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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on July 31, 2021, 05:53:41 PM
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My coffee bud keeps a lovely patina on his Reflex.... (....and himself) (I didn't say that out loud, did I ?!)
(https://i.postimg.cc/L85yxxTc/P1160536.jpg)
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Stig
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ummm....nope...couldn't live with my scoots like that...(says the guy who wipes down his bike and scoots with detail spray after just about every ride)
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Guessing he doesn't ride it much. Barely has more miles than Stig has posts.
Unless he rolled over the odometer. The dashboard looks like 100+k miles.
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Guessing he doesn't ride it much. Barely has more miles than Stig has posts.
Unless he rolled over the odometer. The dashboard looks like 100+k miles.
The owner lives less than 2 miles from his coffee, groceries and gas station. Plus he drives 1/2 dozen old Toyotas, a '51 BMW sidecar and a 30's something (working) towtruck. He does own two new knees😊
A retired master mechanic our friends tell me (he doesn't blow his own horn...)
Kindness personified.
Stig
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What the heck, he’s riding, that’s the main thing!
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Each its own.....
No harm done with that little grime.
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Each its own.....
No harm done with that little grime.
Yeah, but I bet it makes Stig wince every time he sees it! (He’d love to get busy with his rags and cleaning fluids! 😂)
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His tow truck is a 1929....
and he doesn't mess with the patina much.
Next time he's in town with it I'll try to get a photo of the gorgeous interior accommodations* :)
(https://i.postimg.cc/kGyxJ2rb/joe.jpg)
Stig
*He either upholsters with bib overalls until they're worn out ...and then wears them to coffee. Or vice versa....hard to tell.
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Love it!
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Just great this truck!!!
Here in Europe the annual inspection guys would be close to a spastic fit, then would concile for a while,
" how can such a vehicle be allowed on the streets to possibly endanger good other inhabitants and proud taxpayers?". Oh my oh my, Europa Quo Vadis...
Guys, be happy to live in US of A with some freedom.
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Just great this truck!!!
Here in Europe the annual inspection guys would be close to a spastic fit, then would concile for a while,
" how can such a vehicle be allowed on the streets to possibly endanger good other inhabitants and proud taxpayers?". Oh my oh my, Europa Quo Vadis...
Guys, be happy to live in US of A with some freedom.
It starts easily, runs and stops. In the winter he tows locals out of ditches.
No stereo...but there is a Marine Band Hohner (harmonica) hanging from a string, if you want entertainment.
There is a big vintage truck show 4 miles up the road at Young's Dairy. (Young's is a huge local attraction) Some years he can get it up the hill to the show. Some years - it's not feeling it😊
Stig
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every time I open this thread and see the first pic....I just think "give me 5 minutes with a clean microfiber towel and a bottle of detail spray..please..."
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every time I open this thread and see the first pic....I just think "give me 5 minutes with a clean microfiber towel and a bottle of detail spray..please..."
I just knew it! I bet you're not alone in that either Hawk. Just wish I lived local to you, I'd happily turn over the cleaning of my pair to you :)
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Neil, you're right, I have a sickness...must..keep..things..clean! Van was dirty so I washed it the other night..it's almost 8 years old with 77K miles on it but I like shiny paint!
(and if you lived around here I'd gladly give you a hand to help clean your rides!)
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..it's almost 8 years old with 77K miles on it but I like shiny paint!
What?! It looks immaculate! (As does the interior of your garage.) Aww thanks for the kind offer as well. I'd be ashamed to show you the state of my X-Town sometimes though...
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Neil - changing topics...I see in your signature that a previous bike was the Kawi GPZ900R...is that the bike made famous by Tom Cruise in Top Gun? Always loved that bike!
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every time I open this thread and see the first pic....I just think "give me 5 minutes with a clean microfiber towel and a bottle of detail spray..please..."
I invite you to come on over to West Des Moines then. You can bring your cleaning supplies and detail my Burgman. It really needs it since there hasn't been any rain lately to ride in... that's what I call a drive through bike wash.
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well...I do work for beer...
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Neil - changing topics...I see in your signature that a previous bike was the Kawa GPZ900R...is that the bike made famous by Tom Cruise in Top Gun? Always loved that bike!
Certainly was Hawk, same colour too - gloss black! Beast of a machine, first genuine 160 mph bike I ever owned; not that I ever saw that on the clock, about the fastest I ever glimpsed was about 140 on the straight at a Castle Donington track day! Big downside (bearing in mind I rode 365 days a year tback then), was the notorious carb icing issue. It didn't even need sub-zero temperatures. Anything below about 5c if the humidity was high, you'd have it bog down and stall, bad enough on back roads, but accelerating down the slip road onto a motorway it was positively murderous! So in 1990 after about 18 months of ownership I traded it in for the first of 2 FJ1200's - Chalk & Cheese!
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I wasn't aware of the carb icing issues..that could be problematic! Do you have any old pics of the bike?
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Do you have any old pics of the bike?
I must have somewhere, let me have a dig through the (paper) archive!
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Neil - I subscribe to Classic Motorcycle Mechanics, a British publication, and a favorite section of mine each month is "The way we were..." where readers send in old pics of them on their classic (anywhere from 60's through 90's) bike.
You may qualify with any number of the bikes you've owned!
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Ha ha ;)