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Reply #45 - Nov 26^th, 2011 at 9:43am

I had a variety of bikes, the last about 1975. I picked up one of those little Honda 90cc street bikes long about 1970 and that started me out. I was primarily interested in off-road riding and eventually got involved in sportsman-level motocross.
Campaigned a much-modified Hodaka 100cc for a while.

Went through a variety of off-road and dual-purpose bikes; Montessa 250, DKW 125, Suzuki, Honda 350..... My last bike was a Suzuki 550 triple two-stroke. Nice bike; sewing-machine smooth.
However, I got married and we fell on tough financial times, and also being in police work I kept handling motorcycle accidents with the rider variously mangled... That will make you think...

I admit I still miss riding, but bikes have gotten so vastly expensive now. I confine myself to the pedal-driven variety now.

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Reply #46 - Nov 26^th, 2011 at 3:58pm

xxkid123 wrote on Nov 24^th, 2011 at 6:09pm:

still want a motorcycle. probably not for actual driving- just joy rides on scenic routes or something. maybe when i get a decent job (some time off)

I predict that if you do get one, you will not end up limiting yourself to those scenic joyrides, but will use it all the time. That's what happened with me, anyway (although I never did predict that I would limit my riding).

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Reply #47 - Nov 26^th, 2011 at 4:04pm

I can remember taking off on my bike on the spur of the moment with no destination in mind whatsoever and being gone for like twelve hours. With a tiny 60cc bike I was getting probably over 100 miles/gal so why not. It was great fun and I've never just taken off like that in a car. Even though I'm old and should know better there's still a part of me that wants another motor cycle. I'll probably get one one day. If I were to get one right at this moment it would probably be this one:
http://www.suzukicycles.com/Product%20Lines/Cycles/Products/DR-Z400/2012/DRZ400S...

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scoteeball Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 229 Gender:	Re: motorcycle? Reply #48 - Nov 27^th, 2011 at 3:00pm I had one like this in the mid 80's. Very quick and fun dirt bike!
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scoteeball Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 229 Gender:	Re: motorcycle? Reply #50 - Nov 27^th, 2011 at 3:08pm Four wheels so we can get to places like this.
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Reply #51 - Nov 27^th, 2011 at 3:41pm

Quads are amazing, a squad of quadders rescued me when I was once lost at the top of a mountain - it was the 13rd of January, there was snow and ice on the road, I had fallen from the motorcycle and was unable to lift it (I was riding alone and the motorcycle was half in the road, half out against some trees)! Luckily I met these quadders while I wal walking down the mountain to reach a tiny village... Cheesy

It seems that you have a predilection for cross bikes; I find them very nice and would love to have one, but I then can't imagine myself riding a bike in the silence of the wilderness... I'd rather walk Wink

Still, cross motorcycle are very funny indeed!
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Reply #52 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 12:45pm

Mauro, you are right. The CR was too loud to ride in a place like that. The Quads are really pretty quiet but we parked them at a trail head and hiked three miles to that lake. My wife snapped some nice pics of two cow/calf pairs while I fished of the other side of the lake. I have done a lot of hiking and backpack camping but as I have gotten a little older and fatter the ride on the Quad is nice

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Reply #53 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 8:16am

Indeed, like everything, it's the way one use its motorcycle that matter.
I saw some idiots in two different occasions: two of them were riding CR in a National Park, while I was watching birds, while a whole group of others came in the small village I had my base in, riding very fast. Now, that village is almost uninhabited, but being a Medieval village it has very narrow streets, and house's doors opens on them. It was imprudent to drive like that, but they found much fun in the fact that streets were not covered with asphalt Angry

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HurlinThom Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Leverage artillerist Posts: 1404	Re: motorcycle? Reply #54 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 11:27am Mauro Fiorentini wrote on Nov 29^th, 2011 at 8:16am: It was imprudent to drive like that, but they found much fun in the fact that streets were not covered with asphalt Greetings, Mauro. Of course we know what the streets of a village would have been covered with back in medieval times, don't we?
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Mauro Fiorentini Slinging.org Moderator Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3076 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: motorcycle? Reply #55 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 12:15pm I explained badly - these streets are not still the same of the Middle Age; better, they follow the same track, but have been "improved" by covering them with cobblestones! Like this for example Greetings, Mauro.
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jax Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take me out to the ball game........ Posts: 1164 Northeast Florida Gender:	Re: motorcycle? Reply #56 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 12:24pm This is my new bike.It's a '74 Yamaha DT-360A Enduro.The oil injector is working well,but I add a little to the tank,just in case. Brett Oh,picture missing..Well,exactly like this... http://www.gogocycles.com/images/1974-yamaha-dt360-for-sale-21333599.jpg
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9525 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: motorcycle? Reply #57 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 12:51pm Nice, Brett.
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Mauro Fiorentini Slinging.org Moderator Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3076 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: motorcycle? Reply #58 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 2:26pm Hey, it's amazing! It looks like a XT (which I don't know if was more recent or not than your bike). A guy in my town made a special out of that CR bike, he has done quite a nice job (at least I like it!), I should take a picture of that bike.... Greetings, Mauro.
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HurlinThom Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Leverage artillerist Posts: 1404	Re: motorcycle? Reply #59 - Nov 30^th, 2011 at 6:47pm Japanese "chopper", looks like maybe 90cc. Kumamoto City.
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