Author Topic: confession, it's time to step foreward (Read 16124 times)

Terry in Australia · « **Reply #50 on:** January 01, 2012, 11:37:22 PM »

Quote from: RustyStuff on January 01, 2012, 11:30:47 PM

How do those bikes handle?

Fantastic in a straight line mate! Ha ha, actually it's got a really good frame, very heavy duty, and they will go around corners, even with that 240 section rear tire. What lets mine down is the footboards, they scrape pretty easily in the tight stuff, but in fast bends, it's great. Cheers, Terry.

RustyStuff · « **Reply #51 on:** January 01, 2012, 11:59:07 PM »

Quote from: Terry in Australia on January 01, 2012, 11:37:22 PM

Quote from: RustyStuff on January 01, 2012, 11:30:47 PM
How do those bikes handle?

Fantastic in a straight line mate! Ha ha, actually it's got a really good frame, very heavy duty, and they will go around corners, even with that 240 section rear tire. What lets mine down is the footboards, they scrape pretty easily in the tight stuff, but in fast bends, it's great. Cheers, Terry.

Something like 150ftlbs right?
Must pull like a tractor.

These would help you with the cornering clearance, The ultimate cruzer frontsets

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Terry in Australia · « **Reply #52 on:** January 02, 2012, 12:28:05 AM »

God that's horrible! (apologies if it's yours.......)

RustyStuff · « **Reply #53 on:** January 02, 2012, 12:45:50 AM »

Quote from: Terry in Australia on January 02, 2012, 12:28:05 AM

God that's horrible! (apologies if it's yours.......)

Isnt it. Might want to mention that and your Undieing love of those Windjammers to Vetter himself.

Makes me think of the fraze, " If you think you hate it now, just wait till you ride it."

I have to admit, the guy has some intresting idea's.

ofreen · « **Reply #54 on:** January 02, 2012, 10:21:55 AM »

The Windjammer SS fairing on my '75 750F has been there since the winter of '77-'78. It is the reason the bike is ridden pretty much year around (when the roads are dry. I'm no diehard) while the other bikes sit December through February and March. It was 15 degrees F the other morning on the way to work, and the Windjammer was a thing of beauty.

736cc · « **Reply #55 on:** January 05, 2012, 07:13:52 PM »

My name is 736cc and I confess that a Windjammer on a CB750 K1 will cruise at over 90 mph all day long with an 8 track playing Quadrophenia, BTO, Led Zepp at full blast and passed a long line of Harleys going too slow on a loooong uphill on the Kancamagus Highway during motorcycle weekend at Laconia, New Hampshire in 2004....

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #56 on:** January 05, 2012, 07:21:23 PM »

Quote from: 736cc on January 05, 2012, 07:13:52 PM

My name is 736cc and I confess that a Windjammer on a CB750 K1 will cruise at over 90 mph all day long with an 8 track playing Quadrophenia, BTO, Led Zepp at full blast and passed a long line of Harleys going too slow on a loooong uphill on the Kancamagus Highway during motorcycle weekend at Laconia, New Hampshire in 2004....

Yeah, yeah,...but the big question is where did you find 8 track tapes in working condition.

Haven't listened to one of those since about 1976 in my old 63 Galaxie. Used to record my own and tried to time them so they wouldn't ca-chunk in the middle of a song. Around that time I switched to the new technology....cassettes.

754 · « **Reply #57 on:** January 05, 2012, 10:58:56 PM »

WTH.. K1 with a wraparound grabrail..

MCRider · « **Reply #58 on:** January 06, 2012, 06:34:55 AM »

Quote from: 754 on January 05, 2012, 10:58:56 PM

WTH.. K1 with a wraparound grabrail..

There wa another thread about this. Someone here had a K1 bought new and it had a grabrail. He swore it came out of the crate that way.

I bought a K1 new in April 1971 and I could have sworn it did not have the wrap around grab rail. It does show up on the K1 microfish.

I think I discovered it may have been a mid-model run change.

FrankenFrankenstuff · « **Reply #59 on:** January 06, 2012, 07:05:37 AM »

Hello, my name is Frankenstuff....and I ......

fmctm1sw · « **Reply #60 on:** January 06, 2012, 11:00:07 AM »

Hellos, my name is fmctm1sw and I'm a friend of the forums. I once used a nail in place of a fuse

Don R · « **Reply #61 on:** January 06, 2012, 11:50:13 AM »

Mythbusters used a .22 bullet for a fuse. They really had to cook it hard to get it to go off. The myth was someone shot himself in the leg doing that.

MCRider · « **Reply #62 on:** January 06, 2012, 12:10:21 PM »

Quote from: Don R on January 06, 2012, 11:50:13 AM

Mythbusters used a .22 bullet for a fuse. They really had to cook it hard to get it to go off. The myth was someone shot himself in the leg doing that.

I'd be wondering about that. With nothing to backstop the shell casing, would the casing go backwards as fast as the bullet going forward? Would the bullet have enough get up and go to hurt anything?

I'm not volunteering to find out, just wondering.

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #63 on:** January 06, 2012, 07:51:44 PM »

Quote from: MCRider on January 06, 2012, 12:10:21 PM

Quote from: Don R on January 06, 2012, 11:50:13 AM
Mythbusters used a .22 bullet for a fuse. They really had to cook it hard to get it to go off. The myth was someone shot himself in the leg doing that.
I'd be wondering about that. With nothing to backstop the shell casing, would the casing go backwards as fast as the bullet going forward? Would the bullet have enough get up and go to hurt anything?

I'm not volunteering to find out, just wondering.

Use a vise. A friend of my wife had two kids and one shot the other one in the arm when he put a bullet in a vise and hit it with a hammer.

MCRider · « **Reply #64 on:** January 06, 2012, 09:24:10 PM »

Quote from: srust58 on January 06, 2012, 07:51:44 PM

Quote from: MCRider on January 06, 2012, 12:10:21 PM
Quote from: Don R on January 06, 2012, 11:50:13 AM
Mythbusters used a .22 bullet for a fuse. They really had to cook it hard to get it to go off. The myth was someone shot himself in the leg doing that.
I'd be wondering about that. With nothing to backstop the shell casing, would the casing go backwards as fast as the bullet going forward? Would the bullet have enough get up and go to hurt anything?

I'm not volunteering to find out, just wondering.
Use a vise. A friend of my wife had two kids and one shot the other one in the arm when he put a bullet in a vise and hit it with a hammer.

Dang! We used to pile up 10 or 20 caps and hit that with a hammer on the sidewalk, but a bullet? Wow.

Don R · « **Reply #65 on:** January 06, 2012, 09:25:35 PM »

I think the energy was dispersed by the casing flying backwards. Don't quote me but I think they decided it would hurt like hell but probably wouldn't penetrate.

I piled up enough caps to pop my eardrum once. might have been an entire roll.

MCRider · « **Reply #66 on:** January 06, 2012, 09:30:38 PM »

Quote from: Don R on January 06, 2012, 09:25:35 PM

I think the energy was dispersed by the casing flying backwards. Don't quote me but I think they decided it would hurt like hell but probably wouldn't penetrate.

I piled up enough caps to pop my eardrum once. might have been an entire roll.

That's what I would have suspected.

I remember the caps being REALLY, painfully loud. A whole roll would have been intense.

simon#42 · « **Reply #67 on:** January 07, 2012, 03:45:15 AM »

to get back to the embarrassing subject of windjammers ! , am i right in assuming they are all the same [ by this i mean not model specific , i know there where a couple of variations ] is it just the mounting kits and the side pieces that are different ?

MoMo · « **Reply #68 on:** January 07, 2012, 04:54:21 AM »

Quote from: simon#42 on January 07, 2012, 03:45:15 AM

to get back to the embarrassing subject of windjammers ! , am i right in assuming they are all the same [ by this i mean not model specific , i know there where a couple of variations ] is it just the mounting kits and the side pieces that are different ?

That is my recollection...Larry

736cc · « **Reply #69 on:** January 08, 2012, 02:05:22 PM »

Windjammers and Vindicators had different turn signals, either built-in or use stock signals w/ brackets

mjstone · « **Reply #70 on:** January 08, 2012, 03:49:02 PM »

There were a couple of differences, but any Windjammer and Vindicator would use the same mounting bracket and the same lowers. The brackets and lowers were what was bike specific. The exception was the Windjammer V, it used different lowers and maybe brackets as well. The Windjammer III (what I have) was the first using ABS plastic instead of fiberglass ( I think). The Windjammer SS and Windjammer IV had built in turn signals called Leading Edge Lights. They also had an adjustment knob on the dash for the headlight up/down position to make it easy to adjust the headlight for different loads on the bike. The Vindicator was just like the SS/IV but without the built in turn signals. You mounted your original turn signals and stalks on them just like the Windjammer III.

Hope this helps.

MJ

Stev-o · « **Reply #71 on:** January 08, 2012, 03:52:14 PM »

Wow, he is really into the fairings!

MoMo · « **Reply #72 on:** January 08, 2012, 04:09:45 PM »

Quote from: Stev-o on January 08, 2012, 03:52:14 PM

Wow, he is really into the fairings!

Maybe he is Craig Vetter

Stev-o · « **Reply #73 on:** January 08, 2012, 04:13:34 PM »

Quote from: photolar on January 08, 2012, 04:09:45 PM

Quote from: Stev-o on January 08, 2012, 03:52:14 PM
Wow, he is really into the fairings!

Maybe he is Craig Vetter

He should confess!

simon#42 · « **Reply #74 on:** January 08, 2012, 04:22:10 PM »

Quote from: mjstone on January 08, 2012, 03:49:02 PM

There were a couple of differences, but any Windjammer and Vindicator would use the same mounting bracket and the same lowers. The brackets and lowers were what was bike specific. The exception was the Windjammer V, it used different lowers and maybe brackets as well. The Windjammer III (what I have) was the first using ABS plastic instead of fiberglass ( I think). The Windjammer SS and Windjammer IV had built in turn signals called Leading Edge Lights. They also had an adjustment knob on the dash for the headlight up/down position to make it easy to adjust the headlight for different loads on the bike. The Vindicator was just like the SS/IV but without the built in turn signals. You mounted your original turn signals and stalks on them just like the Windjammer III.

Hope this helps.

MJ

leave him alone ! thanks mj that helps alot .
ive just seen one on ebay , i may have a worse confession in a couple of days .

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Author Topic: confession, it's time to step foreward (Read 16124 times)