Ok - I’m down for that trip. Just say the word.
...and with those knobbies, she’d be good in the snow.....
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...and with those knobbies, she’d be good in the snow.....
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The normally aspirated (i.e. non-turbo) models were much tamer - but still good bikes and very durable. The one in my garage is a 1982 CX500C (for Honda “Custom”) which is roughly equivalent to our Specials in having quasi-cruiser styling. Definitely not as appealing but it’ll make a nice little cafe bike for my son-in-law who’s just learning to ride. He’s already done the clubman bars and little bum stop seat and I fixed his brakes - just some wiring to sort out.
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Ya the safety courses are good to learn, even for us older guys who have been riding a long time. When I got my new 1970 Honda 450 I rode the city bus 20 miles across town to pick it up. I learned how to ride it the 20 miles back. Never dropped it but it stalled out several times before I got the hang of it.Oh sh!t Fred - you figured it out.
As I said, he doesn’t have an M license yet and I told him that I’d stand him to a Motorcycle Safety Foundation course - as soon as he likes. Poor kid is so busy at work that it might take....quite some time before he’s ready though.
In the meantime, the bike is in my custody and I will thus control it’s .....progress toward roadworthiness.
Tee hee.
Father-in-laws...sneaky clever bastards.
...or as they say in Germany: too soon old, too late schmardt.
Pete
So, do any of these new-fangled contraptions include hookups for electric socks, ...... and urethra catheter adapters?
We saw them as we were whizzing past in our rented minivan
How did you manage to stay below the legal speed limit in Phoenix. When I was there last week traffic was always moving at 85. Crazy drivers....yes indeed...at a speed that was juuuussssttt below the legal speed limit.
....and the LEO was stopped beside the highway with a radar unit.
Yessir, I'm in the same boat with the Triumph. My issues with XS 650's are how I bought em. I bought a collection off an old flat track guy. Various stages of being stripped. Bought a few hardtail, bobber chops off of CL. Got them running good but hardtails for long rides ain't no joke. Stuff (collection)had sat outside for years so all the charging systems (fart noise) are whack. Almost done with a more stock XS. Rebuilt the top of the motor. Jugs,pistons, cam chain, relaped the valves. All new PMA with Boyer ignition. This should be a solid ride. I was just at a Triumph dealer yesterday. It was tempting, they make a sexy line of bikes, but damn it! I'm still shitty about the Speedmaster.Hi JRay,
fwiw, my son's '80 XS650 sidecar rig starts every time as does the '74 CB750 his ex-boss gave him because it'd been parked in the ex-boss's back yard for a decade or more. Which is just as well because his allegedly reliable 2005 Speedmaster won't start at all because it's electronic modules won't talk to each other and there's three of the expensive little bastards.