Maggot motorcycle stoke thread

[LHutz Esq]

wow. now we're gonna need some video of you dragging your knee ! That's badass.
I sold bikes for a short time. Shop we were sponsored by to race woods bikes. I couldn't sell a newbie an R6 or an R1 as a first bike, no matter how much cash they brought in, in a gym bag. also, worked as a set up mechanic first year in college at our local shop.I almost went to honda school. pulling bikes out of crates and putting them together and test driving them was pretty fun. 1983-4 remember the first Interceptors ? almost bought a CB 900F but mom said I needed that money for college.

I had the cb450 hawk back in high school. The same colour scheme as the cb900f. I loved that bike.

High sided it racing my buddy. Wrecked the front wheel and bars and couldn’t afford a new one so had to let it go. I had only paid $200 for it so it wasn’t a great loss at the time.

[reckless toboggan]

God damn I want this lawnmower.

Husqvarna Svartpilen 401.

http://www.husqvarna-motorcycles.com/svartpilen/

[hutash]

No doubt a wicked performing bike, but that is butt ugly.

[nutmegchoi]

I don’t know about that whole missing tail section.
To me it looks like dog with docked tail.
There are very few bikes can pull that looks but I don’t think this one is.

[blackalps]

I've got this beast




I dropped it at the end of last season and it ran on the side for about 15 seconds before I could get back to it. Toasted the left side crank bearing. so I've got this sitting in my garage, waiting for me, hope to get it in next week:

[LHutz Esq]

Been looking at prices, ideas for the old cb and came across this gem:

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/...564591401.html

[nutmegchoi]

That’s a bargain.
You should get it.

[EarlyWood]

Been looking at prices, ideas for the old cb and came across this gem:

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/...564591401.html

get what?...the posting says "flagged for removal"

and yeah VTF, that link...that frkn Harley guy can ride, the risk not worth it, but some serious skills there

[nutmegchoi]

Basically that person wanted bone frame for $84,000.
Bike looked like it was on fire.

[LHutz Esq]

And was making fun of hipsters

[EarlyWood]

funny shit...thought you found something for real...I've got a fondness for the old cbs

[hutash]

Basically that person wanted bone frame for $84,000.
Bike looked like it was on fire.

For Sale $83,999 Temper steel, don't miss out on this hot bargain




Guess I should have posted this in gear swap

[LHutz Esq]

Is (was) it a klr? The internet says they are bomb proof- just needs a battery and a carb clean.

[hutash]

"My dad 's a TV repairman, he has an awesome set of tools. I can fix it."


Yeah, it was a KLR...not as bomb proof as their reputation

[LHutz Esq]

I had a 98 klr in uni. My now wife and I toured all over with it- made for really cheap vacations. It survived all sorts of shit kicking, my ham fisted mechanical skills and a dip in the ocean.

Def looks like it took a bomb to kill yours.

[reckless toboggan]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiQTfdsBtmV/

[reckless toboggan]

It has a friend too.

[Diamond Joe]

Hmmm I'm conflicted about that bike

On one hand, I love the streetfighter style. (I ride a 2013 Triumph Speed Triple). I like the trellis frame. I like the thumper engine (in a dirtbike)

But a streetbike thumper 373ccs??

[MTT]

wow. now we're gonna need some video of you dragging your knee ! That's badass.
I sold bikes for a short time. Shop we were sponsored by to race woods bikes. I couldn't sell a newbie an R6 or an R1 as a first bike, no matter how much cash they brought in, in a gym bag. also, worked as a set up mechanic first year in college at our local shop.I almost went to honda school. pulling bikes out of crates and putting them together and test driving them was pretty fun. 1983-4 remember the first Interceptors ? almost bought a CB 900F but mom said I needed that money for college.

I did buy a CB 900F totaled it a bit north of Ft. Collins Colorado.
I replaced it with a 1981 GS1100 E - then another GS1100 E Then a GSXR 1100
Then after some no bike time an old 1979 750E

No bikes since

My first My bike, was a used 1973 Bultaco 250 Pursang It was set up for desert, Basani pipe, 3.5 gallon tank, Tall gears. It was fun @ 14 years old

[reckless toboggan]

But a streetbike thumper 373ccs??

Previously I had a 600 CBRF4i and a 600RR.

They were great bikes. I could throw them around a bit.

Even at that time, I didn't want a 600. I'd have preferred a 400, and was actually looking at a lot of grey bikes (the yzf with a 22,000 rpm redline was very tempting). You can turn yourself into a greasy spot on the road just as easily on a 400.

I'm not dragging knees and backing it in any more. I'm looking for a fun, versatile commuter and something that sips fuel, and that can maybe even get me up some forestry roads to fish a bit.

375cc and 326#. I'm 5'11" and weigh between 170# and 175# in the riding season. I think it'll have enough pep to get me around. Although, given my preference, I think I'd put a 120 front and a 160 rear on it. I have a feeling I'd be feathering the edges of the stock 110/150 tires pretty easily. Given the reviews, you can 2nd gear wheelie these bikes, and float the rear end into the turns, pretty easily. Fahrvergnügen...or whatever the Sweedish word is for that.

Sounds like a hell of a lawnmower to me.

I'm okay with it.

[Vt-Freeheel]

God, those Huskies are the ugliest bikes I've seen in a long fucking time. Kinda like Roland Sands ass fucked Jesse James and a bike popped out.

OTOH This is good riding

[reckless toboggan]

OTOH This is good riding

Agreed. That is good riding. Although I'm more of a Rossi fan from BITD.

I used to do pretty damn close to that for a number of years on track days with the boys, and on a few of the turn-y mountain back roads around here (which is probably the dumbest fucking thing you can do).

How often do you drag a knee or back it in on your commute to work, or when out about the town grabbing lunch with your friend?

[Vt-Freeheel]

Around here there are only a couple of empty roads with no side roads or houses that I dare to let loose. Mortality takes its age adjusted pace. I should make time to do some track days.

[reckless toboggan]

Around here there are only a couple of empty roads with no side roads or houses that I dare to let loose. Mortality takes its age adjusted pace. I should make time to do some track days.

Do the track days. It's really nice to find the limits of your bike on the relative safety of a track, as opposed low siding and sliding at high speed through the ditch toward a barbed wire fence in the countryside (me), or highsiding and flying off into the dense trees above head height and busing ribs, puncturing lungs, and wrapping you femur around a tree in the mountains (a friend of mine). I'm amazed we survived our own stupidity.

[reckless toboggan]

I had a ‘71 CB175 for a year or so. Bought it as a winter project and for my wife to learn to ride. Sold it last fall because she wants something faster now. It was a cool old bike and fun to work on.

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She’s go her eye on the new Rebel 500. Anyone been on one yet?

Great looking bike.