Doc! What Bike Did you Buy?

[xsbank]

Well?

[Hedley]

Here's a pic of Doc trying out the new crotch rocket:

[SkyWolfe]

[. ._]

I think he bought the new Harley Rainbow.



But I still think he should go Bandit- Reynolds style.



-istp

[Doc]

Haven't picked it up yet. I rains every day. Going to get it Tuesday next week. wx permitting.
Here it is....still on the floor...



It's a new '07 650 Bandit.

[Hedley]

They're so clean sitting there on the showroom floor,
all shiny and spiffy.

I just wish they looked the same after 50,000 km!

[5x5]

Sweet, Doc! You're going to love it. And welcome to the Bandit fraternity.

I may have mentioned it before, but there's a great forum with loads of good info at Maximum Suzuki Also it's a very pleasant forum with extremely helpful members and next to no jerks. Very enjoyable.

[Just another canuck]

Also it's a very pleasant forum with extremely helpful members and next to no jerks

Just what are you trying to say?

[SkyWolfe]

Hey, whats wrong with a joke now and then? Looks like a hoot.

While I was at the car show in YVR I saw a few bikes. Never liked em until I was up next to em.

[Hedley]

The first time you swing a leg over a liter sportbike,
you will lose all interest in so-called exotic cars.

For $7,000 you can buy a used sportbike that will
go through the quarter mile in under 10 seconds,
and will bounce off the rev limiter in 6th gear at
300 kph.

[SenyorJim]

I am riding a classic 75 T500 stroke for last 30 years- great fun and am currently wrenching a 82 400ge for a newby rider who got it for 350 bucks- nice bike with cool windscreen shoei but neglected
-broken bolts and electrics flashers etc but runs nice 24000k and she will love it
just drilled out bolts and put a new chain on and expox'd plastic flasher housings
a good deal as she did not fire it up and buyer was a little snakey
riding a bike tends to rev up your alert mechanism if you want to survive
j

[Doc]

Hedley, I've always thought it would be cool to own something like a GSXR1000. Just to be on something with that potential! Knowing you can eat anything on the road. A true power feeling. The thing has so much power, you don't have anything to prove.....everybody just "knows" you could if you really wanted........
Your opinion of a Super Duke......?

[Hedley]

Literbikes are the only vehicles that I have ever
operated, that acted as if the throttle was directly
connected to the speedometer needle

You twist your right wrist, the speedometer needle
linearly winds up. You unwind the throttle, the
speedometer needle goes back down again. No slop.

They are mechanical engineering masterpieces
that provide an incredible bang for the buck.

It is a great mystery to me, why everyone doesn't
have a liter sportbike and a single-seat Pitts. Neither
is very expensive, but both will blow your mind and
humble you with their engineering genius and
refinement from decades of development.

P.S. My father says the F-104 was the same way
with the throttle - it behaved as if it was directly
connected to the ASI. A -104 with a late-model
J79 would be a cool airplane - apparently it can
"super-cruise", that is, fly supersonic in level flight
without afterburner.

It a source of great disappointment to me, that
no Canadians fly the -104. Look how everyone
went nuts about the Sabre that Vintage Wings
restored

[Meecka]

Hey. Don't rag on my bird man! Don't think I'd like to work on a Lawn Dart though. I've heard horror stories about them.

Sorry for the hijack.

Hey Doc.. congrats on the new toy. I'm working on getting a bike... sometim ein the next 10 years i should be able to afford one!!

[Hedley]

Don't rag on my bird man!

Huh? I think Hawk One is fantastic! My father flew 700
hours on various marks of Sabres over the decades, and
he describes them as a sweet-flying airplane.

P.S. I would gladly spin a wrench on (or fly) a -104,
though I would like a little dual in it before I went solo.

Most airplanes you hear horror stories about, it turns
out to be complete nonsense.

[Doc]

Meecka, go visit http://www.thekneeslider.com
There are many 750 and 1100 Viragos listed for less than 2K. I know you like the V twins. These are good cheap bikes. They have an almost cult following. Your mom rides one, doesn't she? It'll get you "in the wind".

[Rowdy]

Most airplanes you hear horror stories about, it turns
out to be complete nonsense.

Its usually those telling the stories that are the horrors.

[Doc]

Here it is, with less than 200 kms on the clock. Still clean. I'm less than 20 kms from Rushing River. Good place for a scoot. And a pic.

[SenyorJim]

nice- not all covered with plastic either

[. ._]

SWEET!

Now the next thing I would do is get some engine guards.

http://www.twistedthrottle.com/trade/pr ... /1999/178/

Because now that you have a new bike, some dick is gonna knock it over in a parking lot. That's usually the way it works.

Try not to get too mad at the bugs killing themselves on your headlight.

-istp