So how about taking your helmet to work for protection from infection. You could add a bandana and lower the shield to keep from getting sneezed on. Just a thought...…..

for me, the CBR650F

VFR1200F close second. difference is, I know how much it would have cost to maintain...

Has anybody else noticed this happening? I suppose it depends on how much TV you watch, which I don't, but I do end up staring at a TV idly while i'm at the gym, and I've noticed around 7 or 8 different advertisements playing on TV that feature a triumph motorcycle. Here's the kicker though: the ads aren't for triumph. One is for Geico, one is for a hair product, one is for a pharmaceutical, one is for a credit reporting app, ect ect.

It seems Triumph is loaning their motorcycles out to every ad producing company on television. This can't be a coincidence. It's as if their new ad campaign is to make their motorcycles appear on television as often as possible. They're probably offering the bikes on loan for free on the condition that the commercial include one or two shots where you can clearly see what bike it is. One of the ads even had the new Daytona in it.

I love this...it's basically free for Triumph, they get tons of exposure, and the ad campaigns are using the bikes to make the person in the ad look cool and successful. I guess what i'm saying is, has anybody else noticed this or am I the only one in the tinfoil hat?

I have commented in the past, some others have well, about the 2017ex speedo look, that it's too busy with both mph and kph and the funny font.



Care across some photos of the India Scout 2020, and this is what I'd rather see, whether miles per or kilometers, it wouldn't even matter to me. The font might even be the same, but it looks so uncluttered:



Small fries, I know.

With the coronavirus outbreak having a substantial impact here on the west coast as well as all over the world, I find myself along with my family in stay-at-home mode. Supercross 2020 from Indianapolis was supposed to be on the tube today, but this event along with a number of others in the series has been cancelled due to, yes — the coronavirus outbreak.

With that in mind, I thought I would dig into my own personal "vault" of Pro Motocross history here in the United States. These images, never before seen by the general public are sure to fill your days (hours?, minutes?, wait — were you really getting ready to click that CB1100 Forum Banner to head elsewhere just now ?!) with a fun-filled nostalgic ride through the golden era of motocross in this country (well, golden for me, your mileage might vary).

For Volume 1 (this is not to imply there will be any other volumes to follow) we take a look back to 1978. In June of that year, Cycle World USA in St. Peters, Missouri was hosting a round of the 250 class Nationals as well as a round of the 500 class Nationals. As an avid fan at the age of 16 I was beyond excited when I learned that the motel my parents had booked for a couple of nights for our trip to see the races was actually serving as the race headquarters. This provided my brother and I with ample opportunities to be all-around pests the entire day before the race was to be held. Truth be told, I don't recall a single racer being anything but accessible and nice to the few fans that happened to be there that entire day. My only regret is that I did not own a better camera at the time. I was particularly ill-suited to capturing race action images. But while the image quality is poor, the fairly static subjects at race headquarters allowed me to grab some memorable (for me) images.


Race Headquarters: The St. Charles' Howard Johnsons

It's early in the A.M. as I write this. I'm taking a break from this thread for now, but plan to fill in more details later just in case there are any other older motocross fans out there other than myself and the ferret.

In self-imposed Gulag - got sick coming home from a business trip and both of my employers are saying to stay the heck away from them. It’s given me time to finalize the claim following the unpleasantness with my Bonneville, which is being repaired.

While I didn’t come off of the bike due to the low speed, I was bruised up a bit. I was going to discuss this with the insurance adjuster but she beat me to it with an offer that was more than I would have asked for. Not a windfall by any means, but I’d like to use some of it to start using a camera on my daily commute. Had a police report not been issued showing the offending driver to be at fault, this incident would still be in a he-said she-said quagmire. It got me thinking that video evidence in the future is a good idea.

I’m thinking a used GoPro would do the job. The smallest model available to keep things simple, and local Craig’s listings show abundant availability.

The questions become where to mount the camera. One thought is to put a mount on the bike itself, maybe below the headlight to keep it on sprung weight to reduce vibration.

The other option is helmet mount. In this case, where is the best location to minimize wind noise and resistance at speed. I’ve seen riders mount them in front, on the side, and on top of their helmets.

Finally, can a GoPro be set up to record in a loop, so that just tapping on and off will do the job, without complicated operation?

If you were allowed to recall a bike you owned and keep forever, what would it be?

The motive of this thread is fun.

You can keep whatever is in your stable now, and no doubt that likely includes the beloved CB1100, however, is there a bike in your past you dearly miss? Let's hear about THAT ONE (1) bike.

= = =

I will start off:

For me, it would likely be the 1984 Honda CB750S ...



I like the looks of the bike. Modeled in the shadow of 'merican muscle car presence, I think Honda did a decent job.

* In the Honda usual way, it just worked.

* It was low maintenance.

* It was agile enough.

* It sounded great in stock form.

* Handling was very good.

* For me, it had shaft final drive. I did not recall much recoil behaviour like in Yamaha's implementation.

* Lots of tech. For example: Anti-dive forks, hydraulic clutch, digital instrumentation, air-adjustable forks, hydraulic lifters, to name a few.


Some negatives:

* Typical Japanese exhaust mufflers at the time corroded pretty quickly.

* Small'ish gas tank.

* Some weird engineering design bug around the airbox that could, on a very strong cross-wind day, cause the engine to starve for air. The throttle response would become quite jumpy. In any case, it could be fixed.

* Hydraulic clutch got funky when the air/oil-cooled engine got extremely hot.

I find it fascinating any time that siblings manage to excel in the same sport. But the young Hunter brothers have really caught my eye. Not only because of the level of their talent, but also because of the sport they compete in: motorcycle racing. (In their case dirt bike racing, both motocross and supercross.)

Unlike so many other similar stories where the interest in and skill set for a particular sport were passed along from a parent, the Lawrence brothers grew up in a home that had no connections to motocross at all. Instead, the older brother Hunter began watching the sport when he was seven and took a great interest in it. His family supported him only to learn in fairly short order that he had a surprisingly high level of natural talent for the sport.

The family would go on to sell their home in in order to move to Europe for the competitive opportunities that awaited Hunter there. The family would learn that Hunter's younger brother Jett, after watching and learning from his older brother, was definitely following in his brother's boot steps. (It now appears as if Jett might well become the more successful racer of the two.) The move to Europe was followed by a move to the United States for the same reasons centered around opportunity and competition. Hunter is now 20 years old while Jett is still only 16 — both are licensed pros competing at the highest levels of their sport. The only step left for each of them will be to move from the 250 class up to the 450 class.

Both brothers now find themselves racing for the same factory team: Geico Honda. The other thing that they have in common is not so fortunate. At this time both brothers are dealing with injuries that are serious enough to have kept them out of the racing action recently. That is a real shame because when healthy they are both such a joy to watch. Hunter competed in the outdoor motocross series last year and was to make his supercross debut in 2020 but that hasn't happened yet due to a nasty shoulder injury. Jett on the other hand made his supercross debut earlier this year only to break his collarbone in a crash while battling for the lead late in a main race.

I am hoping that they will both be healthy and racing soon enough. While the future might appear brighter for the younger sibling Jett at this point in time, I personally would not be surprised to see either one of them atop the center of the podium many times well into the future. Good stuff.

Long story short, it is possible to install an exhaust cam into the intake side and reduce the harmonic buzz that I for one find annoying.
Thanks to PowerDubs for breaking trail in the cam experimentation. His "Cams Anyone" thread got me interested in the possibility of just using an exhaust cam for the intake side.
I looked at the total duration of the exhaust cam vs the intake cam and the difference was one degree on the "normal" lobes, 10 degrees less on the narrow cyl 1 and 2 lobes. Exhaust cam lift is about .004" less than intake, meaning to me less volume.
Before anyone gets too excited I will let you know I lost 5 hp, and as much torque. The loss was at peak hp so it is essentially 2 or three hp in the 3 to 4 thousand rpm range.
I dynoed it before and after with the nice folks at Freeman's Choppers in Chico.

That's me on the left and Nicole and Will. I won't bother posting the graphs, they are linear, the only difference is the "after" line is lower. Nobody wants to see a picture of the small fish you caught.
It also showed lean running, both before and after. I sent the computer off to Guhl's and I plan to have the original intake cam rebuilt so the lobes for 1 and 2 are the same as 3 and 4. I would welcome suggestions on a shop for that. Seems like PowerDubs had to wait for stinking ever for his, but since the work I require would be more straightforward I would hope for decent turnaround.
As far as running down the road, it is great. I have ridden it for 90 minutes a couple of times, once with no numbness in my hands and once with some tingle just starting. Normally I begin to have problems after 30 minutes or so.
The loss of power is not noticeable in real life, at least to me. I took it up to well over the speed limit a few times and it seemed to get there as quickly as it ever has. It doesn't have the growling howl it used to have on spirited acceleration, but it does have a very healthy exhaust note with the Yosh exhaust.
Other than the tingle, the thing that really bugged me about the staggered cam lobes was when I was reading some years ago about all the attention to detail the design got, then when they got this jewel built it didn't sound ferocious enough so they went back and designed in a noise.
Don't get me wrong, I love engine noise of all kinds, lawn mower to jet. Harleys too if they aren't just obnoxious. But when designers and builders weigh and measure everything to get a smooth mill and go back and change it to make it seem more authentic it bugs me.
The motors back in the day made that hot noise because it was a byproduct of the relatively unfettered machines of the day.
Anyway, I ramble.
Bottom line it is smoother. Acceleration is good, decel is good. It seems to be happier with any rpm you happen to be at. Maybe just me but seems smoother, with no harmonics on the way up in rpms.
Looking forward to getting my box back, and will start looking for a cam shop. I am sure I will end up with at least as much power as I started with, maybe more, but I am quite happy with the direction this is going.
Don't do what I did without expecting a loss of power. I was mainly interested in the rideability aspects.
If you want smoother, AND a hot rod, try PowerDubs grind with the stagger taken out.
Plus, he did some other things with the intake, etc.
Will let you know what happens.

Ben