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First long day's ride on my Ryca
05/13/12 at 07:32:54

Yesterday I rode my Ryca from the shores of Long Island Sound through Connecticut and Massachusetts to southern New Hampshire. I ran (on foot) up and down Mt. Monadnock and returned home just before dark. This was about 300 miles, averaging a very nice 60 mpg (mostly back roads at 50 mph). The seat padding is minimal on the cafe racer, but I managed it. Not too much pain today. I did this as a shake-down as I will be going to Laconia in early June for the bike rally and touring in the White Mountains. I would like to take the Ryca up there and show it off.

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Savage 1987 Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 56	Re: First long day's ride on my Ryca Reply #1 - 05/16/12 at 09:25:37 Awesome! I finally got my CS-1 on the road last weekend for a shake down cruise. Mine was slightly shorter...8 miles..ran out of gas...luckily I was only a few hundred feet from my house when that happened.
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Re: First long day's ride on my Ryca
Reply #2 - 05/16/12 at 13:38:39

Savage 1987 wrote on 05/16/12 at 09:25:37:

Awesome!

I finally got my CS-1 on the road last weekend for a shake down cruise. Mine was slightly shorter...8 miles..ran out of gas...luckily I was only a few hundred feet from my house when that happened. Cool

Wow! I knew the RYCA conversion took some of the tank capacity away......but only 8 miles to a tank? Grin

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Reply #3 - 05/17/12 at 18:25:11

Dave wrote on 05/16/12 at 13:38:39:

Savage 1987 wrote on 05/16/12 at 09:25:37:

Awesome!

I finally got my CS-1 on the road last weekend for a shake down cruise. Mine was slightly shorter...8 miles..ran out of gas...luckily I was only a few hundred feet from my house when that happened. Cool

Wow! I knew the RYCA conversion took some of the tank capacity away......but only 8 miles to a tank? Grin

I was quite surprised myself. I know the bike is running rich so it much of guzzled what little fuel was in the tank.

Moral of the story is that I am an idiot and should have filled the tank before leaving!

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martinfilms34 Full Member Offline Teenagers ride savages too! Posts: 138 Orlando, Florida	Re: First long day's ride on my Ryca Reply #4 - 05/17/12 at 18:52:05 If you guys don't mind me asking, how much did the whole RYCA conversion end up costing you? I happen to have a deep passion for cafe racers, and im debating wether to convert or go the thruxton route.
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Re: First long day's ride on my Ryca
Reply #5 - 05/21/12 at 09:35:56

$1500 for the donor bike - 11K miles, good shape
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$3000 for the full kit - painted
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$500 take-off and unused kit parts sold

So, about $4000 into the bike itself - excluding tools and supplies and farkles such as flyscreen, fork gaiters, mini turn signals, pipe wrap, bicycle speedo.

Really, about $5000 for everything and 5 solid days of work into it.

Click on my trailer line tag (Build Blog) to see photos ...

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