Well I have wanted to post all my rides over the years so this is it. I don't have images of all my personal bikes but have found similar pics from the internet. It all start right after I joined the military. I had been riding a touring bicycle and loved the wind in my hair. So this was the logical next step.
The first was my training cycle if you will. In summer 1991 I got this 1976 Honda XL250 from my neighbor in Rapid City, SD. She was a grandma and her son had left this and never road it. So for $600 it was mine. The muffler was shot so I ended up having the local muffler guy fab me a new one and capped it with a Supertrap can.
I had the Honda for 6 months and was ready to move up. It's hard to be steady doing 65 on the Interstate going to work on that thing. So in spring of 1992 I found an Airman in the dorm selling his 1990 FZR600.
It was a black beauty. It went with me to Guam and I burned up all 30 miles of road there on that thing. I had my first wreck on this one. An little old lady pulled out in front of me on a 50 mph curve and the shoulder of the road was a six inch drop at the pavement edge. So I ended up in the bush with a sprained wrist. In a month it had new parts and was on the road again. I brought it back to Barksdale and sold it in 1995 to get a 1989 FZR1000. 
This one had been thru the wringer. It ahd been stripped down and raced. It was a bad deal. I ended up splitting the cases and redoing the whole engine when it spun a rod bearing cause the water pump was bad. Of course the first time you ever do anything its never right so I had a mini-sprint motor builder bore in to 1089 and boost it a bit. He did a good job. It was solid and tight after that. This bike followed me to FWB, FL in 1996 and got ridden till I saw the 1999 R1. I was a tight little blue wheelie monster. This was my first new show room purchase.
The R1 was my mount on my first and second track day weekends. Quick and powerful and a little squirrely and very fun. Hard to keep the front end down so I lower it in the front and it work. Just an inch up into the clamps. The second day of the second track weekend I lowsided and tore up a few things and bent the subframe. All were fixed. The tight geometry was getting to my wrists as I got older so out with the old! This ended up being traded in 2004 on a new 2004 GSXR1000. 
This was by far a more comfortable bike than the R1. It felt larger and more planted and inspired more confidence. I regret selling this one. I would ride it today. But I wanted to take longer trips than this was useful for so it ended up in a private buyers hands. I had my eyes on a Sport-Touring machine and thats what I got. The 2005 Yamaha FJR1300. It had been traded in and was used on the showroom floor. It was a good deal. I sold this in 2019 to take a job overseas.
A little tweeking in the seat and windscreen is all this needed. An extra-tall windscreen and Corbin saddle made this an all-dayer.
in 2016 i wanted to get a track day bike. i ended up buying a 2006 SUZUKI GSX-R750 from a localguy in NORMAN. It worked out good. used it for three years and sold it in 2019as well.
