(02-24-2020, 10:31 PM)Wisedrum_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Shaft drive, oh yes!
Had a VT1100 Shadow C3 which had both, shaft drive and hydraulic valves. Maybe I should have kept her. But prefered the riding style on a classic street motorbike, not a choppered one. You can' t have all at once at the same time.
Wisedrum
I believe some would qualify this 1984 CB as a "classic street" motorbike:
I also sometimes say to myself that I should have kept it.
(02-25-2020, 06:16 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: [ -> ]i find -zero- joy in riding in crappy weather, and find no nobility when i get approached saying ' i ride in all weather' by some riders. I mean, if Soyuz dig it, cool, i dont. and when i do suspect crap weather will pop up, i use my 20 year old concours. as many others, did it in my youth when i had no choice, and even then it was short lived. I see a guy on a bike in pouring rain, i just think 'broken car' lol.
I however have fun cars to drive in crap weather, so not like its a hardship, especially in the south. going to be 66 tomorrow. 
I can understand not enjoying riding in the rain. But I find pleasure in every ride, regardless of the weather. I'm retired (going on 7 years in May), have a nice Honda truck with 55,000 miles on it, so I don't have to ride.... or drive either. Every mile I ride is strictly for pleasure. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't do it.
Riding at your own command is freedom.
I relate riding in weather like camping (I know not everyone enjoys camping).
If you think about it you go 'glamping' and try to recreate all the comforts of home....stove, refrigerator, bathroom, shower, TV, A/C....woefully inferior to what you could have had by just staying at home....but there's an adventure to it.
Riding you get all kinds of gear, windshields, etc...when it would have been much easier to just take a car....but where's the challenge/adventure in that LOL
(02-25-2020, 06:16 AM)m in sc_imp Wrote: [ -> ]i find -zero- joy in riding in crappy weather, and find no nobility when i get approached saying ' i ride in all weather' by some riders. I mean, if Soyuz dig it, cool, i dont. and when i do suspect crap weather will pop up, i use my 20 year old concours. as many others, did it in my youth when i had no choice, and even then it was short lived. I see a guy on a bike in pouring rain, i just think 'broken car' lol.
I however have fun cars to drive in crap weather, so not like its a hardship, especially in the south. going to be 66 tomorrow.
+1, especially in winter/Ontario
Tornado sounds very interesting.
My buddy and I were riding back from California in 2014 and we got chased by a horrible black sky, high winds and lightning storm across Wyoming into Colorado, which caught up with us and turned into biblical rain. When we got outside of Denver we hit a hotel. The next morning dawned dry, so we hit Pikes Peak (and 32 degrees), then after leaving PP on our way into Kansas we got into some wind that made you ride on a 45 degree angle, with gusts that would let up momentarily, then hit again, moving us sideways a full lane. A very interesting 30 hours on a motorcycle to say the least, but I wouldn't have given that up experience for anything. There were lots of days when it was nice and we just rode but it is no fun to talk about the blue bird days where nothing happened, and we just rode for hours on end, but we will be thinking about, and talking about that 30 hours from Wyoming to Kansas for the rest of our lives.
Edit 11:11 am Just got dressed to go riding. Yep it's raining. 3rd day in a row, but I will have a good time regardless. Supposed to turn to snow flurries about 5 pm and I'd rather ride while it's warm enough to rain than when the roads are wet and it's cold enough to snow. Both beat just sitting around in the house though.
For the longest time I always wanted to do KS and/or OK in an RV during tornado season. I wanted to chase.
Well, I think I am past that ... but, hmmm, ... on a m/c?
(02-25-2020, 07:55 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: [ -> ] (02-24-2020, 10:31 PM)Wisedrum_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Shaft drive, oh yes!
Had a VT1100 Shadow C3 which had both, shaft drive and hydraulic valves. Maybe I should have kept her. But prefered the riding style on a classic street motorbike, not a choppered one. You can' t have all at once at the same time.
Wisedrum
I believe some would qualify this 1984 CB as a "classic street" motorbike:
I also sometimes say to myself that I should have kept it.
I believe some would qualify this 1984 CB as a "classic street" motorbike:
I also sometimes say to myself that I should have kept it.
I love the 70's & 80's bikes, the UJM. They say "motorcycle" to me, even tho I've ridden plenty of H-D's.
