#4070478 - 01/28/15 09:31 AM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Olham
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Here is the motorbike I used to ride for many years - the YAMAHA SRX 600. Kinda "Albatros D.III of the road". She was just sexy-looking IMHO with her special design. Too small actually for a guy of 1,87 m height, but I loved her and her single-cylinder power. But then comes an age for a bike, where you should better be a mechanic, to be able to repair and exchange all the parts it needs. I sold her to a collector of motorbikes. The picture is not my own, but she was the same dark blue.
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#4070558 - 01/28/15 02:26 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Ooh, that looks like a fun bike, Olham!
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#4070623 - 01/28/15 04:17 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Olham
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Ooh, that looks like a fun bike, Olham!
Yeah, she was! When green came at traffic lights, she often left a PORSCHE behind at start. (Of course they caught up quickly). But I was more the slow countryside rider. 75 km/h was about right.
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#4070633 - 01/28/15 04:40 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Nice one Olham,She looks fast
Rick,All 3 of my geldings were cut before I got them. I like to find a 5-8year old broke horse with a good disposition, then I can finish to my liking. Don't need any breeders in my pen as I do not fool with colts. If you have ever dealt with a 900 lb. stallion around a mare in heat, it isn't fun. You need to be a top rate horseman to deal with a stallion and not get hurt. Some folks still hold to the notion that only sissies and women ride geldings. Call me a sissy.
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#4070762 - 01/28/15 07:21 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Paarma, it's more the getting it in the first place that makes my wallet cry! MFair, glad those horses have no reason to bear you ill will, then! I'd love to get into riding at some point. We have wild horses out here, very pretty to see them going through the fields up on the mountain...
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#4071828 - 01/30/15 07:47 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Nice one Olham,She looks fast
Rick,All 3 of my geldings were cut before I got them. I like to find a 5-8year old broke horse with a good disposition, then I can finish to my liking. Don't need any breeders in my pen as I do not fool with colts. If you have ever dealt with a 900 lb. stallion around a mare in heat, it isn't fun. You need to be a top rate horseman to deal with a stallion and not get hurt. Some folks still hold to the notion that only sissies and women ride geldings. Call me a sissy. Are we talking about motor bikes or horses? ....................
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#4071843 - 01/30/15 08:27 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Olham
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Nice one Olham,She looks fast
For modern bikes 180 km/h is not really fast - but it felt terribly dangerous anyway to ride with the speed, and I prefered to "fly" her at 70 - 90 km/h.
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#4071920 - 01/30/15 11:32 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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No riding today...only 23 degrees F and they've sanded the roads. I can ride comfortably down to 34. Don't know how those WWI pilots did it. Looking at my bike suddenly reminded me of an old Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield song: "Flying on the Ground is Wrong" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl...p;v=49ehBfTG450
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#4071930 - 01/31/15 12:07 AM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Um, hello? You can't post a bike like that with no specs! Mr Dirt, looks like a lot of fun!
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#4071947 - 01/31/15 12:46 AM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Sorry Rick, it's a 2010 Honda Goldwing GL1800. That's an 1800cc fuel injected 6 cylinder water cooled boxer engine between my legs. Rides like a sport bike with a 40 degree lean angle. Haven't got it much over 140mph, that was fast enough. It's my daily driver.
Was that your Harley in the first post? Nice.
There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the wrong stuff.
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#4071978 - 01/31/15 03:25 AM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Yeah, mine is an 883cc. The speedometer goes up to 120, but I find that to be extremely optimistic...if you dropped it off a building, you might get it going that fast!
The older I get, the more I realize I don't need to be Han, Luke or Leia. I'm just happy to be rebel scum...
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#4072085 - 01/31/15 04:40 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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Sorry Rick, it's a 2010 Honda Goldwing GL1800. That's an 1800cc fuel injected 6 cylinder water cooled boxer engine between my legs. Rides like a sport bike with a 45 degree lean angle. Haven't got it much over 140mph, that was fast enough. It's my daily driver.
Was that your Harley in the first post? Nice. You guys are braver than me. Wanted to see just how fast my Big Dog would go so at 70mph I dropped it back into 5th and buried the throttle. A few seconds later when I hit 6th gear and looked down I was at 120 and climbing. That S&S 107 would go! Immediatly let off and went back to my normal speed. Never did it again.
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#4072189 - 01/31/15 10:37 PM
Re: OT Personal Rides
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MFair,
Once was enough for me, too. It was the first time I gunned it after new tires on a lonely, straight stretch of 2-lane blacktop. Surprised me that I buried the speedo needle in only 1/2 a mile. I ride it pretty gently most of the time, now. I do enjoy carving the twisty roads in the Ozarks, though. Planning on a trip to the Ouachita Mountains in southern Oklahoma in a few months with a side trip up the Arkansas Hog Road.
BTW, I live near the closed Big Dog Motorcycles factory. Years ago, the chairman of the Board at the hospital I worked at was Sheldon Coleman, and I spent many hours in business meetings listening to his stories of the rich and famous. That would have been about 1994. Anyway, I remember him complaining about the hassles of shipping his bikes to Europe to ride with some of his rich buddies, and he was entertaining the idea of starting Big Dog to cater to the more upscale custom market. During that time, Harley was having trouble meeting demand so he had that market space mostly to himself. He had a tough time finding dealers willing to carry the brand, and when Harley ramped up their production, it ended Big Dog. They are nice bikes, though.
Yours is a Harley Big Dog, isn't it? Also a nice ride.
There are no accidents and no fatal flaws in the machines; there are only pilots with the wrong stuff.
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Exodus
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