Favorite Motorcycle of all time?
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Paul Saver
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I have ridden the Rune, it's a hand-full yet balanced. Awesome machine. Looks bigger in pictures.Answering on behalf of my little brother, he loves his Honda Rune. I still haven’t made it to Georgia to throw a leg over it.
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Been thinking about this for a bit. I decided that so far it is my old speed triple. It was fun as hell to ride. I love the triple motor. But I sold her cuz she killed my nuts after an hour of riding. Even with a custom Sargeant seat. I still miss that bike
I wanted a Speed Triple but never got one. I had a 2004 or 2005 (can't remember) Sprint ST, and that 955cc triple was a smooth as silk. I flew from Dallas down to Austin to buy it, and rode it home. I sold it when I got the Goldwing, but I missed it and think back fondly on it.
Buddy and I got to get out for a day of riding today. We've both been working a **** ton over the last several months and are blessed with families...
But today, no work obligations and family folks were all busy on other things and neither needed either of us around.
So what was going to be a quick ride to grab lunch turned into more riding, stopping to grab a couple of cigars, and hanging out just catching up.
Classify these as good times.
But today, no work obligations and family folks were all busy on other things and neither needed either of us around.
So what was going to be a quick ride to grab lunch turned into more riding, stopping to grab a couple of cigars, and hanging out just catching up.
Classify these as good times.
Paul Saver
Active Member
Consider sharing some pics if you have some... I miss riding.
When I lived on Long Island in my 20's had a 750 Honda Super Sport, I rode every day as long as there was no ice on the roads. Worst thing was coming out of work when it's dark and freezing that bike didn't like the cold. I'd have to warm it up before riding, I'd be the last one to leave. One time we left LI and it was 85° and rode upstate to visit my family. Once the sun went down it got cold up in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains. When we finally arrived someone had to help me get my leather jacket off. Then it snowed, I had to leave the bike and borrow my dad's other car to drive home. Summer time was good, I rode in two events with thousands of bikes, one was a heart fund run another was a helmet protest. NY was mandatory for helmets, that run most bikes were Harley's, when the signal to start them up was given what a roar.
PinnedandRecessed
Allegedly
Ok, I'll post another.
olddirtygerm
Awesome
All gone now as I stopped riding a few years back after a back injury
Brother, you are not alone.
That Bonneville brings back some good memories....
He damn sure ain't alone.
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Same here. I started with a Honda Super90 in the 60's before I even had a learners permit. Last bike was a 2004 BMW K1200GT. The only reason I don't ride anymore was I had a hip replacement some years ago. My Ortho Surgeon strongly suggested I quit anything on 2 wheels.......he showed me an x-ray of a guy who had a hip replacement and had gone down on it. Lets just say his hip and femur looked like jigsaw puzzles. Now with both hips replaced I won't even get on a bicycle.
In between the Honda and BMW, I had a Honda CL77, Kawasaki H2 Mach IV, Honda CB 750, Honda Superhawk and a few others I can't recall just now.
A 1975 750 super sport with my first real street bike. Made several trips from Ohio to Sturgis on it
However my actual overall favorite, was a 1988 heritage Softail classic. I bought that bike used in 88, with 8800 miles on it, for $8800. Rode it until about five years ago and had to sell it as I could no longer ride anything but a trike and didn't wanna go that route for several reasons. I made very few modifications to that bike, and I have to say it never had anything go wrong that I did not have a finger in causing. Hated to see that go. Still have lots of memories but only a few pictures.
Had a lot of bikes, but the one I enjoyed most started off as a Harley BAJA.
Was working at a H-D shop, and the guy who owned it wasn't too happy that I was racing a 250 Bultaco Astro at the time.
So I picked up the Baja. People called them the Ha-Ha, as they really were Italian shit, way over weight, only 100cc, would spit the primary gears out damn near as fast as the would spit the rings out of the oversize exhaust port. The crank was super light, but flexed like a wet noodle. That was causing the primary gears to want to move away from each other, and the flywheel to snap the other end of the crank clean off.
Went to work curing some of it's designed in problems, like boring it to 125cc, so the ring wouldn't fall out the port every chance it got, taking off all the steel fenders, tank, huge steel rear sprocket, and drilling 1" holes (a lot of them) through all the cast iron cylinder fins. Ran a plastic rear fender, and some odd-ball mini-bike tank that only held about 1-1/2 quarts.
Managed to get the weight down from 225 lbs, to 165 lbs.
Asked Harley to contact Italy for the road-race port timing for that engine, and they did (they were always helpful that way). Plus carved an extra transfer port over top of the intake port, that fed from a slot, just below the ring on the Honda CR125 piston I was using.
The junk Delorto carb was replaced with a Tillotson kart carb, and built my own custom pipe for max high RPM power, and would absolutely cut above 16,000 rpm.
Replaced the primary gears with the set from their Rapido 125, that were twice as wide.
The heavy flywheel snapping the crank off was cured by scrapping the flywheel, and running a small wet cell battery for a total loss ignition. This was way before nice RC car battery packs were around...
When it came all together, it was one of the fastest 125 short track bikes in AMA District 16. Only had one other bike that made me work hard to compete with, a Yamaha Twin-Jet that ran out of the Al Muth HD shop in southern Wisconsin,
It didn't like tracks longer than 1/4 mile ovals, as once above that, running the 19-1 compression ratio tended to build heat too fast and it would stick a piston, or blow out a head gasket, although a 1/2 mile tri-oval it handled pretty well.
Had the most fun in the winter at the Minneapolis indoor races held at the national guard armory.
They ran one class, 0-500cc. Normal turn out was around 300 bikes. If you didn't place 3rd, or higher in any of the heat races, or semis, you loaded up, and went home.
I had tried running the Astro there, but it was just too much of a hand full.
But every time I run the Baja, I made the final. Always collected some prize money
There were a lot of disappointed 250s, 360s, and 500s there when they got out run by a frigging Harley/Italian small bore. Some had no idea what it was, others crashed trying to keep me from passing, one of them tried to kick me when I came around the following lap.
Stock:
Not final form (Did not have the kart carb yet, just before the manifold snapped coming over a jump at the Wausau, Wis. TT race, still had flywheel magneto, and not the best pipe.)
I really miss flat track racing.
Hell, I miss fitting into those leathers...
Was working at a H-D shop, and the guy who owned it wasn't too happy that I was racing a 250 Bultaco Astro at the time.
So I picked up the Baja. People called them the Ha-Ha, as they really were Italian shit, way over weight, only 100cc, would spit the primary gears out damn near as fast as the would spit the rings out of the oversize exhaust port. The crank was super light, but flexed like a wet noodle. That was causing the primary gears to want to move away from each other, and the flywheel to snap the other end of the crank clean off.
Went to work curing some of it's designed in problems, like boring it to 125cc, so the ring wouldn't fall out the port every chance it got, taking off all the steel fenders, tank, huge steel rear sprocket, and drilling 1" holes (a lot of them) through all the cast iron cylinder fins. Ran a plastic rear fender, and some odd-ball mini-bike tank that only held about 1-1/2 quarts.
Managed to get the weight down from 225 lbs, to 165 lbs.
Asked Harley to contact Italy for the road-race port timing for that engine, and they did (they were always helpful that way). Plus carved an extra transfer port over top of the intake port, that fed from a slot, just below the ring on the Honda CR125 piston I was using.
The junk Delorto carb was replaced with a Tillotson kart carb, and built my own custom pipe for max high RPM power, and would absolutely cut above 16,000 rpm.
Replaced the primary gears with the set from their Rapido 125, that were twice as wide.
The heavy flywheel snapping the crank off was cured by scrapping the flywheel, and running a small wet cell battery for a total loss ignition. This was way before nice RC car battery packs were around...
When it came all together, it was one of the fastest 125 short track bikes in AMA District 16. Only had one other bike that made me work hard to compete with, a Yamaha Twin-Jet that ran out of the Al Muth HD shop in southern Wisconsin,
It didn't like tracks longer than 1/4 mile ovals, as once above that, running the 19-1 compression ratio tended to build heat too fast and it would stick a piston, or blow out a head gasket, although a 1/2 mile tri-oval it handled pretty well.
Had the most fun in the winter at the Minneapolis indoor races held at the national guard armory.
They ran one class, 0-500cc. Normal turn out was around 300 bikes. If you didn't place 3rd, or higher in any of the heat races, or semis, you loaded up, and went home.
I had tried running the Astro there, but it was just too much of a hand full.
But every time I run the Baja, I made the final. Always collected some prize money
There were a lot of disappointed 250s, 360s, and 500s there when they got out run by a frigging Harley/Italian small bore. Some had no idea what it was, others crashed trying to keep me from passing, one of them tried to kick me when I came around the following lap.
Stock:
Not final form (Did not have the kart carb yet, just before the manifold snapped coming over a jump at the Wausau, Wis. TT race, still had flywheel magneto, and not the best pipe.)
I really miss flat track racing.
Hell, I miss fitting into those leathers...
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