Last updated: 1/24/11

Features:

Fly & Ride on a $1k ebay bike: The Gulf Coast in December on an '82 Yamaha XV920RH

The Ascot is Done!!: See the Completed Project Here

Two Vintage Honda Interceptors Join the Herd

This is my personal website to share my hobbies with others who have the same interests.

 I started out with a Sears mini-bike when I was eight.  My first real motorcycle was a Yamaha GT-80 in 1972.  I started racing that bike in the AMA mini-cycle series against the likes of Jeff Ward and others.  I then moved up to the 125 class on a CZ of all things.  The first purpose built motocross bike I owned was a 1974 Honda CR125 Elsinore.  Now that was a heck of a motorcycle.  I raced that bike for two years and had a blast.  In 1976 I traded the Elsinore in on a 1972 Yamaha R5, my first real street-bike.  That's how it all started, and I now have a small collection of some of my favorite motorcycles and cars.  We built a new garage in 1993 that I thought was big enough to never fill up, but of course I was wrong.

Photo below taken in 1974 at Brighton Motocross Park in Michigan.

My son, Race, has also become involved in motorcycles.  This is his first motorcycle, a JR50, when he was only three years old.  Of course, the photo on left is me, and it's Race on the right on his first ride!  I'd have to run behind with the rope as my emergency brake.  The picture on the right is of Race on a trip up the BRP last fall on his most recent bike, a 2007 VFR800.  He's grown quite a bit from that little boy on the JR50 so many years ago.

Me and Mrs. Motorcyclefanatic (aka Barbara) below, sitting on the porch at TWO in Suches, Georgia.  One of our favorite destinations on one of our favorite roads, Hwy 60 from Morganton to Suches.  She's become quite the enthusiast in her own right, her m/c stable now includes two dirt bikes ( '78 Yamaha D175, '79 Honda XL185) and three street bikes ('89 Honda VTR250, '92 Suzuki GSF400 Bandit, '83 Honda VT500 Ascot).

I also enjoy jet-skiing, boating and classic cars.

Take a virtual tour of my site for a look.  Feel free to contact me.

John McDermott

My email:  motorcyclefanatic@gmail.com

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