Modeling and Motorcycles

[Tom Luciano]

Push rod Carl Tommy Schaefer owns a world record with a BSA. Hunt, Windy, Les, Sparky and so many others. What do you have?

[Jim Svitko]

I am not riding that much anymore, but I still have the '94 BMW R100RT.  I bought it used, in '98, with 11,000 miles on it.  It now has 84,000 miles on it.

A simpler motorcycle does not exist.  Carburetors, air cooled, no fancy electronics to give you headaches, just the basics.  And, it has the most reliable fuel pump ever invented--gravity.

I would ride more but there are too many people with their eyes glued to that stupid phone, not watching what they are doing behind the wheel.  I have avoided a few crashes because my intuition told me that the other guy was not paying attention, and I managed to stay out of danger.

[Jim Kraft]

   At 82 I still ride my 99 Harley Softail Custom, but only an hour or so at a time. Motorcycles have been my other passion since I rode a friends Pacemaker Whizzer motor bike back in the 40's. I was about 8 years old.

   When I was 14, in 1955, I bought my first Harley. A 1942 "45" Flat head. Hand shift, foot clutch. I have ridden a lot of different bikes over the years.

    Since my first exposer to model airplanes was in the 40's also, I have had a love for old ignition engines all my life. That is all I knew, as glow had not come out yet.

    I was born at a very early age.

[Dan McEntee]

  With me, it's off road or what are called enduros back in my day, and also observed trials. For while I had 47 vintage dirt bikes, and two modern bikes. Most were rescues and rebuilds, including the one modern bike, a 1997 KYM EXC 200 Jackpiner Special Edition, that was a victim of a couple of divorces and previous owners that didn't know what they had!! I had to thin out the heard a lot when my younger brother passed away so i would have some room to bring his bikes home. I still have my 1975 Husqvarna 250WR that I bought new in '75, my brother's '73 Husqvarna 250RT, his '71 Penton 100 Berkshire, , a '79 Husky 250WR, a'77 Hercules 250 GS-7 speed, a '76 Rokon 340RT-YY, three Hodakas (a Ace 100B+, a '71 Super Rat ,and a '73 Wombat), a '73 Penton 25o Harescrambler, a '74 1/2Penton 250 Harescrambler, a Penton '75 Mint 400, a '79 Can-Am 250 Qualifier, a '74 Can-Am 175 TNT, an early 60's Honda CT200, and last but not least a '71 Honda MiniTrail 70. I haven't messed with them for a while due to me knees going south quickly, but since getting the worst one fixed, I think I can push them one by one out of the shed and bring them back to  life for a few more trail miles before I'm really finished with them. I have always been street qualified, but never really had any interest in riding on the road on a regular basis. The idiot population has grown way too fast!! Riding off road is different. Enduro events were run at a specific MPH average (usually 24 mph) and like a car rally, you had to maintain that average but in trails with creek crossings, rocks, logs trees, bushes and such. terrain sometimes that is hard to walk on much less keep up a 24 MPH average. That means on other trails you have to run like a scalded rabbit and at the same time, keep track of time and mileage by posted turn markers. I did this in my younger days and had a dream of making the US team to the International Six Day Trials. If you have ever seen the movie "On Any Sunday) you know what the ISDT is. Steve McQueen was on the US ISDT team in 1964. I just never had the budget and time to get to all the qualifying races all across the country that I would have needed to ride in order to qualify. I rode a few local qualifiers that were held in my area and got a taste of it. I got back involved with motorcycles in the late 1990s and the vintage movement, and through that, got to meet a lot of my heroes from back in the day and race with them. Kind of like an old timers baseball game, but you still had to have a bike that was set up correctly and able to withstand the two days of competition and special tests. I don't think I'll be able to participate in any of those events any more, but i still have the urge to get it it on riding some of the great trails we have around here. After that, then maybe I'll thin  the herd some more.
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[944_Jim]

No world records for me...unless I can claim the longest, darkest greasy spot (my Army buddies called me that for a few years) on an access road leading to a particular Army installation in Southern CA. The tank slapper got my 1982 CB900F in late 1986, and carried me for a 750 ft slide (I'll let you do the math).

It's replacement was purchased and still owned today...1983 Honda CB1100F bought in early 1987. It got a frame-up rebuild in my living room and completed in 1994. Paint color is Mopar Plum Crazy purple, so I call it "Grape Ape." My first bike (still owned) is a 1965 Honda S-90 bought in 1983. There have been others, but they're been transients. All grabbed at a good price and flipped for convenience but never at a loss.

[Colin McRae]

I ride a 2018 Bonneville Street Twin 900. (But not as much as I used to after getting back into the CL hobby). Mostly ride the back roads of the Napa Valley.

[Bob Heywood]

Been riding since age 15. I fully embraced the sport and did my fair share of competition as a sportsman amateur. My main ride now is a 2005 H-D Ultra Classic with a sidecar.

[Paul Van Dort]

BMW R75/5 from 1985 till 2000
MZ Skorpion Tour from 2001 till the accident May 2023

[mike londke]

1985 Suzuki GS 450 ridden coast to coast from Dam Neck VA to Sam Diego CA when I was 18.

[mike londke]

The Death Trike. Drum brakes all the way around were a bad idea. It was a head turner though.

[mike londke]

Daily driver since 2015. Vulcan Nomad 1600.

[kenneth cook]

              I have difficulty posting pictures on here.
   
                 I own a 73 KZ 900 Z-1    83 Yamaha XT 550 single  which is a amazing bike  Last is a 96 Kawasaki "88" VN 1500 Vulcan  One that I wish I didn't get rid of was a 75 Harley SX-250 made by Aermacchi.          Mike, I love that trike too cool

[wwwarbird]

 Wow, it's a long list for me. Coincidentally, here's one I stumbled across just last night on Superbike Planet though. It's the very 916 that I owned from new in '97 to '06 and sold with 27,000 some odd miles on it. I added the SP tail section, Arrow stainless/carbon fiber exhaust, Ferracci chip, Corbin seat, Zero Gravity "double bubble" windscreen, carbon fiber swingarm fender and other bits, powdercoated the wheels black, yadda-yadda-yadda. One helluva bike and I rode the snot out of it including some track days, one of them being the World Ducati Weekend event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was MINT and cleaner than new when I sold and lost track of it. Really sad to see the scuffs and scrapes and the absolutely hideous mirrors some dweeb hung on it.

 https://superbikeplanet.com/story/436/expletive-deleted-the-beater-916

[Peter in Fairfax, VA]

The old ticker will generate 2 or 3 hundred watts with a 20 MPH average on a good day.  Don't really have a need for a moto at the moment, though my days of riding a Yamaha RD 400, a Kawasaki KZ 1000 and numerous bikes wrenching at the Kawasaki dealership are happy memories.

Peter

[M Spencer]

Er , Well . Not QUITE .

Gotta engine or two in the shed, for one !

Have to figure if the crank;d SNAP without a Harmonic Balancer .  ?
as to whether its worth bothering . As to the weight , It'd be under 700 Lbs ,
so about what a 2300 R III weighs . But 3.5 or 4.4 litre & 200 Horse .

That Device he moved things to avoid width - Think the Journo snapped
the primary doing a U Turn . And bent a valve ( Shades of Phil Hill in
a DBS Vantage - watched the speedo & tacho wind of the dials . Opps .)

Mesmerised ? Would all the harmonics in the Rover 3500 crank BREAK IT ?

https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Custom/norton_v8.htm
not bad for 1980 .



https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_NBM8jtrl7g

Not Me again .  But been there . Pre Units have a number of advantages in the output stakes .



These new ones seem to be missing something . They arnt really Triumphs unless something falls of them occasionally .   

[Les Akre]

  With me, it's off road or what are called enduros back in my day, and also observed trials. For while I had 47 vintage dirt bikes, and two modern bikes. Most were rescues and rebuilds, including the one modern bike, a 1997 KYM EXC 200 Jackpiner Special Edition, that was a victim of a couple of divorces and previous owners that didn't know what they had!! I had to thin out the heard a lot when my younger brother passed away so i would have some room to bring his bikes home. I still have my 1975 Husqvarna 250WR that I bought new in '75, my brother's '73 Husqvarna 250RT, his '71 Penton 100 Berkshire, , a '79 Husky 250WR, a'77 Hercules 250 GS-7 speed, a '76 Rokon 340RT-YY, three Hodakas (a Ace 100B+, a '71 Super Rat ,and a '73 Wombat), a '73 Penton 25o Harescrambler, a '74 1/2Penton 250 Harescrambler, a Penton '75 Mint 400, a '79 Can-Am 250 Qualifier, a '74 Can-Am 175 TNT, an early 60's Honda CT200, and last but not least a '71 Honda MiniTrail 70. I haven't messed with them for a while due to me knees going south quickly, but since getting the worst one fixed, I think I can push them one by one out of the shed and bring them back to  life for a few more trail miles before I'm really finished with them. I have always been street qualified, but never really had any interest in riding on the road on a regular basis. The idiot population has grown way too fast!! Riding off road is different. Enduro events were run at a specific MPH average (usually 24 mph) and like a car rally, you had to maintain that average but in trails with creek crossings, rocks, logs trees, bushes and such. terrain sometimes that is hard to walk on much less keep up a 24 MPH average. That means on other trails you have to run like a scalded rabbit and at the same time, keep track of time and mileage by posted turn markers. I did this in my younger days and had a dream of making the US team to the International Six Day Trials. If you have ever seen the movie "On Any Sunday) you know what the ISDT is. Steve McQueen was on the US ISDT team in 1964. I just never had the budget and time to get to all the qualifying races all across the country that I would have needed to ride in order to qualify. I rode a few local qualifiers that were held in my area and got a taste of it. I got back involved with motorcycles in the late 1990s and the vintage movement, and through that, got to meet a lot of my heroes from back in the day and race with them. Kind of like an old timers baseball game, but you still had to have a bike that was set up correctly and able to withstand the two days of competition and special tests. I don't think I'll be able to participate in any of those events any more, but i still have the urge to get it it on riding some of the great trails we have around here. After that, then maybe I'll thin  the herd some more.
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

Hi Dan

Check out our vintage mx website.    https://www.vmxalberta.com/   

If you look at the pictures from the Mark3 - August 20 event, I'm the guy riding #9  1980 PE175, #9 1979 kx250, and #9 1990 kx250. You will likely be familiar with a great many of the bikes we race. Vintage men on vintage bikes, what's not to like...

Les

[bob whitney]

took a break in the 70`s doing flat track and moto cross with a little drag racing thrown in .my 250 Yamaha
flat tracker won the Daytona 250 dirt half mile  in 77  . in drags  i set the FMB 350 class in Bowling Greem K with a 12.30 et & 110 MPH held it for 3 years.one year bikes i built were hi point in five of the 6 class`s at our local 1/4 mile dirt track ,i was a better Mechanic than rider but did win one PRO indoor flat track.
  i cant post pictures

[Wayne Collier]

Current ride. Back in the 80s I had a lot of fun and went a lot of miles on a KZ 400.

[M Spencer]

1969 on my BSA Rocket 3, and raced with Windy and a bunch of other friends with my BSA Spitfire Mk IV and Norton Commando.

This puts Mr Hunt in a new light altogether . We expect ( well , hope for ) some PICTURES . Please Bob .
One thing on a Commando ; if you look at the intake / carb manifolds , the length inside on top is not at all the length at the inside at the bottom .
I used pipe bend custom carb mounts ( 32 Mk II Amal , the woiks F-750 ran 33 m.m. so comparable carb flow ), But as my manifolds carried the
port curve through out up & back , they I think were one of the reasons it wasnt slow . We wont mention the COILS , theyre #!*^ HOPELESS .
Unfortunately . Which was probably just as well . Tho they steered better than most things , they still had their limitations . And otherworldliness .



Physcho , Man . Here you can see the advantage of well financed bickering tossers Vs underfunded hopeless hopefulls . 1974 107 Avg or Lap or suchlike,

Frank Perris , looking at the canary . ( If the canary passes out , theres not enough oxygen ) .

[Tom McClain]

Well,

I don't have anything so antique or exotic, but, I have a 1978 Honda GoldWing GL1000.  Totally analog, nothing computerized.  It keeps up with the Bigger bikes in my American Legion Riders with no problems.

Tom

[Richard Fleming]

I got back into vintage dirt bike mx in 2008. I have a 1973 125 Hodaka Combat Wombat, 1974 Hodaka 125 Super Combat, and 1971 Ossa Stiletto. Richard

[Tom Luciano]

Some great bikes represented and I know there are a lot more modelers that ride or have in the past. Lonke, glad you survived the trike! Boss Hoss before Boss Hoss!
  I have a KZ 650 and also doing a complete resto on an 82 GPZ 550. FYI, The Turbo is 100% original, not restored.

Tom

[Peter in Fairfax, VA]

While I ran a KZ 1000, an enduring design, the KZ 650 ran smoother and was entirely adequate.

[Steve Helmick]

I've only owned two motorcycles, both used for chasing FF models and weekend trail riding. A 1974 Honda XL-250 followed by a 1980 Yamaha MX-175. The Yamahammer is still in my garage and I rode it around the cul-de-sac within the last month. I think it's an ideal chase bike for FF goferring, because it has no battery and while the suspension is old and ride isn't plush, it's easy to get the feet on the ground.

Both bikes, I'd park in neutral with the engine running, pick up the model, get it ready to carry (DT down), hold model in left hand, step over the bike, grab the throttle side, put my left wrist against the left grip, push off and snick it into 1st gear at idle, then up to 2nd with no clutching, and toodle on back to launch area, only right hand on the bars. The Yam never has had the sparkplug out, but a couple of foam air filters have died of old age.    Steve

[Dennis Saydak]

I still remember the good old days, very fondly. Made lots of road trips including several to Byron's giant scale R/C flies in in Ida Grove Iowa.
Other buddies brought the airplanes in their vehicles.

On one trip we stopped for a break in South Dakota on our way home. Shortly afterwards a group of easily recognizable Harley guys & gals walked into the bar. One guy asked in a very gruff voice - who owns the Beemer? Shaking in my boots, I replied I do. Then he said - nice bike. 

[Frank Imbriaco]

Nice machine, Tom.
My former rides :
 1972 Honda CB350
1973 Honda CB 500 Four
1974 Honda CB 750 Four
1995 H.D. Sportster
All were bought new and sold long, long ago. Did some New England cruising with the CB 500 Four including the Green Mountains and Killington, Vermont. Took the CB 750 Four on a 9 day tour up thru Montreal then Quebec. Saw some beautiful country along the St Lawrence River, Bar Harbor, Maine and climbed Mt. Washington ( tallest US  Eastern Peak) on my CB 750 Four. Besides the frightening ride down, it was memorable as Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency that day - Aug 8, 1974.
Miss 'em all, but don't think I'd want to chance sharing the road with the crazy drivers of today.

[David_Stack]

My father 'set the hook' when he put me on the back of his Honda CB-350 in the late 60's before I'd even turned 10.  It wasn't until after I'd joined the USAF out of High School and had income that I was able to get a bike of my own.  Took the MSF Basic Rider course while stationed at Eglin AFB, and purchased a Husqvarna 250XC that in Florida had just enough lighting (headlight and taillight driven off the ignition) to qualify for a plate. Rode it through the Eglin reservation to the Auxiliary Field where my unit was based.

A few assignments later the Air Force sent me back to Greece, and I purchased a Suzuki RG400 (two stroke, square four sport bike) which saw me one year ride to the Italian GP in Misano (ferry across from Greece, then ride up the coast to the track).  Eventually traded the RG400 for another two stroke sport bike, this time a 1989 Yamaha TZR-250.  Had to leave it behind when the next assignment sent me to Hawaii, and I wasn't willing to risk getting a non-US spec bike impounded. Years past, last assignment was to Ramstein, GE. and I purchased a 1991 Kawasaki ZX-7R (the limited edition version, fiberglass solo seat tail section, alloy tank, flat slide carbs).  Took it up to the Nurburgring and did a few laps.  Brought it back to the States upon retirement, but sold it a few years later (~2002) for a song.  When I see what that collectible version sells for now...

Years pass, the itch never goes away, and I found a 2007 KTM 144SX locally, joined Tidewater Dirt Riders, and eventually raced Hare Scrambles.  Sold it about ten years ago now.

There is scarcely a day that goes by when I am not perusing the Classifieds looking at bikes...

The only one I have a photo of is the TZR, it may have been my favorite of the lot.

[Steve Dwyer]

The following is a list of the motorcycles I've seen on display at the Glen Curtis Museum located in Hammondsport New York. Curtis set records on a Florida beach on one of his motorcycles. And while you're there you can look up to see hanging from the ceiling a replica of his 1909 June Bug. A cool place on Keuka Lake to visit in central New York.


1904 Curtiss Hercules Single Cylinder                 

1907 Curtiss 8 Cylinder (Reproduction)

1908 Curtiss Single Cylinder (on loan)

1909 Curtiss Single w/Sidecar   

1909 Curtiss V-Twin “Wehman frame” (on loan)

1909 Curtiss Three Cylinder (on loan)

1911 Curtiss V-Twin “Cook frame”

1911 Indian Single (on loan)                         

1912 Curtiss Single Cylinder “Wehman frame”     

1914 Indian V-Twin

1917 Henderson four Cylinder (on loan)

1922 Evans Single (on loan)

1924 Ner-A-Car (on loan)

1925 Cleveland Single (on loan)

[Juan Valentin]

Push rod Carl Tommy Schaefer owns a world record with a BSA. Hunt, Windy, Les, Sparky and so many others. What do you have?




                      I started with a 1971 Triumph 500cc Daytona which I turned into a pretzel three months later when I was stationed in Germany. Then I bought a 1971 Honda CB 750 brand new at the base BX and proceeded to replace the front fender with a fiberglass unit from Paul Dunstall,Replaced the handlebars with a set of clubman handlebars to make it a Cafe racer also removed the muffler baffles and had the bike retuned. I rode it to Paris France,Belgium to the motocross races and F1 races at Spa. Went to holland and rode to different places in Germany with my friends. Now I just bought a 1975 Cb 750 to relive the old days. I have other bikes all of them Triumph old and new. Being a modeler has taught me building skills so when I wanted a Paul Dunstall front fender for my 1975 I decided to make one. I had made a mold out of balsawood of the dunstall fender to fit a 1967 Triumph that I have. So I`m modifiying the mold to make a fender for the Honda CB 750 and I`m having fun.
                                                                                                                                                                    Juan

[SteveMoon]

Motorcycles are fun! I currently have these two
awesome toys: 1984 Kawasaki Ninja 900 and 1991
Kawasaki ZX7.

Steve

[wwwarbird]

 My current two two-wheelers, an '06 ZX-14...

[wwwarbird]

 ...and me and Willie G with my '66 Shovelhead...

[wwwarbird]

 "MADKAW" 

[Matt Brown]

I just sold my last bike end of May this year. It was a 2009 Kawasaki Concours. I bought it new after a few dirt bikes and a Suzuki VStrom 650. I loved the dirt riding but all my riding buddies bailed out on me. They were probably making a wise choice as we were all getting too old for the abuse we tended to give ourselves. I rode a few trips solo and decided that wasn’t very smart so I sold my three dirt bikes. I still regret selling the KDX200. It was just a fantastic woods bike! I had my Concours about two months and had too many oh crap moments on it because it was so deceptively fast and I got into trouble mostly because of my lack of skill. I talked with lots of friends and several recommended trying some track days. I did one weekend of track days and I was hooked. I bought a well used 2006 Honda CBR600RR that was already built for the track. I did that for six years on that same Honda. Never went down but had several off track excursions! The track coach in intermediate class had been watching several riders including myself. He approached me and asked if I wanted to move up to advanced. I thought that was cool. I rode the rest of the weekend in advanced. There were several pro riders in the group. I couldn’t keep up with them but they weren’t blowing me away either. After the weekend I got to thinking what was I doing. I decided that at 55yo, I didn’t have anything to prove trying to compete with those young guns. I’d done way beyond what I started out to do, learn to ride better and safer. I sold the Honda a few weeks later. I kept riding the Concours but it got to be less and less every year. I only rode maybe 500 miles last year and had only been on it twice this spring so it was time to get rid of it. Everybody else worried about the other idiots on the road, I always knew if I went down, it was going to have been something stupid I did to myself!

Matt

Concours pic is one of the for sale pics. Honda track picture was my first track day on it and the VStrom was from the Dragon 10-15 years ago.

I am really jealous of you guys that have been able to hang onto all your old bikes and cars. I was usually struggling to get the next one by selling what I had. Been that way much of my earlier life.

[Sean McEntee]

I went riding with the ol' man a couple times as a teenager, and I still have the scars from it.  I abstained from anything with two wheels while I was in the Army out of concern of keeping my job.  I knew several folks who injured themselves on both street and dirt bikes, and the lasting effects disqualified them from flying. 

Last year, I picked up a 2007 Yamaha 125TTR as a retirement present to me .  I used to chase FF models on foot, but with age and "Army wear and tear" catching up with me, I needed a chase bike.  Clara loves going on rides, and I have to stop what I'm doing at contests and ride her up and down the dirt road that leads to the field, which isn't exactly the worst thing.  It is a smaller bike (most guys have bikes in the 200 range), but it sure is easy to push up and onto the rack at the end of a day of flying when I'm pretty tired.  I am starting to get the itch to get something bigger to rec ride with, and there are tons of awesome riding trails to explore here in Colorado Springs.

[Mark wood]

Wow. Bikes and airplanes. Free flight modeling is thought to be about flying models airplanes. I'm here to tell you, you're wrong if you think that. It's about one handed motocross... My motorcycle days started with a Honda 50 step through back in about 1972. Lots of bikes have come and gone since. I've had a bunch of bikes over the years. One that is on my list to have before I can't ride anymore is a BMW K Bike.  My current inventory is a Suzuki Burgman 650, 2 Suzuki Van Vans- for fly fishing.... A 2010 Goldwing, and a Honda Fat Cat. The Van Van get s ridden the most these days primarily because both of them are in the home hangar and I ride "errands" on them. I'm not entirely certain why the hell I have two, it just seemed to be the thing to do when I did. I did sell the other Burgman 650. The Burgy is a crazy cool sleeper. That "scooter" will do 130 easy. It's scary quiet when you're doing 130 on a scooter. It's also entertaining to see the look on peoples faces when you pass them doing 90+. On a scooter.  I've had Harleys too. I love bikes. It's hard to tell which between airplanes and bikes win my heart. I don't even want to entertain the thought of picking.

[Norm Faith Jr.]

My VTX and Goldwing

[M Spencer]

SPIT & POLISH .



Built the frame , motor was 55 R tuned . Ex Maurie Lowe . 50 horse .
Meant it ran the same power to weight as a Katana 1100 .
As it had about the same rubber , and less than half the weight
outbraking & outcornering them wasnt the issue . Would hold them on acceleration .
Till it got hot . Shoulda run 10 thou valve clearances . 4 & 6 didnt do it after a few laps .
Still , 81 championship race , you were letting the past after a few laps so as to not end
up under them in a tangle .
Theyed just pull you in at the end of the straight . Then dissapear backward as they hit
the picks about a third more out from where Id got to .

Ran First in the inaugural 81 C M C R R  meet at Pukekohe . Both the short circuit .
Still . Got 130 at 7.600 out of it passing a 750 into the hairpin on the long circuit .
After Id shut it off at 7.200 & got it back to 7. ( 120 mph ) .
8000  out of the orner of my eye on the short circuit . Turns out that WAS the ; R ; redline .
Worked motor back before 1964 , C R Norton box . Had been maybe the fastest ' R ' built .

Could drift a bend under power , lotta loads even at 45  like that . Racing Tyres .
Was a prototype frame really . Designed to drift & throttle steer . 68 Tri swing arm & axle .
Knorton Front . Prog rate springs . First ran 11 p.m. before the first classic meet .

No Lights , No  mufflers , no brains ? , No Worries othern ' modifying it slower ' if you change  the spec's .
a whopping 7 . 25 : 1  C. R. built for Class ' C ' back then . ( late 50s ? ) ran best on av gas though . far out .

[Les McDonald]

I've been watching this thread ever since Tom put it up. From time to time I check out Windy's YouTube stuff and I remember his GPZ and how special it is.
I'm not surprised there are so many experienced motorcycle people here because many of the same guys I would see at the cycle shops were customers of mine at the hobby shop.
Back in the day, when I was competing in stunt motorcycles were "my hobby". The aero competition was "what I did" the bikes were a place for me to clear my head on a Sunday morning.
I have two bikes right now and plan to keep it that way. Of course I've owned many and will try to post up some photos of a few, if I can, later.
The red Yamaha is a 2014 FZ09 that is highly upgraded and "farkled". This is my primary bike that I use for the meet ups and mountain rides. The blue Yamaha is a 2016 FZ07 that is only slightly modded. It gets used mostly for zipping around the rural area where I live. It's small and quiet so I can ride it like a butthead without drawing much attention!

[Les McDonald]

Here's a few more.

[John Park]

These new ones seem to be missing something . They arnt really Triumphs unless something falls of them occasionally .   
[/quote]

Back in my college days (1964-7), when I was the founder member of a small motorcycling group called 'the Teddy Hall Rockers', we rode what we could afford - I, for instance, had a 1959 BSA A7.  One of the group had a 1959 Triumph Tiger 100A, the one with the 'bathtub' rear mudguard.  One Friday, its frame broke - the front down-tube snapped clean across, just below the steering head.  The motorcycle dealer at the other end of town, the father of the late, great Mike Hailwood, sold him a frame from his huge stock of salvaged parts, and the weekend was spent in stripping everything off the Tiger 100 and rebuilding it onto the 'new' frame.  By Monday morning, he was mobile again.  Life was simple in those days - and all the better for it, in some ways at least!

[Tom Luciano]

Got out with Tom Schaefer Sunday. We met a bunch of guys at breakfast and took a ride out to Van Sant Airport in Pa. Beautiful place and a Stearman!

[C.T. Schaefer]

Ha Ha,  Kind of an unlikely pairing and tons  of fun!  The 25 years separating our bikes really illustrates the huge advancement in technology and style.  In the 50 plus years I have been riding my old Beezer  I have had enough adventures and met so many people that I could write a book.  This ride would be in it for sure!   TS  AKA PRT

[M Spencer]

Tom , I figure if ones a vacum cleaner the others the broom . I'll take that , thanks . 

[John Park]

Got out with Tom Schaefer Sunday. We met a bunch of guys at breakfast and took a ride out to Van Sant Airport in Pa. Beautiful place and a Stearman!

https://youtu.be/-UvcvH_3unY?si=FSrj6rX8h9HmRcW1

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a 'Goldie' (a BSA DBD34 Gold Star)?  It's got the famous 'twittering' silencer (as we call it over here).

[Bob Heywood]

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a 'Goldie' (a BSA DBD34 Gold Star)?  It's got the famous 'twittering' silencer (as we call it over here).

Stare down the bellmouth on the carb...

[Miotch]

After riding it a few decades, I just sold the '76 Elsinore a few months ago.  Wife still has the Yamahopper.  At 62, I don't heal as fast as I used to, so my next bike will probably be something closer to what my wife has than a vintage dirt bike.

[M Spencer]

Ha .
Brother run one of them . CR 250 . We went to California and he got a D G pipe and head , so it sounded differat to the others in N.Z.
Saw his hero , Marty Smith at saddle back park . Every second race seemed to stop for a ambulance for someone in the middle pack .

' So this is Motorcycle Racing ' U S style , thought me . Got a lift in the back of a 56 F 100 hitching back to ' town ' .

First bike I rode . the C R .    Trundled round on , actually ,  after all the adominations as to whatit'd do to me if I used the Throttle .
Oh Dear .
Saw a C C M 608 pull in the first three along the top straight , after waiting all day . He wore a shirt ( and perhaps tie ) Took  him that long
to find the smoothest path down the straight , so he could hang onto it , with the throttle open .( at  Redvale in New Zealand )

The C R's were THe ' hot @#$% ' back in the early 70s .



No Slouch . Only one or two could stay near him .   ( the wolves didnt get us , in the pup tent in the hills across the road , overnight .  )

[John Park]

Stare down the bellmouth on the carb...

Ah, yes - I see that one hasn't got the wire mesh over it.  We used to say its purpose was to stop the cat sleeping in there!

[Tom Luciano]

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a 'Goldie' (a BSA DBD34 Gold Star)?  It's got the famous 'twittering' silencer (as we call it over here).

The old girl moves along quite nicely! Not surprising, all Tom's engines run great.

FARKLE
accessory.

The word is generally accepted to mean a combination of "function" and "sparkle", hence, farkle.

Motorcycle enthusiasts may install accessories, called farkles (also spelled farkel), to customize their machine.

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