Young Lust
Drew,
AWESOME read. Thanks for sharing. Your descriptions are exactly why I love my VF750c Magna. This thing’s had cams, coils, pipes and jets and… well… Nothing says “you’re a puppy” like having some old fat guy (me) go blasting by you on a cruiser-looking bike, and your crotch-rocket can’t keep up. I had to learn to work the throttle to keep the front wheel on the ground. 136hp in >500# of bike.
I’m having major psychological problems—I need to ride SOOOOoo bad right now but can’t. Probably not this summer at all, as the knee just wont cooperate. Hopefully the surgeon (tomorrow) will tell me what I want to hear—how he’s going to fix it.
Next year, though, all bets are off, Baby.
Zoom-Zoom!!
DD
Posted by Dedicated_dad
06/15/2008 at 07:20 PM
DD, I haven’t been on a ride since I sold my bikes. But it’s an addiction that never really goes away. And today was just the perfect kind of day to want to burn through some twisties on the way up to the lake to hang out and burn a few spliffs. Ooh, did I say that? Ooops. Well, that’s another addiction that never goes away entirely either.
As much as I love to ride, honestly as long as I’m living in NJ I will not get another bike. It’s not the roads, it’s the other drivers. Too many morons asleep at the wheel, all zoned out and not paying attention, but in a hurry to get everywhere ahead of you.
Sounds like you’ve built the engine to the very edge; you didn’t mention the year, but in stock trim mine had a 7hp advantage over yours, with 40lbs less weight and one extra gear. But you’ve about doubled the hp over stock, so I’m guessing your ride is cammy as hell. Which is fun, but can be rather tricky to keep both wheels down as you said.
Brings back memories.. I had a ‘77 Yamaha XS750 3 cylinder.. I loved that bike.. It didn’t have the monkey humping a football look, nor did it even look sporty, except for the alloy wheels, but it was faaaaaaast!
I personally took it up to 140+ with my (very scared) girlfriend on back. (young and stupid) and rode it in freezing rain from Pensacola,FL to Jackson Mississippi, then found out that I was riding on 2 cylinders.. I fixed it, and found that it would actually pull a wheelie easily.
The bike met it’s end when some idiot in a pickup truck decided that since the Cadillac in front of him went through the stop sign, after stopping, he didn’t even have to do that much. I bent the front forks too badly to repair, even if I had the money, so it was sent to the scrap yard.
I have had 2 other bikes since, including a CBX and a Harley, but that was my favorite.Bill
Drew I used to own a Honda VFR 750 which they put out after the fiasco of the earlier chain driven cam engines. The V four with gear driven cams is still in my view the best engine Honda ever put in a motorcycle. I now have a CBR900 Fireblade (which is for sale!) Fantastic machine but I still prefer my VFR.
I have a strong desire to get one of these:
http://www.webbikeworld.com/Moto-Guzzi-motorcycles/v7-classic/
When I bought my current bike, I didn’t ask the wife first.
I knew what she would say. What could she say after I
had it at home?Posted by bikerbob
06/16/2008 at 05:25 AM
Classic Japs. Very sweet bikes in their own function. Me? I’ve owned Jap, Kraut, American, and Brit. My current darling is a VTX1300 Honda, V&H Bigshots, Maxair air filter, Factory Pro Tuning jets. Everything that was good about a Hog, all the potential weak spots made right.
I haven’t done any serious riding since I sold my 2 stroke suzuki 550 back in.... sheesh, that was forever ago. Maybe about the time the nighthawk *came out*.
But to be honest, I haven’t really had the feevah to ride since I came around a curve on a winding road at 60ish just as some guy haulin a boat pulled out right in my lap. I ended up romping through quite a bit of woods to keep from eating that guy’s inboard, and somehow that just kinda took the “need for speed” out of me.
And, this is what Happened to HD.. They started putting out AMC crap and the Japanese saw their chance. The HD I owned took a lot of work to stop it from pissing oil, and the kicking for 10 minutes to start (no electric start on the ‘47s) chain problems, and mystery problems that corrected themselves by the time I broke down and brought it to the mechanic, who thought I was insane. The Yamaha and my Hondas only required regular maintenance. The CBX was chain driven, but I never had a problem with it. The XS750 was shaft-drive also sexy.
Harley went into mediocrity. Now it’s a “status symbol” for lawyers and doctors exploring their “wild side” running it to Daytona and Sturgis on a trailer, then riding for a couple of days, or scooting around their town trying to look badass. feh.
If I could afford another one, and had the time, I would have one, probably another rice burner, I’m sorry to say, because Harley has priced themselves out of reach for any normal person.
Bill
BikerBob - that looks like a great way to burn your knees!
06/16/2008 at 03:09 AM
