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Offline jeffg

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best ever motocycle riding lessons
« on: August 31, 2015, 08:11:43 PM »
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2015, 10:39:27 PM »
They never did make that into a production bike.  Too bad.  It looked nice, but also pretty damn heavy.
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2015, 05:03:04 PM »
ok........two videos now, and nothing about washing a bike or riding lessons.  :o
here's the other vid:  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,151101.0.html
I'm not following.
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2015, 09:01:27 PM »
Me neither.  Do a search on youtube for twist of the wrist 2.  A pretty good video.  If you like to read, try Troy Bayliss' book A Faster Way
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1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2015, 10:28:51 AM »
Quote from: Steve F on September 01, 2015, 05:03:04 PM
ok........two videos now, and nothing about washing a bike or riding lessons.  :o
here's the other vid:  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,151101.0.html
I'm not following.

I think he's just advertising something although I haven't figured out what.
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2015, 11:10:00 AM »
That's lame.  If that's his game, someone should pull his ticket.
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2015, 06:11:44 PM »
the link was bad, it was cool but it didn't work SORRY
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2015, 06:45:58 PM »
Quote from: Duanob on September 02, 2015, 10:28:51 AM
Quote from: Steve F on September 01, 2015, 05:03:04 PM
ok........two videos now, and nothing about washing a bike or riding lessons.  :o
here's the other vid:  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,151101.0.html
I'm not following.

I think he's just advertising something although I haven't figured out what.

But liked your bike washing vid, Duanob!
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2015, 08:02:56 PM »
Quote from: jeffg on September 02, 2015, 06:11:44 PM
the link was bad, it was cool but it didn't work SORRY

No worries.  Sorry for the flame session.
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1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2015, 11:27:20 AM »
Quote from: Stev-o on September 02, 2015, 06:45:58 PM
Quote from: Duanob on September 02, 2015, 10:28:51 AM
Quote from: Steve F on September 01, 2015, 05:03:04 PM
ok........two videos now, and nothing about washing a bike or riding lessons.  :o
here's the other vid:  http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,151101.0.html
I'm not following.

I think he's just advertising something although I haven't figured out what.

But liked your bike washing vid, Duanob!

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1976 CB550K2 Resurrected
1976 CB550F2 Barn Find
1979 CX500 VG "HONDA-GUZZI"
2007 Moto Guzzi Breva 750ie
2015 BMW F700GS
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Re: best ever motocycle riding lessons
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2015, 04:34:10 PM »
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