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In Reply to: RE: It's not that Harleys are bad bikes... posted by Story on October 30, 2024 at 09:58:56:
Couple of Hondas include a 400-Four that I rebuilt.
But my favorite was the Yamaha SR-500. Single cylinder street bike, kick start only. Not fast but great torque. You could loaf along in top gear, roll into the throttle, and the bike would just go.
I also had the later version, the SRX-600. That bike was faster and handled better but it wasn't as comfortable and didn't have the torque curve of the 500 even though the engine had more displacement.
I never read the Pirsig book although I wanted to.
I sold off all my bike stuff in 1994. Was using the bike primarily for commuting to work and, yeah, that isn't the safest use of a motorcycle.
The fatality rate on Interstate highways is about the same as it is for car drivers, but in the city, the motorcyclist fatality rate is about 4 times higher than for drivers.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 10/30/24
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- I had a few also. - ghost of olddude55 16:20:25 10/30/24 (13)
- RE: I had a few also. - Story 03:28:35 10/31/24 (12)
- Countersteering. - ghost of olddude55 04:03:39 10/31/24 (11)
- RE: Countersteering. - Story 04:24:50 10/31/24 (10)
- Only for those - E-Stat 06:06:10 11/01/24 (7)
- naturally - Story 06:57:02 11/01/24 (6)
- What's unexpected to you - E-Stat 07:15:40 11/01/24 (5)
- not unexpected - Story 08:29:31 11/01/24 (4)
- Ok - E-Stat 08:36:22 11/01/24 (3)
- RE: Ok - Story 09:10:06 11/01/24 (2)
- Torque is great for trucks - E-Stat 09:55:40 11/01/24 (1)
- But the lights are not blue! - J. S. Bach 10:20:44 11/04/24 (0)
- And you don't want to do it on a quad. - ghost of olddude55 04:07:39 11/01/24 (1)
- RE: And you don't want to do it on a quad. - Story 05:12:59 11/01/24 (0)