Your other "non-Harley" Bike?

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Your other "non-Harley" Bike?

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steelo
3 years ago

Quoting paulybronco on 03 Apr 2022 11:45 PM
Well starting to get the bike together for upcoming trip to the tip. Wheels away getting new boots on and the trusty locktight being applied to bits that may rattle off.

Quoting Far Canal on 04 Apr 2022 10:22 PM
Gee Pauly!, why don't you take a car with a trailer or a ute to the tip instead?. You will be able to take much more rubbish with you.

Quoting paulybronco on 04 Apr 2022 10:30 PM
Ha Ha very good FC. Just ran into the first minor hurdle.....the bike shop that fitted the tyres cant balance the GS rear wheel due to it not running an axle....it bolts directly to the hub like a car. Looks like i am just going to do it like we did as kids.

Peg a paddle pop stick to the forks and listen for the sound change?

steelo
3 years ago

Quoting steelo on 04 Apr 2022 12:44 AM

No one?
Pb has a similar painting in his garage.

paulybronco
3 years ago

Quoting steelo on 04 Apr 2022 12:44 AM

Quoting steelo on 16 Apr 2022 11:01 PM
No one?
Pb has a similar painting in his garage.

Could it be just above my mirror.....

steelo
3 years ago

Well done PB.

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Far Canal
3 years ago

Had my Jap shitta, rice burning chunk of rubbish out for a ride today on a gloomy autumn arvo.
Riding this bike is something else. I imagine it is something like a really horny looking chick going for a walk stark naked.....everyone wants to talk to you!.
Even had an Indian couple ask if hubby could sit on the bike while wifey took a picture.
Some of the shots do not look like typical Tassie landscape but they is.

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Jay-Dee
3 years ago

Quoting Far Canal on 01 May 2022 11:46 AM
Had my Jap shitta, rice burning chunk of rubbish out for a ride today on a gloomy autumn arvo.
Riding this bike is something else. I imagine it is something like a really horny looking chick going for a walk stark naked.....everyone wants to talk to you!.
Even had an Indian couple ask if hubby could sit on the bike while wifey took a picture.
Some of the shots do not look like typical Tassie landscape but they is.

There's a good reason why people want to talk to you about it FC, it looks fantastic, well done.

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408
3 years ago

Of course the Indians like it, it is curry coloured :)

It does look pretty neat FC, Good Job.

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paulybronco
3 years ago

Quoting Far Canal on 01 May 2022 11:46 AM
Had my Jap shitta, rice burning chunk of rubbish out for a ride today on a gloomy autumn arvo.
Riding this bike is something else. I imagine it is something like a really horny looking chick going for a walk stark naked.....everyone wants to talk to you!.
Even had an Indian couple ask if hubby could sit on the bike while wifey took a picture.
Some of the shots do not look like typical Tassie landscape but they is.

I think your not giving the old girl the respect she deserves young FC.....that's a lovely old old bike and a fine example.

Baloffski
3 years ago

Jeez FC, she is a beauty, though does look smaller than I remember em; looks real good. Had 6 of the bugga's, as mates who were always cashed up, traded up after a year, and I got the hand me downs for a few hundred bucks, being a not so cashed up apprentice.
Is that the K model? Not the K1, I rode the 750/4, made in 1969 or 1970 not designated K series, but the precurser. Had like a little mesh on side covers. Mechanic at JN Taylors in Adelaide had one , pulled the rocker covers off, and without a word of exageration cam was broken, it had still been running. I worked there, 1971, when the Asian market started pumping their products, must say missed the smell of oil on the floor after time. They were an iconic Japanese entry to larger, reliable reasonably priced motorcycles.
Shes a keeper

Far Canal
3 years ago

Yes Bloffski, it is the first "K" model that was the one before the K1 etc. It is the only one with that type of sidecover with the mesh gills. I bought this bike off ebay in a drunken stupor about 10 years ago. My bid did not reach the reserve but seeing I had the highest bid I haggled with the seller and got it.
It is a real Peach, spent maybe the first 40 years of its life in an air conditioned hangar in Montana and Its pilot owner would run it up and down the runway and take it for fair weather jaunts. It had 12000 miles on it when I bought it and is like riding a brand new bike of its day.

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paulybronco
3 years ago

Quoting Far Canal on 02 May 2022 06:23 AM
Yes Bloffski, it is the first "K" model that was the one before the K1 etc. It is the only one with that type of sidecover with the mesh gills. I bought this bike off ebay in a drunken stupor about 10 years ago. My bid did not reach the reserve but seeing I had the highest bid I haggled with the seller and got it.
It is a real Peach, spent maybe the first 40 years of its life in an air conditioned hangar in Montana and Its pilot owner would run it up and down the runway and take it for fair weather jaunts. It had 12000 miles on it when I bought it and is like riding a brand new bike of its day.

See there is some love in your description...she a lovely old girl.

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B0nes
3 years ago

Quoting Baloffski on 02 May 2022 04:36 AM
Jeez FC, she is a beauty, though does look smaller than I remember em; looks real good. Had 6 of the bugga's, as mates who were always cashed up, traded up after a year, and I got the hand me downs for a few hundred bucks, being a not so cashed up apprentice.
Is that the K model? Not the K1, I rode the 750/4, made in 1969 or 1970 not designated K series, but the precurser. Had like a little mesh on side covers. Mechanic at JN Taylors in Adelaide had one , pulled the rocker covers off, and without a word of exageration cam was broken, it had still been running. I worked there, 1971, when the Asian market started pumping their products, must say missed the smell of oil on the floor after time. They were an iconic Japanese entry to larger, reliable reasonably priced motorcycles.
Shes a keeper

Must have been a common problem. Had a K7 that snapped a camshaft. Stopped at a servo for fuel late at night near Murwillumba on my way home to Brisbane. Hit electric start and all I got was a click. Thinking the battery had died I then kicked her over. Heard a loud crack as she fired up. Run ok but sounded strange and was down on power but managed to ride it all the way back home. Pulled cam cover the next day and found the problem. Picked up another head and camshaft from the wreckers at Woolloongabba and was good to go. Traded her in 2 years later. Spotted the bike at the Story Bridge bike show around 15 years later still going strong. Would love to get another 750/4.

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Grease Monkey
3 years ago

Looks almost new Hoody, noice.

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brucefxdl
3 years ago

would love a rocket 3,have wanted one since i first saw one in a mag in '69...but money and opportunity never favored me.yours looks the goods...very nice.

Far Canal
3 years ago

Nice looking bike.
Triumph makes them now and there is one of those in each of the three cylinders.
How times have changed.

stevo fxsb
3 years ago

Only Harleys atm :-)

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flstc08
3 years ago

g'day,
only with a picture of you on it.

Jayman6
3 years ago

Suzuki DRZ400E. Set up as a lightweight adventure bike. The level of technology on the DRZ, or lack thereof, makes most Harleys seem positively futuristic in comparison.

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paulybronco
3 years ago

Quoting Jayman6 on 30 Jul 2022 06:22 AM
Suzuki DRZ400E. Set up as a lightweight adventure bike. The level of technology on the DRZ, or lack thereof, makes most Harleys seem positively futuristic in comparison.

The bike of choice for all the hire companies up Cape York. Very rugged little jigger.

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