Pat Riot Posted December 29, 2024 Posted December 29, 2024 1 hour ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: Riedel 100 ....... (maybe) Now that is a weird bike. I don’t see any place to put your feet. There are no forks. I wonder how long that front end would remain intact after a couple of trail rides or pothole impacts. 2 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 29, 2024 Author Posted December 29, 2024 "A 1920s Harley Davidson with covered sidecar." 4 Quote
Pat Riot Posted December 29, 2024 Posted December 29, 2024 My bike before yesterday’s ride. Did a short 50 mile jaunt on some back roads. I really need to give that bike a bath. 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 31, 2024 Author Posted December 31, 2024 Seen here the late actress Honor Blackman once spoke about how The Avengers launched her as "a pin-up as the smart, sexy, gun-wielding, judo throwing anthropologist Cathy Gale. 'I really did go to judo classes,' she says. At the age of 38 she was cast as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger", and if you ever wondered if she really was a natural action star: “When I was in the Civil Service I became a dispatch rider, because all the men were at war they asked girls to volunteer to learn how to ride a motorbike and go from hospital to hospital in an emergency carrying blood. Sadly I never got to because no-one ran out, but we used to ride across London- it frightened my mother to death. I was known as Top Gear Tessie. I remember riding on the A4 from London to Oxford with my feet on the petrol tank singing at the top of my voice, quite a gal was our Honor. 6 1 Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 4 Author Posted January 4 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1791285155005086?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e 1 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I understand that some of y'all got snow ..... 3 Quote
Pat Riot Posted January 12 Posted January 12 On 1/6/2025 at 5:35 AM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: I looked up “Bergen op Zoom” (top of left sign) thinking it was going to be a cool road for zooming or something. It’s a town in the Netherlands. The name loosely means “hills on the edge/border”. 1 1 2 Quote
sassnetguy50 Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Have you seen the trend of putting knobbies on an old $2,000 crotch rocket? A kid did it at the local offroad park, it was surprisingly capable with 100+ hp at 400#. Until he tried a jump and bent the forks. 1 1 Quote
Pat Riot Posted January 27 Posted January 27 15 minutes ago, sassnetguy50 said: Have you seen the trend of putting knobbies on an old $2,000 crotch rocket? A kid did it at the local offroad park, it was surprisingly capable with 100+ hp at 400#. Until he tried a jump and bent the forks. That’s the opposite of these guys that take dirt bikes and slap street tires on them and ride them like they’re crotch rockets. They were called Motards, but now they refer to them as Supermoto. Basically they’re lighter, snappier handling but less power. Here’s a link to look at photos. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=motard+motorcycle&iax=images&ia=images 1 Quote
sassnetguy50 Posted January 27 Posted January 27 On 12/29/2024 at 6:47 AM, Pat Riot said: Now that is a weird bike. I don’t see any place to put your feet. There are no forks. I wonder how long that front end would remain intact after a couple of trail rides or pothole impacts. The pictured bike is not complete, there should’ve been a peg bar mounted by the center stand pivot. It could be swung forward to adjust height. Passenger pegs and seat were an option. I’ve never ridden a Riedel r100 but have ridden other single side bikes, they were surprisingly stable. The r100 was marketed as sporty. The engine was also designed with a single side crank shaft which was the companies downfall. The frame held while engine warranty bankrupted the company in a couple years. 1 Quote
sassnetguy50 Posted January 27 Posted January 27 @Pat Riot tried that, decided I prefer my body intact. 2003ish DRZ400e with a 440 kit and oversized forks. It made stupid decisions too tempting on a Sunday ride. 1 Quote
Choctaw Jack Posted January 28 Posted January 28 17 hours ago, Pat Riot said: That’s the opposite of these guys that take dirt bikes and slap street tires on them and ride them like they’re crotch rockets. They were called Motards, but now they refer to them as Supermoto. Basically they’re lighter, snappier handling but less power. Here’s a link to look at photos. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=motard+motorcycle&iax=images&ia=images Many (30+ ) years ago I was a member of a motorcycle road racing club. The members put together a team to race in an 8 hour endurance race in Aspen Colorado. There was another privateer team that was running a 500 cc single cylinder 2 stroke with GS 650 dual brake front forks, a huge desert tank, and reworked rear suspension. They could out-accelerate, out brake, and go deeper into the corners than anybody on the track. We were competing with some pretty fast bikes. From Honda 1300s, to Yamaha RZ 400S, A couple of Ducatis, and just about everything in-between. That old 2 stroke thumper more than kept up with most of the best. I've wanted to build one of my own since then. 1 Quote
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