My Back Yard Mosquito Ridge...

Believe me... there's few Mosquitos or bikers on that road...
http://www.auburnjournal.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=11679&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=119&S=1

Larry L
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..... Jones said. "If you ride it sensibly, you could ride it on a Harley
Davidson..."

What kind of a bias crack is that?

Thumper

 

One day in rec.motorcycles, Also Sprach Thumper:

I'd re-word that. "If you ride it on a Harley Davidson, you'd be riding it
sensibly."

--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
______________

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

--Timothy Jones

 

Being truthful is a bias crack? These morons need to slow down. You
wonder why our insurance rates are through the roof. All of these
racer wannabes crashing busting legs and endangering other riders.



Regards
Mike

 

One day in rec.motorcycles, Also Sprach :

Who's insurance rates? I just paid $280 for a full year's worth. That's
half of what I paid for car insurance in 1979.

--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
______________

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

--Timothy Jones

 

good writeup (w/ pics) here:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38371

 

My insurance for full coverage for the year is $270.00. It has gone
up $50.00. You have to admit these street riders pretending to be
racers are making insurance companies rich. I don't know why these
guys don't just pick up a dirt bike and have at it off the street.
You get the same adrenlin rush and it is a heck of alot safer although
most older folks could not handle the abuse that an MX bike dishes
out. I guess the old people should just stay on the asphalt were the
old ladies ride.



Regards
Mike

 

One day in rec.motorcycles, Also Sprach :

Mine actually went down about 100. I was a new customer last year.

--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
______________

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

--Timothy Jones

 

It might sound odd but I read these newspaper reports of great roads and
feel a twinge of dissappointment about the publicity. Shouldn't we be
whispering about Parots Ferry road in the back of Zeitgeist after sweeping
for bugs and taking a blood oath? Hell Hole is really the middle of
nowhere. We went camping back in there a few years back and saw a blue
R1/nv plates/mods wedged tight into the culvert on the side of the road.
There was nobody around and no skid marks. I always wondered if the biker
ever got his bike back.......
Later!
Alex

 

I live in sight of grizzly peak blvd.
I stand at my kitchen sink and hear the whine of bikes and lookup
to see folks hit a wavey semi-straightaway. In light, you can
see the traffic or lack of and go (and piss of my neighbors who
whine to the police and well).

Or I can look up and see a row of cars. Behind a minivan or,
well often, a harley or two. I *never* see the harley's hauling
along there. Of course, sitting upright and even leaned back with
handlebars making a nice L with the forks means that it steers a bit
like a golf cart. Best thing I did to my 1982 Suzuki cruiser was
replace the bars with a set of use BMW straight bars. Suddenly I
was leaned forward and didn't have these huge waves of metal keeping
my body from feeling where it was going to turn.

It's not the drivers' fault - you're just sitting in the wrong
position. It's like steering with reins on the handlebars.

(and leaning means you scrape those floorboards too and that risks
a slide).

No, I wouldn't ride the 17 year old ninja 600 across country. Hell,
I wouldn't ride the '82 GS550 semi-cruiser cross country again - twice
was enough. I'm getting older and appreciate a bit more comfort, if not
chrome and maintanance and 1000cc+ displacements. But I still can't
stomach the post-airhead BMWs (bavarian made winnebagos?) let alone
1200cc Harleys. (remember when BMW made bikes every 100cc from 500CC
to 1100 and most of the parts were interchangable? I helped drop the
jugs from a R75 and replace them with one from an R90 - it ran a second
200,000 miles before needing more work. AFAIK, it's still alive in DC)


chuck
------
commuting 50 bike miles about EVERY day - sun rain or ark-inspiring deluge.
I have a Harley parked next to my bike at work on those days when it's
sunny, the roads are dry and good weather in ensured for the next
couple days.

But the harleys sound good.

 

err, most of the later 'interchangable parts' airheads were r80, r90,
r100. I don't think there's too many parts on a /2 bike that you'd want
to use on a r100, or visa versa.

the r1100's were the start of the completely new bikes. guess what?
between the various R1100, R1150 models, there's lots of interchangable
parts too...

but, whatever. we get your message. 'change bad'. 'old familiar crap
good'.