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Title: This wins my vote... Post by Serowbot on 01/25/17 at 08:38:04 Worst handlebars ever!... ;D http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc114/eddiemon_1955/swingarmbsa2.jpg |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by MMRanch on 01/25/17 at 08:46:22 Yeep ! What were they thinking ! |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Kenny G on 01/25/17 at 08:49:31 If one of you guys ride it I will watch. LOL Kenny G :-/ |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by springman on 01/25/17 at 09:01:41 That's just a bit too radical for me. If I can't enjoy riding it, then I don't want it. ;D |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Dave on 01/25/17 at 09:31:35 I could probably get used to the handlebars faster than the right side shift pedal. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by JDNewYork on 01/25/17 at 09:43:22 A friend of mine once had a bad drop on his bike and the left side bar looked very similar to this!! He should have just thrown the bike down on the right too and been 'stylish'!! |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Ruttly on 01/25/17 at 10:17:43 Must have got trapped between 2 trucks, straighten out the bars and I'll ride it!!! |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by ohiomoto on 01/25/17 at 11:37:30 556E6374656972746F676A75060 wrote:
LOL, I'm not sure I could ever get used to those bars. I had the right side nuts lever on my 71 Triumph. Whenever I got on it, I would pull in the clutch and tap the left side brake lever down in an attempt to put the bike in gear! Thankfully, it was only when I first threw my leg over it and not once I was out on the road. Once moving I was fine and it felt natural with surprises me because I was still riding motocross regularly at the time. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by stewmills on 01/25/17 at 12:07:59 I know who they designed those high, narrow bars for: |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by bobert_FSO on 01/25/17 at 12:22:08 It's amazing what we do to motorcycles in the name of style or customizing that compromises street rideability and safety. The changes I don't understand the most are removing lights or replacing them with little tiny lights of dubious brightness. I generally want a big 'ol tailights and turn signal with as big a reflectors and lenses as I can. I can forgive some modifications if the bike is strictly an art piece. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Ruttly on 01/25/17 at 12:25:59 Everybody has a nickname where I work , one guy with short arms & tiny hands , yup they call him "T Rex" and man does he hate it ! I got a few Pappy or Grandpa , at Christmas if I grow a beard they call me Santa ! |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by bobert_FSO on 01/25/17 at 12:27:09 In my younger days, I had a Ducati Scrambler and a BSA 441 with right hand shift. The Ducati was not only right-hand shift, but the pattern was 1-up 3-down. I didn't have any problem switching between the Ducati and my brother's Honda, but I do remember my dad pulling out of the driveway on my Ducati and then locking up the rear wheel during a 1 to 2 shift. He remembered the shifting pattern, but forgot which foot to use. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Dave on 01/25/17 at 13:02:04 103736362E3B420 wrote:
You need to buy him a T-Shirt with this on it! |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Ruttly on 01/25/17 at 15:01:29 Dave , He would go ballistic !!! ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Ruttly on 01/25/17 at 15:06:05 I've had a lot of BSAs shifter never bothered me on the other side then get right on a honda no prob. Butt what does bother me is a kick starter on the left side , just can't do it while on the bike. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by LANCER on 01/25/17 at 16:03:48 I had my GOLDSTAR for over 20 years and had Japanese bikes as well and never had any issues in switching back and forth, it just seemed natural for whatever I was riding at the time. Once I was on the road it just came natural. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by jcstokes on 01/25/17 at 17:21:33 Ruttly makes a good point about left hand kick starts, as a result of work I did some years ago my left knee is getting more and more dodgy. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Dave on 01/30/17 at 05:24:31 I went to the Garage Brew bike show on Saturday, and I saw a set of handlebars that would be tough to ride with. The guy has a Draw Knife that was used at an ice house to trim the blocks square.....for some reason he thought they would make a nice set of handlebars. The hardest part for me in trying to adapt to these bars.....was that the throttle turned the opposite way! http://i68.tinypic.com/2holbap.jpg http://i63.tinypic.com/2n9xcth.jpg |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Kris01 on 01/30/17 at 17:34:47 Was it art or something you could ride? |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 01/30/17 at 20:40:36 If I was gonna use the draw knife I woulda turned it the other way. That's kinda dumb looking. |
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Title: Re: This wins my vote... Post by Dave on 01/31/17 at 03:28:28 7B4259430001300 wrote:
These shows have about half of the bikes that can be ridden in some form.......and the other half just seem to be some form of art.....I bet that a very small number of the bikes are ridden on a regular basis. In the "can be ridden" group was the 1960 Harley XLCH, a very nicely restored 1968 Honda CB 450, a Ducati GT750, a Norton Commando, a retired T500 Suzuki Road Racer that had been converted back to being barely street legal, a pair of nicely restored Harley Davidson (Aremachi) 50cc motorcycles, a RD350 road racer replica, and a several Honda twin Cafe' projects.....most of the bikes in this group could be ridden - but are bikes that don't appear to get ridden often. In the "art" group were a lot of Bobber or Brat bikes that were most likely never ridden.....and the tires with the nubs on them prove they have not been ridden since the last set of tires were put on. Some of these bikes appear to be impossible to ride, as the seats are low, the footpegs are about a foot lower and farther forward than the seat.....and the handlebars look like an impossible reach for anybody under 7 feet tall. Many of these bike lack any kind of "legal" lighting.....and often there was no place to put a license plate. One of the bikes was a Honda 350 that was created to look like a 60's drag bike that was raced, then abandoned and discovered 40 years later.......it was a "build you own barn find" project! |
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