Lets see your motorcycles

[Hop Sing]

I can't ride much anymore, but I am working on a 1949 BSA that will look something like this.

 

[Phantom Man]

I can't ride much anymore, but I am working on a 1949 BSA that will look something like this.

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My dad rode a 69 or 70 BSA lightning I believe and boy that thing shook as I remember being a little kid..,

 

[Hop Sing]

My dad rode a 69 or 70 BSA lightning I believe and boy that thing shook as I remember being a little kid..,

For sure - they shook more than any other British bike. This is a 500 cc single and I know it will be a paint shaker but all I am gonna do with it is short rides through the neighborhood. If my knees will allow me to start it, that is. HA

 

[dmacman]

 

[SHPD_Retired]

Dude, WTF? ! Your user name, SHPD, indicates everything you own must be BLUE .... this is Fire Department Red ?!




Break in ride suggestion: TODAY, (and every day this week)
Scapoose - Vernonia road, turn right to Mist,
Then 202 to Astoria, Cross over and back to Longview on 4

Billiard red. Not quite as bright as fire department red and I have ridden that route several times

 

[PaulB47]

'73 Norton Commando 850

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Nice! I had a 71 750 Commando for 25 years; not that clean looking though . Before that, a Norton N-15 (a Norton/Matchless hybrid).

This is my current bike, a bit more tame: A 2003 Kawasaki Super Sherpa (a 250).

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[Don't Sue People Panda]

Trouble never looked so good!

 

[Grumpa]

Trouble never looked so good!
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[teflon6string]

1978 Yamaha XS500. Otay Lakes west of San Diego.

 

[Ura-Ki]

1992 ATK 350 ES punched to a 406!
Light as a 125 and super quick!

 

[DB is Here]

In 2002 I bought one of the last available CR 500's ever made, had it sent out from Wisconson in 2002. 3 years of fun then sold it in 2005 for $200 more than I paid for it...I guess a guy in South Dakota wanted it pretty bad.

I still miss it TBH.



Not my bike, took the pic from the interwebs.

 

[Ura-Ki]

This bad boy keeps threatening to follow me home! Just something about a stripped down Strumpet Hooligan that always makes me smile!

 

[Oregonhunter5]

This should be done in a few weeks maybe. It's the one I grew up learning how to ride on. The actual bike. So much memories.

 

[Cigarlvr313]

Ready to come off of "life support"...........

 

[arrowshooter]

1984 KTM 250MXC. 35 years old and she still had no problem with the kids on the new stuff
. Sold her last year when I moved up here.

 

[kisfish]

first pic back when I was a young whipper snapper. Then our flat track bike pics. Knight Honda xr600. The motor had a carrelo rod, wiseco piston, edco flowed head, and a 44 mm mikuni round slide running on alcohol. She was a mean bike . The last pic is ice racing in Colorado

 

[RicInOR]

I stumbled on some U-tuby videos, my Brother asked should I be supporting China just today - but fun vids.

Anyway, I am thinking strongly that an e-bike is in my future.

Bikes & Beers (er .. )

 

[Brutus57]

2008 in Yellowstone. I put 136,000 mile on this 2002 VTX 1800.

 

[Hemlock]

My dad rode a 69 or 70 BSA lightning I believe and boy that thing shook as I remember being a little kid..,

Shook doesn't even begin to describe English bikes! I had a red '65 Lighting. The only thing that kept the headlight from continually turning was when the wiring was completely twisted. Leaked oil from the clutch worse then my '55 Panhead!

 

[CLT65]

I've owned more two-wheeled vehicles than four-wheeled in my life, though I haven't owned one in a number of years.

I started out with a string of dirt bike for riding on the farm, mostly Honda and Yamaha enduro style from the '70. Used bikes were cheap back then. My favorite, and last, dirt bike was an '84 XR350. I rode the wheels off that thing, awesome bike.

Then I got into road bikes, as I had left the farm. First was a '78 KZ650, a quick little cafe racer. That old bike would scoot out from under me if I wasn't careful. Then it was an '81 XS11 "Midnight Special". Bigger, heavier, and faster that the KZ, but nowhere near as quick. I enjoyed riding, but found I was not a biker, more of a fair-weather rider. When kids came along, the bike sat most of the time, and eventually went down the road.