Playing in the shed

LAS VEGAS DAVE said:

We are having perfect weather here, its tee shirt weather. We rode our Rocket today, I felt guilty for not riding it since I got the Boss Hoss back. I still love it. We are getting married in a DRIVE THRU WEDDING chapel here in Vegas next Thursday on our motorcycle. We have decided to use the V8 CHOPPER since its the most radical. We have three bikes so none of them get as much mileage individually as they should. The Chopper only gets ridden locally but the Rocket and the Boss Hoss will share the longer rides depending on the route and destination. For me the Rocket is our little bike, the one that handles the best and stops the quickest. It is also plenty fast and gets good mileage. The Boss Hoss is the freeway flyer and the most comfortable cruiser on long freeways, not so great on windy roads but hauls the passenger like its not there. The Chopper is the bike show or car show ride as its always a draw. It sounds like a rail job and its fast in a straight line, not good for long rides but still the most fun of any of them to ride and the only one that makes me feel young every time I ride it.

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Jeff Cameron said:

An old bike I have long admired but never owned was the 80s Honda V65 Sabre. I did own its little brother the V45 Sabre. Very nice motor.

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ThingKing said:

Same here. I always wanted the V65, and owned the V45.

That kind of bike was not acclaimed by many here in Europe, at that time. The magazines used to pick on the engines because they were not really "cruiser" engines, compared to the Harleys. I didn't give a sheet, and bought them anyway.
More than a decade later, power cruisers started to become successful here as well - thanks to the V-Max.

Best wishes Dave ... marrying on a V8 chopper sounds like a dream!

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ThingKing said:

The Z1300... dream bike of my teenage years. Still nice to look at - and a blast to ride, for sure.

I had many bikes, but when I look back the first thing that comes to my mind is my old GSX1100L, the rare cruiser sister of the Katana. I think it was a '82, and I had to renovate it completely when I got it in the mid 90s. Badass cruiser.
My Valk was also not bad at all, but I sold it in 2004 or so, after eating the dust of a BMW M3 on the German Autobahn.
In the early days I had a Goldwing 1000, very nice to remember that one as well.

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rayjay said:

Hey Clay
It's strange how things change, I remember when the Z 1300 was released it was a monster

RJ

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Clay said:

Wow 3 Zed 13s not many of the old girls around anymore. It stuns me how small she feels after being on the big girl. Mines pretty much stock still right down to the manufacturers stickers, thinking of joining one of the local historical bike clubs and riding it occasionally with them.

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1olbull said:

Not stock, I bet.
Mine was blueprinted, slotted cam gears, Dyna Jet carb goodies and lobe center timing tweaks.
Perhaps even some porting but my memory is foggy there . . .

The Kawasaki KZ1300
30 Years of Ninjas: 1984 GPz900 Ninja to 1990 ZX-11! <small class="subtitle">Forget the <em>Pinta</em> and the <em>Santa Maria</em>: It was the Ninja that delivered us to the New World.</small>

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albertaduke said:

after I sold the Yamaha turbo I did also buy a ninja 900 water cooled took it to the european alps in 1986 what a bike ,

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