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Title: Budget Biking Post by Dave on 06/29/19 at 18:03:12 We poke fun at "Bikers" and "Squids" - and often overlook the real "motorcyclist......the fellow who could care less about what you think about his machine. My wife and I were coming back from a weeks vacation in Hocking Hills State Park in southern Ohio, and we stopped at a rest area on the Appalachian Highway....Route 32. I saw this fellow riding a small motorcycle packed with gear and teased him about trying to disprove the belief that a touring bike needs to be 1,000 cc and weigh 700 pounds. He said he had already proven that to be wrong....as he had just been in New Mexico a few days earlier. He has been on the road since April 25th when he left Michigan. The bike is a 1982 Suzuki GS450L that he bought recently with 7,000 miles on it, and he paid $350 for it. The bike now has 23,000 trouble free miles on it, and he gets around 60 mpg. He said he cruises at 65mph or below. So......there are thousands of very affordable motorcycles out there just waiting to be ridden! All you have to do is find one, buy it, and go riding! http://i64.tinypic.com/24b46s2.jpg |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by springman on 06/29/19 at 19:35:26 Yes indeed! |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/29/19 at 21:39:51 I don't really Know what a Kudo is, but I hear they are good, so, I'm gonna give him five buckets full of them. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by zipidachimp on 06/29/19 at 23:32:19 Confirms what I discovered 40 years ago; most used bikes for sale have minimal miles on them and buying a used bike is safer than buying a used car. There are dozens of stories of the world being traversed by small bikes, the only requirements being courage to try, and a modicum of mechanical skill. cheers! 8-) |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by ohiomoto on 06/30/19 at 04:43:37 Awesome, just awesome. Thanks for sharing that story. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by LANCER on 06/30/19 at 07:17:05 That is great ! |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by Serowbot on 06/30/19 at 08:32:16 And it looks like a comfy ride... 8-) |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by batman on 06/30/19 at 11:16:09 I read a story a while back of a young man who rode a 5hp mini bike across the US. from N.Y. to LA . the motor had to be rebuilt . CA. the only spares he carried were a change of gears so he could make it over the Rockies.( now that's travelin' lite) |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by philthymike on 06/30/19 at 11:25:21 For me the coolest biker I've ever met is the little old lady in my county who daily rides her Honda Rebel. This is a person in her 70s. One day sitting at the stop light talking she said she bought her bike new (don't know the year but clearly an older model) and she'll keep riding it until either she or the bike can't ride anymore. If I wasn't already spoken for I'd try to marry that little old lady. She's my hero. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by jcstokes on 06/30/19 at 13:55:50 I know men in the vintage bike movement here who ride well into thier eighties. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by MMRanch on 07/02/19 at 20:12:37 My S-40 with the Kawasaki 25 tooth pulley does a nice job of running down the road at 70 / 75 mph. The gas millage is only about 50 mpg at that speed , but if I slow down just 5 mph the mpg starts going up . |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by Dave on 07/03/19 at 04:29:42 464F5F584347495F2C0 wrote:
There is a group of retired men that meet every Friday for lunch, and they are all 15-20 years older than me. During the week if the weather is good, they will arrange to go on a morning ride and stop for lunch......the lead rider is 83 and rides a BMW S1000R or and F800R, and the 2nd place rider is 78 and is riding a Suzuki 750 Intruder - I ride in 3rd place and the slower riders follow up on Valkyrie, Gold Wing, Harley and Moto Guzzi bikes. Unfortunately we all age and the majority of the group has some physical issues of one sort or another, and we just lost one member who died from throat cancer......however the good news is that there is hope for us to ride late in life - even if our strength fades there is the chance to get a 3 wheeler of some sort if you still want to fight bugs and rain while traveling. MM and I met an 83 year old fellow at the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground that was riding his bike and sleeping in a tent.....and he had a PVC tube on the bike where he stored his beer! |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by LANCER on 07/03/19 at 15:17:30 Last year our CMA chapter was working a National sanctioned AHRMA dirt bike race (hundreds of participants) and of all those old guy riders was a dude who was 99 years old. He did all his heats and was in the final as well. He was quite the inspiration. The punishment his body took would have laid me low. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by Dave on 07/16/19 at 11:11:55 Good reliable bike, reasonable performance, lotta bang for the bucks. https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/mcy/d/cincinnati-2007-suzuki-gs500f/6934887363.html |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by WunGun on 07/16/19 at 13:28:43 Absolutely true In my early 20's maybe 21 or 22 I wanted to go to California and back from Minnesota. I used the only bike I had which was a little ninja 250. It was an amazing little machine that enjoyed the ride as much as I did. If there is a will there is a way. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by LANCER on 07/16/19 at 13:47:37 The body needs to be willing as well for many of us. That can be a struggle at times. 8-) |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by Dave on 07/16/19 at 18:47:32 That Suzuki is not as "sport bike"as it first appears.....notice the bars are above the top yoke, the seat is somewhat generous, and the footpegs are not all that high and setback. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by MMRanch on 07/16/19 at 20:46:56 Dave you should get that GS500 to replace your 250 . If you can deal with the chain drive - then they are great machines . ;) I put a Blue "O-Ring" chain on the one I had for a while and now 1000 miles later it still doesn't need adjusting yet ... The young man I sold it to , will bring it back for maintenance "how-to's" , he is still so "In Love with it" ;D |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by Dave on 07/17/19 at 03:56:30 140614060B18171A11590 wrote:
The white bike I rode down to your place this year.....is my replacement for the little Kawasaki 250. Three running bikes is my limit - and if Deb ever decides she doesn't want to ride double on long trips.....the big bike will likely be sold. That GS500 looks to be well maintained, no goofy loud exhaust or other stoopid crapp added.....just a good example of a low mileage bike with a ton of miles left in it. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by MMRanch on 07/17/19 at 10:49:18 Three running bikes is my limit - and if Deb ever decides she doesn't want to ride double on long trips.....the big bike will likely be sold. I'm DESPERATELY trying to hold myself to TWO BIKES . ;D |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by WunGun on 07/17/19 at 11:48:50 Three "running" bikes. See that's the key word. Now how many project bikes can you have? |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by norm92de on 07/17/19 at 12:27:16 Way back in 68 I rode a Yamaha 180 from Ohio to Florida to attend school. It was all I had with my suitcase on the back. What an incredible machine that bike was, it kept up with the freeway traffic. It was my only transportation until i could afford a car. Like somebody said, where there is a will there is way. :) |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by LANCER on 07/17/19 at 13:03:04 07150715180B0409024A0 wrote:
You have 3 bikes, but you are trying to hold to just 2 ? ? Me thinks you are regressing. ;D |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by verslagen1 on 07/17/19 at 14:05:16 I know you can ride 2 horse at once, but motorcycles? |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by Dave on 07/17/19 at 16:07:13 373A35383E29696C5B0 wrote:
You have 3 bikes, but you are trying to hold to just 2 ? ? Me thinks you are regressing. ;D[/quote] Somehow you have used the quote button to combine my 3 bike statement with MM's 2 bike limit. |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by DieselBob on 07/17/19 at 17:07:27 Oh yah!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avID4bJ3pw |
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Title: Re: Budget Biking Post by MMRanch on 07/17/19 at 20:18:43 NO Lancer , I've only got the S-40 and the Guzzi V-7II Stone . Unless you count the mini bike - but it ain't street legal and runs off a tork-converter so I don't count it ! :-? One "Me" bike and one "We" bike . Marcia still ride with me once in a while. :) |
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