Drifter wrote:

Well, maybe it's time, Mike, that you dump your rice burner, and
get on a real bike. love my bagger.


Fag.


I'm down to an R75/7 BMW and two Sportsters, a 1975 and a 2005. I sold
my 1996 Triumph Daytona 1200 a few years ago, soon after my Ducati 900
Super Sport. My wrists couldn't take the load imposed by the clip on
bars anymore. The Norton Atlases were sold to buy a house in '86.

I've owned three 45s, a 62 Panhead, a '78 shovel and a fairly hot Evo
that followed a new 1988 1200 Sporty. The vibration on the 1200 was
obscene. You literally couldn't cruise at 65 to 75 MPH without loosening
your fillings..

Your shameful and rather immature attitude towards Japanese motorcycles
is the exact reason why South Park made the show about Harley riders.
The Japs put millions of people on Motorcycles who might otherwise not
have had the inclination.

The worst Japanese bikes I've owned were a pair of Kawasaki 500 triples.
They were called the world's first disposable motorcycle. You had to put
new rings in every 12,000 miles and the fuel mileage was obscenely BAD.

My best Japanese bike was a 1975 water cooled Suzuki 750. It used less
oil than a four stroke and was still running two years ago. It probably
still is, I haven't talked to the owner since my move.







mike

m II wrote:

Drifter wrote:

Well, maybe it's time, Mike, that you dump your rice burner, and
get on a real bike. love my bagger.


Fag.


A small sampling of the South Park episode:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7hQN4Amaeg


With all the straight pipe running moron pricks out there, I can't blame
them.




mike

On 2/8/10 24:32 , m II wrote:

The Japs put millions of people on Motorcycles who might otherwise not
have had the inclination.


And they did it with tooling, parts, plans and engineers donated
by Harley Davidson.

Other than my 1976 made in Germany Hercules I now have, I have owned a
few other mopeds and motor scooters before.Three Cushmans, a made in
Italy Harley Davidson motorcycle, a Honda moped, a Vespa moped, and a
Solex moped I bought when I was in Vietnam. http://www.tsna.org

I haven't ridden on a two wheeler since around 1987.I have gotten too
wibbly wobbly nowadays to ride two wheelers anymore.I would probally
fall off and break my neck!
cuhulin

At the end of World War Two in Japan, Sochiro Honda was looking for
something to do.He started rounding up some little utility gas engines
and mounting them onto bicycles.That is how Honda two wheelers, mopeds
and motorcycles, and later, on cars, got started.

The Official end of World War Two, as far as U.S.fed govt is concerned,
wasen't untill 1951.
cuhulin

On 2/8/2010 1:32 AM, m II wrote:
Drifter wrote:

Well, maybe it's time, Mike, that you dump your rice burner, and
get on a real bike. love my bagger.


Fag.


I'm down to an R75/7 BMW and two Sportsters, a 1975 and a 2005. I sold
my 1996 Triumph Daytona 1200 a few years ago, soon after my Ducati 900
Super Sport. My wrists couldn't take the load imposed by the clip on
bars anymore. The Norton Atlases were sold to buy a house in '86.

I've owned three 45s, a 62 Panhead, a '78 shovel and a fairly hot Evo
that followed a new 1988 1200 Sporty. The vibration on the 1200 was
obscene. You literally couldn't cruise at 65 to 75 MPH without loosening
your fillings..

Your shameful and rather immature attitude towards Japanese motorcycles
is the exact reason why South Park made the show about Harley riders.
The Japs put millions of people on Motorcycles who might otherwise not
have had the inclination.

The worst Japanese bikes I've owned were a pair of Kawasaki 500 triples.
They were called the world's first disposable motorcycle. You had to put
new rings in every 12,000 miles and the fuel mileage was obscenely BAD.

My best Japanese bike was a 1975 water cooled Suzuki 750. It used less
oil than a four stroke and was still running two years ago. It probably
still is, I haven't talked to the owner since my move.







mike
Gee whiz Mike, i'm no trying to be shameful, or immature here. heaven
forbid that.
i just don't ever remember you posting about anything other than
rice burners. sorry bout that. BTW, i had a Commando-S for way too
many years. the dam thing tried many times to kill me. I still got
a 65 Bonnie sitting in the garage, one of these days i'll fix those
carbs and bring her back to life. and no, it's not for sale. at my age,
i should be riding a 3 wheeler anyhow. every time i stop for a stop sign,
i remember being 16, and having a 44 tank shifter falling over on me.
took 2 buddies to lift her off me. i still have the pipe burn/ scar
on my right leg. the bike was an old cop-cycle, with reverse, and
that giant off sprung seat. can't remember the weight, but i believe
it was over a 1,000lbs. at the time i was a skinny kid at maybe 120lbs.
so, no contest. guess i never did learn.

Drifter...

D. Peter Maus wrote:

The Japs put millions of people on Motorcycles who might otherwise not
have had the inclination.


And they did it with tooling, parts, plans and engineers donated by
Harley Davidson.

The following and thousands more web sites need to be informed of this
fact. They all give credit to German and English influences on the
design of Japanese vehicles. A few even have the nerve to claim that
Harley's two stroke experiences were based on a DKW design, as was the
BSA Bantam.

http://www.whybike.com/motorcycle97.htm
http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/v..._kawasaki.html
http://tinyurl.com/yboxdtr
http://www.autohistory.org/feature_7.html

http://tinyurl.com/ycuafu7
(pdf file)

http://www.ianchadwick.com/motorcycl...0/history.html
http://www.motorcycle.co.uk/Articles...of-Suzuki.aspx
http://www.motorcycle.co.uk/Articles...of-Yamaha.aspx
http://www.realclassic.co.uk/opinion...n08102400.html
http://www.marusholilac.com/ml2.htm
http://www.motorcycle.com/manufactur...otorcycle.html


As far as I can tell, any country that can make huge ocean going tankers
or battleships powered by monster diesels is more than capable of
producing mopeds and motorcycles.

A great benefit produced by this competition is that Harley and others
have had to vastly improve their product line. There is no comparison
between the 1975 and 2005 Sportsters I own. Everything from the gaskets
to the fasteners has been improved.

Rumour has it that a few ex Norton engineers were hired by Harley,
resulting in the rubber mounting across the whole range. It's wonderful.

mike

On 2/8/10 14:31 , m II wrote:

As far as I can tell, any country that can make huge ocean going tankers
or battleships powered by monster diesels is more than capable of
producing mopeds and motorcycles.

That's true. The Harland and Woolf line of mopeds is something of
legend.

Drifter wrote:

Gee whiz Mike, i'm no trying to be shameful, or immature here. heaven
forbid that.


I reacted in a bad way. I'm sorry. Your past posting history is pretty
good and I should have been more considerate in my reply.





mike

D. Peter Maus wrote:

On 2/8/10 14:31 , m II wrote:

As far as I can tell, any country that can make huge ocean going tankers
or battleships powered by monster diesels is more than capable of
producing mopeds and motorcycles.

That's true. The Harland and Woolf line of mopeds is something of legend.





Now we're getting somewhere. In fact, a Wartsila-Sulzer RTA-96 is my
daily ride.



mike