Harley's vs. Japanese bikes & Bose systems.

[mulester7]

Yeah, like you're suffering by with a puny VMax, ya poor, poor thing! Hey, did they tell you where the gas tank was before you rode off with it, or did they let you hunt for it?

Bryan

.....Fly, I had a '92 model, so I knew where the tank was, but the 2002 stock seat had different pulls on it....when I pulled up to fill-up the first time, I wrestled with the pulls for a good 15 minutes trying to trip the part of the stock seat that exposes the gas cap....I kept trying to lift the ring-grabs which did nothing, and it was about 100 degrees that day....I went inside, got a fountain coke and called the Yamaha dealership on my cell....I asked for Tommy in the shop section, told him my dilemma, and he started laughing....he had worked on my '92 more than once, and we have talked many times and considered each other friends....he said, "hey, you V-Max wizard, don't LIFT the ring-grabs, PULL them"....I said, "oh, thanks, Tommy"....since then, I have gone to an after-market Corbin seat, and love it compared to the stock seat.....

.....also check out the Corbin furniture....auto couches and Indian recliners....

http://www.corbin.com/yamaha/vmax.shtml

 

[jaxvon]

Sheep,

From the Valkarie Rune page:

Base MSRP $27,699

So yeah. $30k by the time you add on the taxes and such. I'm not sure if it's really cool looking or super ugly. Personally, I liked the older Valkarie cruiser look much better.

Funny enough, I found that image on a google search...on an audiophile photo gallery

Here' the main page:

http://www.katli.com/gallery.htm

 

[flyv65]

Now, to open another wound, how about trikes?

SheepStar

My father's knees are starting to make riding difficult for him and he's mentioned turning his Road King into one...but I doubt I'll see anything like this in his garage anytime soon.

Bryan...what's that go for, anyway?

 

[JoeE SP9]

Yes, thats a Valkurie, but the 30g bike is a Goldwing, I think.

His Goldwing is one of the newer ones, 0 something, 120Hp. Thats alot for a Motorbike, regardless of weight. Now, the Yamaha R1, with 180Kg's, and 180Hp... thats hot.

As far as looks are concerned, I like Exile cycles(only a select few), and Jap bikes. HD's just look ugly to me. The big ugly motor sticking out doesn't look that nice.

Now, to open another wound, how about trikes?

SheepStar

I like it. Where can I get one?

 

[Sheep]

http://www.exilecycles.com/index.php?section=25

70g all said and done. In their Defense, it does have 2 18inch wide F1 tires.

SheepStar

 

[mulester7]

Sheep,

From the Valkarie Rune page:

Base MSRP $27,699

So yeah. $30k by the time you add on the taxes and such. I'm not sure if it's really cool looking or super ugly.

.....Guys, that wasn't fair....it wasn't too long ago I saw a price of around 30K on a Rune, and I'm fairly sure a new Goldwing goes for around 18-19....too rich for my blood....there's too many used motorcycles out there in the free want-ads that the guy has simply grown tired of, or was disappointed in, for whatever reason, all too quickly, and will give it up price-wise....actually much different from cars....I bought a used Goldwing one time so me and the ex would have something we could do together....she went twice, and was done....I drove very easy too, trying to help her enjoy it....oh well, some women should be head-shot.....

 

[flyv65]

http://www.exilecycles.com/index.php?section=25

70g all said and done. In their Defense, it does have 2 18inch wide F1 tires.

SheepStar

Does it also have the emergency wheel leashes for when the CF suspension lets go, like in F1?

Bryan...saw Raikonnen lose a front wheel once-thought it was gonna take his head off at first...

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

I wouldn't mind building my own chopper if I had the extra scratch lying around... old school rigid style.....
HR3 Hard-Core

or maybe the HR3 Hard-Core 2

Man, life is full of difficult choices.......

 

[gmichael]

I think I may go back into the woods with a gem like this. It reminds me of the good ol' days when I stripped my ninja and turned it into a dirt bike.

http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/bikes/bike.jsp?b=hp2

 

[mulester7]

.....Guys, what's the longest trip or round-trip you've taken on a motorcycle?....staying in a motel every night is fine....I personally can only claim Little Rock to Memphis and back spending the night with a railroader friend who transferred to Memphis with his wife and kids....and that ended up being more than I wanted in one chunk as per half the way back around Forrest City....280 miles tops....let's get a few responses, and then I'll tell you what a friend and his Father did on their Goldwings leaving from Jacksonville, Arkansas, which is about 6 miles northeast of NLR....they had to have been crazy at the time......

 

[flyv65]

.....Guys, what's the longest trip or round-trip you've taken on a motorcycle?....staying in a motel every night is fine....

A few of my friends and I take a short trip every spring and fall for two to four days and try to hit a few new passes, roads, or towns. ! think our longest trip was about 1500 miles for three nights, four days, but two nights and 800 to 1,000 miles is more common.

Bryan...we shoot for less than 150 miles on anything bigger than two-lane...

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

.....Guys, what's the longest trip or round-trip you've taken on a motorcycle?....

One day i started in NY, went through part of Vermont, back to NY, down to PA. I think I did @750miles. Then I have an annual pilgremage to Buffalo NY for buffalo wings at the Anchor Bar (which invented them), which is about 400 round trip.

I keep meaning to do the 24/1K Saddlesore, but always never manage to have the Time, Money, or wreck my bike when I'm about to do it.

I'm planning on my next bike having cruise control. That and another Mustang® seat and I should be good for the Coast To Coast!

 

[JoeE SP9]

Twice a year or so I ride up to my sister and brother in laws place. This is from Philly PA to Springfield MA. I go the back way so I don't have to deal with I95 the Jersey TP and that GW bridge thing.

 

[flyv65]

I keep meaning to do the 24/1K Saddlesore, but always never manage to have the Time, Money, or wreck my bike when I'm about to do it.

I did mine on my SS1000 on my 40th birthday: South from Littleton to Grants NM for a soda then back on the bike and home. Took about 15 and a half hours and I covered about 1050 niles. Mental preparation is the biggest part of doing an SS1000, that and just staying no the bike. Don't speed, and don't a break longer than 20 minutes (that's the documentation time limit, IIRC).

Bryan...good luck...

 

[Nick250]

I did mine on my SS1000 on my 40th birthday: South from Littleton to Grants NM for a soda then back on the bike and home. Took about 15 and a half hours and I covered about 1050 niles. Mental preparation is the biggest part of doing an SS1000, that and just staying no the bike. Don't speed, and don't a break longer than 20 minutes (that's the documentation time limit, IIRC).

Bryan...good luck...

Bryan, what bike were you riding for the SS1000 and did you do it alone? Back in the days when I was riding I can not think of any of the bikes that I owned that I would willing to be on for that length of time. The 1980ish (don't remember the exact year) Suzuki GS1000 would be the closest. It was one of the first mass produced bikes to have no kick starter! A big deal back then. "OMG WHAT IF THE BATTERY DIES??"

Nick

 

[flyv65]

Bryan, what bike were you riding for the SS1000 and did you do it alone? Back in the days when I was riding I can not think of any of the bikes that I owned that I would willing to be on for that length of time. The 1980ish (don't remember the exact year) Suzuki GS1000 would be the closest. It was one of the first mass produced bikes to have no kick starter! A big deal back then. "OMG WHAT IF THE BATTER DIES??"

Nick

I thought about using the V65 Magna, but decided to go on the Blackbird (CBR1100XX). This trip was as much to decide if my knees could live with a "sporty" sport touring bike as to see if I could do it. IIRC, I only had 8 stops, and two of hose were to document corners. That made it easy to set the lock at 80 mph and roll down the highway. It wasn't near as much fun as the Colorado 1000 I saw a few years later (nine some odd passes and mostly two lane), but it was the most direct and let me finish up comfortably in daylight (well, twilight) since I started about 0300 hours.

Turns out my old knees *could* live with it; I sold my V65 about a year ago because when all was said and done, the 'Bird just did everything I wanted to do at least a little bit better (sometimes, alot).

Bryan...follow the advice on the IBA website, and you'll be fine...

 

[mulester7]

......between Rock Island and Missouri Pacific railroads here in Little Rock, I got a job at Maybelline in June of 1980 that lasted right at six months....the Maybelline production plant is located just outside NLR on I-40....the production plant relocated to Arkansas from up in the Northeast to leave a union situation and start over with cheaper non-union labor, imagine that....anyhow, I was hired as a supervisor over about 30 women and 4 guys on the evening shift 3-11....I could post forever on just that, but one of the guys on my shift named Shane had a Goldwing, and we rode together some away from work....about 2 years after leaving Maybelline for Mo-Pac, I ran into Shane at a Friday night ride a local Harley dealership lines up for anyone who wants to ride, sometimes there's 40, and it doesn't matter what you ride as long as you can keep up....I immediately walked over to him, and he asked me if I had heard about the ride he and his Father had taken....I said no, and he went to one of his saddlebags for some polaroid pictures....here's the ride they took....they both took three weeks vacation from their jobs, and headed out early one Saturday morning on their Goldwings from Jacksonville, just outside NLR....they worked their way to Seattle and went North on the freeway up into Canada and cut a direct path to Alaska and spent two days there in a motel in one of the Alaskan cities, I forget which one....from there after the brief rest, they continued North and on to The North Pole Arctic Circle....I stared at the polaroids with my mouth open....in one of them, Shane was sitting on his Goldwing right beside a flag on a pole he said was reputed to be the precise mid-point of the Arctic Circle....his tires were about an inch deep in mud which he said was normal for the warmer season they were there....Shane had always given every indication of being pretty straight-up, and I had no reason to not think they had done it, (right hand raised)....how many miles would that be?....about 1700-1800 miles to Seatte, then add miles to Alaska, and finally add miles from Alaska to The North Pole Arctic Circle....then say times two back home....even with staying in a motel every night, it would take a pistol pointed at my head to make me do such......

....I just got called to pilot a new conductor to Van Buren....see you guys about Sunday noon-evening.....

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

....from there after the brief rest, they continued North and on to The North Pole Arctic Circle....I stared at the polaroids with my mouth open....in one of them, Shane was sitting on his Goldwing right beside a flag on a pole he said was reputed to be the precise mid-point of the Arctic Circle....

Theres no "land" under the north pole, but the arctic circle does include alaska and parts of northern Canada. At least you're not likely to run into many 'flip flops & wife beater' squids up there.

 

[mulester7]

Theres no "land" under the north pole, but the arctic circle does include alaska and parts of northern Canada. At least you're not likely to run into many 'flip flops & wife beater' squids up there.

.....I agree about only ice as a base at the very top, Ninga, but don't they have roads up there that are man-made with dirt and gravel and stuff?....I don't know, maybe Shane and his Dad staged the whole thing in their back yard taking pictures with a golf flag, but I don't think so.....

 

[Nick250]

The "The North Pole Arctic Circle" snippet may be part of some confusion. There are roads to the Arctic circle, but none to the North Pole which would be impossible. There was an episode of (I think) The Discovery Chanel on 4 x 4's and some rich guy had spent untold hundreds of thousands dollars modifying two Land Cruisers in an attempt to drive to the North Pole. I don't think he got very far.

http://www.bhoffcomp.com/alaska/d20_signs01.htm

Nick