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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1208504467 Message started by Rockin_John on 04/18/08 at 00:41:07 |
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Title: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Rockin_John on 04/18/08 at 00:41:07 Worthy a couple thousands words: http://catoosatrading.com/images/cycles/99_svg_no2_rt.jpg http://catoosatrading.com/images/cycles/99_svg_no2_lt.jpg According to the PO it had about 136 THOUSAND MILES on it! All on the original IRC tires! ! ! http://catoosatrading.com/images/cycles/136k_miles.jpg "But the battery was worn out and would no longer hold a charge." So I took the Super Crank out of my 87 and took it with me just in case. This guy was a "mechanic" and had one of those big old 100 amp starter type battery chargers. I used it to start the bike and kept it running the whole 20 mile ride home on reserve! The original 1999 model IRC tires have more weather cracking than the original 6.7k mile original IRC tires on my 1987 model; but the 99 model has way more tread on them. Other than being afraid to run it up to speed in 4th or 5th gear for fear the tires will disintegrate... It seems to run out really good. In fact, what with the SuperTrapp exhaust installed, It already seems to have the most middle RPM pull of any of my Savages. As it came with some of those gawd awful factory pullback bars on it, I had to throw some Z-Bars on it as soon as I got it home just to be able to control it. Having done that; a rear brake adjustment, and making the clutch release further out than 1/2" from the bars, the bike is totally ride-able. The best part? I have 3 Savages now, each destined to be very different bikes; With boxes of parts gathering up for each build; and I'm still hundreds of dollars (and a bunch of left-overs) from having spent $4k yet! Thumpers baaayybbeee!! the most smiles per $$$ that can be had with internal combustion! http://catoosatrading.com/images/cycles/3_lill_savages.jpg |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 04/18/08 at 01:21:00 How many Savages before you have a tribe? |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by skrapiron on 04/18/08 at 05:07:50 Nice, rockin-John. Super nice! If I have my way, I'll be getting a Savage soon (for Mrs. Skrapiron) so my garage will look much like yours! I do have a question for you. On one of your bikes, it looks as if you have extended the front forks and increased the steering rake a bit (lengthening your overall wheel base). Could I ask, how did you do that? Congrats on your latest arrival.... |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Rockin_John on 04/18/08 at 09:13:10 243C2536273E253839570 wrote:
Yeah, the 99 model that is shown at the bottom of each of my posts has four inch extended forks. There isn't any frame (rake) modification on that bike. At 35º the Savage doesn't need it for only 4" of fork stretch. The cheapest/best way to get stretched fork legs for a Savage is through "Frank's Maintenence and Engineering" : http://www.frankmain.qpg.com/ |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by bsdnfraje on 04/18/08 at 21:13:26 THATS MY BIKE!!! Except the dealer had the seats recovered and it only had 16k. Isn't that black pearl paint a pregnant dog and a half? |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Steve M on 04/18/08 at 21:36:35 Nice collection Rockin John, your 'aving us on withn the mileage though, that' 13 thousand 635 point 3 miles on that milometer! Still impressive on one set of tyres though dude. |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Rockin_John on 04/18/08 at 22:35:11 5351514C5B0B0E3E0 wrote:
Hey, that was the previous owner who claimed the odometer read "136k miles!" I just didn't argue with him. But I did comment that the tires still had a lot of tread for the mileage shown on them... And they do have a lot of tread on them for 13.6k miles... But man the weather cracking is horrible. The guy I bought the bike from had a very strange accent. Like Brazilian (Portuguese) or something. And he kept repeating "I don't know nothing about no motorcycles!" ;D |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Rockin_John on 04/18/08 at 22:42:53 6B7A6D676F7B68636C090 wrote:
BTW, the rider's seat that is on it now is the one with the cut down foam which came on the bike from Dallas that I bought through a guy from the marketplace on this site. Both of my black Savages are actually black without the misty pearl crap in the paint (thank gawd) I hate that metal-flake stuff in colors that look better without it. Black being one of them. ;) |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by steely on 04/19/08 at 07:14:55 Where did you find that one John? That is a great looking bike! |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Rockin_John on 04/19/08 at 15:35:19 747362626B7E070 wrote:
Hey Steely, it came from a neighborhood out by "German Corner" if you know where that is. If not: It's out north of Owasso on Hwy 169 at about 116th street north. I was afraid when I met him at the convenience store out by his house; with a wallet full of cash; that it might be a setup for a hi-jack. I also worried that with his foreign accent that I'd get to his shack with 14 little kids running around and wouldn't have the heart to stick to my low-ball offer. Neither fear was in the least founded. He showed up at the store to lead me to his house in a late model SUV that was about as nice as mine. Then I followed him "home" to a house worth a couple of times what my old paid for shack is worth! I gave him cash for about $400 less than dealer blue book trade-in value, and rode home smiling and with a clear conscience. (Considering that it needs at least a battery, tires, and fork seals I suspect; right up front. Whether I just got a good deal, or whether I came out like a bandit remains to be seen!) :D 8-) |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by Duane on 04/20/08 at 11:15:29 My forks seem a bit spongy to me. How do you firm the front forks up? |
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Title: Re: My most favoritst all-most new motorsickle... Post by steely on 04/20/08 at 14:45:53 5469656D6F68594C696E68060 wrote:
Cool! My transmission guy lives just north of German corner. Back when I was a kid, my favorite eating establishment was Big D's burgers. My dad lives over behind the cemetery off of 76th street north. How did you find it? I have been watching craigslist lately, but have only seen one in the past few weeks. I don't particularly have the money to purchase another right now, but you never know when you are going to run across a deal you can't refuse... |
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