Hah, yes I definitely don't worry about my license plate # on display. My Social Security # is 5318008. But you have to turn your computer screen upside-down to read it properly.
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anyone go for a ride today? Pics?
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Hah, yes I definitely don't worry about my license plate # on display. My Social Security # is 5318008. But you have to turn your computer screen upside-down to read it properly.
Mt. Baker Ski Area, last 10 miles were endless MX whoops.
AI said Artist Point was open, but it wasn't, Today maybe...
20250625_124650 by Carter Turk, on Flickr
AI said Artist Point was open, but it wasn't, Today maybe...
20250625_124650 by Carter Turk, on Flickr
Rained hard overnight.
THinking of a morning ride, Looking at weather radar it seemed to me that next batch of rain was gonna pass by to the north.
So, head on out,
out and around and for some errands and, you know, maybe stopping at a coffee shop and, um, maybe also record store that has a coffeeshop.
Ride around, lots of puddles around yet. Roads mostly dry other than remaining puddles.
Ride into town , did my errands, and rode down by beach.
Saw the big puddle in resteraunt parking lot, so swung in for photo. After stepping off and walking around, had to wait a while for ripples to subside.
(Good thing I had greased up my boots recently.)
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THen ride downtown, park downtown (they have mocycle specific spots at end of most blocks - nice)
... and visit a coffee shop . . . . and it starts raining - hard.
And is still raining, more, so get refill.
ANd it rains more.
Oh, did I close visor on helmet (hanging face up on foot peg)?
Nope. Helmet had turned into something of a rain guage.
I poored the water out. And rode home in a light rain.
Helmet drying method: put helmet on electric heating pad, on medium, over night. THat did it quite well (but not really heat up helmet).
THinking of a morning ride, Looking at weather radar it seemed to me that next batch of rain was gonna pass by to the north.
So, head on out,
out and around and for some errands and, you know, maybe stopping at a coffee shop and, um, maybe also record store that has a coffeeshop.
Ride around, lots of puddles around yet. Roads mostly dry other than remaining puddles.
Ride into town , did my errands, and rode down by beach.
Saw the big puddle in resteraunt parking lot, so swung in for photo. After stepping off and walking around, had to wait a while for ripples to subside.
(Good thing I had greased up my boots recently.)
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THen ride downtown, park downtown (they have mocycle specific spots at end of most blocks - nice)
... and visit a coffee shop . . . . and it starts raining - hard.
And is still raining, more, so get refill.
ANd it rains more.
Oh, did I close visor on helmet (hanging face up on foot peg)?
Nope. Helmet had turned into something of a rain guage.
I poored the water out. And rode home in a light rain.
Helmet drying method: put helmet on electric heating pad, on medium, over night. THat did it quite well (but not really heat up helmet).
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I've been riding to work these past few weeks. Yesterday was a bit much on the way home: 116. Today was only 109. Believe it or not, you can feel the difference.
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You take that bike into the dirt there?
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LOL... Ummm... in 1996 I rode from Mesa, to Globe to Roosevelt.... to Tortilla flat.
It still makes my top 10 stupid things I've done list. Also on that list is taking my then 21 year old fiance' on that same ride. We ended the relationship a couple years later.
They've been doing major work on that road. Rumor has it (according to friends with adventure bikes) that it's now paved from Apache lake to roosevelt, and it won't be that long until it's paved the whole way.
I haven't ridden it for a couple of years, but last time I was there, it was dirt not far beyond the last building.
I took a ride up the freeway to the Huntington Beach Vintage Bike Meet today. It's a small meet but always brings a nice variety of bikes. A special treat was seeing a Laverda there today. A tricked-out CNW (Colorado Norton Works) '74 850 Commando got 1st (oops no pics, but bling-city, no expense spared with every CNW option, E-start, belt drive, and on and on), followed by a '71 Honda 750, then in 3rd, a GS (not mine, a BMW). Pic of my GS cut off, oops. It got a lot of interest. A great group of people.
Laverda, Kawasaki and Suzuki - that is some impressive orange machinery!
I know you like Nortons Rob so here is a pic of the winner. It's got all the goodies, belt drive, electric start by CNW, Brembos, fatter fork tubes and reworked internals, redesigned Isolastics and on and on. No expense spared. I think the Norton script is a bit too small, but other than that not much to quibble about. But I will. I'd have gone black with the frame, and that seat? Probably a comfy perch but nah. Oh and give me chrome fenders too please. Other than that, perfect. Hah!
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Agree that Norton is very cool, but I would feel a little more macho pulling up next to it on your red twin. "Electric start? That's for sissies!"
That thing doesn't even know how to mark it's territory!
That Z1 got me confused... I saw Turbo on the air breather, saw the belt and pullies on the crank and thought that's no Turbo charger but a Super charger, then saw the sparkplug wires coming out of it and realized it was over my head. Some kind of ign. system being ran off a belt from the crankshaft, a little out of my league... I had a KZ1300 Turbo for a few yrs. and the OEM ign. ran it just fine, but that was probably 30 yrs. ago.
It's a magneto. That bike is a 'bitsa', the owner used to work for Cosworth (Indy car stuff). It's got an Americal Turbo Pak kit on it, similar to my GS1100E.
I remember magnetos on the old farm tractors from the 40's and 50's... would have thought the newer electronic stuff would have been better. Does yours have a magneto or does you ign. work OK? Still think it looks like a Super charger with the pulleys and belt.
My GS1100E had no magneto, just Accel coils, Wolf (?) plug wires, and a Dyna II. My Norton did. There's a lot of hot takes surrounding magnetos, they give more hot spark at high RPM, yada yada. They look the business and have worked on lawn mowers for decades. I think there is an effect that if you spend big bucks you notice big improvement, sort of like $10K tube amps. I'm sceptical. On my Norton I put in a modern electronic ignition in place of the magneto, in a special housing. Cheaper, more reliable, and easier to kick over.