What do you ride? Poll and pics

[Lapchik]

Show off your ride, and vote on the poll. Multiple choices are ok, as a lot of members have more than one or two or five bikes. Current motorcycles only for the poll, please, but I would like to see past motorcycles pictured too!

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2012 Kawasaki Concours 1400


Just bought my first motorcycle back! 1982 Yamaha Seca 650


2013 Honda CRF250L


1971 Honda 175 Motosport, much more put together than this right now. This was day 1 of the project.


Quite a few others, but this is the current stable. Well, almost . . . Farmer has one that I am going to pick up in the spring, too.

[propforward]

I just signed up with the group. Mostly because I wanted to annoy paper and LSGiant.

This seemed as good a place as any to cause some irritation.

:wave

Here is a picture of my bike, which is very nice.



It's much nicer than papers scooter.

Hello everyone!

Some of my other bikes don't run as well as that one. Case in point:



I don't worry unduly about that.

[xander84]

Prop, what about pics of that rugged lobster bisque KLR?

[paper]

(02-05-2014 10:46 AM)propforward Wrote:  It's much nicer than papers scooter.

Which one?

Pics and bikes?? Yeah!!

What's currently in the garage?? Listed by size:

Well, my 2005 Kymco People 50 (two smoker, so you know it's fast) is in the kitchen and I'm waiting for performance parts (like a headlight ring)



2006 Yamati 150 touring scooter



Ninety something (can't remember) Honda Helix 250



2007 Yamaha 400 Majesty



2002 Kawasaki KLR650



1985 BMW R80



And 2005 BMW R1200GS




That's the nice thing about GT's is that I've always got a nice bike photo resource.

And Welcome Propforward!!!

[propforward]

Quote:Prop, what about pics of that rugged lobster bisque KLR?

Yes, how could I forget? That must surely be the bike that everybody is simply dying to see.

Feast your eyes on this beauty!









It doesn't get any better than that fearsome beast.

[paper]

(02-05-2014 11:58 AM)propforward Wrote:  

It doesn't get any better than that fearsome beast.

You're an animal! Delta Diner in the winter??

[propforward]

That was March 1st 2013.

I wanted to prove myself.

I was successful.

I proved that I'm an idiot.

[paper]

It's one of those things you have to do yourself..

Welcome to the club. I did something similar when I was in my early 20's, wearing gear that was made for a nice, fall day, and instead riding 20 miles in 20 degree weather.

Come to think of it, I did it again about 7 years ago during the MN1000 by leaving my heated vest home.. It was the first time I shook uncontrollably while seated in hot water.

[propforward]

I got hypothermia on that DD run.

But a PBLT sammich and a million cups of coffee later and I was ready to do it again.

Which I did, because I had to go home, after all.

340 miles in 25 degree weather, and I learned that electrics do, in fact, have a temperature / time limit.

Thank you for the welcome. I keep hearing about GLMC, and it was starting to bug me that you might be having fun that I wasn't involved in.

[Lapchik]

Propforward must really like The Watchmen. Hope you have a better fate than the Comedian did.

[propforward]

So far so good, anyway.

I do like the Watchmen, as it happens. The reason for the avatar was because someone was giving me crap on a forum I moderate (who moderates the moderators), so I changed my sig line to "who watches the watchmen" and added the avatar, and the avatar stuck.

The user in question got miffed about it.

Fun Dayz on the intertoobz.

[Frump]

Welcome to the club propforward. I'm guessing your photo contest competition may have just gone up a notch?

I'll try to post some bike photos later. Sure wish I had some photos of my old bikes from the 70's and 80's. Never thought to take them back then.

[propforward]

Hello! Thanks for the welcome.

Yes, the game is on. Maybe I'll post pics of my other bikes in a bit.

[propforward]

Right. More bikes. Because that's what we like.

ZX1100



Tiger 1 (before hitting a deer with it)



KLX400



1979 CB750K - uh - needs some work. Nearly done though, honest.



KLR650 - Lobster Bisque



GS1000G



GS850G



KZ1300 (currently getting a top end rebuild) - needs vetterectomy



Triumph Bonneville



Second Tiger (I already showed this - but I like it)

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand finally

1960 Matchless G12. We wonder if this will ever get rebuilt. We just don't know. It's in bits right now, this is how it looked when I bought it.



American Spirit Eagle Sidecar. Needs to be attached to a Suzuki GS.



There you have it.

[MikeH]

Welcome to the fun Prop.

So current bikes:
1987 Honda Magna


2011 Kawasaki Concours


Also have an 88 Magna in a few boxes in need of some work, I might get to it one day...

Previous bikes:
1987 Honda Magna (Yes at one time I had three of these bikes)
This was also my first street bike


2006 Honda CRF250


Also used to have a 2001 CR125 & 2002CR250 back in the motocross days but don't know where any pictures are at

[texnmidwest]

Well, my stable is not what y'all have but I do have a couple things in my stable.

2002 Honda Silverwing "Seabiscuit"

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And here is my 2006 Suzuki M50.




Sorry there are no tales of 1000 mile rides in the dark of night wearing nothing but shorts and a t-shirt. But the first 300 mile ride I did on that Suzuki......I felt so tortured that I would have confessed to killing the pope just to get relief!

[Lapchik]

2010 Kawasaki Versys, traded it in on the Concours. Still at Jackson (MN) Cycle if anyone wants to buy it.




No pictures of it, but video of my 1978 CB750K (ton up!). Lost interest in it and sold it.




1980 XS400 Special 2. Quick flip for profit.



Hard to see, but this is a 1983 Honda Magna V45. Mike H, I know why you have had so many of these. They are torque monsters. I learned to drive on one, and could wheelie through 3rd gear. This one needed a lot of engine work, and I traded it and a shotgun for the bike below this one.


This is a 1972 CB500K, and I had to sell it to get myself through a rough spot with my job. A friend of Mike H's has it right now.

[propforward]

(02-06-2014 02:21 AM)Lapchik Wrote:  

I drove by that thing a couple of years ago - it's close to Carhenge isn't it? I wish I'd bothered to stop for a picture - hilarious.

[Lapchik]

(02-06-2014 09:11 AM)propforward Wrote:  I drove by that thing a couple of years ago - it's close to Carhenge isn't it? I wish I'd bothered to stop for a picture - hilarious.

Yeah, it's about 300 feet north of the Carhenge fence. Alliance, NE

[LSGiant]

(02-05-2014 10:46 AM)propforward Wrote:  I just signed up with the group. Mostly because I wanted to annoy paper and LSGiant.

I don't know about Paper but you are going to have to work hard to annoy me on this forum. I save all me grumpy days for ADV.

Welcome to the one of the best motorcycle clubs in the Midwest.

For those of you who have not had the opportunity to meet Prop let me say he is another one of the nice people who ride motorcycles in the upper midwest.

Prop if you get a chance I hope to see you at one of the many events that the GLMC hosts.