Comments on: Old Bike Barn – Bear’s Rant: To Ride, Or Not To Ride

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By: Carmelia Rotty

Carmelia Rotty — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:15:10 +0000

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By: Ken King

Ken King — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:29:42 +0000

My first Harley was an X-90 2 stroke (single). I removed the oil injection drive and mixed my own fuel to pick up 2 mph. At 10 years old I was king of the road (dirt). My current daily ride is a 1977 Honda CB-750K that I commute 60 miles a day on. It’s appreciated by most, but occasionally a H-D rider (usually on a not yet paid for bike) will ask when I’m going to step up to a Harley. I tell them about 35 years ago.

By: Fearlessmoto

Fearlessmoto — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:38:28 +0000

What a friggin yahoo, that salesman must be a total retard to mix up strokes and cylinders. and the number of cylinders has little to do with performance, i have 3 bikes i wrench on , an 81 zuk 450, an 83 kwaka 550 and a 01 yamaha tw200 enduro, i know plenty of harly riders and the good ones ride their bikes like they were made to be ridden hard and dirty with the bugs in your teeth, i hate when i see some rich little bastard walk in to the dealership and drop $5000 on a bunch of stupid chrome doo dads and bobbles. THEY WERE MADE TO RIDE SO RIDE THE DAMN THINGS, i don’t know how many damn chromed out shiny new harleys ive dusted on my 1200 bandit, they usually keep up until you hit 90, after that they just can’t go the distance (must be afraid they will get windburn on their precious paint)

By: K.G. Miller

K.G. Miller — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:42:42 +0000

Have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? I just bought my 79′ KZ650 (9000 original miles) about a month and a half ago. I’m 29 and it’s my first bike. I like the classic standard look, and I could have gone out and bought a new Ducati GT1000, or a Triumph Bonneville – but what’s the fun in having a bike you don’t have to fix? Beyond changing the oil and brakes on my car I’ve never seriously wrenched…and it does take a bit of learning…but there’s something about working on your bike that brings you closer to the machine, making the ride all the more personal.

By: David Boily

David Boily — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:59:25 +0000

right said fred! I’m from Qc City and we are invaded with baby-boomer who thinks they’re biker because they have the money to buy new bike and they don’t haven know how to ride a paddle bike.

right said
David Boily

By: Curtis H

Curtis H — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:23:26 +0000

The guy probably said 2 stroke when he meant two cylinders. I don’t know much about the newer Hondas but I like the older 4 cylinder Hondas because of how smooth they ride, especially the shaft driven ones.

By: Tareq

Tareq — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:50:51 +0000

Yo’ Bear,

Hope all is well is with you. I’m good.

I am a Bike Maintenance LEARNER who enjoys working on my two Suzuki bikes, a 79′ GS-550L Four and an 80′ GS-450L Twin, and I defy that idiot you wrote about to identify, with his eyes closed which is the twin. I appreciate your comments on this matter and agree with your summary on the incident. Some folks need (for lack of some self-respect) to pretend that they are something they’re not and get a weird sense of false pre-eminence by voicing lies – that they believe gets a listener to look up to them – to whomever is ignorant enough to listen. Keep up the good work…

Regards, Tareq

By: P.A.Klinkhammer

P.A.Klinkhammer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:52:07 +0000

I live in Mountain View ar.Its a little place in the ozark mtns.A few years ago I was about the only rider here and rode all over the west and Mexico and was really thought if as odd.Now we are covered up with newbes and wannabes that look at me and my old bike with pitty.Twenty five grand just to show up on the square and pose.They are crashing and dieing regularly here in the mtns.I had better stop beforI really get going.
peteklink

By: Hiroak

Hiroak — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:17:24 +0000

I think most, not all, sales persons are BSers that’s what they do and if you don’t research what you want, especially with the ease of the in old interweb you deserve everything you get. I started riding a KX50 at 6 and never looked backed. At 11 I started really wrenching on an old WWII Harley my grandpa brought back and so on and so forth. What I see today is that the fake bikers are the majority and the real bikers are the minority. With the warranties on the new bikes you can’t do anything, even change the oil or you it voids the warranty and when you pay 30 grand for a bike you just take it into the shop. I build and ride café racers so I’m the guy fixing his own bike.