Summer is Fading here in Indiana

[coolrocket]

The Northeast has some beautiful riding country, too bad its under snow most of the year.

My Desert riding season doesn't usually start until November/Dec where the temperature pretty much hangs around 80-95 Degrees that goes on through to May when It starts to get to hot to ride out there once again. Summers are a ***** here in San Diego but Winters rock...

 

[sonny]

Winters rock here in Oklahoma to. A good suit and gloves and off we go. Grew up in Southern California and learned to ride there. First bike was bought the day we graduated boot camp at M.C.R.D. 1975 Yamaha RD 350 (brand New) Many years later and bikes later would rather dodge deer's in runt then cars on the freeways of Southern California

 

[coolrocket]

Winters rock here in Oklahoma to. A good suit and gloves and off we go. Grew up in Southern California and learned to ride there. First bike was bought the day we graduated boot camp at M.C.R.D. 1975 Yamaha RD 350 (brand New) Many years later and bikes later would rather dodge deer's in runt then cars on the freeways of Southern California

My first legal road bike was a brand new Yamaha RD 250 in August 1977, that was in Scotland when our riding season was about 3 weeks of summer and 11 months 1 week of Rain and Snow...

 

[sonny]

The 1975 Rd 350 was the last year of that bike. It had a reed system and required the use of two cycle oil. Very fast and a lot of torque. Only had a top in of around 90 miles per hour but very fast from stop light to stop light. First true love is always the beast remembered. Still to this day have fond memoirs and smile thinking about the times on that bike.

 

[HansO]

I had a couple of the old air cooled RD's a 250 and a 350 both with Expansion Chambers on them used to be fun on the back wheel, the chambers made them lift even if you didn't want it too, ..... they were a fun bike

 

[coolrocket]

The 1975 Rd 350 was the last year of that bike. It had a reed system and required the use of two cycle oil. Very fast and a lot of torque. Only had a top in of around 90 miles per hour but very fast from stop light to stop light. First true love is always the beast remembered. Still to this day have fond memoirs and smile thinking about the times on that bike.

The later model Yamaha RD250/400 "RD=Race Developed" also had a two stroke engine with better acceleration than the Yamaha four stroke XS 250 at the time but could never catch either the Suzuki GT 250 or the Kawasaki KH250 triple both were also two stroke engines. Honda had a CB 250 four stroke engine but was pretty much a bust due the better handling/acceleration of the other 3 three jap bikes. Suzuki had a water cooled two stroke GT 750 that was an absolute beast and a prelude to the late 70s early 80s Japanese super bikes "Suzuki GS1000. Yamaha XS100. Honda's CBX1000/1100. Kawasaki ZG1300-Z1Rs" came out taking the market by storm and blowing everything else away. Back then things just seemed to be so much simpler?...

Oh and as an afterthought why does this forum keep *** words like "Jap-anese" when it is a totally legal abbreviation for the word Japanese? the other day I tried to write something to the effect of Life can be a b-i-t-c-h sometimes and they *** that one out too. Hey Grandma get off the politically correct censorship board, we're all adults here?...

 

[EasTexRIII]

The later model Yamaha RD250/400 "RD=Race Developed" also had a two stroke engine with better acceleration than the Yamaha four stroke XS 250 at the time but could never catch either the Suzuki GT 250 or the Kawasaki KH250 triple both were also two stroke engines. Honda had a CB 250 four stroke engine but was pretty much a bust due the better handling/acceleration of the other 3 three *** bikes. Suzuki had a water cooled two stroke GT 750 that was an absolute beast and a prelude to the late 70s early 80s Japanese super bikes "Suzuki GS1000. Yamaha XS100. Honda's CBX1000/1100. Kawasaki ZG1300-Z1Rs" came out taking the market by storm and blowing everything else away. Back then things just seemed to be so much simpler?...

Oh and as an afterthought why does this forum keep *** words like "***-anese" when it is a totally legal abbreviation for the word Japanese? the other day I tried to write something to the effect of Life can be a b-i-t-c-h sometimes and they *** that one out too. Hey Grandma get off the politically correct censorship board, we're all adults here?...

Urban dictionary:
TOP DEFINITION
J*p bike
Refers to a woman who is either ugly or has a ****ty reputation that you f**k,just for fun,but you don't want to be seen with by your friends. Analagous to Harley riders who occasionally will ride a Japanese bike as long as nobody sees them.
I picked up this ole J*p bike the other night and made her ride in the car trunk to the motel over in Siler City.After I f**ked her,I left her half enough cab fare to get home.

 

[Triple Trouble]

A little off topic here? but the weather has turned around in Southern Ontario. Skies are clear blue and unseasonably warm. mid to high 20's (78F)and going to low 30's(88F) by the weekend. Lake Simcoe is like a mill pond so it is tough knowing whether to ride or fish. I hate making these decisions, retirement sucks. Near the end of the month it's supposed to dip back to seasonal norms.

 

[Azisbest]

Well it was only 97 today and supposed to be in the high 80s or low 90s for the rest of the week. Finally cooling off, fall has finally arrived.

 

[sonny]

82 degrees outside right now, very pleasant ride home.