Topic: Pagoda Show at Indy MotoGP- Phaedrus as entrant.

[MCRider]

Show presented by "Why We Ride" documentary; Powered by Cycle World, SportRider and Motorcyclist mags:

It will take a wile to get this all entered. Fri AM: first in, picture all alone. (Rats didn't get a picture of trailer in operation.) Magazine guys helped, said they'd never seen one like it.

I was the first one there. I'll cut through the suspense: I didn't win anything.     


A little disappointed, picture they promised was not professional, just me taking my best shot. I couldn't get the top of the Pagoda in. Does this count as an "on the road" shot? 

Second Bike to arrive, very clean CBX:

Then an old very nice BMW with period custom fiberglas bags:

(Teaser: view from 8th Fl of Pagoda on Qualification Day)

[Ravie]

Oh, to be there.

Crazy lookin bike, man!

[MCRider]

Oh, to be there.

Crazy lookin bike, man!

It was my first time at the Motor Speedway, after living here all my adult life. So teh whole thing was pretty cool. Got to see some of the inner workings. Good racing too, a few crashes, no one hurt. I could see it on the big screen TV on the Plaza.

You're new so you haven't lived thru the infinitely long build thread that goes along with the bike. Pick a few pages (in my signature) sometime when you can't sleep.   

[Stev-o]

Ron - cannot believe you've never been there before!

[MCRider]

Ron - cannot believe you've never been there before!

Actually, I was there (Indy 500)  once when I was 11 years old in the Boy Scout Band. We paraded around the whole dang track with our instruments (saxophone) and was so tired spent the rest of race day in the bus sleeping.

Other than that, nope. I have to force myself into group situations, so if I can see it on TV that's my druthers.
I may be changing.   

[MCRider]

Here's the bike that won my class. A 1973 Z1, beautiful and ridden here from Louisvillt. He had 2 entered in the show. Talked to him for awhile. He has 7 altogether, 4 in excelent shape. He's trying to collect one of each model, I'm thinking he said there are 7 and he has the basics for the ones other tahn the 4 runners.


I'm kinda editing thru 45 pics for the best most representative.  The 1960s winner is the Bonneville beside the Z-1. Very nice.

Here's the one for the 80s, a 1981 HAwkGT. I got to know this guy in SPring Mill VJMC. HE's got a mini stable, the show pieces are all rideables, but so clean he rides his GoldWing for rec. Clean enough to eat off of, said the judges.


Here's the best in show a Freddie Spenser style CB900F that was drop dead gorgeous.


More tomorrow.

[Ravie]

Uggghhhhh that 900F gives me feelers.

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[Tintop]

Great pics Ron, some nice bikes.   That 900F looks pretty stock, about the only thing that looks 'Fast Freddy' is the paint.  My 750F had the same paint, but also a fork brace, Cal Fab swing arm, and Hondline rear sets.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Thanks for posting the pictures, Ron, and hats off to you and your bike. 

I've never been to a MotoGP race and I missed my chance to see one at Laguna Seca.  I didn't know that lousy Dorna was going to pull out of Laguna Seca!!  I bet the sound is unreal!

[MCRider]

Great pics Ron, some nice bikes.   That 900F looks pretty stock, about the only thing that looks 'Fast Freddy' is the paint.  My 750F had the same paint, but also a fork brace, Cal Fab swing arm, and Hondline rear sets.

Yeah it took me a bit to realize the prizes were going to the best kept representative of that decade. Closest to stock the better. Hence no Phaedrus. Mine was the only one that could be called custom.

HEnce the CB900F. The paint was beautiful, very subtle difference. Any real changes would count against it. It did have the number "19" on the top of the rear cowl, painted in.

The 2000-2009; and 2010+ went to some extremely fine examples of "urban stretch", fat tires, slammed down etc. I think the mags were going for a demographic there. Strange. They were nicely done, but geez!

I'll get some pics later.

[MCRider]

Thanks for posting the pictures, Ron, and hats off to you and your bike. 

I've never been to a MotoGP race and I missed my chance to see one at Laguna Seca.  I didn't know that lousy Dorna was going to pull out of Laguna Seca!!  I bet the sound is unreal!

Thanks CRF. Yes the sound would tear your heart out, and I never even went into the grandstands, where I'm told it just dams up and rolls out. The Plaza was open air with a big screen TV.

[MCRider]

2010+ WINNER: Sretched and slammed; theme Scorpion. Guess what's in the box?

2000-2009: Don't even know the model. Attributed to a female owner. But I think her boyfriend had a hand in it:

Misc:
New Royal Enfields

Been platd every year (more wre laid down after shot taken)

Chorus Line

Modern Bobber

Trike dragster

Trike PU vehicle

trailer extension has front wheel dolly to tow the other one.

Beauty from a box:

Only other SOHC on the lot: CB350F: Note Mach I beside it. came in together.

Infield turns from 8th Floor Pagoda, Indy in the background.

[calj737]

That BMW is an S1000RR. Tear your teeth out performance. Every time the pros throw a leg over it, they claim it feels like it wants to kill you... Frighteningly powerful.

[MCRider]

That BMW is an S1000RR. Tear your teeth out performance. Every time the pros throw a leg over it, they claim it feels like it wants to kill you... Frighteningly powerful.

Yes that rings a bell. Stretched and slammed, well done, but just doesn't appeal to me.  Never seen ne in their magaziines either. I wasn't looking but there might not have been another 2000-2009 that wasn't stretched and slammed. Hmmm.

[calj737]

I'm with you- no appeal to me. Don't even care for the garish paint schemes. I do respect the engineering and fabrication, but these resemble trailer queens not bikes to me. Much like the over-the-top chromed out Hot Rods. Impressive effort, but I no appeal to me.

The trikes too; clever efforts, but really? A trike? Maybe if I lost a leg or two and that was my only resort.

[MCRider]

I'm with you- no appeal to me. Don't even care for the garish paint schemes. I do respect the engineering and fabrication, but these resemble trailer queens not bikes to me. Much like the over-the-top chromed out Hot Rods. Impressive effort, but I no appeal to me.

The trikes too; clever efforts, but really? A trike? Maybe if I lost a leg or two and that was my only resort.

I guess you haven't seen my bike.   

I guarantee you I wouldn't trailer it if I didn't have to.     

I should've asked the guy with the trikes what his motivation was. He might have to also. He ran a business doing that for hire just outside indianapolis.

A group from NC had a stretched and slammed CanAm Spyder (trike with 2 in front and worlds widest rear) along with several others including 2 Honda Minibikes stretched and slammed. No pictures.  Very nicely done, but...