Motorcycling 2013
First decent day that I got out this year. :dance:
School work has kept me from riding all year and will continue to do so for the next 18 moths or so; career change isn't what it's cracked up to be. |
I'm down in Daytona for Bike Week, I have some video uploading to YouTube right now. I'll post it to this thread later tonight.
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I finally got my video to upload to YouTube... Enjoy!
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I made a night video last night...
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We had an unusually snowy winter, but I've been commuting since the melting before the second half of February. This was one of the first mornings:
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...5b5b304d72.jpg (And this was a month before, when we didn't go anywhere :D: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3d23a8c91a.jpg ) |
This winter I worked on a friend's CBR F4i. The fuel tank was badly rusted inside, fuel pump was dead and fuel valve was all clogged up.
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...bb220aa31e.jpg Few visits to the salvage yard for replacement fuel tank, fuel pump, injectors, fuel valve... and got it back in action pretty nicely.. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e40053e097.jpg With trips to the salvage yard, I even picked me up a spare bike for cheap: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...df8c1f7590.jpg |
Finally some 2013 ride....
48 hours again: to divide the waters from the waters This time we visited a bunch of lakes scattered around Hungary. I was preparing quite thoroughly, I guessed all the lakes from the photos the organizer uploaded (and got them right, except for one single lake :)), made a preliminary road plan, and booked rooms in advance. The run itself started from the Great Hungarian Plain, so the shortest route there would have been too fast and boring - so we planned a nice route through Slovakia and the Hungarian ranges Cserhát and Mátra before we descended to the plain, not far from our destination. The Cserhát landscape was really breathtaking and I luckily found a route with mostly good road quality (except, mostly, in the villages...) https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...d0d3745d7e.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...dfd5780597.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...93bcd75b1b.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...8273d856d9.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...10bc970293.jpg Our host was very hospitable, told us about the lake and he even showed us an inhabited titmouse nest while we drank our welcome drinks. The official tour began at next noon, from the gas station of the village. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...2e2b9fee83.jpg Unfortunately there won't be any pictures about the first leg I really loved: I just couldn't find the way to show the beauty of a lake on the plains. But riding on the dam (this road is normally reserved for bicycles, and I'll have to cycle around the lake Tisza some time!) was great. The next leg was boring then plain bad thanks to a planning error on my side. The event let us take different routes than the itinerary (and even re-arrange the lakes, which we did once) so I did everything to avoid a certain, alomst non-existent road. This time I overdid so we ended up in the crowded city of Debrecen... Road 471 was better, it had even curves, which was somewhat unexpected from such a flat road. And then the next lake, another city (by the itinerary this time), then the town and hill of Tokaj - know from its wine, now I only sought for the scenery :) https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...2c355c1ff7.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b171726e5d.jpg Then another, long city (Miskolc) and the mountains of Bükk. The third lake (at Lillafüred) lies hidden in a valley. Well, not that hidden, but behind many twists on the road, especially from the other side where we left the range. There I confirmed that I'm still no good in descending twisties... it's much better uphills. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e1be66d6b3.jpg We began the next mountain range in dusk. Then it grew dark, especially in the woods, and I had to switch to high beam and keep the engine running even gliding downhills just to keep the battery from draining too quickly... it was strange and surreal in the deep darkness through the forests of the Mátra, very slowly... until the next lake, which is the highest lying natural lake in Hungary (at 507m above sea level). Of which we couldn't see a speck in the pitch black night. We were past 10pm, so it was high time to reach our next lodging. We didn't fill our bikes since the start so we panned a fuel up for the next morning - we made a guy with a CB500F marvel on the capacity of our tanks :D Then came the next day. Which began with returning among the hills of Cserhát, through a different route (with legs of awful quality), to the 4th lake, at the village of Bánk: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7f5b5129cd.jpg And so it began... as we reached the Danube river we could see clouds gather around the Peaks on the other side. We reached that other side through Slovakia, and we ran into rain immediately as we got back to Hungary in the town of Esztergom. I didn't take any picture of the Palatinus lake in rain, but shot the next one, the Garancs lake which looked good even like this: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...09aa64a115.jpg And so did the peaks of Gerecse, when the rain finally stopped: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...1d35db2542.jpg By that time we were soaking wet, after an almost-slip on mud, a thorough watering by a car in the opposite lane, and a huge pothole (the roads are quite bad in the Gerecse too). The next lake was in the city of Tata, then we took a short cut to the Northwest border, where the 8th one lies (the larger half belongs to Austria), leaving the Bodajk lake to the evening, because we live a mere 7km from there and planned to sleep at home. We got the rain back before we could get there. And we rode in rain for quite a while, even though we tried to weather it at a fuel station, with some hot cafe and a late lunch from the package. Another memorable event was when shiNIN hit a dog. That animal was totally stupid and zig-zagged across the road like crazy and even hard to spot because of the rain and the traffic. I couldn't even see it until it darted through the road right before me (and a car in the other lane, makin it perform a sqeeking braking). It couldn't find peace ot the other side, but went back and forth again... right into shiNIN's footrest. Thankfully she didn't fall, hitting such a large animal can be dangerous on a bike... Then came the lake Hévíz, the second largest thermal lake in the world. It's only lukewarm, but now it was fuming in the cold rain. I had to count the towers on the building of the bath. From that angle and state it looked six with points and a big flat one. And a packet of lightning rods :D The next lake was another interesting one: It's basically a lake in a lake: this small one lies on the Tihany peninsula in the lake Balaton. I was looking for it before, now I finally found the way to the shore: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...010dbef0d0.jpg It was only drizzling by then, and the rain finally stopped soon for that day. Wet cobblestones still weren't too funny, but the sight of coney, once volcanic hills north of Balaton were worth that one slippery village. I'll surely take pictures around there later! The we left the official path again, for that day's last lake. We arrived in dark again, answered the question in the itinerary, then rode home. We started the third day with another nearby lake, I'm sure its pictures are somewhere in this topic (oh yes, it can be seen in the last picture of my last report). Then we headed to the Southwest part of Hungary, toward mostly unknown parts. Lowlands came it became hilly again. What's more the Somogy hills were very pretty :) https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...8840c472ef.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...868859a450.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...2983f1abd0.jpg And the Acacia trees were blooming along the way. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...64dba4df20.jpg Then came the artificial lake of Deseda: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...1d57eb7567.jpg And the last legs where even the main road 66 was full of twists and roller coaster-like parts, nearing and crossing the range of Mecsek, where the last 48-hour run began a year before. I tried to take a short cut the the lake Dombay, then had to turn back thanks to a road block by a big, yellow helicopter and a long queue of cars. There was an accident... Forced back to the itinarary we turned back and saw the freshly re-paved road to the town of Komló, the city of Pécs, and the last three lakes around it. The scenery was beautiful, and the roads mostly good and twisty. And the huge satisfaction: we weren't the last ones to finish the run :D https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...23d29228de.jpg After the speech and lunch and short fill to get the run's average FE we headed to a nearby village where we spent another day with a friend, climbing the highest peak of the Mecsek (Zengő, 682m|2238ft), as we'd been planning since the last such run: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b5925b04f1.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...89c4f7fd1c.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7a864fe897.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...579e9a2bc1.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...d41c02d6b3.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...96f9c4d460.jpg And the numbers: shiNIN + Ciliegia: 42.38l / 1530.2km = 2.77l/100km | 84.9 mpgUS Alvaro + Teresa: 43.32l / 1521.6km = 2.85l/100km | 82.5 mpgUS It seems that Ciliegia's taller transmission works better (read: beat me and Teresa) on roads taken with a constant speed, even under bad conditions (rain and wind). More twisty, climby and glidey legs returned basically the same FE with the two bikes. |
I just got back from riding RT 129 "The Tail of the Dragon" in North Carolina/Tennessee. I had a great time. Here's a few pics, I'll have some YouTube videos as soon as I have some time to edit them.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...88089621_n.jpg The Tree of Shame: https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...84691830_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...59750188_n.jpg |
On Sunday, I rode in Rolling Thunder...
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That's gotta hurt your mpg, rolling along in a parade.
As a vet, I fail to see the relevance to those who served and perished, but we all have different ways to express our grief. I picked up my next project: 1978 Honda GL1000 https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0bdc36984f.jpg Lots of work ahead. |
I enjoy Rolling Thunder a lot. I usually spend the hours that we spend staging in the Pentagon parking lot catching up with old friends that I don't get to see that often. For example, this year I met up with one guy that I used to be in scouts with 30 years ago. As far as the mileage hit, its not as bad as you think. I don't have the results in from this tank, but when I do, I doubt it will be significantly different from my other tanks.
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Some progress, cleaned out lots of frame rust:
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...ab1757c021.jpg getting most body parts painted soon.. |
She looks so naked!
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Bohemian Bikers and Bones
Having a Scarver (aka BMW F650CS, for any reader outside f650.com) myself, it was a year-old plan of mine to visit the Czech Scarver Meet. Meets at unseen to me places are always interesting, and after having to skip the last one I absolutely had to visit this one. I planned to see beautiful and interesting places on the way there, so I split the way there to two days. We began with perfect bodings: a drained battery, going back home for a sweater, losing the sleeping bags and the tent from the back seat over the first leg... the weather was cool and windy, so everything was perfect :D The first picture was born at a fuel station along the Hungarian road 81 - because of the 'nodding' oil pump: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...6c0b27dfaa.jpg We left our country at noon, and headed towards the Little Carpathians... through a very funny village which was called Horny Bar :D Then we challenged the twisties of Pezinská Baba, or Old Hag Pass of Touhou fans :D https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...38db2621ef.jpg In the picture above you can see a true Carpathian Forest. There was an extra red tabby cat in the parking lot on the crest, but no gazebo or anything. After a brief stop we rolled down the other side, where the town of Malacky/Malacka (meaning Piggy - we partly chose this route because of the name :D) lies. We bought some food there, and headed towards Kúty and out of Slovakia. The vegetation changed a bit when we got north of the Carpathians, coniferous woods were following us along the road. Of course we made another turn into the wrong direction at Kúty (which I had thoroughly explored via Street View before the trip :D), but it could be corrected quickly so we finally arrived in the Czech Republic. There we followed Bure's (the organizer of the meeting) advice and took a turn to the west. We went along nice hills with ruins on their tops, through the old town of Mikulov, and turned back through Pavlov and a lake dam: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...5cba8c00c7.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...81ecdd282b.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4af125ce23.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...260d302206.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...667a534738.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e0946f6dab.jpg We also filled up the bikes' tanks in Lednice, where I got this trip's worst tank, while shiNIN got a good one... I did windy and rainy commuting before we left on this road trip, while her bike was resting after a hot summer trip among Hungarian hills. After this turn we returned the motorway to bypass Brno. The road was made of concrete slabs that didn't fit perfectly, jolting the bikes at every joint. Yeah, Bure was right, it wasn't that good - but it served its purpose, saved us from going into an inconveniently large city. So we left the superslab soon, and headed towards our destination that day: a campsite at Jedovnice, via small forest roads. It was hard to navigate through the complicated Czech names on the map, which didn't even show all of the villages. If I thought I memorized the surrounding few villages, I saw a few road signs and it erased my memory, and I had to stop again to have another look at the map... this was the first time I really wished for a GPS... but I'll still try to hold on to the old school as long as I can - yes, I know I'm stubborn :D It was getting already dark and cold in the woods, so it was refreshing to reach the campsite... these are some fixed points in time: the time we leave, the distance, are totally unimportant - we arrive late in the evening, no matter what :D The receptionist didn't know any English nor German, but with drawing and the leftovers of my childhood Russian lessons we could place our tent and we even knew the price :D We began the second day in the vicinity of the rift of Macocha, which I planned to see. See, but not to photograph, as I found that it can't be fit in the 18mm lens from the balcony on its edge. To take the picture we had to climb down a twisty trail, get through the Punkevní cave... and then, from the bottom, the camera could contain it :D https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...281fd56f28.jpg The road at the bottom, leading to the cave entry: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...162797481f.jpg Warning! Breaking off the dripstones is strictly forbidden for evil zombies! https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...ae42b52e6d.jpg The cave itself was really beautiful, it was worth all the time, climb and entry fee: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...f0f798f674.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...06cada2a6f.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...f66c1890fc.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...686fa62ebf.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...43c38aab14.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3dd8d4ed04.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3e5052f4c9.jpg We reached a branch on the water: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7afc68377c.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...a4ecbb383d.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...84722f82c5.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0db5826473.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...6badc50fd7.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...a460cbfc55.jpg Then came the point where we dropped our original plans. We wanted to go on through tiny back roads, but learning from the last day's struggle I decided to take the roads 150 and 19 which were much easier to follow - and still led through nice hilly area, winding pleasantly. Along the road 19 we bumped into this stone dragon: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...678a70dcce.jpg I don't know the exact location, and I couldn't find it after the trip, so it's a riddle for all of you :D |
After taking a bunch of pictures at the ossuary we returned to the road 38, to finally reach our destination, the village called Provodín, and the Riders' pub Dřevenka in it. We took one more stop to get food, and while eating we saw a pack of bikers rolling along the road, some of them with Scarvers. We caught up at a gas station, and rode with them - until I took a different turn. I followed my own thinking, instincts, anything, even though I didn't have any knowledge about the place :D Did I say that I'm stubborn?
Well, the direction I chose was right too. The only problem was getting out of the middle of Mladá Boleslav :D Really, I used the bypass on the way home :D But after leaving the town the road and the scenery got nicer again, forests, hills crowned with ruins, to rest our tired eyes. And the end of the road, the pub and the assembled bikers and their horses. We found Bure, gave him the Tokaji wine we brought (the bottles didn't break on the way here :D), set up our tent, and went to talk and eat and drink with the others. The pub, Dřevenka, is a very nice place anyway - the staff and the prices were really friendly, the food and the beer tasty (we drank Svyjani and Bernard), they didn't mind that the participants brought some cakes and drink too (like the plum spirits they offered to us). They didn't know much English, but it was enough to order simple things, and we had a great guide, Bure, to help us with the specialties :) In the morning everyone was resting... we had a walk around (we were late from the grocery store too :D), taking pictures of Provodín, the bikes, and so on... https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...deb78e1434.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...5bc6b42da2.jpg Soon the dead were up too, and went to the nearby lake to treat their hangover. The lake in the woods looked cute, and some were crazy enough to really swim in it, though the water felt freezing - of course it wasn't, but it wasn't exactly warm either :D https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...bf35fb8e81.jpg For me it was enough to walk in knee deep... Later at the pub we took the mandatory Scarver group pictures, and... well, other photos too (the life of the pub didn't stop just because of the Scarver meeting). https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0eec9adc75.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...82eda46e1a.jpg That box is for a dog: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c143f9e46d.jpg After the group shots came the ride in the nearby hills, small villages and roads (there were some so bad ones I began to feel at home :D), fields and forests... unfortunately I couldn't concentrate on the landscape enough, group rides always need a lot of attention (especially if you want to drive efficiently while keeping the formation). But we could at Sloup! There's a sandstone rock, with a castle carved in and built on the top of it, with great view: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...62ef31ba4e.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...8d91622802.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...9abbf97475.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...9381531c4d.jpg It seems that someone else learned it too, earlier in the history: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...85eae9d68c.jpg :D These sandstone rocks host another riders' pub too: I don't know the original purpose of this grotto, but it is large enough to let you drive into the pub. If you want to know how it feels to ride your bike in a cave - here you can try. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e54eeb665d.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c22f0f73c0.jpg On the way there was a little accident involving some gravel and Ciliegia (shiNIN's Hyosung GV250) and now we had a footrest with a broken screw to fix. The resourceful Czech guys found a quick fix for the problem: they patched the part with piece of wood, carved with a swiss army knife :D Then I checked the suspicious clutch cable, and... broke it while debugging. This was the point they learned that the word 'kurva' is part of Hungarian language too :D But these guys helped with the cable too, and Ciliegia was ready for the road again. Of course we just had to drink after this experience. Just gingerly, to be sober early in the morning, when we planned to leave. We wanted to get home in one day, so we took a lot of main roads and motorways, except for some picture hunting at the Pavlov area, some cute villages in Hungary, and the twisty road 82 at Csesznek, very close to where we live. Stats: The distances were somewhere close to 400km on the first day, near 300 on the second, and around 600 on the way home. The Saturday local ride must have been like 80. No more exact numbers here, sorry... The tanks (Teresa/BMW F650CS vs Ciliegia/Hyosung GV250): 2.99 vs 2.69l/100km (78.7 vs 87.4 US mpg): Different route, different weather, I got rain and much strong wind riding Teresa before this trip. 2.86 vs 2.74l/100km (82.2 vs 85.8 US mpg): Same route, from South Moravia to the meet and the Saturday ride. 2.76 vs 2.68l/100km (85.2 vs 87.8 US mpg): Crossing the Czech Republic on the way home, with tail wind. 2.66 vs 2.64l/100km (88.4 vs 89.1 US mpg): Crossing Slovakia and the Northwest of Hungary, and another trip before we had to fuel up the bikes. So my little Scarver (in good hands) is still almost as efficient as a modified (a bit taller gears) 250 :) |
Sounds like you had a great trip!
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I love the photos. It's been too long since I've gone on a nice road trip.
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Thanks! We're going on another trip tomorrow, then stay home (and work, etc) for a while.
Now that I (proof)read it (you can always do it best after posting), I see a bunch of mistakes. So much for writing ride reports at night... |
I'd b really interested n c n what an aero front end & higher ratio sprocket chg. would do 4 that BMW 650 , it should b able 2 handle d higher ratio wid ease !
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Unfortunately higher ratio is very unlikely as the 'CS is belt driven. Slightly taller 5th would probably do good on the long 90km/h (56mph) stretches, it definitely helped the GV250! OTOH, I couldn't use 4th at 50km/h (speed limit in towns), so I'd most probably lose some FE there - or I'd have to always P&G.
Aero front end? I don't plan on building something like that (I like Teresa this slim and nimble), but should help too, yes. |
I know what u mean about change n gear ratio , the 800 boulevard I had b4 I got my 250 virago , wuz shaft drive which is nice , but it wuz geared so low I used 1st, 3rd, & 5th all by 35 mph . It got low 60 mpgs Till I gutted pipes , it dropped 2 mid 50mpgs . I think that bike would hav had a lot higher mpg wid a higher ratio. It wuz a great bike , I put 72,000 miles on it from 07 to 2012 , & never bin n d shop , just crank & ride . I sold it & bought d virago which is not as fast , but takes me every where d boulevard did , & it didn't cost NEAR as much , insurance 1/2 d cost , handles better , 200 lbs lighter ,rides d same ,lot better mpg 90-108 , & every where I park , ppl come up 2 me & ask about d bike .lol ..boulevard top speed wuz 100...virago 90 !!!!
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Picked up a leftover special from local scooter shop today.
A 2011 model 110cc Chinese SuperCub clone: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...d140cb9ad9.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...60f7b7026e.jpg Rode it for about 12 mi. and took it all apart to change oil, check valves, took off misc. items that are just dead weight like the steering lock, helmet hooks, metal rak in the step-thru, re-toorque every nut and bolt.. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...bcfc42458f.jpg Still not used to the clutch-less 4-speed GP style shifting... The tires will get changed out soon, if I keep missing shifts that make the rear wheel skid like crazy. |
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Ciliegia (our Hyo GV250) revving 7000 at 100km/h had a lot of headroom for taller gears, though. And the larger front sprocket seemed to help quite a bit (still going in 5th in town!), now my girlfriend always beats me at FE when we ride together :o |
Picked up a GSXR 1K titanium muffler from the salvage yard for $25:
Gonna try and mount it on my 06 F4i: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b46639446f.jpg Some cutting and a connecting pipe fabrication maybe involved in the near future :lol3: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...23a2b60ff4.jpg Put about 37 miles on the Super cub clone, I grounded the left foot peg in corners, twice. It's plenty of get up and go to leave cars behind from a stoplight. It cruises nicely between 35-42 mph without feel of labored. 45-50 mph seems pretty easy, but the suspension really is the limiting factor to sustain that speed. In efforts to reduce the exhaust heat and removing all the nuts and bolts to make sure they are greased properly; I removed the exhaust from the SuperCub clone, sanded down the faux-chrome that is already peeling and gave it a coat of BBQ paint :lol3: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...fe0c6571fd.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...58a7d3bf5a.jpg Maybe I will dig up some old ceramic wrap for the header later on. I'd assume that this thing gets carb-icing pretty bad in the cold, maybe the header wrap would need to be removed. :lol3 Oh, I ditched the sidestand safety switch for another 1/4 lb. of weight saving. |
Over 750 mi. ridden now.
Changed the front sprocket from 14t to 16t, stock chain is just long enough. Now the engine cruises easily/happily at 45 mph, with enough torque to accelerate up to 50+ mph. Been re-fueling about every 70-75 miles, about 0.45 gal. to fill the tank, averaging over 100 mpg. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...dd559708e8.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...40e08f6c62.jpg |
Past few weeks, I've ridden in Majorca (Palma to Formentor), Barcelona to Montserrat & Castelledefels to watch the Vuelta Espania and Taipei, Taiwan to visit family.
Ridden on 250cc, 125cc and 150cc scooters in each of those areas, https://sun-surfer.com/photos/2012/02...orca-Spain.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c7166fa17a.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...985d4707a4.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...694037d907.jpg https://www.tripify.com/wp-content/up...-travelers.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...6c6429d6bf.jpg https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WbbMdh9gCq...0/DSC06861.JPG Scooters and 2-wheel vehicles are definitely majority in traffic flow.. and move through traffic much quicker than 4-wheel vehicles. Taiwan in particular have designated areas at the front of each intersection for 2-wheel vehicles to move ahead of 4-wheel vehicle traffic and get a head start when lights turn green. |
Finally, after nearly 3 months of restoration, I got the 1978 GoldWing running..
not the easiest bike to work on but at least it doesn't require computer diagnostics to figure out its problems.. points and condensors converted to modern electronic ignition, thanks to DYNA. New tires, brake pads/lines, new front master brake cylinder, brake performance still is to be desired.. Repainted side bags, body panels and tank covers, almost look like a decent bike: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...a5f5892bba.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e5c843ef24.jpg Almost look like a modern "bagger": https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...be2c8162d6.jpg |
Doesn't look bad to me. I'd ride it.
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