Any motorcycle enthusiasts here?

Whatever anyone rides is OK in my book.

 

Dirt:
Mini bike - 5 Hp Briggs and Stratton.
Tote Goat - 15 HP, centrifugal clutch, 2 speed with a granny gear that allowed you to climb just about anything with that big fat big paddle wheel on the rear.
Suzuki 125 - don't recall the model
Yamaha YZ 175
Yamaha YZ 250
Suzuki RM 370
Suzuki RM 400

Street:
Honda 750K
Suzuki GT 380 Cafe Racer, 3 Cylinder, Two Stroke.

After I almost died the third time, I stopped riding.

 

How cool is that? Was it a great deal? Pics of the pawn shop find?

 

I only hit the like button because there is no LOVE button. Nice!

 

4,000 miles, $4000. It had an electrical problem that I fixed for $100.

Since this picture I added a Mustang seat and a windshield. Instead of buying different exhaust so I could hear it, I disassembled the end of the stock mufflers and cut out the resonator which actually sounds better than a lot of the replacements. I don't do a lot of riding and call it my rolling easy chair.

 

Steve McQueen { Lover of Cars & Motorcycles } also cherished his
prize Rat Bike.A modified '47 Indian Chief he nicknamed " The Blob ".
It was chopped and rusty,dirty and had plenty of panache.

 

Not a bike owner ... eh.It shows.No bike owner worth their salt would
say such a thing. " a Bike is a Bike ". Tantamount to St.Paul saying a
Female is a Female.

 

By doing so { a juvenile motorcycle tendency } to rid the exhaust of the
baffle you have altered the air flow.Meaning the bike will now run Hot
or be hard to start.Since the bike is not carburated.The VTX 1800 never had a
carburetor.

 

I swapped out the Ducati 450 Single standard exhaust for the 750 megaphone instead. Under 3000 rpm it sounded much the same as usual. Crack open the throttle hard and it boomed which was perfect for waking up dozy motorists who never see bikers on the road.

No, it never ran hot because there was a baffle wrapped around between the inner and outer wall of that 750 megaphone pipe. It was always a tricky bike to start because if you didn't kick all the way through it would kick back like a donkey. It rarely needed a 2nd attempt to start.

 

LOL, owned many since the age of 16. Harley's, crotch rockets, dirt bikes.

 

Wrong again. The muffler does that and it still exists. The resonator is an add on to quite the bike. It isn't loud like straight pipes.

 

Seems some Fool always has something stupid to say. I agree with you man, a bike is a bike, I'd ride them all.

 

Many of Today's production motorcycles can reach the once pinnacle
of speed that was NOT possible with motorcycles of the 7o's.
Sub 12 second quarter mile !
Even some cruisers like the V-Max and Triumph Rocket.
And the Suzuki M109.Plus a few others.How about the Indian Scout.
A slightly tweeked V-rod.
The list of sub 10 motorcycles today is getting longer and longer.
No Production motorcycle of the 70's was able to crack the
sub 12 second barrier.It took a modified Norton { rebadged Dunstall }
or bored out 750 cc Commando to achieve it.Then the huge 6 cyclinder
Honda in-line CBX of the early 80's.The Kawasaki 750 H2 Mach IV
was technically The First Production motorcycle to go under 12 seconds.

 

In 2002 I stopped at a Ducati dealership and rode a 900ss. Talk about making your blood flow! I totally agree it was a thoroughbred but it also impressed me as a brutal dinosaur. I'm sure part of the reason it felt that way to me was because at the time my ride was a BMW 1150 RT. Thru all my years of riding and pushing myself as hard as I could I was never satisfied with my skill at 'knee dragging'.

 

Compared to the BMW it would have been brutal.

The only bikes I ever felt the (k)need, bad pun intended, to slide off the seat were all Japanese. I suspect that was more because of their handling shortcomings in that period than anything else.

Once Suzuki introduced their first Katana model the whole Jap range improved their handling to an acceptable degree. I was still leery of the Kawasaki's because they were unpredictable at the best of times but the Honda's were stable and Yamaha was making awesome strides in becoming competitive and their 350 rocked.

None of them were yet at a point that I would give up my Italian bikes but I was prepared to push the later Jap bikes into corners that I would never have done with the originals.

 

The Yahama RD350 was the undisputed motorcycle champion
of the 70's and beyond.Nothing could touch it even 2 classes bigger.
Even 650's.It was a 2 stroke but had great brakes and a very
bulletproof engine.

 

i have a hyabusa bike, it is from japan

1300cc, it goes over 200mph on the high way

the cops cannot catch it even with helicopters.

 

So whatya want a Holy Picture.
And yes,Helicopters can and do nab guys on Hyabusa.
Plus there are Girl Hayabusa clubs.I saw one around 4-5 years
ago.Close to a dozen chicks on Hayabusa's.

 

I have a Ninja ZX-14, not street legal (no muffler, no lights, no mirrors). I was going to race it in the Colorado Mile this year, but that is shut down for 2019. It looks like I'll wait to run at El Mirage or Bonneville in the near future, or the Texas Mile next year.

 

Have a pic you can share?

 

Any pics of your Tote Goat? Sounds cool.

 

Is it your first race with it?

 

None of mine. This is about the closest I could see

 

No, 167 mph last time (2017) and very windy. My goal is 200.