Riders

[DuckRyder]

Man, the 883 porkster must be murder for you to ride after zinging around on that Duck.

I did not love that Duck (the 900 SP was another matter) I'd have much rather had the RC51 back, but yeah the sporty is definately diffrent.

Most of the 2012 Harley big twins come with a 103 so they should be pretty peppy...

This is the one I like:



Or maybe on of these:



Or even:

[woods]

Woods,
I love this tread. This weekend i am going to learn how to post pics on here one way or the other. I love Harley as much as i like these old trucks we mess with. Anyway i got a nice FLH standard that every body thinks is a streatglide, and a bada$$ ole shovelhead that i put together. pic's to come soon!

If you can email them, I would be happy to post them up for you.

[woods]

Man, the 883 porkster must be murder for you to ride after zinging around on that Duck.

I did not love that Duck (the 900 SP was another matter) I'd have much rather had the RC51 back, but yeah the sporty is definately diffrent.

Most of the 2012 Harley big twins come with a 103 so they should be pretty peppy...

This is the one I like:



Or maybe on of these:



Or even:

That top one is the very bike my Father just got I do belive. Yeah...he's 75.

[guerra]

Woods,
Iff my posting of the pics dont work for me; I'll e-mail them to you. but the ole shovel is pretty cool for a home built.

[SmokeyBurnout]

I race a little motox now and again. Started racing the summer after I graduated back in 2000. First bike was a 99 RM125. I beat the hell out of myself that first year. A few concusions, broken collar bone and finally partially tore my MCL. No insurance and doc bills piling up fast I let her go that winter. Got a 2000 YZ125 the following spring, raced that for a few years til I moved to Kentucky and had no place to store it and no time to ride. 2 years later I bought a new 04 YZ250F. Loved the power of the 4strokes! Raced the 25+ class for a few years on that. Got layed off in 2009, sold the bike, knocked up my chick...so I won't have a bike of my own again for a while! I do occasionally get out on a givin Sunday with my buddy and tear it up a little on his 09 YZ450F. Alot of power and with my bumps and bruises catching up to me...I usually take it pretty easy! Miss riding with all the boys though. Alot of good memories traveling around to the Nationals, racing those tracks and watchin the big dogs.

[michael69]

Robert, if you go with a Dyna. I don't think you would be disappointed with the Street Bob. My sister just bought one a few months back,and I went and picked it up and rode it 65 miles to her house. It was a very comfortable and real peppy to be in stock form. I am thinking about getting one for the better half. She has been riding a 1200 sportster I bought for her to learn on. Thats been 4 yrs. I guess she can handle something bigger(BIKE WISE) by now.

[woods]

Yeah man...I come from a time growing up when four strokes were old man tractor bikes for the most part. The real rocket stuff was all 2 stroke. Four strokes these day flat out honk. That 705 of mine is a pretty heavy bike and by no stretch of the imagination a motocross bike, but it's got some really good grunt to it.

And yeah, Guerra, if it does not work out, send me a PM and I'll give you my email to send them to.

[ford4x4fun]

Here is a photo of my 750 Aero, It was dressed up real nice and got a lot of attention. But I traded it even up for a boat (family practical). I started off on a 175 Yamaha Enduro that my dad found in a creek. I later ended up breaking the poor bike in two pieces! On a side note when riding on back trails remember that a mud slide can take a 10 Ft jump, and turn it into about a 35 ft jump without you knowing!

[67mann]

but the ole shovel is pretty cool for a home built.

This was my home built SHVLHD

http://www.fordification.com/galleries/ ... ?pos=-3359

Sold it shortly after I became a member on here. Deer hunter was its name and a vivid memory has been etched into my brain from it
That was how I rebuilt it after taking out a pregnate doe at 75+mph in the spring of 95...still hear that bike sliding down the road with me.

Loved my Harleys...bought my 1st at age 17 an old Ironhead sporty...and then a 79(not this one)SuperGlide..followed by a 1980 80superglide which turned into a house or should I say down payment. Couldn't live without so I bought another(this one)79...AMF baby..bikes and bowling
Glad to still be here typing after some of those rides

[fomocoguy]

Yeah man...I come from a time growing up when four strokes were old man tractor bikes for the most part. The real rocket stuff was all 2 stroke. Four strokes these day flat out honk. That 705 of mine is a pretty heavy bike and by no stretch of the imagination a motocross bike, but it's got some really good grunt to it.

And yeah, Guerra, if it does not work out, send me a PM and I'll give you my email to send them to.

I LOVE old two cycles. I've had a slew of bikes (over 50 at last count), mostly old jap bikes. The two that really stick out were my 1979 Honda Elsinore CR 250 and my 1972 Kawasaki H2 750 Mach IV.

The Honda was a beast of a dirtbike. I know it doesn't compare with a KX500 or anything, but it wouldn't hesitate to put the front wheel in the air and flip you on your lid if you got careless with it. It was just as fast as my friends new 250's but with a lot more attitude.

My H2 was a monster. For any of you who are unfamiliar, this was a 3 cylinder 2 cycle 750cc street bike built by Kaw from 1972 to 75 (I think 75 was the last year). It was nicknamed the widowmaker, and for good reason. It was the fastest bike you could buy at the time. It was 75hp, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's how it came on that was the dangerous part. It had this gutteral growl at low rpms that no other engine makes, and when you got the rpms up and the power started coming on it was like you just turned the nitrous on or something. It just screamed.

I was 14 when I bought it. It was summer vacation time and my parents both worked, so as soon as they left the house I'd be on that sucker tearin' up the backroads. My favorite memory was one day when I spotted a fella on a early eighties GPZ1100 on Hillboro Valley Park Rd. I came up on him from behind and when he saw me he opened her up. The chase was on! We were sailing down this curvy backroad, pulling the front end over the crests and working the bikes hard. The thing handled like it had a hinge in the middle, so I had to be really in tune with it and know how the bike was going to react. It was a handful. When we got to the stop sign at the end he says "Well, I thought you were on a 500, but I knew as soon as you were keeping up it must be a 750!" We talked and he invited me to a ride with some buddies, but when I told him that I was only 14 I think his pride was hurt a bit and we went our seperate ways. Man that bike was a rocket...

[fomocoguy]

On that note, I'd love to find an old RD350 to play with or another 3cyl Kaw. I had a couple Suzuki 3cyl bikes (a 750 water buffalo and a 550 triple) but I didn't much care for them. It was after the Kaw, so my opinion was probably a bit tainted.

[woods]

Yeah man...I come from a time growing up when four strokes were old man tractor bikes for the most part. The real rocket stuff was all 2 stroke. Four strokes these day flat out honk. That 705 of mine is a pretty heavy bike and by no stretch of the imagination a motocross bike, but it's got some really good grunt to it.

And yeah, Guerra, if it does not work out, send me a PM and I'll give you my email to send them to.

I LOVE old two cycles. I've had a slew of bikes (over 50 at last count), mostly old jap bikes. The two that really stick out were my 1979 Honda Elsinore CR 250 and my 1972 Kawasaki H2 750 Mach IV.

The Honda was a beast of a dirtbike. I know it doesn't compare with a KX500 or anything, but it wouldn't hesitate to put the front wheel in the air and flip you on your lid if you got careless with it. It was just as fast as my friends new 250's but with a lot more attitude.

My H2 was a monster. For any of you who are unfamiliar, this was a 3 cylinder 2 cycle 750cc street bike built by Kaw from 1972 to 75 (I think 75 was the last year). It was nicknamed the widowmaker, and for good reason. It was the fastest bike you could buy at the time. It was 75hp, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's how it came on that was the dangerous part. It had this gutteral growl at low rpms that no other engine makes, and when you got the rpms up and the power started coming on it was like you just turned the nitrous on or something. It just screamed.

I was 14 when I bought it. It was summer vacation time and my parents both worked, so as soon as they left the house I'd be on that sucker tearin' up the backroads. My favorite memory was one day when I spotted a fella on a early eighties GPZ1100 on Hillboro Valley Park Rd. I came up on him from behind and when he saw me he opened her up. The chase was on! We were sailing down this curvy backroad, pulling the front end over the crests and working the bikes hard. The thing handled like it had a hinge in the middle, so I had to be really in tune with it and know how the bike was going to react. It was a handful. When we got to the stop sign at the end he says "Well, I thought you were on a 500, but I knew as soon as you were keeping up it must be a 750!" We talked and he invited me to a ride with some buddies, but when I told him that I was only 14 I think his pride was hurt a bit and we went our seperate ways. Man that bike was a rocket...

I have had two Elsinore 250's, the things are violent. I'm not sure if I have ever had a dirtbike that hit the powerband so hard, it was like flipping a toggle switch.

I also had the triple 750. It was not just fast for the day...as far as straight line drag race goes, it's really not that far behind today's fastest bikes with a good rider. They wouldn't turn or stop very good but wow, did they run when pointed straight.

About three years ago, I got an RD 350 for free. It had been sitting for about a decade and the motor was stuck. I pulled the plugs on it and dumped the cylinder full of whatever I had laying around, diesel, wd-40, etc. Every day I would go and give the pistons a little tap on the top with a 3/8s extension through the plug hole. After about a week, it moved. I turned it over about 10 or 15 kicks with the kick starter, put new plugs in it, new gas...two kicks and it fired up. Oh...the smoke. I let it run for a few minutes and it started sounding better and better and running better. I jumped on it and took off. The thing still hauled butt. It ran perfect, so I didn't mess with it. I sold it to a friend of mine about a year later and he is still riding it.

[fomocoguy]

I figured you probably had one. Here's some pics of mine. I paid $200 for it. She was sitting behind a shed under a tarp for years.

[woods]

Some half drunk boob crashed into my 750 triple while it was in a parking spot, and he hit it HARD. It pretty much wiped it out. I took the engine out and put it in a long stretched out four wheeler for the sand drags. I got some odd looks with three big expansion chambers hanging out of it. I am franticly looking for a picture of it, I know it's on my computer, but not where I thought it would be.

Yours was pretty darn good shape. Funny isn't it...some of the slug slow stuff today actually "looks" a lot faster than the old triple.

If I remember right, the factory stated that the bike would turn low 11's (which is fast) but I think that may have been for insurance or something. My engine was stock (when it was in the bike) I am a heavy guy and mine clipped out a 10.7 with a lousy start. So I could see low tens with a light guy and a good tire on a stock machine. There is a local one around here that is street legal, he pulls in the mid 8's with it.

[woods]

AAAAH-HAAAA! Found it. This was what my triple turned into.