I had sold all my Motorcycles and Music Gear when I got Married.
After College, when I had qualified as a Telecommunications Technician , Working in Jeppe St JHB.
We had a Small Baby , Wayne ,and I would travel by Train to Work and Back , often working Overtime or Shift Work , 5 minutes walk from Jhb Station and on shift we would finish at 2200hrs , train left at 1015 pm and would take 25 minutes( if lucky) to get back Home.

A friend of My Brother Mike ( Lets call him Ben) stays around the Block from us and wants to sell a Honda CB77 a 305cc Four stroke twin , Basket Case ..

He wants the Money to put down a deposit to buy a 350cc Kawasaki Avenger ,

This brand had just come on the Market then , and there was a lot of hype on them. Twin Cylinder Rotary Valve inlet 2 stroke with a big reputation.
This is a brief printout from Motorcycle classics .com:-

One of the most flamboyant of those 1960s 2-stroke engineering companies was Kawasaki. Its range included rotary-valve induction singles and twins such as the lovely 1969 350 Avenger A7SS twin seen here. And they were fast. Until the arrival of the vaunted Kawasaki H1 500cc triple, virtually nothing else on the street — regardless of displacement — could dispatch the Avenger in a quick stoplight fight.

Chris and I stay in a Flat near Florida Lake. I take my new prize to my Dad's house and spread out the parts, took up the entire floor of a Double Garage .

I assembled it in a weekend . and started using it to work , 15 minutes to get home after a Shift, marvellous.

Tried racing a Holden Monaro GTS from a robot , and to my horror beats me, nevertheless , Motor Sounds Great and is very fuel efficient.
Ben bought his Kawasaki and after a few Days , his parents came to ask if we had seen him, he had gone for a ride , and had not been seen again . A few days later a

Homeless Guy saw something shiny in the Veld, it was the Kawasaki , and nearby was Ben barely alive , paralysed .

He was about to get married and his Fiance was expecting . How our lives can change in an instant!
One night coming back from Work in Jeppe st. I stopped at a Red Light , put my foot down and a Municipal Bus , Double Decker came from behind , me , and went straight though the Red

If I had been 3 inches to the left he would have dragged me under the wheels ,

as it was he hit me on my left side , came close to dislocating my arm , and left a swathe of scraped off Red paint on my glove Jacket sleeve and left side of my back as I jerked away, towards the right.
After some discussion with Chris , I sold the Honda , went back to the train , and the much longer travel times.

BUT , Once a Biker , always a Biker!