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#141
Here is my 2006 Honda 599
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#142
Jools4001 said:
And my 2001 ST2 just pitching in to Barn Corner at Cadwell Park on a trackday

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People really underestimate the humble 85 bhp ST2, but it tours well, does country roads well, and even punches above it's weight on track. On that particular trackday I was interviewed by Bike magazine because my ST2 was giving one of their journalists a hard time catching me on their 1098S
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I have always said that a good rider on a 600 will beat an average rider on a 1000 on a track any day of the week. It is all in how you can take the corners.

lowsound
 
#144
just picked up an '05 Kawasaki Concours, low mileage, VERY good price

currently working on getting ins quotes & will soon have it registered & the fun will commence.

i think the first real ride will be on Hwy 1 from the Golden Gate Bridge up to Mendocino :hyper::hyper::hyper:
 
#148
Trouble is with riding motorcycles and playing bass is that the GAS is never ending....what to do with the next £5000 I manage to save?

Custom Sei Bass Flambouyant 5 string, plus change for a new amp? Or.... A set of Dymag carbon fibre wheels plus some Ohlins road and track forks? Aarrrrrrghhhhh!
 
#149
I don't know if these will be legible or not. Being an old fart, I don't have any digital images of any of my bikes, since I quit riding and racing in 1994. I however, have ridden any and all bikes in those days, from AJS to Zundapp, been on them all. Used to ride on the back of my Uncles Vincent Black Shadow, when I was a kid. My Dad ran AJS,Matchless, and BMW's. My Uncle ran a Ducati and Norton shop for many years. I started hillclimbing in 1964, and quit in 1994. The best I ever did was National #8, in 1986. These pics were from Hot Bike magazine from August of 1992. This was my last hillclimber. A 1986 EVO motored 1340, w/100HP at the rear tire. My brother rode it in the 1994 Nationals to Nat#9. We quit then. To old to go as fast as the up coming kids anymore. After my accident, in a car, in 2000, I can't ride anymore. Sure miss it!
 
#150
Stempelloos said:
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A pic of my Jawa 644 (2 cyl. 350cc two stroke).
4 gear semi-automatic clutch (the gearpedal can be used to clutch & switch gear + start the engine). Given horse.
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Carters for Ducati & Jawa are both cast by CZ
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I have ridden many Jawa's and CZ's. Gotta be an old fart to remember Joel Roberts on the old CZ twin pipe 250, taking the World Championship motocross title away from all the old guard back in I think 66 or 67. I used to ride a 1950's twin pipe Jawa 250 single, and had several CZ moto bikes, 250's and 380's. The only bike that you can slam gears on, without using the clutch, and not even chipping a gear tooth. The best metalurgy and machining went into the Jawa speedway bikes and the moto bikes engines. I have many fond memories of them all!
Jawa has used that, shift lever as , clutch lever, starting lever, and shifter, since the 60's for sure, maybe even as far back as the 50's. I even had a 350 twin similar to yours, only mine was an early 60's model. They had this sweet finned cover over the carb. All the Jawa's too, are just about bullet proof. Very hard to kill one of them. If you can get gas and oil in them, they will always run, when all the other bikes won't.
 
#151
joegeezer said:
I don't know if these will be legible or not. Being an old fart, I don't have any digital images of any of my bikes, since I quit riding and racing in 1994. I however, have ridden any and all bikes in those days, from AJS to Zundapp, been on them all. Used to ride on the back of my Uncles Vincent Black Shadow, when I was a kid. My Dad ran AJS,Matchless, and BMW's. My Uncle ran a Ducati and Norton shop for many years. I started hillclimbing in 1964, and quit in 1994. The best I ever did was National #8, in 1986. These pics were from Hot Bike magazine from August of 1992. This was my last hillclimber. A 1986 EVO motored 1340, w/100HP at the rear tire. My brother rode it in the 1994 Nationals to Nat#9. We quit then. To old to go as fast as the up coming kids anymore. After my accident, in a car, in 2000, I can't ride anymore. Sure miss it!
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Wow, that is just too cool.
 
#152
joegeezer said:
I have ridden many Jawa's and CZ's. Gotta be an old fart to remember Joel Roberts on the old CZ twin pipe 250, taking the World Championship motocross title away from all the old guard back in I think 66 or 67. I used to ride a 1950's twin pipe Jawa 250 single, and had several CZ moto bikes, 250's and 380's. The only bike that you can slam gears on, without using the clutch, and not even chipping a gear tooth. The best metalurgy and machining went into the Jawa speedway bikes and the moto bikes engines. I have many fond memories of them all!
Jawa has used that, shift lever as , clutch lever, starting lever, and shifter, since the 60's for sure, maybe even as far back as the 50's. I even had a 350 twin similar to yours, only mine was an early 60's model. They had this sweet finned cover over the carb. All the Jawa's too, are just about bullet proof. Very hard to kill one of them. If you can get gas and oil in them, they will always run, when all the other bikes won't.
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My dad rode a Jawa 350 in the seventies. His dad had a 350 in the fifties (before that, a Francis-Barnett/Villiers in the thirties & his brother an Indian 4).
I got a provisional licence on my dad's 350 after my 18th birthday, he drove a BMW R75/5 then.
The finned cover over the carburator was their trademark till the mid-seventies, my dad's one was one of their last machines built with that type of engine.
That chopper model on the pic climbed smoothly, even on wet dirt roads. It'll leave many heavier machines behind on that type of track.
It was kinda busted from a fall when i got it.
Somehow that fall caused many aftereffects which made this one less reliable than the older series.
The speedway bikes are made in a separate factory, for as far as I know it.
Nowadays their main production consists of 650 single cylinder 4 stroke Rotax powered bikes.
And there still is a line of lighter two & four stroke engines.
They're still well known among older bikers, who often like to recall fond memories when they see one.
 
#153
That can't be all the bikers on here yet!! Chef, I gotta tell ya, if you think an R80 is smooth, you should ride an old early 60's R60 Earles fork model. Then you will feel smooth. I've actually fallen alseep riding one of those. I don't recommend it though.
 
#156
Got a good price on that one! Even for my young age I have such a soft spot for those old standards. Just missed a 90% pristine 500 four my buddies dad sold for 500 bucks. Its allwell and good to haev a super fast racy machine or a bad ass cruiser, but these old getabouts are a sheer blast and incredibly practical. That thing looks very nice.
 
#158
Jools4001 said:
Trouble is with riding motorcycles and playing bass is that the GAS is never ending....what to do with the next £5000 I manage to save?

Custom Sei Bass Flambouyant 5 string, plus change for a new amp? Or.... A set of Dymag carbon fibre wheels plus some Ohlins road and track forks? Aarrrrrrghhhhh!
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i can't say i have that problem :D about the only thing i want is some compression releases to keep from wrecking my starter ring gear...i suppose that makes it a 'need' right? :D
 
#160
This one's been around me for my entire life. Its a 1987 Kawasaki GPZ 750 Turbo. It was my uncle's, he bought it new. He flipped it end to end back in like 95 and after he fixed it all, he drove it like 50 miles and thats it. Fast forward to this year: I'm down in his basement helping him make room for his new car. I jokingly asked him "Unc, can I have the GPZ?" He said yes as long as my Dad said it was cool. So after my Dad telling me I'll probably kill myself on it like my uncle did, he said yes and now I have this Bad Larry.
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