What drives you the most nuts?

[James England]

Ummm.. OK. Just keep the blinders on then. If you've never seen it it doesn't exist. Don't dare go to youtube and type in "UK Stunt riders" and get many thousands of videos.

Yup.. The U.S. has got the patent on stupid bike riders..

I've read quite a few of your prolific posts, old chap, and reckon you could easily change your user name to TRbigmrProvocative. Never a post or response without a dig at someone....interesting case, aren't you? Why not practice making a point or a response without the sarcasm? It is, after all, the lowest form of wit, old boy. and no, I'm not in the least wound up by your tone, sorry!

You gotta remember, the UK is tiny....and I've done a lot of miles in it. Never seen people standing on their bikes on motorways (freeways) and trashing them with abandon. We don't have enough open space like in the US. Presumably you've never been here.

Over to you Mr P! Can't wait. I used to milk snake venom for antidotes in a job I had...

[Orange4]

Thought I might do an informal questionnaire on what
item neglected makes you most nuts?
For me it has to be fork seals.
I'll never understand how anyone can let that slimy nasty s**t weep down the legs and contaminate everything below.The handling issues are bad enough
not to mention the brakes.
tie a rag around the legs or drain the remainder .
that stuff is a gigantic pita to get off
Thanks for letting me vent

Kinda like this:



That was the PO, not me.

[Petersg_99]

There's this one posted here in Phoenix:

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/mcy/4316004505.html

I'll go pick it up for you if you want...

The thing that makes me nuts is looking at every basket case XS as an orphan looking for a loving home, rather than as a pile of parts that will eventually wind up costing 10x the purchase price to make it useful.

There is a local '80 Special that is missing only carbs, airbox, and side covers that seems to be whispering my name..."you don't have a special yet...the List will hook you up with the carbs and airbox...wouldn't I look great next to the 80G?"

I don't need another project bike.
I don't need another project bike.
I don't need another project bike.
I don't need another project bike.

[mikubuilder]

what really ticks me off is the fact that I cannot ride 6 months out of the year, and then read all those ride reports....

[MarkD]

The thing that drives me the most nuts is: now that I'm older and wiser, I realize all the bikes I've owned will never come my way again. I've let some honeys go,and wish I could have kept them all. My signature doesn't include all of them I've had. Oh, to have that X6 Hustler back....

[Prisoner6]

The thing that drives me the most nuts is: now that I'm older and wiser, I realize all the bikes I've owned will never come my way again. I've let some honeys go,and wish I could have kept them all. My signature doesn't include all of them I've had. Oh, to have that X6 Hustler back....

I second that - I've had seller's remorse after selling every one of my previous bikes, but time/space/money involved

in keeping them all running was just too much to handle. But, my 2 biggest selling regrets are

the '83 Honda CB1100F (one of the best-looking UJM's ever IMO and a great all-arounder) and

the '79 Kawasaki KZ1300 (the most comfortable bike I've ever ridden and .... oh yeah, it had that glass-smooth, velvet hammer inline 6).

[skids]

There's this one posted here in Phoenix:

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/mcy/4316004505.html

I'll go pick it up for you if you want...

That is NOT an xs1100.

[Petersg_99]

That is NOT an xs1100.

My bad, it looks like a younger sister...

[fredintoon]

My bad, it looks like a younger sister...

Hi Peter,
more like a poor relation. The Craigslist ad shows a Yamaha XS400.
The seller claims it's a 1980 XS400 Special II but I doubt that.
All the 1980 XS400s I've seen had 7-spoke cast wheels and a disk front brake.
That bike's wire wheels and drum front brake suggests it's somewhat earlier.

[Prisoner6]

Hi Peter,
more like a poor relation. The Craigslist ad shows a Yamaha XS400.
The seller claims it's a 1980 XS400 Special II but I doubt that.
All the 1980 XS400s I've seen had 7-spoke cast wheels and a disk front brake.
That bike's wire wheels and drum front brake suggests it's somewhat earlier.

Hi Fred -

Actually, the photo in the Craigslist ad is that of a 1980 XS400 Special II ... the "regular" 400 Special

had the cast wheels and the disc brake, but the Special "II" had the wire wheels and drum front brake.

I remember having to choose between the two when I purchased mine new in 1980.