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Flying Recliner
« on: May 02, 2021, 09:13:46 AM »
SOHC 1. I saw it and read reviews, started a non-harassing dialogue of my urgent need for transportation in the wee hours of the morning.  I got a reply by 9:00 am and arranged a ride to pick it up and was riding her home after noon.  Reviewers all loved these things, it is an '07, the last year imported to U.S.

The "good deal" was the type where the first guy there is bull#$%*ter or buys it. He even arranged to come down one beer coupon before I drove down to get it.
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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2021, 11:50:31 AM »
I see them around from time to time, even saw a couple of biker-looking guys riding a pair of them on the highway last year. I've been tempted to pick one up myself for relaxed 2-up rides.

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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2021, 05:29:17 PM »
I see them around from time to time, even saw a couple of biker-looking guys riding a pair of them on the highway last year. I've been tempted to pick one up myself for relaxed 2-up rides.

What I see online  the reviews all seem to favor it, 'flatulent'  exhaust and all.  ;D Honda Service guys say their customers have 80,000 miles with regular maintaining but no rebuild, and other youtubers say everybody with mc's needs a Helix. It is a longer wheel base than a HD road king. Yamaha and Suzuki are recommended over trying to make a Helix with more hp and bigger wheels. I say it doesn't get blown around any more than my "big" bikes, but cl450 is not really that big either [maybe 100 lbs. more]. It is longer than a road king.  It   A windscreen is new to me so I like that other than  you can't count on spitting without having it blow back at you.
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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2021, 05:42:36 PM »
Very encouraging, thank you!

This one's only 70 miles away, too bad my building sold and I'm out on the street! (as if tennants have no rights in Massachusetts)

https://maine.craigslist.org/mcy/d/alfred-1996-and-2001-honda-helixs-250/7301787507.html

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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2021, 07:00:44 PM »
Check out the Honda Pacofic Coast 800. Big version, and I want one too.

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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2021, 07:59:00 PM »
And 6 gears! Or was it 5? My GF can't ride that home if I have one too many though...

Edit: 5spd. 51hp at the rear wheel, 41mm forks.
Likely some sportbikes bits can bolt on unnoticed. Cheap cartridge emulators for Harley 41mm forks are on eBay for about $50 too.
It's also on my affordable shortlist. I like long rides but I'll stay mostly on pavement, 2-up will be needed says she. I'm thinking toward my k8 for that though but who knows?
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« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2021, 08:21:17 PM »
My buddy lived by an orchard and would be away,working in camp.
 Whike he was gone , a mouse, or maybe more than one took up residence inside the Tupperware.. of his Pacific Coast,.. and it was lets say .. a chore to get it out.. Cats found that  PC most interesting..
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« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2021, 08:33:23 PM »
First overbore would make it 805cc, second would make it 810cc, no third offered. I've seen these listed for sale with nearly 100k miles on the clock, they keep ticking.

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« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2021, 08:41:23 PM »
I've seen several pc's. one even came with a parts bike, but they all needed something. I am hoping that with 10,000 on the clock I've hoping for years if not a decade of turn key operation. 
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« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2021, 08:55:59 PM »
That's low mileage from what I see in the Northeast. PC800s with 50k miles for $1800 aren't uncommon. Helixes with 10k miles for $1800 are a steal though and far between. Maybe when I have fewer projects and a forever shop.... Fingers crossed this year!

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« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2021, 12:10:51 AM »
Scooters. For those guys who'd like to ride real motorcycles, but still want to feel the wind in their vagina's.......... But as I get older, I reckon in 10 years or so when I'm in my 70's, I might have to get one........ ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2021, 03:18:04 AM »
Scooters. For those guys who'd like to ride real motorcycles, but still want to feel the wind in their vagina's.......... But as I get older, I reckon in 10 years or so when I'm in my 70's, I might have to get one........ ;D

I've eves said that this week, myself, but the deal was there for something that needs nothing but gas and an oil change for hopefully the next 5,000 plus miles.  So it is what I had to get. I've seen people ask  more for a pile of sh8 that was running when parked in 1983, just because it is 50 years old. No thanks for now got a few already.
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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2021, 05:30:14 AM »
Scooters. For those guys who'd like to ride real motorcycles, but still want to feel the wind in their vagina's.......... But as I get older, I reckon in 10 years or so when I'm in my 70's, I might have to get one........ ;D

I've eves said that this week, myself, but the deal was there for something that needs nothing but gas and an oil change for hopefully the next 5,000 plus miles.  So it is what I had to get. I've seen people ask  more for a pile of sh8 that was running when parked in 1983, just because it is 50 years old. No thanks for now got a few already.

Yep, I agree mate, stupid money for our CB750's now, the guys here in Oz are getting more excited every time a nice clean bike sells for silly money. That $51K that the diecast went for at Mecum was ridiculous, as was the $21K the K4 went for here last week. Fcuk that, I can buy many much better bikes for much less, hell, I only paid $2200 (AUD, say $1500 USD) for my VFR750 which is just bloody magnificent, and like your golf cart, it hasn't used anything but new tyres, fuel, oil, a filter and a battery. I just love that "anti-Scooter" quote. ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2021, 12:49:24 PM »
Spotted another low mileage Helix in my area.
https://nh.craigslist.org/mcy/d/manchester-1992-honda-helix-250cc/7316066265.html

29 year old. Basically the exact same thing as my '07.  I wonder how much he intends to com off his price?
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« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2021, 01:13:16 PM »
I had to follow Spotty on his new (to him) Valkyrie over to Ace Motorcycles on Saturday morning so he could get Jeff to do the roadworthy inspection on it. While we were hanging out we spotted one of those monstrosities awaiting repair.

Apart from the obvious fugliness of the whole thing, we couldn’t get over how wide it was in the rear? I suppose the good thing about owning one is that it’ll never get stolen...... ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2021, 05:59:35 PM »
Terry..... you ride a Velo Solex and don’t understand this? If find that hard to believe!!

Today I saw two extremely large gentlemen in a Citroen 2CV. They seemed very pleased with their recent purchase. It idled at about 2500 rpm and positively crashed into 1st gear, every time they lurched off. Bounced down the road like a beach ball. I was laughing so hard I had to pull over..... “to each his own”. Or maybe “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”?
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« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2021, 07:16:34 PM »
Ha ha, the Velo-Solex belongs to my cousin John, I just got it going so I could sell it for him. It is a fun little thing though, so you might be right about “To each his own”...... ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2021, 05:53:29 PM »
Ha ha, the Velo-Solex belongs to my cousin John, I just got it going so I could sell it for him. It is a fun little thing though, so you might be right about “To each his own”...... ;D

Terry.... when I was a small kid, my Mom took my sister and I back to visit Family in very northern Italy every summer. Until I got my first job on a Service Station, pumping gas for $1/hour at age 15. The only high light of these trips was a young cousin who had an older Moto Guzzi and occasionally took me for a rip on the back, and an older Aunt who used a Solex to ride to school every day (she taught summer school). I would often sit on the massive rear carrier and go off with her in the morning. All I had to do was have it back there by 3:00pm (and leave some gas in the tiny tank). I loved that thing!

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« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2021, 08:57:02 PM »
Thanks John, I worked for two cousins (Bruno and Chris Antonello) at a gas station part time when I was in the Army, they were both from far northern Italy, and both married Austrian girls. They had blue eyes and blonde hair, and if I didn't hear them speaking Italian at times I wouldn't have picked them as Italians.

Great guys, and both were "rev-Heads", Bruno had a very rare Macintosh Suzuki GS1000, and Chris drove an "Aus-Car" (Aussie Nascar) and apparently was very good. I'm putting the covers back on the little Solex today including the little headlight and putting it on Ebay for my cuz, along with the other one for spares, hopefully now it's a runner it'll move pretty quickly, as I need the space, I have a mint 1978 Kawasaki KZ750 (US import) and a horrible MZ150 arriving on Sunday, the Kawasaki is a freebie, in payment to get the MZ up and running for my client at work.

I never had much time for those Kawasaki twins back in the day, but I've sold my Yamaha XS650 to my son who wants to turn it into a street tracker (best hing you can do with one, INHO) so I need another big vertical twin. ;D

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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2021, 05:07:17 AM »
Terry...... most of my Mom’’s relatives our match you cousin’s description. Good luck with the sale!

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« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2021, 05:15:08 AM »
Terry...... most of my Mom’’s relatives our match you cousin’s description. Good luck with the sale!

Thanks mate, the bloody Solex ignition crapped out today, so I'm pulling it apart to make one out of two to get the thing going nice and reliable, then I need to get it out of my place to make room for the horrible MZ150 that turns up on Sunday. I'm gonna take a couple of bikes over to the storage facility, maybe the K0 and the Harley? My steel garage isn't good in winter anyway, so they'll be better off in the new facility, and I'll have some room for the other projects. ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2021, 12:33:35 PM »
I had to follow Spotty on his new (to him) Valkyrie over to Ace Motorcycles on Saturday morning so he could get Jeff to do the roadworthy inspection on it. While we were hanging out we spotted one of those monstrosities awaiting repair.

Apart from the obvious fugliness of the whole thing, we couldn’t get over how wide it was in the rear? I suppose the good thing about owning one is that it’ll never get stolen...... ;D

Actually mine got stolen last Monday. Fcuker laid it over three times.
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« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2021, 02:42:57 PM »
Reflecting back on Terry’s comment about “when I’m in my 70’s……….I’m 70 and working on a Z1!
I guess I’ll switch to the Ruckus when I can’t handle the fours.
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« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2021, 06:12:30 PM »
Reflecting back on Terry’s comment about “when I’m in my 70’s……….I’m 70 and working on a Z1!
I guess I’ll switch to the Ruckus when I can’t handle the fours.

Ha ha, I'm just assuming that by the time I'm in my 70's I won't be able to hold up a big bike Steve, but who knows, there might be some new miracle drug that'll give me the strength of a 20 year old again? ;D

Actually mine got stolen last Monday. Fcuker laid it over three times.
 

I'm constantly surprised, that in a country where everyone owns at least 2 guns, there is still such a high rate of bike thefts? But then again anyone who steals one of those golf carts probably isn't a big thinker....... ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2021, 11:54:37 AM »
Back to the PC800...... very few in Canada. About a year ago, I spotted one for sale not far away. Later model, bright red and in extraordinarily perfect condition. Low mileage too. I took it for a short ride in his neighbourhood and it was super quiet and pulled nicely. His price was reasonable, but ever the optimist, I said I’d call him later...... Five hours later it was already “SOLD”.

Maybe I really didn’t need it?

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« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2021, 12:30:53 PM »


Maybe I really didn’t need it?

Here ya go John....$1600...

https://www.cycletrader.com/listing/1989-Honda-PACIFIC-COAST-PC800-5017195963

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« Reply #27 on: July 27, 2021, 06:50:30 PM »
God, it looks like a tub of ice cream, on wheels....... ;D
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

"Crazy is a very misunderstood term, it's a fine line that some of us can lean over and still keep our balance" (thanks RB550Four)

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« Reply #28 on: July 28, 2021, 05:38:21 AM »
God, it looks like a tub of ice cream, on wheels....... ;D

Says the man finally building a 750A! I agree, the white is hideous. Red/grey was not quite so “fat arsed”........ having recently sold my wife’s KLR650 (she rides mine on the rare occasion she wants her own ride), the orange K4, and the Chopper, I could almost rationalize one as “her bike”?

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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #29 on: July 28, 2021, 07:46:21 AM »
My buddy with the 64' Norton Atlas 750 has a Pacific Coast. Now we call him Captain Plastic Fantastic. He really likes it but it is a pain to work on. When I have to work on it I make him remove all of the plastic bodywork.
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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2021, 05:25:21 PM »
Reflecting back on Terry’s comment about “when I’m in my 70’s……….I’m 70 and working on a Z1!
I guess I’ll switch to the Ruckus when I can’t handle the fours.

Reflecting on your comment about Terry’s comment, Terry also made this comment  “....wind in their vaginas” which caught my attention. Way back in high school...I mean waaay back in high school one of the funniest titles one could hurl at another (guys only of course) was “twat head”. Hearing this again made me laugh. And we need to laugh more.
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« Reply #31 on: July 29, 2021, 06:30:33 AM »
I guess I’ll switch to the Ruckus when I can’t handle the fours.

....the funniest titles one could hurl at another (guys only of course) was “twat head”. Hearing this again made me laugh.

Classic definition:

twathead:
someone who's head looks like a vagina.
'That guy has a huge twathead'

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Twathead:
Justin Bieber's hair style.
(when doing a haircut) "Can i have a twathead? Just like Justin Bieber, girls at school love it."

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« Reply #32 on: July 29, 2021, 05:08:16 PM »


Apart from the obvious fugliness of the whole thing, we couldn’t get over how wide it was in the rear? I suppose the good thing about owning one is that it’ll never get stolen...... ;D

To be sure a few of the scratches on mine are from getting used to the amount of plastic covering up the stern. Mostly turning into the driveway too close to a bumper or barb-q.

I think our town has a regular crew that scours the town for items in unlocked cars, or the occasional vehicle with keys, my goof. When I pulled up there were two excavators running and a city construction inspector hanging out past 5:00.  There was activity in the yard and I parked in the street,  jumped off to blabber with the inspector, turned the key off and left it, never intending to park there long.

But that big trunk was apparently enough to get this crack head a promotion in the organization. There was a brief case with all kinds of stolen mail, bank records, credit applications, credit card applications, keys to who knows what, etc. all of other people.

Guy has a seven year probation they are trying to revoke for re-do of the same sh8 over, and a bench warrant.  He is headed to prison if they bring him in.
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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #33 on: July 29, 2021, 07:03:25 PM »
Yep, this is proof that drug affected scumbags will steal anything. I've often wondered what I'd steal if I was that way inclined (I'm often drug affected, but I think I have some standards) and the problem is that it'd have to be a rare and unique motorcycle that I'd have to steal from a museum because I'd never steal another guys bike, and I wouldn't be able to bring myself to sell it, so it'd stick out like dogs balls to the average highway patrol cop, when an old drug affected scumbag roared past on a Vincent Black Shadow or similar.

Many years ago I was killing time in Adelaide so I went to visit the Birdwood Motor Museum. The place was empty and you could fire a shot thru the place without hitting anyone. I was admiring some Brough Superior SS100's, the bike made famous by T.E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia" and was really impressed in the beautiful engineering details of these bikes. It was a really hot day, and the old museum wasn't airconditioned, so they'd left the side door to the carpark open, to circulate the air.

I must admit I did think about just wheeling one of these beauties out into the carpark and into the back of the van that I was driving, but being that I was in uniform, and it was an Army van, it probably wouldn't have been a good career move, in hindsight. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't steal anything less than a Vincent or Brough, I guess that's what separates most of us from the dirtbags....... ;D   
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: Flying Recliner
« Reply #34 on: August 21, 2021, 04:39:09 AM »
Getting close to 5,000 miles I've put on the Helix.  !,000 mile oil change intervals they prescribe, and soon new rubber. Other than that completely trouble free and in this heat advisory ventilation  on yer balls ain't bad.
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