OT: Motorcyclists on DFO?

[Elvis]

Sweet ride, JP, but what was it with 1978 and the colour brown?
You've got a brown bike, I had a brown suit back then.
At the time, didn't seem to matter, but looking back...strange.


Elvis

 

[jptrickster]

the brown isn't too bad with the gold pinstripe but I'm more into the classic black and white scheme.
They were doing brown cars too! Pretty fugly.

There's a swanky joint in Germany, Seibenrock, specializes in vintage air heads will swap your painted tank, fenders and side panels for a beautifully refurbished set in the color of your choice for $1500. I'm sure they get a lot of brown trade ins!

 

[Elvis]

LOL!

 

[RogersLudwig]

Wow. I finally found out how to post a picture. Here's my 2010 Triumph Bonneville SE.

 

[Elvis]

Sweet!

 

[garysym]

I love the Bonnie. I'd grab one in a heartbeat if I had the room and the xtra dough.

Wow. I finally found out how to post a picture. Here's my 2010 Triumph Bonneville SE.

 

[noreastbob]

I sold my 1994 H.D. FXR-P full stroker last year and miss it terribly. I got old, it didn't! Sprocket set up lifts it to 119 horses, street set up at 96. We eat rice!
Currently ride a 2000 H.D. FLHRC (road king) slow as hell but comfortable!

Selling a 1997 (first year) H.D. Heritage Springer with a 49' Panhead Nostalgia Kit. Theres pics of it in the For Sale section here.

I've owned them all from Norton's to Guzzi to BMW to Honda but there's nothing that rides and sounds like a Harley, everyone else is just imitating.

Doc, changing sprockets alters the gearing. It does nothing to the engine horsepower! I can't imagine what kind of rice you eat.

I've been riding since 1978 at age 27. I've Had 2 Hondas, 2 Suzukis and since 2000 a YZF-R1. Wore the footpegs off my hopped up GS 1100E. No such issue on the R1 off course. It just uses tires up.
I live in NH and have ridden out to Laguna seca on several occasion for motogp, WSB and AMA meets. Yes, even on the R1!
Buds and I have zoomed down to WV to ride more times than I can count.
Track days at Louden and much fun in northern VT, NH, & ME.
I'll be 64 this spring and last years trip to WV convinced me I can't ride like I used to. I may have to replace the R1 because when I'm on it I forget that I'm not 30 anymore. The brain is slower, the reflexes too not to mention strength and flexibility. I tend to forget all that when I'm in the racing crouch. I'm debating what would be the best bike for me at this point.

 

[RogersLudwig]

I love the Bonnie. I'd grab one in a heartbeat if I had the room and the xtra dough.

Wow. I finally found out how to post a picture. Here's my 2010 Triumph Bonneville SE.

Thanks. I always had a thing forBritish twins, but there is no comparison between the Trumpet and my old Royal Enfield from the 60s. This bike is fun and reliable.

 

[Lazmo]

Had one the most Zen rides of my life this evening… it was such a beautiful soft twilight, with three micro storms all around doing the darkness lightning and thunder thing and riding my most favourite hills back road of all, which winds through market garden farms where the only thing you might hit is an old Italian farmer driving a Fiat tractor. BTW, if we did hit, it’d be an Italian tractor convention. I used to do this back road at warp speed on my Ducati’s, but tonight was just cruising at a reasonable clip, heeling the old girl over and using the huge gobs of grunt to drive solidly off the turns… Zen, Zen, Zen.

Anyway, tonight sways me towards the keep it camp, but the constant need to work on it and the lack of brakes and ground clearance means I vacillate between keeping it and selling it. In fact after I took the photos, it wouldn’t start, but it was soon apparent that one of the wires had come off the starter switch, but it has such good tool boxes which I’ve liberally stocked with tools, that I was able to fix it easily with some side-cutters and a screw-driver within minutes. Plus it’s got an oil leak, which may be a rear main oil seal, fingers crossed it is not… I can fix it, as I have done many full restorations, but I’m getting lazy in my old age and would rather just ride than tinker. Plus I’ve got constant mountain bike maintenance to do, which is a full time affair in its own right.

I suppose it’s an OK conundrum to have…

Here is some pics of the old girl, in a very beautiful part of the world.

 

[Elvis]

Sounds like a great time, Laz!
I know the space you were in. Been a while since I've been there, too.
...and I mean this only the utmost respect, but that bike looks like it needs a big POLIZIA written on the side somewhere.



Elvis

 

[garysym]

I love the Bonnie. I'd grab one in a heartbeat if I had the room and the xtra dough.


Wow. I finally found out how to post a picture. Here's my 2010 Triumph Bonneville SE.

Thanks. I always had a thing forBritish twins, but there is no comparison between the Trumpet and my old Royal Enfield from the 60s. This bike is fun and reliable.



Yes- I've heard that said of the old British bikes. Even my 1998 Triumph adventurer had some weird electrical issues, but I still loved it.

 

[Elvis]

Although this version no longer exists, I really like the idea of this mod to this bike.
Very, very nice.

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...btw, 1.8L/100Km = 130+ MPG.
So if you figure the tank has a usable capacity of a little more than 2 gallons that's about 261 miles between fill-ups.
Not bad for a road trip?



Elvis

 

[Lazmo]

...and I mean this only the utmost respect, but that bike looks like it needs a big POLIZIA written on the side somewhere.

Elvis

Dean, yes you are right... the loopframe Guzzi's were used as cop bikes in Europe and also in America, where the LAPD used the 850 Eldorado.

My bike actually came with two fairings, which are massive enormous gigantic humugous handlbar mounted sails... no way are they ever seeing the light of day while I own the bike, so they are nicely stored under my house.

Back in the day, I knew a guy who had a Honda 750 Four set up in white like an Aussie cop bike... and he had POLITE in big blue letters on the front of the fairing... strangely, people always got out of his way.

 

[Professor1]

I have an 04 Suzuki Intruder 1500LC. Wife and I love it and being in the Nevada desert, our ride season is ALWAYS!

 

[Elvis]

Laz,

Great story about your friend!....you're giving me ideas!
Back in the mid 70's my brother had a Yamaha (I think) and he put a Windjammer fairing on it.
They were the new kid on the block back then and he LOVED it.
Me, I prefer the stripped down look.
Lean. Mean. A real dancin' machine.
I applaud your choice to go fairingless.
Now I'm torn though - Diesel middleweight, or weed whacker commuto-ped.



Elvis

 

[Lazmo]

My wife has decided to get her motorcycle license. She is already a very competent technically capable mountain bike rider, but our recent most excellent and enjoyable motor scooter ride at Kep while over in Cambodia, along with me getting a second bike (the Guzzi)… has prompted her into motor bike action.

So we have been going down to our local netball courts, which has a locked private carpark and she has been getting the gears/clutch/brakes/stop/start basics down on my Honda SS50 and notching up some motor bike riding experience… before she heads off on a dedicated 'pay the man' learner course.

I take a beer down and lay on the grassy verge and watch... all good fun.

 

[RedMist]

Although this version no longer exists, I really like the idea of this mod to this bike.
Very, very nice.

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...btw, 1.8L/100Km = 130+ MPG.
So if you figure the tank has a usable capacity of a little more than 2 gallons that's about 261 miles between fill-ups.
Not bad for a road trip?



Elvis

A bit painful to watch that guy struggle through the gears

 

[Elvis]

What do you mean by "struggle through the gears"?



Elvis

 

[mikesdrums]

My '04 Sportster. I almost never ride it, but I enjoy having it.

 

[crash]

A Roadster! Nice. Pretty much what a lot of people wish HD was still making, rather then ill handling lowered lifestyle pieces!. I really miss my Sporty.....(broken attachment removed)