Pocket knives for X-country Motorcycle trip.

[Texas Slim]

There is an indian made copy of the classic Vespa with a 250cc 2 stroke that actually has some real balls. It would be fun to hunt muscle cars on a scooter.

Holy Crap!

 

[zeppos]

Hope I answered you okay zeppos.

More than just okay, jackknife, excellent! :thumbup:

14 years ago i got a Puch Skytrack (no idea if this was ever sold in the US, but in Europe it was a big hit in the seventies)

The above one is not mine (i lost the only picture of it that i had), but it was very similar and orange instead of red.

I had it for two years, until it felt like it would fail soon. I had no knowledge of engines and no real ambition to learn, so sold it to a friend who told me that didn't matter to him, because he "knew a lot about engines". One week after he got it, he blew up the poor 50CC engine...

I've always missed it, but never got another one. 50cc isn't that much once you start driving cars.

I've always dreamt about buying a motorcycle since, but i'm afraid that i'd get myself killed driving one, me liking speed and all.
Maybe a Vespa would be an enjoyable compromise...

 

[Foilist]

My first bike was a 1982 Honda CX500. It was the one with the liquid cooled, sideways mounted v-twin (imagine the love child of a Moto Guzzi and a sump pump). It was ugly as sin, but I loved that bike. I got it as a college student for about $500 and spent the winter fixing it up into road-worthy condition with a friend. I rode it for about five years before moving on to a Vulcan 750 and then my Concours (I have a thing for function-over-form bikes). I wish I had never sold the CX though, and if I can find another one for a reasonable price, I'm gettin' it.


I'm also seriously thinking of getting one of those Ural sidecar rigs sometime in the next couple of years. These are Russian copies of WWII German military rigs that they've been cranking out since the war. Now that they have improved their quality considerably from the earlier ones, I'd take a chance. I checked some out once at a Ural dealer and was more impressed then I thought I'd be. It would be fun to be able to take a ride with my wife and/or daughter in the hack and do some family motorcycling on the backroads.

 

[sodak]

Same here. Despite the wondrous variety our country offers, I still find the luch tropical vegetation and clear blue seas of Hawaii the most beautiful. A lot of it probably has to do that I was born in a place with a similar environment and weather.

That's interesting! Being from South Dakota, I often complain to my wife that the mountains here in Colorado block the view! I love the wide open spaces, when the forests get dense, I get a little nervous, but can still appreciate their beauty.

Jackknife, I can still remember the theme song to Bronson. Great show!

 

[paragraaf]

This is neet that we have some motorcyclists here, I don't think I'd have thought that for some reason.

How many are there and what do/have you ridden?

I had a 1977 74 ci shovelhead which I rode to Spain and Portugal, France, England and Wales, with only one break down : a cracked battery lead. If they are well kept and not raced I experienced that they are reliable. Well suited for roads in France and certainly Spain, where you can keep on riding for hours without stopping. Stopping gave a lot of adrenalin. Procedure was as follows : scratch your feet against the ground (it helps if you study the Flintstones movies, before) and call out loud for your guardian angel or any angel who is at stand-by (you might need a couple of them), if you came to a stop without hitting anything it sure was your lucky day and it had nothing to do with HD R&D.
I moved to a 1973 Triumph Bonneville (rode it for 500 km and kept it as an aternative for a painting), Yamaha XS65O (rpm come in too fast for me, I'm slow with bikes) and Moto Guzzi (1982 SP/NT 1000). The MG was the bike for me, it had an engine I like, it had the integral breaking system by Brembo, a big fuel tank and lots of other things at less than half the price of the HD.
I also have a MG 850GT (Eldorado in the US ?).
They all have to go now, I can't ride them because of health problems but I like to read about other peoples bikes (and knives) here in what seems the pub on the corner where you can drop in for a chat with the mates.