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#161
Chef said:
1999 Kawasaki ZRX1100. Kerker slip on, dynojet jet kit; and that's all.
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I am absolutely in love with this bike. One of my uncle's friends got one back in 99 and I love the old school styling of it.
 
#162
lousybassplayer said:
No pics no..oh what the hell. No one who would lie about something that cool. IT just wouldn't be right. I pray that the old Vinnie is still owned and operated by the family????
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The Vincent is in the hands of a collector in Minneapolis. I've met the guy. He used to always ride it to the British bike ride ins, that used to be the cool thing to do, back 30 or so years ago now. I haven't seen it since then. The guys name is Dave Chantland. He is the guy who made the Chantland aluminum barrels for 750 Triumph's, mainly used on race bikes, as a weight saver. Can't get them anymore, as the popularity died out and production stopped many years ago. The Vincent was actually the Rapide model, that my Uncle had up-dated to all the Black Shadow specs, as cams and such. Those Vincents had so much power in those days that if you made a drag race type of start, instead of rolling on the power, as you went, that it would spin the rim, inside the tire, rip off the tube inlet snout, and leave you sitting with a flat tire, evn with two rim locks on it!
 
#163
joe,
Cool bit on info there. My uncle is the big brit bike guy in my family. Had a bunch of Triumphs over the years, still has his Norton 750 commando (Think it's a fastback. Hard to tell its in a few boxes in his garage at the moment :( ) To bad you don't have the Vincent, but very gald to hear it was at least taken by a collector.
 
#165
joegeezer said:
The Vincent is in the hands of a collector in Minneapolis. I've met the guy. He used to always ride it to the British bike ride ins, that used to be the cool thing to do, back 30 or so years ago now.
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9 years ago I did some stock photography for a couple of webdesigners.
They wanted some nice views of the old innercity. So I wandered around town with a digital camera to do that job.
I noticed a Vincent Black Shadow with a British number plate near a square.
(It looked like a 1951 Vincent Black Shadow 'Series C')
It appeared to have been driven from the U.K. to Amsterdam. Still in pristine condition.
So one of them seems to be in use for holiday traffic.
 
#167
Thanks!
Lie my (now departed) Ducati 900SS; it;s two wheels and a big honkin' motor with lots of torque.
Just what a kid needs!

Maybe my favorite travel tool of all time was my also former BMW R100GSPD. Big, simple (slightly underpowered) motor, nice suspension, big bags, and decent windshield all meant I could pack for weeks, and disappear to where ever I wanted. Highway, biway, national forest fire-roads...nice.

kcamsdog1387 said:
I am absolutely in love with this bike. One of my uncle's friends got one back in 99 and I love the old school styling of it.
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#169
bassteban said:
That would be impressive.
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I remember a Top Gear (English TV show about cars) episode about a race from England to Scotland
between a steamloc, a car and a Motorbike.
The Car was an old Jaguar, the Bike was a Vincent Black Shadow.
The steamloc was the fastest British built one around.
The bike broke down somewhere halfway the route and needed a repair (oil leakage/electrical problem?).
Compared to that it would be impressive indeed.
 
#171
Nice Sportster!! I love Sportster's alot better than big twins. A Sportster will corner! A big twin will not! A Sportster is a lifetime bike, because you can keep adding to them, as you go. Now as time goes, add a Axtell Mountain Motor kit, a Screamin' Eagle flatslide Mikuni kit, and a hotter cam set, and you'll be sittin' on 120 horsepower! Be sure to have road race sticky tires on it, and you'll be able to lay it down till the pegs scrape! Makes me drool!
 
#172
Had a lot of racing machines when I owned my motorcycle shop. This is one of them. 76 Honda 750 Automatic 2 speed trans. 836 c.c. kit, Russ Collins engine parts, 7-1/2 Goodyear, 100% hand built by me.

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Kawasaki KZ fiberglass body parts. I modified the automatic transmission myself.

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#174
Tama said:
Had a lot of racing machines when I owned my motorcycle shop. This is one of them. 76 Honda 750 Automatic 2 speed trans. 836 c.c. kit, Russ Collins engine parts, 7-1/2 Goodyear, 100% hand built by me.

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Kawasaki KZ fiberglass body parts. I modified the automatic transmission myself.

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About what year was that?? One of our hillclimb guys built one of the single cam 750's like that years ago with the Collins barrell and other goodies. The thing absolutely screamed. He was un-beatable for several years. The bike is still competitive today! He's jumped the chain off, and wrapped it up, and exploded the cases so many times, that it's a big ball of heliarc now! Still, it's the screamer it always was. The guy who built it way back, was a Honda shop owner and racer, and was well known through out the midwest here.
 
#177
This just in! :hyper:

I went to see this friggin' ugly thing today.. and I just had to take it home after I fell in love on a test drive :D Did a handshake deal on it, and will hand over the cash it when I get back from a trip next week. My first real bike, I've been aching for one for a couple of years now :) I had a 125cc in my teens, about 10 years ago, so I now I get to re-learn how to ride.

It's a 1986 Kawasaki KLR 600 - an ancient piece of single-cylinder liquid-cooled tech with 30k miles on the meter, but somehow it still keeps on banging. It's in decent condition considering the age, has not been abused too much AFAIK, and the engine had quite a bit of work done less than 1k ago, so it should last for a couple of years. I wanted something cheap to learn on and to do some dirt roads in the backwoods, so this thing fits the bill nicely!

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#178
Tsal said:
This just in! :hyper:

I went to see this friggin' ugly thing today.. and I just had to take it home after I fell in love on a test drive :D Did a handshake deal on it, and will hand over the cash it when I get back from a trip next week. My first real bike, I've been aching for one for a couple of years now :) I had a 125cc in my teens, about 10 years ago, so I now I get to re-learn how to ride.

It's a 1986 Kawasaki KLR 600 - an ancient piece of single-cylinder liquid-cooled tech with 30k miles on the meter, but somehow it still keeps on banging. It's in decent condition considering the age, has not been abused too much AFAIK, and the engine had quite a bit of work done less than 1k ago, so it should last for a couple of years. I wanted something cheap to learn on and to do some dirt roads in the backwoods, so this thing fits the bill nicely!

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That thing looks like a total blast. I would love to have a scrappy little dirt bike. Can I come over and ride it?
 
#180
cut the springs down. you can then up the viscosity of the oil/adjust compression+rebound a little if you want.
i did this to a husqvarna 610, and put street tires on it, kinda like the supermotard guys do.
it was wicked fun! that thing was way light, and had all kinda power.
 

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