What do you call your bike?

[motoman]

I just shrug and carry on now but it started to get pretty frick'n annoying after a few years.

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Annoying after 34 yre..................heck just park it in the dark corner of man-cave for yr. or two.............then it's like riding a new scoot.......BTDT many a time.

[3Phase]

Annoying after 34 yre..................heck just park it in the dark corner of man-cave for yr. or two.............then it's like riding a new scoot.......BTDT many a time.

That'd be fine, Brant, but I don't have a car. That's kind of why I'm putting Columbo-Dumpty back together again.

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[dbeardslee]

Annoying after 34 yre..................heck just park it in the dark corner of man-cave for yr. or two.............then it's like riding a new scoot.......BTDT many a time.

He's right about that. I had Betsy parked for a few years while Mom was in her final stages and I couldn't leave her alone. After she passed I cleaned the carbs, changed the fluids, and did some other maintenance items, and it is like having a new bike. 'Course if it's your only transportation... well, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

[motoman]

He's right about that. I had Betsy parked for a few years while Mom was in her final stages and I couldn't leave her alone. After she passed I cleaned the carbs, changed the fluids, and did some other maintenance items, and it is like having a new bike. 'Course if it's your only transportation... well, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Well. after the heredious crash of the STeed in June, and me still doing the wheel chair/walker thing, I believe the XS Bentley ride is gonna be the only two-wheel option for awhile. Got a couple four wheelers two, but can hardly rotate key assembly, and hold lock release at samw time. Just as well as that clutch and six speed ARE bit of a handful right now. But hey, gave it a try anyways. Wife's Escape gonna be only option when the time comes being still a bit crippled up for totalling the STeed.

[madmax-im]

Brant you've come a long way in what is a relatively short time...although it may not seem that short to you...but I see you back on a Steed of some sort within a year or sooner...be patient and do your PT and listen to the Dr's... I admire your resilience and determination...

[dbeardslee]

Well. after the heredious crash of the STeed in June, and me still doing the wheel chair/walker thing, I believe the XS Bentley ride is gonna be the only two-wheel option for awhile. Got a couple four wheelers two, but can hardly rotate key assembly, and hold lock release at samw time. Just as well as that clutch and six speed ARE bit of a handful right now. But hey, gave it a try anyways. Wife's Escape gonna be only option when the time comes being still a bit crippled up for totalling the STeed.

I saw the pics from the crash aftermath - looked pretty bad. But hang in there, and you'll recover. There's an old skydiving saying that seems appropriate - bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, and glory is forever - ride on, brother!

[puskrat]

The Dragon Lady

When I first started hunting down a donor bike, I had a plan for a rattlesnake Gadsen motif. Yellow Skins, snakeskin frame. I abandoned that idea, but since my "beast" spent its first two months of my ownership in a borrowed garage in a town named after Peking, and because the machine itself is Japanese, AND because the mascot for the aforementioned town is a Dragon, I didn't completely abandon the serpent vision. The flared hood suggested by the still unremoved fairing doesn't hurt neither. Someday this Tokyo Rose will be completed, but my thoughts keep evolving (or devolving)
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[dbeardslee]

When I first started hunting down a donor bike, I had a plan for a rattlesnake Gadsen motif. Yellow Skins, snakeskin frame. I abandoned that idea, but since my "beast" spent its first two months of my ownership in a borrowed garage in a town named after Peking, and because the machine itself is Japanese, AND because the mascot for the aforementioned town is a Dragon, I didn't completely abandon the serpent vision. The flared hood suggested by the still unremoved fairing doesn't hurt neither. Someday this Tokyo Rose will be completed, but my thoughts keep evolving (or devolving)
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That's a good lookin' bike. I took one look at the pic, and this immediately came to mind - Devil with a blue dress

[puskrat]

thanks beards. Durn you, you got me caught up in a youtube loop

[dbeardslee]

thanks beards. Durn you, you got me caught up in a youtube loop

Gotta love youtube. LOL

[motoman]

Brant you've come a long way in what is a relatively short time...although it may not seem that short to you...but I see you back on a Steed of some sort within a year or sooner...be patient and do your PT and listen to the Dr's... I admire your resilience and determination...

Doin this 'ridin thing' since thirteen.........ain't givin it up yet........I be back aboard the Venturer come mid october.