Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

Had one very similar to your 160. Currently have a CB 450 in the garage. Fun and neat little bikes

I always loved the CB series. Wanted a 450 for the longest time. And a 750.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Does anyone else recall a parody article in a cycle magazine (possibly Cycle World) about a secret Honda (or perhaps bogus Japanese company) 12 cylinder 750CC motorcycle? It was hysterical. Wish I had a copy.

 

[JJR58]

I always loved the CB series. Wanted a 450 for the longest time. And a 750.

CB's And KZ's are my favs.

 

[JIO]

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I had an '86 VF500 (red/white/blue with the red saddle) - bigger diameter rear wheel (than now)/small front wheel which was the 80's norm - light, nimble and spunky, a perfect lane-splitting commuter. Bought it used for $1500 in VGC and sold it years later for the same amount! Had it on Laguna Seca once for a track-day. Some of the older participants came up to look at it relaying stories about riding them back in the day with fond memories. Pretty tame unless souped up, but maximum fun!

 

[Gaolee]

I'd jump on it! Alas, another day.

We are here to enable. If I can enable its adoption by one of us, even better. I know where it is, but made the mistake of tellong the sales guy what it really was. He started looking at it pretty close and his eyes got a little bigger.

 

[Gaolee]

No idea on a 15, but on my Epi IV and Epi Pro V, changing strings was a piece of cake, very quick. And I hadn’t changed bass strings in decades, having mostly played guitar till a few years ago. Same drill as to how, but mine were easy. Maybe just counter to where your fingers are used to going?

I have never had a problem changing Thunderbird strings. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

 

[PillO]

Do you have licorice allsorts in NA ?

My background is like a licorice allsort.

In Canada, we have them, so they are available to those from the US Eh if they dare cross the border.

So, licorice allsort background? So, multicoloured, love by some, hated by others, and no one is indifferent to you? And you make black the next day?

 

[PillO]

Does anyone else recall a parody article in a cycle magazine (possibly Cycle World) about a secret Honda (or perhaps bogus Japanese company) 12 cylinder 750CC motorcycle? It was hysterical. Wish I had a copy.

Dodge did do the Tomahawk (as a concept) - V10 engine from a Viper with a motorcycle around it IIRC.

 

[Dadagoboi]

I always loved the CB series. Wanted a 450 for the longest time. And a 750.

My Bicentennial Bike, '76 CB750F

 

[GBassNorth]

Sorry, what do you mean by ‘mid hump’ ?

Mid hump = opposite of mid scoop. Slightly more presence in the mid portion of the tone curve when tone controls are set flat. For my comparison "Flat" was setting the tone knob at 5.

Technically I suppose on a passive bass that flat would be with the tone knob turned all the way up to 10 therefore allowing the entire signal to be sent to output. But if you're gonna argue that point you could just as easily say "Flat" would require removal of the tone cap inside the control cavity. Then there's the purists that would argue "Flat" would require removal of not only the tone cap from the circuit, but also the volume and tone pots, with pups wired directly to the output jack.

But none of that is important because I carefully worded my original write up as "relative". Which means all the basses were tested the same way. Well, most of them. The modded Goth has an active preamp. Which means it can actually cut and boost both the treble and bass independently, by a lot. Hence, the ultra wide tone range listed.

Science is fun, we can get whatever results we want by simply structuring the experiment correctly (or incorrectly). Unfortunately, I'm seeing an awful lot of "science" these days structured to arrive at a desired end result.

 

[JIO]

My Bicentennial Bike, '76 CB750F

A sibling of the bike that changed history in 1968.

 

[Count Bassie]

Also, I love the field stone wall in the back (Ahem?). I assume no mortar holding it together.

No, that's a dry wall. Good eye... it's about 200+ years old. Our house used to be lodging and workplace for workers for the Georgia Cotton Company. That wall you mentioned held up railroad tracks for a train that brought raw cotton and took away spun yarn.

 

[Count Bassie]

Now that’s one that would be a candidate for the white refin.

Yessir.

 

[JJR58]

Mid hump = opposite of mid scoop. Slightly more presence in the mid portion of the tone curve when tone controls are set flat. For my comparison "Flat" was setting the tone knob at 5.

Technically I suppose on a passive bass that flat would be with the tone knob turned all the way up to 10 therefore allowing the entire signal to be sent to output. But if you're gonna argue that point you could just as easily say "Flat" would require removal of the tone cap inside the control cavity. Then there's the purists that would argue "Flat" would require removal of not only the tone cap from the circuit, but also the volume and tone pots, with pups wired directly to the output jack.

But none of that is important because I carefully worded my original write up as "relative". Which means all the basses were tested the same way. Well, most of them. The modded Goth has an active preamp. Which means it can actually cut and boost both the treble and bass independently, by a lot. Hence, the ultra wide tone range listed.

Science is fun, we can get whatever results we want by simply structuring the experiment correctly (or incorrectly). Unfortunately, I'm seeing an awful lot of "science" these days structured to arrive at a desired end result.

Honestly, i'll take the mid hump over the scoop any day. Much easier to dial everything else in to taste, jmo.

 

[PillO]

No, that's a dry wall. Good eye... it's about 200+ years old. Our house used to be lodging and workplace for workers for the Georgia Cotton Company. That wall you mentioned held up railroad tracks for a train that brought raw cotton and took away spun yarn.

Very cool history. And the house looks cool. I lament your toilet difficulties (as evidenced by the presence of the toilet snake).

 

[PillO]

Honestly, i'll take the mid hump over the scoop any day. Much easier to dial everything else in to taste, jmo.

Ahem!

 

[Count Bassie]

Very cool history. And the house looks cool. I lament your toilet difficulties (as evidenced by the presence of the toilet snake).

It's rusty, been unused for years, thankfully. But thanks for the commiseration!

 

[Count Bassie]

Very cool history. And the house looks cool. I lament your toilet difficulties (as evidenced by the presence of the toilet snake).

And thanks, it's a treasure that I've only lately come to really appreciate. We got dumb-lucky, no one who's in authority in our town seems to care or be educated at all on the history of the place.
Rhode Island.

 

[PillO]

Mid hump = opposite of mid scoop. Slightly more presence in the mid portion of the tone curve when tone controls are set flat. For my comparison "Flat" was setting the tone knob at 5.

Technically I suppose on a passive bass that flat would be with the tone knob turned all the way up to 10 therefore allowing the entire signal to be sent to output. But if you're gonna argue that point you could just as easily say "Flat" would require removal of the tone cap inside the control cavity. Then there's the purists that would argue "Flat" would require removal of not only the tone cap from the circuit, but also the volume and tone pots, with pups wired directly to the output jack.

But none of that is important because I carefully worded my original write up as "relative". Which means all the basses were tested the same way. Well, most of them. The modded Goth has an active preamp. Which means it can actually cut and boost both the treble and bass independently, by a lot. Hence, the ultra wide tone range listed.

Like any good scientist, you catalogue the criticisms that can be leveled then belittle the criticisms and those who would make them.

Science is fun, we can get whatever results we want by simply structuring the experiment correctly (or incorrectly). Unfortunately, I'm seeing an awful lot of "science" these days structured to arrive at a desired end result.

There are people doing real science. Unfortunately, it looks like many of the academics are not amoungst them.

But we should talk market research some time. Sometimes done as well thought out GIGO.

 

[PillO]

And thanks, it's a treasure that I've only lately come to really appreciate. We got dumb-lucky, no one who's in authority in our town seems to care or be educated at all on the history of the place.
Rhode Island.

What is the state motto? Rhode Island: yeah we know it isn't an island, but what are you gonna do about it?

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And as they say, better to be lucky than good.