 million USD to Wiley so the team could be re-established.
Aprilia reports a great year here in the US with a 66% sales increase over the previous year. I certainly helped a bit with that, having bought the Aprilia Futura and 450 RXV in 2007 and then the Caponord in late 2008. I do like the Aprilia's, the v-twin engines (from Austrian's Rotax) are powerful and have a great "attitude".
They don't make a cruiser but checkout the 850 Mana, a naked bike with automatic transmission. Tammie rode one over the weekend and liked it.
If you live here in the California Bay Area stop by my friends at Speeds Sports in Livermore, they take good care of their customers.
2004 YZ 450 yamaha