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Thread: Bike (motorcycle) Riders?
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02-25-2016, 12:49 PM #76
Those are rad, however this will be a build on a budget project for me.
So, I am looking at a donor bike build that get's me close to where I want to be at the start, then will fabricate from there.
Also, brute power isn't the desired end result in this case, lots of big bore low/mid end grunt is, which is why I like the XR/XL variants...
That and they are super user friendly from a service standpoint.
Sorry - I am more of a 6 day guy...
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02-25-2016, 01:05 PM #77
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02-25-2016, 01:38 PM #78yelgatgab
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02-25-2016, 01:39 PM #79
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02-25-2016, 02:03 PM #81
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02-25-2016, 02:05 PM #82
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02-25-2016, 06:33 PM #83
I have a KTM for dual sporting...
Not the same animal.
This is for dirt/gravel roads, think scrambler/dirt tracker, lower to the ground, drifting corners, etc.
Damn, super cool!
That's rad for sure.
The second half of last years Moto GP season was some of the best racing I have ever watched (period).
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02-25-2016, 08:33 PM #84
Huh - i don't get that kind of adrenaline rush riding down the block, scooting around on the longboard is more fun. Then again in my area getting caught w/o a helmet is a $100 fine.
That kicks ass.
Gonna get some of these?
This thread got me to run an errand on my bike today... first time since December. Thanks!
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02-25-2016, 09:03 PM #85yelgatgab
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That pic sent me down a wormhole I'm just emerging from. The promo vids show the Ducati Scrambler on some pretty rough trails. That just marketing fluff? I'm truly curious. I'd mostly be on beat up and relatively technical forest service roads. Something like in that pic and the Scrambler seem like they'd be a bit of a hand full. They'd be nice on the hard top and gravel I'd have to ride to get there, though.
Not adrenaline, just the wind in the hair. I lived in WV, so not as much risk from the law as you city folk.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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02-25-2016, 09:05 PM #86
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02-25-2016, 09:44 PM #87
Right?
That's how it started for me too.
This site and others are like a two wheel morphine drip.
It started with these...
Something about boxxer twins with big knobby tires, IDK.
However, after digging deeper and looking at countless other scrambler customs based on donor bikes I ended up at the XR/XL.
Attaboy!
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02-25-2016, 10:44 PM #88
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02-25-2016, 10:54 PM #89Registered User
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02-26-2016, 03:38 AM #90"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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02-26-2016, 09:36 AM #91
That was just... stupefying. Every time I see it I still wonder how the fuck he pulled that off.
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02-26-2016, 09:59 AM #92
Tipp, I really enjoy your input around here, and I'll give you a pass on the EBR (kinda. They still have too short of wheelbase for that much torque to be useful bikes) moto stuff, but your affinity for Harley products makes me question your judgement.
At least side with Indian or something man, good god."One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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02-26-2016, 10:19 AM #93
Not really, nothing against HD per say, just never connected or identified with the product/brand.
I've ridden several and just never cared for the experience... Buell would be the closest I would come to that and that isn't in my budget.
Part of what I like about the XR/XL as a donor bike is that they can be had pretty cheap, there are a ton of them, easy enough to modify and fabricate around and servicing them is relatively easy.
I also like the way that big single makes power...
No, not better than...
Perhaps I should have qualified "recent memory" in stead of "period", my self inflicted short term memory loss blocked that finish...
Generally speaking, I love racing where it's so close and fought with so much drive that you start loosing count of lead changes in a single lap.
That's good racing, keeps you on the edge of your seat...
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02-26-2016, 10:23 AM #94
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02-26-2016, 10:41 AM #95
Well to be fair the only "Harley Product" I've ever owned was the 1200 Sportster motor in my Buell Cyclone. Everything else was either bolted on or manufactured by Erik Buell. Shit, his insistence of using an Austrian motor on his 1125r Ducati killer was the final straw that caused Harley to abandon Buell. Now he's making his own bikes under the EBR marque. Regarding the torque/wheelbase thing maybe you just weren't fat enough. I don't race so for my back-road experience it was lovely. I did however downgrade power-wise with my current bike.
The HD XR-750 is the most successful bike ever in Dirt Track, and is based on the "Baby Sportster" 800cc motor. That was my only question. I would never, not ever push a cruiser on anyone, especially not one from the Motor Company. Indians were (are?) pretty enough I guess but what pigs.
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02-26-2016, 10:58 AM #96
There were two HD's that I did identify with a little.
One was the XR 750, part of that was through a personal connection had with Mert Lawwill, through work.
The other was the VR1000...
I watched and listened to these at several AMA Superbike races in the 90's.
You couldn't miss it coming around the track when it was on the pipe as the exhaust note was several octaves below the Ducs, and that is saying something.
The XR/XL project leans more towards scrambler than it does dirt track though with the main connection between the two being the drift aspect...
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02-26-2016, 02:45 PM #97yelgatgab
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02-26-2016, 03:01 PM #98
Dabbled with my fathyer's Jawa CZ as a kid. First road bike was the baby Kawasaki triple. Got a '74 Laverda 750 around '84. Had a few airheads including an R60/5, R90S and an R100RS. I sold my last bike, a Yamaha SR500 with TZ wheels etc, to my brother a few years ago with the caveat that I may want to buy it back sometime. Haven't ridden in a while and sometimes I miss it.
keep the rubber side down
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02-26-2016, 03:05 PM #99
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02-26-2016, 04:20 PM #100
Current bike 1990 DRS350 one owner with 1,200 miles on it. Tripled that since I got it a few months ago
No such thing as a "riding season" here.
Just spent three days on the California coast.
Carmel Valley back roads, and kicken it on the beach in Big Sur.
For those who haven't ridden the Big Sur road and associated side roads, it is one of the great motorcycle rides in the world. A true must do.Last edited by hutash; 02-26-2016 at 07:13 PM.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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