hello,
member 754 wrote:
"Mec , can you PLEASE post pics of the 101 in the OTHER BIKES section.
They are such a cool bike, best handling one they ever made.
Every time someone tells me how great their new bikes handle, I ask them if they can do a figure 8.. no hands.. .. then tell them a 101 can.."
yes, I can. here they are:
2005 the bike came in an wooden box:
it came from norway, had been restored and was in best condition.
doing some restoration work on the engine (I wanted to minimize the oilleaks. instead of 5 leaks there are now only 3
race ready again
since the arrival of the bike I did approx 3-4000km, all troublefree (except one time with a broken main jet needle).
one funny story, I remember:
it was summer 2005. my girlfriend had driving (motorbike) lessons on the area used for practice. there are two painted handling parcours, one easy with wider turns and the other with really narrow turns. the instructor asked if I wanted to try the parcours. I said "this one" and pointed at the narrow one. he said "never, impossible, much too difficult" and was in hope that I would try the easy one. I had a close look at the difficult one and thought "there is a chance". two minutes later and managing the handling parcours without a mistake the instructor needed help, getting his jaw of the floor. I said, this was easy with the left hand throttle, foot clutch and ignition timimng on the right hand
the miracle was the benevolently fork stops and the willingness of the 101 for narrow turns.
mec
