Motorcycle Fever

busterb · 05-16-2005, 09:15 PM

Boy I have it bad. I would like to have another Honda Goldwing. I had a 1980. Anyway my dream is to make a trip around the Pacific N. West. I've seen some of it back when I was playing with trucks. But not in day light, such as Snake River Canyon. I think I paid around 6k for the 80, now 20k+. Not sure about my knees anymore, sure about my money. So dream on. Was a used one here in this small town awhile back, but didn't have fever then

Only photo of 80 interstate I can find.

plthijinx · 05-16-2005, 11:23 PM

eventhough i raced supercross and motocross and consider myself ample on a street bike, i'd for sure get hit. in this town anyway. no one here respects the motorcycle. bunch of lunatics driving with their heads up their butts. great dream though, i destroyed my knees racing so even if i wanted, i couldn't ride again. then again, with the gas prices the way they are, yeah, i could endure the pain

mrnoodle · 05-17-2005, 09:42 AM

my dad's friends were goldwingers, they'd ride everywhere. The aspencade that one of them had was insane. it was essentially a cadillac, only with no roof. riding on the back of it (he wouldn't let me drive) was extremely posh.

riding a goldwing is like smoking a pipe though. you have to be of a certain age or it looks forced. gravitas is required. I can't wait to be old enough to do both.

jaguar · 05-17-2005, 10:41 AM

ack! Goldwingers! They're not moterbikes, they're cars with two wheels with the handling of a tractor. 7 more months till I'm legal on a Ducati S4R. 8 months till 6 months in traction. Ohhhhyea.

Troubleshooter · 05-17-2005, 10:56 AM

I'm not angling for anything so monstrous, I'm just looking at a Suzuki SV650. but I'm looking at it really hard. It'll be my 5th bike.

smoothmoniker · 05-17-2005, 11:30 AM

I think you're all forgetting that the goldwing started as a sport bike. go back and look at some of the late 70's vintage models without all of the tour trim. I think the look is very cool, kind of a boxy, strap a fender strat on the back and ride to a gig sort of look.

If I lived anywhere but LA, where drivers regularly swerve to hit bikers on purpose, I would own one.

jinx · 05-17-2005, 11:32 AM

I don't know nothing about no Goldwings, but an HD FLT is a damn comfy ride from the passenger perspective. When LJ's dad moved from Norristown, PA to Mission Viejo, CA, he invited us along to share the ride (one HD, one corolla, much switching back and forth) and see the sites. Only motorcycle I was ever able to fall asleep on.... Kansas is boring.

busterb · 05-17-2005, 07:24 PM

Not sure,but I think the aspencade came after the interstate. Interstate was a 4 cyclinder. I see now that they'er 6. Don't know if I can keep one up w/my knees.
Ok the bottom line about my dream. I'm 61 yrs. old. I have copd, emphyzima, asbestosis and degenerate bone loss. Maybe other shit. I have worked and been almost around the world. I've seen probably as much of the world as anyone who joined the army at 16. If I get kill on a bike tour all my insurance will pay off. So why not do something I would like to do? Or stay here and die in bed or a damn nursing home.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-18-2005, 05:41 PM

Bikes are tough for those long stretches of nothing(Kansas) where you'd be squirming even in the most comfortable car. They are outstanding where the scenery is great but those are also the places the other drivers are paying least attention to little things like what lane they're in.

Ever see those B-movies where a "biker gang" terrorizes a family in the station wagon by riding along side beating on the car with chains and clubs? What a crock-o-shit! Even in near misses....the biker loses...believe me....every time.
The same applies to deer, trees, potholes, road debris, sand, ad nauseum.
I've known guys that rode for years...100k miles or more without a bad one. But the odds are getting worse all the time....can you say cell phones?

busterb · 05-18-2005, 10:17 PM

Yep that's all true, but you didn't hit on last part of my post. Just let it slide?

wolf · 05-18-2005, 10:41 PM

If you play your cards right and pick the right nursing home, you can have your way with some pretty nurses first.

Okay, I'm lying my ass off. Nursing home nurses range from evil to repulsive. Except for the three that just graduated from nursing school and don't yet realize that nursing homes are where old nurses go to die.

LCanal · 05-20-2005, 02:03 AM

Bb,

There's a company in Calgary that converts a Goldwing to tricycle. Sounds goofy but I met a guy once on one he said he converted when the bike fell over with his wife under it and he couldn't pick it up.

NSR LCanal
Surgeon General: It's OK to smoke the oppostion with 2-stroke power.

LCanal · 05-20-2005, 02:27 AM

I'm in the Jungle. My beloved NSR is in Thailand. I admit I had to look at the SV650 as I had forgotten about it. On my return to Thailand whenever that is I think I've settled on a 600 Hornet, 599 in US. I'll have to sit on it first though as I don't like wide bikes. I have in another life and garage a 650 Alazzurra. NSR is fun but I want something a bit more relaxed for touring. Hornet is a CB600 with the RR engine, it also has Fireblade wheels with big rubber. I think Yamaha has an FZ6 equivalent but in Thailand one has to take what one can get. If I don't do that I'll look into restoring a Ductai F3, which is collecting dust in a junk yard. Here in Indo I'm reduced to a Honda Wave tricked out with some Thai bits to satisfy my creative/mechanical need.

Hey where's the biker Smilie?

LCanal · 05-20-2005, 03:42 AM

Bb,

Here it is < www.triwing.com >

Have a good time

busterb · 05-20-2005, 11:24 AM

Think when I was in Indonesia , biggest bike you could get was 250cc.
My 1st bike was a Honda 100cc I bought while working in Sumatra back in 1976, I was 33 years old. Broken collar bone from that one. In 1978 while living in the "N'awlins," LA. area I bought a Honda 500cc twin. Hit in rear end on An Easter morning close to super dome, not hurt. Later watched a guy back into it, 600 bucks damage. Then in 1981 I bought a Honda Interstate. Think the longest ride my now x and I made was from NO. across MS. south to north, across Ark. to OKC. Then back down though TX. then old hwy 90 home.

05-16-2005, 09:15 PM	#1
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Motorcycle Fever Boy I have it bad. I would like to have another Honda Goldwing. I had a 1980. Anyway my dream is to make a trip around the Pacific N. West. I've seen some of it back when I was playing with trucks. But not in day light, such as Snake River Canyon. I think I paid around 6k for the 80, now 20k+. Not sure about my knees anymore, sure about my money. So dream on. Was a used one here in this small town awhile back, but didn't have fever then Only photo of 80 interstate I can find. Attached Images __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-16-2005, 11:23 PM	#2
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	eventhough i raced supercross and motocross and consider myself ample on a street bike, i'd for sure get hit. in this town anyway. no one here respects the motorcycle. bunch of lunatics driving with their heads up their butts. great dream though, i destroyed my knees racing so even if i wanted, i couldn't ride again. then again, with the gas prices the way they are, yeah, i could endure the pain __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

05-17-2005, 09:42 AM	#3
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	my dad's friends were goldwingers, they'd ride everywhere. The aspencade that one of them had was insane. it was essentially a cadillac, only with no roof. riding on the back of it (he wouldn't let me drive) was extremely posh. riding a goldwing is like smoking a pipe though. you have to be of a certain age or it looks forced. gravitas is required. I can't wait to be old enough to do both. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

05-17-2005, 10:41 AM	#4
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	ack! Goldwingers! They're not moterbikes, they're cars with two wheels with the handling of a tractor. 7 more months till I'm legal on a Ducati S4R. 8 months till 6 months in traction. Ohhhhyea. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

05-17-2005, 10:56 AM	#5
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	I'm not angling for anything so monstrous, I'm just looking at a Suzuki SV650. but I'm looking at it really hard. It'll be my 5th bike. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

05-17-2005, 11:30 AM	#6
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	I think you're all forgetting that the goldwing started as a sport bike. go back and look at some of the late 70's vintage models without all of the tour trim. I think the look is very cool, kind of a boxy, strap a fender strat on the back and ride to a gig sort of look. If I lived anywhere but LA, where drivers regularly swerve to hit bikers on purpose, I would own one. __________________ to live and die in LA

05-17-2005, 11:32 AM	#7
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	I don't know nothing about no Goldwings, but an HD FLT is a damn comfy ride from the passenger perspective. When LJ's dad moved from Norristown, PA to Mission Viejo, CA, he invited us along to share the ride (one HD, one corolla, much switching back and forth) and see the sites. Only motorcycle I was ever able to fall asleep on.... Kansas is boring. Attached Images __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

05-17-2005, 07:24 PM	#8
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Not sure,but I think the aspencade came after the interstate. Interstate was a 4 cyclinder. I see now that they'er 6. Don't know if I can keep one up w/my knees. Ok the bottom line about my dream. I'm 61 yrs. old. I have copd, emphyzima, asbestosis and degenerate bone loss. Maybe other shit. I have worked and been almost around the world. I've seen probably as much of the world as anyone who joined the army at 16. If I get kill on a bike tour all my insurance will pay off. So why not do something I would like to do? Or stay here and die in bed or a damn nursing home. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-18-2005, 05:41 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Bikes are tough for those long stretches of nothing(Kansas) where you'd be squirming even in the most comfortable car. They are outstanding where the scenery is great but those are also the places the other drivers are paying least attention to little things like what lane they're in. Ever see those B-movies where a "biker gang" terrorizes a family in the station wagon by riding along side beating on the car with chains and clubs? What a crock-o-shit! Even in near misses....the biker loses...believe me....every time. The same applies to deer, trees, potholes, road debris, sand, ad nauseum. I've known guys that rode for years...100k miles or more without a bad one. But the odds are getting worse all the time....can you say cell phones? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-18-2005, 10:17 PM	#10
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Yep that's all true, but you didn't hit on last part of my post. Just let it slide? __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-18-2005, 10:41 PM	#11
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	If you play your cards right and pick the right nursing home, you can have your way with some pretty nurses first. Okay, I'm lying my ass off. Nursing home nurses range from evil to repulsive. Except for the three that just graduated from nursing school and don't yet realize that nursing homes are where old nurses go to die. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

05-20-2005, 02:03 AM	#12
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Bb, There's a company in Calgary that converts a Goldwing to tricycle. Sounds goofy but I met a guy once on one he said he converted when the bike fell over with his wife under it and he couldn't pick it up. NSR LCanal Surgeon General: It's OK to smoke the oppostion with 2-stroke power. __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

05-20-2005, 02:27 AM	#13
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	I'm in the Jungle. My beloved NSR is in Thailand. I admit I had to look at the SV650 as I had forgotten about it. On my return to Thailand whenever that is I think I've settled on a 600 Hornet, 599 in US. I'll have to sit on it first though as I don't like wide bikes. I have in another life and garage a 650 Alazzurra. NSR is fun but I want something a bit more relaxed for touring. Hornet is a CB600 with the RR engine, it also has Fireblade wheels with big rubber. I think Yamaha has an FZ6 equivalent but in Thailand one has to take what one can get. If I don't do that I'll look into restoring a Ductai F3, which is collecting dust in a junk yard. Here in Indo I'm reduced to a Honda Wave tricked out with some Thai bits to satisfy my creative/mechanical need. Hey where's the biker Smilie? __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

05-20-2005, 03:42 AM	#14
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Bb, Here it is < www.triwing.com > Have a good time __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

05-20-2005, 11:24 AM	#15
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Think when I was in Indonesia , biggest bike you could get was 250cc. My 1st bike was a Honda 100cc I bought while working in Sumatra back in 1976, I was 33 years old. Broken collar bone from that one. In 1978 while living in the "N'awlins," LA. area I bought a Honda 500cc twin. Hit in rear end on An Easter morning close to super dome, not hurt. Later watched a guy back into it, 600 bucks damage. Then in 1981 I bought a Honda Interstate. Think the longest ride my now x and I made was from NO. across MS. south to north, across Ark. to OKC. Then back down though TX. then old hwy 90 home. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

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