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  1. #301
    This guys KLR videos are funny




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  3. #302
    If I get a cruiser I will almost certainly be sticking a top case on it. Is that considered blasphemy?



  4. #303
    Quote Originally Posted by anaconda View Post
    If I get a cruiser I will almost certainly be sticking a top case on it. Is that considered blasphemy?


    thats gay as $#@!. The only thing to do with a cruiser is bob it and paint all the chrome black. Cruisers aren't for practicality, mostly for getting pussy.

  5. #304
    Quote Originally Posted by afwjam View Post
    thats gay as $#@!. The only thing to do with a cruiser is bob it and paint all the chrome black. Cruisers aren't for practicality, mostly for getting pussy.
    Awesome. I want to be gay. And carry stuff around like a scooter can. Don't H.D. riders usually dress up like gay pirates anyhow?



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  7. #305
    2017 Triumph Bonneville Bobber $12400 MSRP



    https://www.cycletrader.com/dealers/...RDER-121464041

  8. #306
    Hmmm. That's nice. Wonder if you can put a two seater and some pegs on it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post



  9. #307
    Quote Originally Posted by Natural Citizen View Post
    Hmmm. That's nice. Wonder if you can put a two seater and some pegs on it.
    "The Patriarch"

  10. #308
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    Hahahah...yah, that was my first reaction as well.

  11. #309
    Ok, so all this new bike talk has got me going...

    Here's where my tastes are running right now:

    The Victory "Eight Ball"...they had one of the these at the dealer, Victory line is being discontinued by Polaris, reduced for quick sale, new left over, to $8800.



    The HD Softail "Slim" - MSRP $15000 - Downside, new design which means all computerized...



    The classic HD softail, which is dated looking but I still love that pseudo chopper look. Gently used, non computerized, non emission model for around $5-6000



    Or bite the bullet and undertake a new construction?


  12. #310
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Was my first bike.
    Here's almost an exact duplicate of how it looked once in the hardtail frame.

    Minus the oil tank, I blanked off and tapped fittings in the frame to use as an oil tank.



    Mine had a little more rake, was all black, (chrome don't get you home) and had a girder front.

    Last edited by Anti Federalist; 05-09-2017 at 10:26 PM.

  13. #311
    lol. Yeah, I know. I just been one seatin it too long, man. lolol.
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post

  14. #312
    Quote Originally Posted by anaconda View Post
    Bay Bridge & freeways in CA require a minimum of 150cc. I'd like to at least be legal to utilize them minimally. But I think I would need closer to 500cc to expect to access them with any frequency.
    You couldn't pay me to take anything 150 or 200cc onto a California freeway.

    If traffic is 100% stopped you'd be fine, but if it's flowing - especially off and on - you'd never ever keep up with traffic. You'd create a hazard.


    Edit: Let me explain. That 200cc scooter, for example, has 15 hp and 11 ft/lb of torque. It weighs 297 pounds dry. Let's be generous and say that you, all your gear, whatever's in your top box, and all fluids in the bike combined weigh 203 pounds total. That puts the total weight at 500 pounds.

    That's 33.3 pounds per horsepower. Even the very $#@!tiest econobox of a car is a rocketship compared to that scooter.

    The Smart Fortwo, which is a pile of garbage masquerading as a car, has 23.0 pounds per horsepower. It, one of the slowest cars you can buy, is 1/3rd more powerful than that scooter.

    The Mitsubishi Mirage, which is evidently the very slowest car you can buy in the United States and takes 12.8 seconds to get from 0 to 60 mph has 29 lbs per horsepower and is therefore still more than 10% faster than that scooter.


    Not only that, those cars have multiple gears with which to use that horsepower. You, with one gear from 0 to 60-whatever, will be the absolute slowest thing on the freeway. In my opinion, that is a dangerous situation for anyone on two wheels.



    In contrast, a 300cc bike like the Ninja 300 or CB300F make 25-30 hp but weigh the same-ish. The Rebel 300 makes 25-ish hp but weighs a hundred pounds more. They're fully twice as fast as the scooter... and still considered 'too slow' for the freeway by some. Those bikes are about as fast as a normal car. 500cc bikes are in the 40-ish hp realm.
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  16. #313
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    2017 Triumph Bonneville Bobber $12400 MSRP



    https://www.cycletrader.com/dealers/...RDER-121464041
    Thats more like it, I like. Tough.

  17. #314
    Quote Originally Posted by anaconda View Post
    Awesome. I want to be gay. And carry stuff around like a scooter can. Don't H.D. riders usually dress up like gay pirates anyhow?
    'A lot of them do this is true, but you can't put a top case on a chopper, leather saddle bags with tassels go for it. Get a scooter, a 250 would be perfect for California even on the highway, plenty of storage, plenty practicality, nothing gay about it.

  18. #315
    If it's going to be a Harley I would love a bobber, especially a classic flathead total loss, or a WLA. XRs are pretty cool too.




    Tough


    Really I'm a sucker for the Art Deco style and fenders of the chief, park it next to my duesenberg.

  19. #316
    Quote Originally Posted by afwjam View Post
    you can't put a top case on a chopper, leather saddle bags with tassels go for it.
    For the sake of argument, I don't see anything wrong with this whatsoever:



    Or this:

    Last edited by anaconda; 05-10-2017 at 12:23 AM.

  20. #317
    Real men ride Vespas:


  21. #318
    Quote Originally Posted by anaconda View Post
    For the sake of argument, I don't see anything wrong with this whatsoever:



    Or this:

    That's a full dress bagger, another matter. The sportster is an abomination.

  22. #319
    Quote Originally Posted by anaconda View Post
    Real men ride Vespas:

    yes they do, I had a rally 200 myself. Always partial to the lambretta.


    I competed two years in ESRA with a hopped up kymco super 9


    nothing was more fun or turned more heads then the Italjet(piaggio group) Dragster 180, it had malossi everything and was good for 100+ mph, as much fun as a big bore two stroke snow machine.


    'Here's my firecat I had up in the arctic

  23. #320
    Quote Originally Posted by afwjam View Post
    That's a full dress bagger, another matter. The sportster is an abomination.
    Is this an abomination?..




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  25. #321
    Quote Originally Posted by afwjam View Post
    The sportster is an abomination.
    Practical. Why not have some good storage space?

    Last edited by anaconda; 05-10-2017 at 01:08 AM.

  26. #322
    I guess a metric cruiser can have a top case if you must, please don't.

    Heres half my trip to work on a DRZ 400(another great first bike)



    trip up Mauna Kea on the KLR and round the backside



    I mostly deal in dualport bikes these days, though I feel the itch for a Speed Triple.
    Last edited by afwjam; 05-10-2017 at 01:34 AM.

  27. #323
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Ok, so all this new bike talk has got me going...

    Here's where my tastes are running right now:

    The Victory "Eight Ball"...they had one of the these at the dealer, Victory line is being discontinued by Polaris, reduced for quick sale, new left over, to $8800.



    The HD Softail "Slim" - MSRP $15000 - Downside, new design which means all computerized...



    The classic HD softail, which is dated looking but I still love that pseudo chopper look. Gently used, non computerized, non emission model for around $5-6000



    Or bite the bullet and undertake a new construction?

    That eight ball looks to be a fine ride. Of course I would take those monkey bars off it...
    "The Patriarch"

  28. #324
    Quote Originally Posted by anaconda View Post
    Real men ride Vespas:

    Looks pretty gay too me.
    "The Patriarch"

  29. #325
    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    That eight ball looks to be a fine ride. Of course I would take those monkey bars off it...
    $8800.00 for a 103.........

    That's a steal...

    S&S is getting almost that much for a long block.

  30. #326
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    $8800.00 for a 103.........

    That's a steal...

    S&S is getting almost that much for a long block.
    Yep, my thoughts exactly. And plenty of opportunity to 'personalize' it.
    "The Patriarch"

  31. #327
    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    $8800.00 for a 103.........

    That's a steal...

    S&S is getting almost that much for a long block.
    I know, right?

    They were blowing them out at what was probably below cost.

    More than likely gone now...but I think I will ride over this afternoon and see.

  32. #328
    Quote Originally Posted by afwjam View Post
    If it's going to be a Harley I would love a bobber, especially a classic flathead total loss, or a WLA. XRs are pretty cool too.



    Tough
    Oh yeah, that one speaks to me..."Rat Bike" vibe, no visible oil tank, no battery, Morris Magneto ignition.

    Tough is right...tough as steel balls.



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  34. #329
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    2017 Triumph Bonneville Bobber $12400 MSRP



    https://www.cycletrader.com/dealers/...RDER-121464041
    That is so me..
    Change to single carb, and buck horn bars.
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  35. #330
    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    That is so me..
    Change to single carb, and buck horn bars.
    If you look close Pete, it looks to me like they are still, to this day, using Amal slide valve carbs.

    It's a shame they swapped the gear/rear brake around to the "right" sides, and the water cooling I don't care for, but it's still a sweet ride.
    Last edited by Anti Federalist; 05-10-2017 at 12:01 PM.

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