Interesting. It makes sense.
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Both 2 and 4 stroke engines can be designed to deliver on pretty much any desired powerband... That 2-stroke Montesa on my "bike story" today for example was not peaky. And that Laverda Montjuic was a 4 stroke and *peaky*.
The RD350 and RD400 were a total blast to ride.
I can't imagine riding one of those 750cc 2-stroke widow makers they had in the 70s, a powerful engine with a chassis designed for a 125cc bike is not a great formula... but then again, impracticality is often fun... :-D
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You want the funny side of it?
They had some kind of paste there to rub on your leathers butt as the new and flashy me had them all new and shiny. Tight enough hopefully, leathers back then was not exactly custom made to fit, all they did was maybe a smaller degree of burn at a fall
Add to that that I was always thin and light and you will understand that the people who made this favor to my father could be in greater terror than I was riding it.
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I love the trellis frame and swing arm on the SDR. The fact they were chromed, makes them look even more like a custom, one-off fabrication, rather than a factory item.
Was in Black Bear Country from Sunday though tonight, going to an Octoberfest in Helen, Georgia, (looks like an Alpine town), and checking out the fall leaf changes on the Blue Ridge Parkway, & hanging out in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. (My wife and I) spotted 1 teenage Black bear quickly crossing the road. We were in a 2024 Subaru CrossTrek, just chillin around.
A warning from the Chief Ranger in the Area:
Chief Ranger Neal Labrie, a rider, is quoted quite a bit. It appears that the most common factor in motorcycle deaths over the years is not years of experience, or experience on mountain roads: it is larger cruiser bikes lower to the ground. It seems riders struggle to stay in their lanes, lean, and scrape foot pegs and crash bars.
With that, here you go:
Two ways: the cruiser girl camping with what she can carry on her bike:
A Great Motorcycling video by Staci:
The Blue Ridge Parkway + Skyline Drive: A Four Day Solo Motorcycle Camping Trip
And the 500 miles of off road bike (and other machines) way:
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When you get up & realize that the leather is smoking!You want the funny side of it?
They had some kind of paste there to rub on your leathers butt as the new and flashy me had them all new and shiny. Tight enough hopefully, leathers back then was not exactly custom made to fit, all they did was maybe a smaller degree of burn at a fall
Add to that that I was always thin and light and you will understand that the people who made this favor to my father could be in greater terror than I was riding it.
And then (of course) you do the next naturally stupid thing & touch the smoking leather (as if it is not for real)!!!
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I have seen many many black bears in my travels in South British Columbia in the mountains and especially in the valley bottoms. I mean many black bears. It is a red zone for black bears and they are everywhere. When out and about driving my car but mostly seeing them when riding my motorcycles in the summer I found black bears to be most frequented at the bottom of gullies and beside creeks and rivers as they crossed the road on hot hot summer days going to the creeks/rivers. In those gullies when driving down the highway at speed and going down and the up in a gully there is most always shade and cool air down in there and the bears are very often found in those gullies near the road. They seek the cool water and the cool air in the gullies in the shade. I talked to other riders and they agreed that this is a red zone for black bears. I always slow down in this type of terrain because on a bright sunny day going from bright sunlight into a gully with shade my vision is not as good until the eyes adjust and black bears are not easily seen. I remember coming down the 4 lane highway right beside a creek @ the Blueberry Paulson mountain pass into the Christina Lake area(A very hot zone in the summer, the heat hits like a wall of heat as one comes down the mountain pass.) and I had 2 lanes going down with all the cars in the right lane behind a motorhome. So I continued on @ ~160 kmh and whizzed past everybody and dang... a black bear with cubs wandered right out between cars into my lane and was taking it's time. So I could not use the oncoming traffic lane so I slammed on the rear brake and slid right down the road avoiding the bears and saw children looking out the rear and side windows at me as I whizzed on by sliding and avoiding the bears. I got in the clear, released the brakes and hammer the throttle and got out of there ASAP but was very PO'd at bears for awhile...LoL. I really really dislike bears.
Run Amsoil motorcycle 2 stroke oil at 70-80 to 1 (80 for the street, 70 for the track). With the right rider (know how), a proper hot-rodding (a 2 stroke great tuner [porting polishing to hand fit parts, etc] & an expansion chamber {along with frame & suspension know how}) 10 second 1/4 mile are easy pickin's. The power is actually the easy part.
It's the suspension frame & swing arm mods that make it somewhat more predictably linier in it's application & someone training enough with it to make it happen.
Variations of street materials & conditions kill that level of predictability (although, modern rubber on some modern wheels would help a long way.
There goes being an incognito street sleeper idea...
Naturally, without all that know how, it will cost cubic $'s to make it happen.
When I did my BC tour back in 01, I was way more worried about grizzlies rather than black bears. Plenty of experience back in norcal with black bears, tho....think I mentioned the dump in our living room before?). On trail in grizzly country definitely did the bells/yelling a lot of stuff, singing, etc that I hadn't felt necessary in black bear country. Came close to a couple of black bears on trail while mountain biking too.
How 'bout Bear Wizz Beer? It's in the water, that's why it's yellow.
Mike Kellet says:
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...except for a KZ-750, they'll just kill you"
Red adds 20 MPH! Sitting still!!
Around Balfour on the Kootenay Lake there are frequent grizzly bear travels. The BC Fish and Wildlife gov people stated that at the website and said it is a hot spot for grizzlies. The lake is in a deep huge wide valley and then immediately behind the ~6000'+ mountains are really big mountains with huge glaciers and stuff and apparently the grizzlies enjoy that and so they use the narrow river coming out of Kootenay Lake @ Balfour as a crossing point to get cross and travel from mountain region to the other mountain region. I talked with people in Balfour as I waited for the car ferry one day and 2 said they regularly see a old grizzly around there and they nicknamed it but they said not to muck with it and stay away from it. On YouTube I saw an adult grizzly bear take down an adult elk that is a very large animal. The grizzly bear took it down by the neck, then as the elk lay on the dirt still alive the grizzly bear lifted it's front leg, shoved out it's huge sharp claws and then used the claws to very easily and rapidly tear open the cavity, removed the liver impaled on the tips of the claws and ate the dripping liver very quickly. All this process required less than ~1.5 minute s at the most and then the grizzly bear ran away into the forest. Grizzly bears do eat humans. A biologist that was recently up north studying grizzly bears for 2 summers had a run in with multiple grizzlies he had been studying. He felt that because of the 2 summers around the grizzly bears there that he was associated with the grizzlies there and they would not eat him. So... His girlfriend was visiting and at night they where sleeping in the tent and where dragged from the tent and eaten alive. (YouTube has the crystal clear audio but the video camera was I guess knocked down and is blank video. I listened to a bit of it and it was so horrific that I shut it down. Humans screaming as they where killed and eaten and bear(s) making constant ferocious terrible growls that sounded like glee and rage.) Terrible death because he a trained professional made the mistake of thinking grizzly bears associate with humans and therefore a human(s) could be protected in some way by the very grizzlies that eat meat and have done so since grizzly times began. When hunger pangs kick in and instinct takes over the grizzly bears do what grizzly bears do and they feast on meat wherever and whatever it is. I saw one grizzly in South British Columbia in the Columbia River valley on the side of a mountain when I was hunting grouse with a peashooter 22 rifle. The grizzly bear about 300 feet directly above me saw me, I saw it, it checked me out, stood up on it's rear legs, then down and paused and then took off up the mountain. I was very very relieved that it took off fast. I hate bears. BC had multiple grizzly attacks in the past 2 weeks. I also saw a YouTube video of about 45 minutes made by a adult male hiker. The hiker was followed at up to ~3 feet away by a black bear. The hiker sprayed it several times right in the face, eyes, nose and mouth and the bear distanced for a few minutes and then resumes up close again. He tuned his back and the bear was then closer & more interested. To depend on bear spray for deterrent and defense when the result is a torn off scalp and face in some attacks is absurd. I always suggest people consider that the black bear population in the ~10 recent years has 3x-4x the black bears and grizzlies are about 3x the population and that they seriously consider not going out without absolute defense and not rely on some silly bear spray when they could be eaten alive or have their scalp or face torn off and then reattached if they survive.(Internet has many images of reattached faces. It's horrific and lifelong major terrible condition.) I was in far North Saskatchewan fishing for northern pike. I got many fish and took them back to my uncle's cabin. My young female cousin forgot to put them in the sealed cooler for the night. Sleeping at ~3:30am brown bears(Bigger than grizzly bears and very aggressive bears.) where slamming the door to get in the cabin and looking in the window as they stood against the cabin. They did this slamming the door and up against the side of the cabin for ~20 minutes and where getting more and more aggressive. Out of the blue a male arrived in a car, with high beams up close to the cabin honking the horn and driving right up to the bears revving the engine scared them off. We we where very very relieved that he showed up. He said the bears had been all around the cabins and causing trouble and so people where driving around looking to see if they where up to no good. My stepfather was kicking himself because he never brought the army surplus late model sniper version of the 303 Lee-Enfield rifle he kept for such matters. It was a very close call that night. Often people are in the news when black bears break a window and enter a home and tear it apart. So if one dropped steaming pile in your living room I guess that's just black bears being black bears. LoL. I have seen trucks used by tree planters and off road enthusiasts. They usually left lunch or some smell source in the vehicle. The bears got their claws in the crack of the door above the window, bent the door open and then entered the vehicle and tried to taste and chewed/tore apart all the seats, dashboard, steering wheel etc. In each situation the vehicle was a total write-off and had to be sent to the auto wrecker after.
I rode a Suzuki RM125 for a year and WoW did it have a lovely sound. Not the early RM125 stuff that had a terrible super super crazy loud sound but the year before water cooling and when on pipe or idling they sounded really good. I hated water cooling anyway. I rode very hard riding style mountain enduro and branches sticking out at speed and when maneuvering technical sections into the engine region and flying rocks when riding behind buddies where everywhere and a soft delicate easily damaged radiator would just be a major major issue in that kind of riding terrain.But when all is said and done, they still sound like a Husqvarna chain saw.
Uh huh. LOL
A triple "ring-a-ding-ding-ding-ding" not quite in harmony!But when all is said and done, they still sound like a Husqvarna chain saw.
I prefer supercharged McCulloch chainsaws myself:
