Topic: What's your best...and worst memory from the Greenspun days?

[mick750F]

I should add that the thing that brought Don Laubach to mind today was a box I found when I was cleaning out my shop.  It had never been opened since Don mailed it to me maybe 8 years ago.  I opened the box to find two nice CB550F side covers!

  But are they made of wood? 

Mike

   Thanks for everything you've done here Glenn...you da' man.

[Raul CB750K1]

All I have is good memories from that time. For me it was a Godsend, having recently bought my K1 in Spain and being that bike rare as hen's teeth over here. Without the forum I don't know how would I have found tech info about the bike, as well as links, tips, etc.

I remember finding Rene's ultimate K2 webpage and browsing it completely, downloading the parts manual that was key for me in order to buy parts I needed to refurbish my bike.

[René 衛星の]

Raul,

The pages are still there, I have considered updating them, but for old times sake I leave them as they are.

These are the first pages that I put on the internet. When I still worked at HP, I was allowed to spent a few hours each week to develope some internet stuff. That was in the days that internet was not common for consumers.

The "Ultimate CB750K2 pages" are from that age.

I know, some links stopped working.

For the curious people:

http://cb750k2.tripod.com/page1.html

Moggel, René

[bucky katt]

was the Greenspun thing one and the same as SAlocal sohc4 board? i remember meeting Bill440 there years and years ago, i was caferacer there Bill.

[René 衛星の]

Looking through my own site (harhar) I came across this picture. It is Joe Allen, also an early member, who did some hill climbing with a CB750. Great! Anyone heard of Joe lately?

[andy750]

Looking through my own site (harhar) I came across this picture. It is Joe Allen, also an early member, who did some hill climbing with a CB750. Great! Anyone heard of Joe lately?

Yes he was on these forums in the last year. He and his sons are still hillclimbing! His new forum name is "750guy"

cheers
Andy

[René 衛星の]

Wasn't he "Joe the 750 Guy" earlier?

[andy750]

Wasn't he "Joe the 750 Guy" earlier?

Yes.

[edbikerii]

Didn't Joe also have a beautiful, yellow 550 with a silver frame?  That was one of my inspirations for my early "cafe period".

[René 衛星の]

I Recall that he had more than one bike. I don't remember however if it was the one you describe.

We once had this Gallery, featured by Carlos Rubinstein.  Is that gallery still available? If yes, Joe's bikes will probably be featured.

Moggel, Rene

[andy750]

Rene,

Here is a link to some of the dorje.mail posts....look at the names...very interesting! You are also there ;-)...as is Lloyd (Twotired)

http://www.mail-archive.com/sohc4@dorje.com/index.html

cheers
Andy

[BobbyR]

I found the Walnut side cover posts:

Jim,
        If you look really Really REALLY close, you'll find that your
sidecovers are just papier maché.  Your original sidecovers are in my
warehouse, of course....

        Bruce

        SOHC4 #2

James Spillane wrote:
>
> I often dream of my beautiful walnut sidecovers...
> *grin*
>
> I'll do it too, if my original sidecovers ever fall off.
>
> At 02:06 PM 9/4/03 -0600, Rene CM van Maanen wrote:
> >OK, time for an ancient list joke:
> >
> >Behind door 3 there probably is a wallnut sidecover.....
> >
> >Let's see where this threat ends up...  again....:-)



Sounds sinister. I am calling Jesse Ventura. 

[René 衛星の]

Great link, remember most of the names. I also notice the wallnut sidecover threat. Excellent!

Rene,

Here is a link to some of the dorje.mail posts....look at the names...very interesting! You are also there ;-)...as is Lloyd (Twotired)

http://www.mail-archive.com/sohc4@dorje.com/index.html

cheers
Andy

[edbikerii]

That site only seems to go back to 2003.

Oh, and it wasn't Joe Allen I was thinking of.  Joe Allen had that crazy dirt bike with the cb750 engine in it for hillclimbing.

It was Rob Lloyd who had that beautiful yellow CB550 with the silver frame.  Still have the picture on my hard drive:

[mystic_1]

I found the Walnut side cover posts:

Jim,
        If you look really Really REALLY close, you'll find that your
sidecovers are just papier maché.  Your original sidecovers are in my
warehouse, of course....

        Bruce

        SOHC4 #2

James Spillane wrote:
>
> I often dream of my beautiful walnut sidecovers...
> *grin*
>
> I'll do it too, if my original sidecovers ever fall off.
>
> At 02:06 PM 9/4/03 -0600, Rene CM van Maanen wrote:
> >OK, time for an ancient list joke:
> >
> >Behind door 3 there probably is a wallnut sidecover.....
> >
> >Let's see where this threat ends up...  again....:-)



Sounds sinister. I am calling Jesse Ventura. 

Heh, here's a related gem from circa 2000:

<<I remember the wallnut cover. Actualy I have some ... I used fiberglass and rasin from a car boddy repair shop.>>

<mmmmm-  walnuts and raisens!  How about chocolate hand grips?>

. great .. now I'm having this disturbing visual of Martha Stewart hosting Moto World ..
<Announcer:> "Castrol Honda's Colin Edwards talks with Martha about the 2000 FIM World Championship Superbike Series. Plus: dessert tips from Monza, Italy."
<Martha:> "... some cup-cakes for instrumentation .. big stack of s'mores, some twinkies, and a few ho-ho's for the motor .. like a ginger bread house.. it's a good thing .. "

I still have a few thousand of the VJMC emails floating around in a subfolder of my mailbox.

mystic_1  (lurker extraordinaire)

[ofreen]

Rene,

Here is a link to some of the dorje.mail posts....look at the names...very interesting! You are also there ;-)...as is Lloyd (Twotired)

http://www.mail-archive.com/sohc4@dorje.com/index.html

cheers
Andy

I'm there, too.  Sheesh, I almost remember that.

[Glenn Stauffer]

was the Greenspun thing one and the same as SAlocal sohc4 board? i remember meeting Bill440 there years and years ago, i was caferacer there Bill.

No, the SAlocal forums must have been something that Ed Swearingen.  He used to be on the Greenspun forums; don't know if he is around here anymore.  Do a search on salocal; his site is still around and there are some good tech tips there.

[Glenn Stauffer]

Please give my best to Marion if you see him in DC. I bought his K4 back in 2003 I think. Really nice guy. Same goes for Bruce - I was blocking on his last name.

Bruce and I ran into Marion at the VJMC display at the DC Motorcycle show.  Marion was showing a GB500; says he sold off all of his SOHC/4 bikes.  I gave him your regards and Marion noted that he sold you that K4 for less than it cost him to have the wheels built up.  Is that the same bike you rode through Mexico and on the Easy Rider trip?

[andy750]

No it wasnt. I bought Marions bike after the Mexico trip. It is a very nice bike. The wheels are amazing! Will never sell them!!

Glad to hear he is doing well.

cheers
Andy