(09-26-2017, 09:25 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]The bottom (cylinder) black, top silver ( head) motif was popular on Brit bikes in the mid 70s. Look up pics of mid 70s Norton Commandos, Triumph Bonnevills et al. The Japanese never really got into that paint scheme and it's anybody's guess is to why Honda did it on the 17 EX since I don't recall HOnda ever making a model like that. I painted the cylinders on my 73 TX 650 Yamaha in this pattern. I always thought it looked good.
The W650, a japanese bike, brought back the english tradition that was due to the cast iron, the cylinders of british parallel twins were made of. The W are made of aluminium. It should look cool and oldfashioned something that don't fit the CB in my eyes. Alu should look like alu and don't pretend to be something different.
In a way kind of a 'Blender', the german word for someone who behaves as if but isn't.
Wisedrum
(09-27-2017, 12:45 AM)VLJ_imp Wrote: [ -> ]When I lived in Sacramento and worked in Fairfield I used to put 50,000 miles per year on my bike. Can't say that I ever counted the number of days I rode per year, though. That's a new one for me.
50,000 miles a year is a bunch of miles and a huge stack of used rubber and dirty oil cans lol. That is some serious saddle time my friend.
I'm retired so ALL of my miles are pleasure miles. I don't have to ride if I don't want to. I write all my daily mileages on which bike on yearly calendars so it's easy to see. I never really counted the days until Aerostitch came out with a poster that said if you lived in different areas you could ride X many days a year if you were willing to ride down to freezing 32 degrees and up to 90 degrees, ride in the rain etc (I think those were the limitations). For my area the map said 308 days a year (BTW for Sacramento it's 330). So I looked back at a couple calendars to see if I was riding up to potential. 2014 I rode 241 days 27,053 miles (included a trip to Cali and back). 2015 I did 274 days 22,033 miles. Last year I started rain riding more and we had a pretty mild winter and did 323 days 25,304 miles. This year (with another fairly mild winter) as of today 248 days 23,147 miles with 92 days left in the year.
Jan and Feb can get iffy depending on the severity of winter here, so if you exclude those 60 days, riding 308 days is riding about every day of the year in SW Ohio. Most motorcycle owners around here put their bikes up at the end of October and don't get them out again until mid March or April.
Not sure how they figure Sac gets 330 riding days per year, if they define it as days that fall between 32-90 degrees. Sac gets a lot more than 22 days per year of plus-90 temps. We probably see 90+ degrees somewhere between 90-100 days every year.
Ok walked out and looked at my poster and it's 95 and 25 for the parameters.