Archy, YOU ROCK!!!!!!!! An almost Bo of Bo! Awesome story! Thank you! :-)
The japs lost the war because of the fineness of japanese hair.
While building tanks & battleships for their war effort, the jap engineers said "Hey, make that steel plating just a twat hair thicker"!. The Americans said the same thing!
and the rest is history!
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I had the Cycle magazine cover shot of her and the then-new Honda 750 on the inside of my G.I. footlocker until I got out, and kept it in a scrapbook for years, though it was unfortunately lost in a trailer fire a few years back. But every time I'm around a used bookstore with a stack of old copies of Cycle I check for one with that cover in good shape. No luck so far....
Both Bo and I appear to have weathered the years a good deal better than most of those old Honda 45-inchers that are still around. But either of them was easier on the eyes back then.
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