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#4070478 - 01/28/15 09:31 AM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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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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#4070489 - 01/28/15 10:19 AM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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#4070558 - 01/28/15 02:26 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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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 [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Originally Posted By: Rick_Rawlings
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 [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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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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#4070634 - 01/28/15 04:42 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Oh, so many nice bikes and cars members have shared here. When saw these MG:s makes me want to have old british sport car.

Thanks Rick, This Kalahari beige is one of my favorite color. The 944 model is actually quite cheap to maintain, but the parts is expensive.

#4070669 - 01/28/15 05:28 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Paarma, one of the best bumper sticker I ever saw was a very elegant things that read (under a Union Jack):

"The pieces falling off this automobile are of the finest British manufacture."

#4070762 - 01/28/15 07:21 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Paarma, it's more the getting it in the first place that makes my wallet cry! rofl

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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#4071825 - 01/30/15 07:39 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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While you fine Gentlemen are flying high, I am down in the dirt and mud with the PBI. I used to ride dirt bike as a kid and teenager. I then switche to fast street bike as I got older. I would rather ride a motorcycle than drive a car. I have owned some decent Detroit muscle over the years, but the two wheeler still holds my heart. I was hurt in a farming accident where I tried to tear my left arm off at the shoulder. That stopped my motorcycle riding. I now have this to get back out in the mud and dirt. Very nice bikes, cars and horses gentlemen. Heres mine

#4071828 - 01/30/15 07:47 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: MFair]  
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Originally Posted By: MFair
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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#4071833 - 01/30/15 07:59 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Nice rides guys. I only have a Honda Civic 2001 2 Door. Its still chugging along with 166,000 miles on her. I guess in airplane Speak U guys are in Albatross and Fokker s fighters while I am in a BE 2c. neaner popcorn

#4071843 - 01/30/15 08:27 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: MFair]  
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Originally Posted By: MFair
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 [Re: Olham]  
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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 [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Um, hello? You can't post a bike like that with no specs! thumbsup

Mr Dirt, looks like a lot of fun!


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#4071947 - 01/31/15 12:46 AM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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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.


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#4071978 - 01/31/15 03:25 AM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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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! rofl


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#4071980 - 01/31/15 03:31 AM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Rick it is lots of fun. Took it out to the mud and woods two weekends ago when it was warm on a Sat. Had a blast it was very muddy lots of sliding. Mine is a 2014 Kawasaki Teryx 4. It is a 800 v twin motor. The tranny is a constant velocty belt. High low and reverse. We rode about 2 hours and took about 4 hours to wash all the mud off.

#4071994 - 01/31/15 05:26 AM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: Rick_Rawlings]  
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Yeah, cleanup is definitely the downside! thumbsup


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#4072085 - 01/31/15 04:40 PM Re: OT Personal Rides [Re: BirdDogICT]  
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Originally Posted By: BirdDogICT
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 [Re: MFair]  
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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.



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