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Thread: Bike (motorcycle) Riders?
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02-23-2016, 02:03 PM #26
Spent all of the Eighties and half the Nineties riding AMA/AMACCS/WERA/AAMRR/LRCSS.
5 full seasons campaigning a F1 500cc 2stroke. With stints in F2,F3, Superbike, BOTT, Mod Prod and production.
The street is a a dangerous place to not go slow.
Just before the start of the 1985 Laconia Classic @ what used to be Bryar Motorsport Park if anyone remembers:
130HP - 378# wet - 16" front
Just under 40k competitive miles...
Good Times
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02-23-2016, 02:12 PM #27
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02-23-2016, 03:05 PM #28
Currently in parts for a top end.
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02-23-2016, 03:06 PM #29
Awesome stuff, Gepeto.
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02-23-2016, 04:51 PM #30
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02-23-2016, 05:04 PM #31
Stopped riding when my kids were younger and people stopped looking at the road while driving. Several 1970s airheads went through the garage, the last of which was my favorite, a 1984 r80 g/s that I took across the TAT, then down to Baja, over to mainland Mexico on the ferry, and then back up through copper canyon and up to Colorado and then home to VT. I do miss it, bus simply can't justify it anymore, unfortunately.
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02-23-2016, 05:33 PM #32Funky But Chic
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What is the TAT?
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02-23-2016, 05:35 PM #33Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
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02-23-2016, 05:40 PM #34
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02-23-2016, 05:41 PM #35
There are also all the BDR's: http://www.backcountrydiscoveryroutes.com/
Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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02-23-2016, 05:41 PM #36Funky But Chic
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Thanks, never heard of that, very cool.
This is odd though: "The Trans-America Trail (AKA: the “TAT”) is a west bound dual-sport motorcycle ride across America." You can't ride the other direction?
Kind of in the same vein (boats not bikes): The Great Loop.
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02-23-2016, 06:12 PM #37
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02-23-2016, 06:19 PM #38Registered User
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02-23-2016, 06:22 PM #39
Yes - running joke from BBI...
With the aftermarket goodies as well?
Nice!
Are you on facebook?
Check out this page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/396600943744321/
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02-23-2016, 06:24 PM #40Registered User
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02-23-2016, 06:30 PM #41Registered User
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02-23-2016, 06:34 PM #42
Well I had it in '85, so no aftermarket wavy rotor or rear-sets. I did have clip-ons, an aftermarket pipe & suspension, and as stated, a cafe fairing.
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02-23-2016, 06:37 PM #43
It's a page titled "Vi som bygger snowbikes Bergshästen"
They post some super crazy, and wicked cool snowbikes on there that are fabricated onto liter street bikes.
Some of the kits look fully custom, others look like Timbersled/Yeti variants.
It's a cool group even though I can't understand a lot of what is being said and I am usually running to fast to translate in Google...
For example:
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02-23-2016, 06:50 PM #44Registered User
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Bike (motorcycle) Riders?
ridden dirt bikes a number of times but never owned one.
plan is to have one of these within the next year, with two wheel sets of course
^not that nice, but a guy can dream.
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02-23-2016, 06:52 PM #45Registered User
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02-23-2016, 07:14 PM #46
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02-23-2016, 08:50 PM #47
Nobody in my sphere of motorcyclists laughs about those. That's an amazing bike. Will literally ride (albeit slowly) over everything - snow, mud, rocks, grass, you name it, and are nearly impossible to kill. Buddy of mine dropped one off the Slickrock trail in Utah and we winched it back up with someone's Jeep. Hardly dented.
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02-23-2016, 09:06 PM #48
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02-23-2016, 09:58 PM #49
Okay, not to proud to admit I earned these comments.
Has anyone seen my K2 aluminum lockjaws yet? black on white with white baskets.
Padded Chair#2 regulars need to be on the look out.
Really disappointed they walked away unnoticed!
As to the Yamarocket, I ended up selling it in a basket with an unusable frame at the end of the 85 season after a high side in turn 1 at pocono. The frame was in such a wad, the buyer had to cut the engine out.
Year end total points did earn me a one year old 0W81 that I had help coddling for the next 4 seasons.
Too smart to know better - good memories - I miss the departed. There are quite a few.
I'll look for more pictures
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02-23-2016, 10:05 PM #50
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