eagleeye

Thanks for letting us know what we are allowed to do and how to do it correctly

Who makes the widest whitewall for the front that is actually a good tire? In the size: 130-90-16 Actual measurements of the whitewall is what I'd like. I already know that the Avon gangster is 2 3/4"

Gorgeous! brings back memories of me and my buddy in 1975 riding across Canada on our XS650 yamaha's, camping in Banff and down through the Okanogan valley.

Holy cow, amazing. and to think that someone built that, somewhere. AND drove it.

Ok, here is a navy story: Yokosuka Japan, 01/01/1964, So on new years eve me and a buddy borrowed money from someones slush fund to to on the beach to the EM club to celebrate the new year. Drinks were .10 each so we ordered a number of them at a time. Sometime before midnight, my buddy kept falling off of his chair and causing a problem, (as I remember it) which got us kicked out of the club. We made it back to the ship and I remember sitting on the edge of the flight deck at midnight, fireworks going off. That's how I celebrated turning 18

Just found this old thread and also have many sea stories. I'll probably be thinking about them all day today. Served on the USS Kitty Hawk, M div, 63-64, east pac cruise. 64-67 USS Randolph, A div, med cruise, north atlantic cruise, and several caribean cruises. As this is a MC site, my bad memory is having my first bike (1965 Triumph Bonneville) stolen at the Boston shipyard in Nov of 66 while we were in drydock. I hope to have another one soon. Other than that, I always say that it was the best time of my life.

Why is my road WHITE?

My choice is this:

Thanks for all of your hard work Chris, It looks great! and nice to have back

Yup to all of those reasons that I ran a rear on the front when I ran a CT on the back. But my other reason is that the HD tires, (dunlop) front vs rear, the rear not only has lots more tread, but a wider whitewall. and I LOVE my WWs! Now, the reason that next spring when I put on another CT, I will not put a rear on the front, cause it just lasts too long, and cupped badly at 30,000 when I changed out the CT. The rear on the front still had lots of tread, so being a rear anyways, I put it on my XS650 bobber, on the rear. So that worked out well for me.

Leaking brain fluid--Just when you think that you have heard everything. Sometimes when you go to the doc, you have this feeling that your going to hear something that you don't want to hear, and then, there it is. But it's sure a lot better than sticking you head in the sand. That fixes nothing. I hope they take good care of you and get you fixed up real soon. Your on the right path for sure.

He was wearing those military/police type boot that a lot of guys wear. Steel toe would have helped alot.

I'm registered at the primitive campground, site #6 Can't wait

Actually I talked with Yooper last night. He called to say that surprisingly after the skin graft surgery, he was feeling good, and all went well, so now to take it easy and heal up. It's driving him nuts to not be able to just go out and walk around, but he has to stay off of that foot for a while.

I knew I could count on you guys. Thanks for all of the links and info.

I'm planning on putting the flanders bars (650-08783) on my 05 RSTD but would like to see what they look like on. So do any of you that have put them on, have any photos, maybe even sitting on the bike to show arm position? I already know that you all love the arm position, right? Thanks

I'm planning on putting flanders bars on this winter/spring, but now I'm going to check out these bars. I measured my RSTD and it seems yours are about 11" taller, and sitting on the seat seem a little tall for me. I'm going to look at 10" rise bars. My very first bike I put 10" pullbacks on, and it was great as I recall. We'll see where that goes. But I think I'd like it. Glad you brought this up.

I think that they look really great. Not too tall at all. How many inches are the grips above the lowest part of the seat? I'm gonna measure my RSTD and see where mine are. I'll be interested to see how you like them.

Got it, thank you

just now

I went to place a WANTED ad, and it's gone. (the wanted section)

Except that the sign up window is no longer there.

Some of you have met Yooper and he's planning on riding with me to the International next year, but---------- on Sept 22 at 5:00pm in the UP of Michigan, he had a run in with a deer on his 89VR. He has no idea what happened to the deer, and he has no memory of that day. The only way he knows that a deer was involved was the guy following in a car said so. We joked about if someone got to eat it. I visited him the other day, and he is doing very good with the exception of his right foot. He must have slid down the road on the right side with the bike on top of him and ground off the top of his right foot. He has had two surgeries to add shark cartilage to get his toes looking/healing so he can have skin grafts. From his head to toe, was black and blue and tore up. Hard to look at the pictures. The plastic surgury is supposed to happen this friday. We bummed all over on Monday and went and looked at the bike, which he hadn't seen yet, and it didn't look all that bad. The right side plastic and windshield is junk along with some other things, but he has a spare bike, same color and new plastics also, so he will get it going again over the winter. I saw his textile jacket and half helmet and the jacket was shredded on the right shoulder/side. The helmet actually didn't look all that bad, however without it, there is no doubt he wouldn't be here today. His right boot is shredded beyond belief! But, a month later and he has a great attitude and physically is going very good. The foot will be a while, but he has all winter to heal. He's got lots of friends looking out for him at home too. I didn't say anything here before, but he said that it was OK to let you all know.

Here is one thing that I noticed, maybe everyone else already know this, but--------- If you click on the first date of the international rally, as an example, you will see everyone who has signed up, but if you click on any other date of the rally, you will not see who has signed up. Just thought I'd pass that on. See you all there,

I'm with Mike, 100%