Author Topic: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road! (Read 1447626 times)

ofreen · « **Reply #5500 on:** January 18, 2015, 07:26:33 PM »

A tunnel on the road along the Owyhee River in southeastern Oregon.

evanphi · « **Reply #5501 on:** January 20, 2015, 05:42:50 AM »

Quote from: ofreen on January 18, 2015, 07:26:33 PM

A tunnel on the road along the Owyhee River in southeastern Oregon.

Need to get a sound recording device in that tunnel doing a flyby!

750cafe · « **Reply #5502 on:** January 20, 2015, 10:00:07 AM »

Quote from: ofreen on January 18, 2015, 07:26:33 PM

A tunnel on the road along the Owyhee River in southeastern Oregon.

Great pic.

Eric

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #5503 on:** January 20, 2015, 01:52:25 PM »

Thats a great picture Greg but what gets me is that they could have made the road 10 yards to the left and completely missed the hill....

750cafe · « **Reply #5504 on:** January 20, 2015, 07:08:28 PM »

Quote from: Retro Rocket on January 20, 2015, 01:52:25 PM

Thats a great picture Greg but what gets me is that they could have made the road 10 yards to the left and completely missed the hill....

I am willing to bet that just beyond that grass is a nice deep cliff.

Eric

Stev-o · « **Reply #5505 on:** January 20, 2015, 07:24:01 PM »

Quote from: 750cafe on January 20, 2015, 07:08:28 PM

Quote from: Retro Rocket on January 20, 2015, 01:52:25 PM
Thats a great picture Greg but what gets me is that they could have made the road 10 yards to the left and completely missed the hill....

I am willing to bet that just beyond that grass is a nice deep cliff.

I'd put some money on that bet.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #5506 on:** January 20, 2015, 08:06:51 PM »

Quote from: 750cafe on January 20, 2015, 07:08:28 PM

Quote from: Retro Rocket on January 20, 2015, 01:52:25 PM
Thats a great picture Greg but what gets me is that they could have made the road 10 yards to the left and completely missed the hill....

I am willing to bet that just beyond that grass is a nice deep cliff.

Eric

Where's their sense of adventure....

ofreen · « **Reply #5507 on:** January 20, 2015, 10:01:31 PM »

Eric is close, there isn't much room. The first photo is taken at a higher angle and shows the river is just behind the bike and the second shows the mountain goes almost straight up above the tunnel. The engineers must have figured there wasn't enough room to go around and would be too difficult to knock that much mountain down, so going through was easier. Plus I think back in the good old days they used to do stuff like this just for the hell of it judging from similar roads I've encountered in the west. Going to the Sun over Logan Pass is a good example of that.

Bluegrass500 · « **Reply #5508 on:** January 24, 2015, 05:29:55 PM »

Quote from: rtbmrgl on October 05, 2014, 07:59:37 AM

Quote from: Bluegrass500 on October 04, 2014, 04:57:56 PM
Waverly Iowa.....
Very nice Bluegrass, like the gas station and the bike. I have a green 500 also.
here is a restored gas station pic kinda near me, Colinga Ca

Wow great gas station pic!!! if you were only on my way home.....image two cool Honda bikes posed for a quick fill up!
awesome!

Bluegrass500 · « **Reply #5509 on:** January 24, 2015, 05:37:22 PM »

Here we are down along the Tennessee River South of Chattanooga last week when it hit 58 degrees in Jan!!!
Putting some miles on the old girl......when I can

tfrasca · « **Reply #5510 on:** January 25, 2015, 06:35:51 PM »

Rode Highway 9 here in Santa Cruz the other day, and had a blast. Trying to figure out how to corner this thing without dragging the kickstand constantly. Do you guys find that you have to lean pretty far off the bike for sharp lefts? Has anyone modified the kickstand to tuck it up more?

TF

Stev-o · « **Reply #5511 on:** January 25, 2015, 06:52:45 PM »

Quote from: tfrasca on January 25, 2015, 06:35:51 PM

Rode Highway 9 here in Santa Cruz the other day, and had a blast. Trying to figure out how to corner this thing without dragging the kickstand constantly. Do you guys find that you have to lean pretty far off the bike for sharp lefts? Has anyone modified the kickstand to tuck it up more?

TF

Your kickstand does not appear to be up all the way, is your spring installed?

Great pic, BTW.

tfrasca · « **Reply #5512 on:** January 25, 2015, 06:57:23 PM »

Quote from: Stev-o on January 25, 2015, 06:52:45 PM

Quote from: tfrasca on January 25, 2015, 06:35:51 PM
Rode Highway 9 here in Santa Cruz the other day, and had a blast. Trying to figure out how to corner this thing without dragging the kickstand constantly. Do you guys find that you have to lean pretty far off the bike for sharp lefts? Has anyone modified the kickstand to tuck it up more?

TF

Your kickstand does not appear to be up all the way, is your spring installed?

Great pic, BTW.

Oh, that's interesting. The spring is installed, but the whole kickstand has a lot of side-to-side play. That doesn't seem like it'd make it hang any lower, per se, but I'll check out how it's installed in the morning. That would be great if it's lower than it should be!

Thanks,

TF

scunny · « **Reply #5513 on:** January 26, 2015, 03:45:47 AM »

side stand should be tucked up more than that. the centre stand is the first to touch IMHO, I take that off and just put it on for maintenance.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #5514 on:** January 26, 2015, 04:07:05 AM »

Quote from: scunny on January 26, 2015, 03:45:47 AM

side stand should be tucked up more than that. the centre stand is the first to touch IMHO,

And pegs Scunny, you have to have the pegs folded up before the side stand touches.....

tfrasca · « **Reply #5515 on:** January 26, 2015, 09:12:33 AM »

This is all great news! I was so surprised to hear my side stand dragging around this corner when the bike still had room to lean. I'm going to get the stand sorted then really see what the bike can do.

supersports400 · « **Reply #5516 on:** January 26, 2015, 11:39:56 PM »

Not a Four, not even a sohc, but too nice not to show here.

My bomber in the early morning, picture is somewhat modified.
The bike is my daily rider, as long as the CB400F isn't finished.

Stev-o · « **Reply #5517 on:** January 27, 2015, 04:04:56 AM »

Impressive!

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #5518 on:** January 27, 2015, 04:15:17 AM »

Quote from: Stev-o on January 27, 2015, 04:04:56 AM

Impressive!

That just never gets old....

bender01 · « **Reply #5519 on:** February 01, 2015, 09:05:12 PM »

Beaufort SC 2/1/14

mrfish2 · « **Reply #5520 on:** February 01, 2015, 09:58:40 PM »

On my way home the other night and I had to stop and snap a quick pic with my phone (that's why it's blurry). I thought the streetlight glow looked pretty cool.

rockvegas400 · « **Reply #5521 on:** February 07, 2015, 08:33:26 PM »

Sunday ride around the Capricorn Coast, Central Qld.

750cafe · « **Reply #5522 on:** February 07, 2015, 10:14:02 PM »

Mrfish, that would be a REALLY GREAT picture if you could duplicate it using a tripod for the camera.

Eric

mrfish2 · « **Reply #5523 on:** February 08, 2015, 06:02:05 PM »

Quote from: 750cafe on February 07, 2015, 10:14:02 PM

Mrfish, that would be a REALLY GREAT picture if you could duplicate it using a tripod for the camera.

Eric

Thanks

As soon as I get ahold of one of my buddies nice cameras I plan on doing that

dhall57 · « **Reply #5524 on:** February 09, 2015, 04:05:50 PM »

Let my son Justin and his girlfriend Jessica take the 750 KO out and they surprised me with this little video. I like ZZTop and La Grange but just the sound of the sohc4 and HM300 pipes would of been just fine. The rod you see as the Go-pro mounted on it. Hope the will be the start of more on the road video's of all my bikes

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Author Topic: Lets see your SOHC bike out on the road! (Read 1447626 times)