Topic: small joke for the older riders

[eigenvector]

Just a funny cartoon that I shamelessly ripped off another site.

edit:  although I think the cartoonist's dates are off.

[scottly]

1. Sold my '53 BSA 650 in 1974
2. Owned a TX 750
3. Tried to kick-start a Velocette in 1971
4. Rode, or tried to ride a TM 400 in 1973

[faux fiddy]

1. Sold my '53 BSA 650 in 1974
2. Owned a TX 750
3. Tried to kick-start a Velocette in 1971
4. Rode, or tried to ride a TM 400 in 1973

So did you make the comic, too?

[scottly]

No, but I wonder if the artist knew me back in the day? At least he got the year of my birth correct.

[eigenvector]

1. Sold my '53 BSA 650 in 1974
2. Owned a TX 750
3. Tried to kick-start a Velocette in 1971
4. Rode, or tried to ride a TM 400 in 1973

Did you own that TX before or after they fixed it.  I don't know from personal experience, but it was my understanding that only the first production year was the one "you had to be crazy to own".

[grcamna2]

I had a 1974' TX500A w/ the 2-piece cylinder head.. it needs lots of Preventive Maintanance to keep it happy;the TX750's were worse? The later XS500's had a one-piece cylinder head.

[demon78]

I was shop manager at a yamaha shop when the TX 500 was introduced oh god oh god what a piece of #$%*, then one day we have a complete Yamaha engineering team in the shop, interesting, 10 days later they were gone, back to Japan. What a revelation I'd been working on British bikes and the brits attitude was "#$%*ing whining colonials they expect it to work" Damme if it was good enough before the great war it's good enough now. The Japanese were concerned enough to get it fixed ( not quickly enough for our riding season of course) the brits was if grandfather Albert could manage then why were we sniveling.Any how the TX 500 and 750 were a major disaster I don't know if they were ever fixed because not long after that I told every body to #$%* off in 4:4 time at the shop.
Bill the demon.

[NobleHops]

I was shop manager at a yamaha shop when the TX 500 was introduced oh god oh god what a piece of #$%*, then one day we have a complete Yamaha engineering team in the shop, interesting, 10 days later they were gone, back to Japan. What a revelation I'd been working on British bikes and the brits attitude was "#$%*ing whining colonials they expect it to work" Damme if it was good enough before the great war it's good enough now. The Japanese were concerned enough to get it fixed ( not quickly enough for our riding season of course) the brits was if grandfather Albert could manage then why were we sniveling.Any how the TX 500 and 750 were a major disaster I don't know if they were ever fixed because not long after that I told every body to #$%* off in 4:4 time at the shop.
Bill the demon.

The dog is now looking at me wondering why I am wiping my eyes. Friggin' hilarious!

[faux fiddy]

I was shop manager at a yamaha shop when the TX 500 was introduced oh god oh god what a piece of #$%*, then one day we have a complete Yamaha engineering team in the shop, interesting, 10 days later they were gone, back to Japan. What a revelation I'd been working on British bikes and the brits attitude was "#$%*ing whining colonials they expect it to work" Damme if it was good enough before the great war it's good enough now. The Japanese were concerned enough to get it fixed ( not quickly enough for our riding season of course) the brits was if grandfather Albert could manage then why were we sniveling.Any how the TX 500 and 750 were a major disaster I don't know if they were ever fixed because not long after that I told every body to #$%* off in 4:4 time at the shop.
Bill the demon.

I hear a local story about Yami engineers that came to our town.  There were two or three xs11's that had snapped driveshafts within three months of it's introduction, so the QA safety  guys had to come see why they all came from the same dealership.

Two of them that failed had been sold to a couple teenagers who loved the hp that enabled them to wheelie away at every stopsign they came to (and there are plenty). For  that first few months after they had bought them thet was how they rode for whole days at a time. Obviously the engineers didn't plan on or test for that riding style when they marketed them.