billgreenman1

Straying slightly from the topic, I recall from some kind of click-bait, that overall, sales and registration of motorcycles in the U.S. have declined & there are fewer new riders coming up from "the youths". Even considering the shaky economy and the deadly increase of mindless 4-wheel cages on the roads, there seems to me less interest in motorcycles and riding and it even felt that way strolling into dealerships. I know that I'm probably not their target demo, but even observing other customers I didn't get that vibe of adventure romance and excitement that existed even 5 or 6 years ago. Maybe it is just me getting older and more cynical, but I feel like motorcycling and even motor sports in general really are on the path to eventual extinction, soon to be seen more in videos, game simulations, and glam commercials than in real life. "The kids riding in Mom's 'Musk-blob' hear a growl outside their windows. Looking up from their screens they see a man dressed kinda like an astronaut filtering by on a vibrating 2 wheeled beast. One asks 'What's that Mommy?' She just sighs 'The past'. The others don't even look up, their eyes locked up in their games. The auto pilot clicks and moves on..."

Not going to watch the video, but I'm kinda surprised about the Kawi. That model seemed stupidity overpriced in my neck of the woods (Indiana), and they didn't seem to budge until the season was over...Same thing with its bigger sister. Could have scored a BMW F900R for 2k less....

Beautiful machines and I'm reminiscing about the glorious sounds i heard them making at the vintage events at Mid-Ohio some decades back. Always and forever out of my range...

If Jaguar is "going back to its roots", will that include Sopwith" (their 1st carriage frame factory), maker of Snoopy's famous Camel and the infamous Snipe?

Virtue signaling is more important than reality for many. I've heard that in the UK critical comments on social media can get one in trouble. Not just "hate speech" from the reprehensible morons that spew it, but also one of the oldest English traditions: sarcastic humor! Oh well, sunshine and lollipops; we all end up loving Big Brother in the end. Enough of my silly rant.

Looks more like a perfume commercial than a car ad. And in true "post-truth" 21st century projection fakery "copy nothing" is definitely a copy of--well, something. Hope that they have some plastic laid out when they "break the mould" because I imagine that the excrement will run everywhere. Pretty sure that sledge hammer was styrofoam anyway. Best of luck with a re-brand of a car that was often bought through a sense of nostalgia attempting to sell to an audience stuck in a video.

The romance vs. the reality. I don't even want to imagine how much it will cost. It would have to be really really good, and with all the other iterations in the recent past, I'm kinda having flashbacks to seeing the stuffed "Trigger" at the Roy Rogers museum...

Yep, great food at Bonge's. I've ridden by, but the times I've eaten there ( a long time ago), cars were necessary to drag our bloated carcasses home. I used to work with Tony, the original (reconstruction) owner and chef. Tailgating is encouraged!

From all the stories I've heard, I kinda feel lucky that I got to do the backpack/railpass/hostel thing in Europe in the 80s back when I was just a 20 year old jackalope. My college roommate and I traveled in the fall and hardly had any crowd problems that I can remember. The wall hadn't come down yet, so Berlin was a little creepy, and Geneva was tight because Ronnie Reagan was meeting Gorbachev, but most everything else was fairly relaxed. Even Neuschwanstein was a walk up thing, and there was enough room that I could have stashed some of my own stolen art there, had I been carrying any of my niece's finger paintings!

The red does kinda look cool though the little sight window 🙃😜🤞

As much as I love looking at BaT, it often seems like a hugely inflated "price tag justification" network. Sour grapes aside, I suppose that if you want to get your best payoff, this is the place to go. With motorcycles, it seems slightly less of a gouge, and sometimes I see a true auction win; (love out to "ultramotorsource" always fun to see what they find and flip). My brother is only into cars and guys in his club have even speculated some money laundering as a running joke. For me, I think I'm in the majority; guys that want to look at pictures and daydream. I've bid twice, one time losing by only $100, and was more terrified than excited watching the timer count down...

Got to see it here in Indiana. Made my life problems seem insignificant for a few minutes...

Alternative tuning? How about Richard Thompson...

+1 on the RE 650's bang for the buck I really like my 350 classic (& will not likely part with it) but a few extra horses would be nice to have out of town. With the Meteor and the new Shotgun it looks like they can make quite a few riders happy...

I'm gonna imagine that they keep trying to get the balance of "gelande" and "strasse" satisfactory for the majority of their customers. Soon, for me they will have to include a wheelchair ramp or a booster of some sort. And I know; I spent 8 years and 90k mi. trying to kill a '95 GS which still lies nearly dead in my garage...

+1 on preferring the narrower tire. To me it almost makes the bike feel lighter and I don't think I've ever gone so hard as to think that it needs "more skin" out back...

I've been fairly lucky with Harper's in the past, and if they didn't have something they would let me know within a week. I think we're lucky to even have a Guzzi retro part store at all...

Good thing the marketing department rejected the moniker of "wet market pangolin" for the sidecar-free version....

Put around 18k mi. on a '91 K100rs; it had a Luftmeister windshield extension on it and I took it off after about 6 months and sold it at a swap meet to a k-bike guy who wanted it more than me. The aerodynamics of the bike would kick in about 85-90 and would be solid and relatively quiet. The mirrors blocked out the wind and rain. I really can't decide if I regret trading in for a '95 GS 1100. If I could have afforded keeping both I would have. The GS ended up getting an Aeroflow and I put 100k on it. I think the ideal scenario would be something akin to the HD Electra glide removable rig....maybe...to each their own...

I guess I got lucky a couple years ago when I replaced mine, but I wouldn't have minded because every one of those on any bike I've had came on way too early. Even my 2022 RE 350's light comes on with like the better part of a gallon left...

Didn't look too closely at the trailer, but often these movie folks will put knuckehead and pan head lip stick on a modern retro bike so the stars and stunt studs can ride them more easily. They didn't call them "suicide shifts" for nothing!

Got my replacement zadi pl336 ignition switch bolted on to the lock plate...the wires are different colors and I guess I'm more color blind than I thought...

Ok,so I have finally gotten around to replacing my ignition switch (I broke the housing in a ham-handed attempt to take it apart, ) and have actually found a zadi pl336 replacement from Aprilia rsv1000. But instead of being truly "plug and play" the plug fittings and the wire coloring is different. Strike one, I suck at everything electrical, and strike two, I guess I'm a little more color blind than I thought I was. I really don't want to F(mess) this up, it is only four wires, and I'd rather never deal with this again. So, the original wires are (remind I'm a bit color blind) Brown (Orange?) Yellow and red Blue and red Brown (orange?) The new part is Yellow Grey/yellow Orange/(green?) Orange Can any of you fine folks help me out with matching the wires? Yeah A little lazy relying on others, but hey, isn't that what forums are all about?

'97 or '98 I was on Skyline Drive and the East sides of the mountains were bright sunshine and the west sides were rain and fog. Kinda exhausting with the hot/cold transitions, even with decent Aerostich gear...

Amazing! But I don't think I saw a hammer anywhere on or near the Guzzi workbench...👍🤔😂