Motorcycle love

Jayne;n97163 said:
My favorite bike of all time, my beater KLR650.....

Didn't know you rode.

Man of many skillz.
 
NKD;n97542 said:
Didn't know you rode.

Man of many skillz.

I used to take it seriously. Commuted Fremont to Santa Clara and Milpitas to Cupertino for 12 years rain or shine, took a few tours in the Alps for vacations, did some track days at Laguna Seca and Thunder Hill, rode Hwy 9/35 most weekends, even managed to walk away from a wreck on my VFR800. Now? Mostly the bike keeps the battery tender company.

I was never very fast, but had no problem hopping on the bike for a quick SJC -> PHX -> LAS -> SJC tour. Made the SFO -> SAN run a few times, once the boring way on I5 and the other on Hwy 1 down through Santa Barbara.
 

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fieldgrade;n97767 said:
There is nothing that sounds better than a shovel, with the possible exception of an ironhead sporty.

Obviously you have never heard a Honda V4 motor with a staintune exhaust Sir. Sounds like a small block V8
 
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I do have experience with big-bore rice.



'05 ZRX1200R. Ditched the air box, went with individual filters, jetted & tuned, 2* ignition advance & some pretty, thin-walled, robot welded titanium tubing & a muffler you could drop a tennis ball through. Was my divorce gift when I threw the ex out. This bike was wicked fun & brutally fast. It'd feed you the handlebars in 1st or 2nd in a heartbeat. Grabbing 4th at 10k was like making the leap to hyperspace.

I had to sell it before it killed me or got me arrested.
 

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fieldgrade;n97767 said:
There is nothing that sounds better than a shovel, with the possible exception of an ironhead sporty.

Well thanks for mentioning that fieldgrade!

1000cc 1980 Ironhead Sportster

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Jayne;n97725 said:
I used to take it seriously. Commuted Fremont to Santa Clara and Milpitas to Cupertino for 12 years rain or shine, took a few tours in the Alps for vacations, did some track days at Laguna Seca and Thunder Hill, rode Hwy 9/35 most weekends, even managed to walk away from a wreck on my VFR800. Now? Mostly the bike keeps the battery tender company.

I was never very fast, but had no problem hopping on the bike for a quick SJC -> PHX -> LAS -> SJC tour. Made the SFO -> SAN run a few times, once the boring way on I5 and the other on Hwy 1 down through Santa Barbara.

You must have mentioned this.

My memory sucks!
 
Crazy Carl;n97813 said:
I do have experience with big-bore rice.



'05 ZRX1200R. Ditched the air box, went with individual filters, jetted & tuned, 2* ignition advance & some pretty, thin-walled, robot welded titanium tubing & a muffler you could drop a tennis ball through. Was my divorce gift when I threw the ex out. This bike was wicked fun & brutally fast. It'd feed you the handlebars in 1st or 2nd in a heartbeat. Grabbing 4th at 10k was like making the leap to hyperspace.

I had to sell it before it killed me or got me arrested.

Watched a guy send his over the side of the mountain at deals gap after he passed me on a double yellow line since I wasn't going fast enough for him. There wasn't much left from what we could tell. Rider was beat up but didn't follow the bike over the side of the mountain either, so that's good...
 
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That bike scared the crap outta me on the regular. It was just a matter of time before something bad happened. FUN, but way too much bike for me.
 
I once got pulled over by one of those on the ZRX. A plainclothes Polizei bike with video & VASCAR. Shoulda asked for a copy of the tape. lol!
 
Majicmike;n97771 said:
Obviously you have never heard a Honda V4 motor with a staintune exhaust Sir. Sounds like a small block V8

Or an Aprilia V4. Or a Ducati V4. Or Duc Vtwin, or any Italian motorcycle motor. Or a cross plane R1 motor.
Damn, I can think of many engines that sound better than a 2 valve HD motor.
But I have certainly heard a lot of obnoxiously loud HDs. Just not many good sounding ones!
 
Crazy Carl;n97813 said:
I do have experience with big-bore rice.



'05 ZRX1200R. Ditched the air box, went with individual filters, jetted & tuned, 2* ignition advance & some pretty, thin-walled, robot welded titanium tubing & a muffler you could drop a tennis ball through. Was my divorce gift when I threw the ex out. This bike was wicked fun & brutally fast. It'd feed you the handlebars in 1st or 2nd in a heartbeat. Grabbing 4th at 10k was like making the leap to hyperspace.

I had to sell it before it killed me or got me arrested.


+1 for the Zrex
 
I slowly got rid of my bike collection about 10 yrs ago. Helped buy a wife, then a house, then baby shit.

I was (am) a vintage BMW airhead fan. I'd tear then down and do cafe racer restorations. Favorite two were a 73 R75/5 toaster tank with super trapp exhaust, a 75 R90/7(s) that I made into the famous Dayton race bike (got the last Daytona race cam out of Germany, race pistons, and Dunstal replica race pipes). Damn that r90 idling with the cam loping was music to my ears.

I'd wake up on Saturdays, walk outside drinking coffee and select which bike I'd ride. Living in WNC, I often would just ride places I'd never been. Toward end of day, try to figure out where the heck I was and ride home. Hilarious to ask someone where I was!
 
Gray;n98096 said:
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I was (am) a vintage BMW airhead fan. I'd tear then down and do cafe racer restorations. Favorite two were a 73 R75/5 toaster tank with super trapp exhaust, a 75 R90/7(s) that I made into the famous Dayton race bike (got the last Daytona race cam out of Germany, race pistons, and Dunstal replica race pipes). Damn that r90 idling with the cam loping was music to my ears.

I'd wake up on Saturdays, walk outside drinking coffee and select which bike I'd ride. Living in WNC, I often would just ride places I'd never been. Toward end of day, try to figure out where the heck I was and ride home. Hilarious to ask someone where I was!

Pics man, PICS!

I like the sound of those.
 
My first street bike, a '77 KZ650, bought in '86 at the ripe old age of 16. It's a miracle I survived into adulthood.
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I'd love to find another one of these, to do up the way I'd wanted as a kid. Cafe-ish build, modern suspension & brakes (& braced frame- I swear there was a hinge under the seat), 810 big bore kit, Web cams, 29mm smoothbores & a KZ550 6spd tranny.
 
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Heck yeah! I've got a 1999 Yamaha 650 V-Star Classic here, but it's been sitting for about four years now. By this point, it pretty much needs new everything, I'm sure, and all the fluids need drained and replaced. It broke down in college, and I just couldn't afford to fix it at the time. Now though, things should be getting better, and my goal is to fix it this spring to ride again! I'll post a picture when I get it back up, running and cleaned up. :D
 
BurnedOutGeek;n98415 said:
Just got back from a little impromptu scoot around Chatham County for the heck of it. New helmet is awesome, we'll worth the money.

I thought I lost you on that short straightaway on 902.
 
My transportation to work today. No way I could leave Mr. Max sitting all alone in the garage on such a beautiful day today.

 

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My 4th gen. I miss this bike so deeply. We did around 50,000 over every mountain pass in the Sierras as well as all over including track days , etc. Never left me stranded and never left me wanting.




For the Honda V4 lovers. Friend Larry's RC45. Many may know him as BusyLittleShop from some forums:
 

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Pic from my last motorcycle ride. Hurts to say that. Motorcycles have always been central in my life. My mom says it was the first word out of my mouth! For 5 years I have been without one and frankly, it sucks.

Sonora Pass on a KTM Adventure. What an amazing motorcycle!


 

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My best friend in the world. Lost to cancer at age 31 in 1985. He was in remission in that pic and gone six months later. That's me behind him, and my old man in the shadows. At least one of us is still alive.
 

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Always wanted to try a Z1000. Had a buddy with an orange one.
 
It's always a pleasure to get on I-40 westbound at rush hour when I'm headed home on my VMAX. When I'm in my Jeep, strategy and forethought is always front and center in my mind. I've always got tailgaters, a-holes in the right lane of the highway not letting me merge left, people blasting around me when I'm running out of entrance ramp, etc.....

When Mr. Max is between my legs, I can get on I-40 like a Saturn V and do so in 5th gear without revving over 5k while leaving the "I gotta get home & damn the torpedoes douche bags" rapidly fading in my mirrors.:D
 
NKD;n98448 said:
Sonora Pass on a KTM Adventure. What an amazing motorcycle!

We've ridden the same roads. My parents lived up in Pioneer so runs over Carson and Sonora were fairly common rides.

My 1150RT on some random Sonora run I took a picture of:

 

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Jayne;n98735 said:
We've ridden the same roads....

No doubt.
Sonora is one of my favorites.

Ridden all the passes. About the only thing I really miss about CA is the riding.
 
NKD;n98934 said:
No doubt.
Sonora is one of my favorites.

Ridden all the passes. About the only thing I really miss about CA is the riding.

And lane splitting. Being trapped in a single lane is a horrible feeling. It's the one thing CA and Europe (and Asia) get right that the rest of the US gets so very wrong.
 
One of the main reasons I haven't rushed to get a bike here. Lack of lane splitting sucks.
That and there is one turn within 50 miles.
 
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