m II wrote:
Drifter wrote:

Cool Mike, you ride?
just trying to lighten things up around here.

BTW, my group is heading up the national middle-aged
Harley guys this weekend. about 15 miles from where i live,
at the county fair grounds. good time. mostly middle-aged
professionals. but, they ride hogs, so that makes them brothers.
we got maybe 25K bikes + up there.

I have a 1976 BMW twin. Peter Maus rides too.

There's project Sportster waiting for parts. I will be converting an
883 into a 1200 sometime this fall. I'm hoping for a bit over 80 HP
after pipes, cams and all the misc. stuff that goes into backyard hot
rodding. I sold the Triumph 1200 Daytona a few years ago. At 560 lbs,
that thing was getting to be too much of a handful in the parking lot.




mike

Hi Mike. 560 is not that bad. my first bike was a 47 tank-shifter
ex-cop bike. i had to move the throttle to the right. you may be
too young to remember. clutch on your left foot, shifter on the
left side of the tank. 3 forward, one reverse, means it could take
a sidecar for city use. i bought it from the local legion of
Pittsburgh, guy called Handlebar Hank. hell, i was 16, he looked
old back then, and he just died a few years ago. anyhow, we trucked
it home, and i got the plates and a legal title. it had that god-awful
wooden seat and a hard tail. it was my first bike, not the first one
i ever rode. i was 16, about 6 foot, and maybe 100 lbs. the bike weight
in over 1400 lbs. i did good on the local back roads, mostly dirt. but,
my first time on a main road, waiting for a red-light to change, my
left leg relaxed, and the clutch jumped, and the bike fell on my right
leg. took 2 friends to get it off me. hurt like hell. 2 weeks later,
i traded in on a 57 Glide/ bagger. only weighted a hair under 900.
right now i got a 04 fat-boy for local and an 07 road-king bagger for the
open road. both are under 700lbs. and, i still got the burn/ scars from
way back then. i had a few triumphs, and a norton, but never a bmw.
gotta be a hog.

Drifter...