Hey, look! The weather was nice enough that Fat Dan's had its garage door open! Maybe time for a reuben again.
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Friday, March 21, 2014
First robins of Spring...
Hey, look! The weather was nice enough that Fat Dan's had its garage door open! Maybe time for a reuben again.
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Used to TT with a Turnip 40 incher.
Was fun.
At the end in 2010, I was paying about $60 per ride for the annual insurance on the 1978 Gold Wing. I sold it to a guy who drove twelve hours with his dog to pick it up, having bought the 2up capable, injected Buell for the missus and I. I miss it still.
Perhaps that's stretching the definition of "bad, bad things..." But I feel you.
I believe that would be a '76 400-4 (it's that 'sort-of blue/purple' color). Stock shocks, no side cover, no seat strap, stock horn, odd-looking mirrors, the re-call gas cap, and some kind of strange bracket next to the headlight behind the reflector, which, if I didn't know any better, looks almost like a number plate bracket.
And the turn signal stalks might've been shortened a tad.
And you can't have mine. But then you probably wouldn't want it - it's got a shade over 91K miles on it, and looks it. :-)
BSR
Eh, snow in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow here in Lower Cryogenica. My SUV is too efficient I guess. I wonder if I can get a deal on a '75 Caddy with 500 big block to burn more gas and drown more polar bears.
Got beside a Zed Drei in traffic on the commute home. It had the top down.
I thought "Tam would like to see that because it's a sure sign Spring is coming".
You wouldn't have liked the gear grind the fellow did on the 1-2 shift though. "That tranny won't last long doing that" I mumbled to myself.
Just my luck, I'm fresh out of Triumph bikes ...
That Honda is drool worthy. Would look even cooler with a side car, though.
I'm sorry, dude, but a CB400F with a sidecar is like a Miata with a lift kit and knobby mudders.
BSR:
That bracket seems to be a mount for the tiny, very dark, windscreen just above the headlite. Mirrors appear to be from a big Honda, maybe Goldwing. (Look like the mirrors that came with the complete Goldwing front end that we put on a friend's '71 Norton, in '76. Double discs, baby!)
The rear rim looks wider than stock.
Didn't they have CV type carbs by then?
Take the Triumph much better vibrations
Knew a girl who rallied in her miata....
Didn't have a lift, but it's tires tread matched her personality - aggressive and grabby.
I have a Suzuki and a Harley in the shed, maybe I'll have the time and cash to do something with them this year...
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