I think this was my fourth bike after a piece of crap plastic thing, a trike, a stupid bike with trainer wheels on it and then this mighty beast of a machine, the HMX-500. I loved this bike. I got into lots of trouble for not cleaning it, but I was a kid, so why the heck would I clean a bike? I didn’t care what it looked like. I just wanted to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. I never cleaned my cars either 😛 After I upgraded, mine was sold to some kid who had their bike stolen.

Picture is stolen from somewhere on the internet. I don’t have any pictures of mine unfortunately.

The boat the Smolenski side of my family traveled to New Zealand on, was called the Reichstag. It left Rostock in Germany in the late 1800’s.