Post up your rides!!!

[dsgrey]

I always loved the smaller bikes too. Mine Suzuki was a 185, but it was two stroke. Love the exhaust smell of a two stroke using Klotz racing oil.

Yes, a TS185. Ran one in the woods and trails behind my house many years ago.

 

[C7Z062019]

Lonesome Dove

"I don't hang out with that type."

Now what type is that? The type that doesn't like to get beat? Or maybe you just can't afford a car like this?

 

[kbaxter60]

Anyone got a hankerin' for some Chinesium?

China's 8-cylinder, 2-liter megatourer heralds a global motorcycle conquest

We love an adventurous startup, but GWM's new "clean sheet" motorcycle company announced last Friday really does look ominous in its potential to disrupt the established motorcycle industry order.

newatlas.com

 

[OutlawStar]

Anyone got a hankerin' for some Chinesium?

China's 8-cylinder, 2-liter megatourer heralds a global motorcycle conquest

We love an adventurous startup, but GWM's new "clean sheet" motorcycle company announced last Friday really does look ominous in its potential to disrupt the established motorcycle industry order.

newatlas.com

For the right price I would be. If they can make a $10,000 EV why not a V8 bike for $2000?

Also posting to vent: found another project bike for the right price, its too tall to fit in my van and I'm not sure I want to pay u-haul $175 to transport a $400 bike. Life is suffering sometimes.

 

[kbaxter60]

For the right price I would be. If they can make a $10,000 EV why not a V8 bike for $2000?

Also posting to vent: found another project bike for the right price, its too tall to fit in my van and I'm not sure I want to pay u-haul $175 to transport a $400 bike. Life is suffering sometimes.

If you drop the handlebars, would it go?

 

[OutlawStar]

If you drop the handlebars, would it go?

Unfortunately not very much, plus the rear seat and gauges are nearly just as high. Not sure disassembling the bike on site would be the smartest move, but to save $175 I might. This one has engine oil in the case so I don't think I can even consider transporting on its side. Most of the u-haul cost is the mileage. I think the bike is about an 85 mile drive west so ~175 mile round trip is whats really adding up unfortunately.

 

[jmohme]

I'll stick with my 1800cc Goldwing.
Not giving up the smooth overlapping power stroke of the flat six for two more cylinders.
It has enough power to pull my fat butt up a hill with the trailer fully loaded.

 

[Bigguy]

First was a 250 Honda Night Hawk.

 

[Bigguy]

Second was a 750 Honda Magna. (4 cylinder.)

 

[Bigguy]

3rd. ride. 250 Diamo. The wife wanted to try riding on her own. She eventually decided to ride behind me.

 

[Bigguy]

4th. Moved up from the 850 to a 1500 Victory Touring Cruiser Delux. Note the back rest and extended arms. The missus has slept thousands of miles on the back of that bike.

 

[Bigguy]

Traded the victory in on a Honda Valkyrie. Also 1500 ccs, but the flat-6 engine reved much higher. It didn't have the low end torque of the Victory, but the top end beat the crap out of it. This isn't a bike to race stop light to stop light. It's for tearing up mountain roads. The low center of gravity made it incredibly stable. I scrapped the $#!t out of those pegs.

 

[Tblack89]

Unfortunately not very much, plus the rear seat and gauges are nearly just as high. Not sure disassembling the bike on site would be the smartest move, but to save $175 I might. This one has engine oil in the case so I don't think I can even consider transporting on its side. Most of the u-haul cost is the mileage. I think the bike is about an 85 mile drive west so ~175 mile round trip is whats really adding up unfortunately.

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Home Depot not an option? I think it’s like 20 bucks for a hour or some shit like that.

 

[deemus]

Unfortunately not very much, plus the rear seat and gauges are nearly just as high. Not sure disassembling the bike on site would be the smartest move, but to save $175 I might. This one has engine oil in the case so I don't think I can even consider transporting on its side. Most of the u-haul cost is the mileage. I think the bike is about an 85 mile drive west so ~175 mile round trip is whats really adding up unfortunately.

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Home depot has a vehicle for about $20.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

U-Haul Equipment specifications: Motorcycle Trailer

Lightweight and easy to tow.

www.uhaul.com

 

[deemus]

$15 a day

 

[OutlawStar]

Home Depot not an option? I think it’s like 20 bucks for a hour or some shit like that.

That was my second thought: checked HD's rental site and theres just none anywhere in DFW seemingly. Found 1 that makes sense in Plano for a transit van. Checked Lowes and they don't have any online rental site to give a quoted price EDIT: nor do any of the location other than little elm rent them out. Unlimited miles and $20 for 90 minutes, the bike is about 90 minutes away, so half a day is still looking like an $85-100 day.
My trepidation to renting a flatbed or any other pickup is a truck bed is still a good ~3 feet in the air. I have one of those bike mover/ramp combos (below) that I used to roll the last project into my van, but thats a pretty steep slope to shove a non-running bike into a truck bed alone; seller sounds like she's an older woman selling because of injuries hence I assume I'd have to do it solo. I'm going to do some more digging.

My van has no trailer hitch, so renting just a trailer won't help any. I might just take the seat off and lower the handle bars, even use some 2x4's to lean it sideways in my van at this rate of hunting down rentals.

 

[popsgarland]

I have a motorcycle trailer you can use, for free, if you want to.

 

[BigRed]

 

[Paul Saver]

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That is a Kick-ass motorcycle.. the build quality is top-notch.