On Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 10:41:46 AM UTC-4, Hurricane wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:19:10 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 4:59:01 PM UTC-4, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:09:27 -0700, Hurricane wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:38:53 -0700, Richard Persing
wrote:
On 6/13/2017 3:53 AM, wrote:
Sort of like that Wieber guy when someone posts the list of all the
exciting and heroic things that he claims he has accomplished.
The two tours in Vietnam, the (what was it) 365mph motorcycle,
He only "officially" claimed 264mph, but I wouldn't be surprised to see
the speed fluctuate over time.
The story is a lie, of course. No one even believes he has ridden a
motorcycle at 150mph.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wieber's motorcycle experience is
essentially non-existent. His habit is to make up crazy stories about
whatever thing he wishes he'd accomplished. Even giving the benefit of
the doubt to his story that he used to ride an old BMW twin, it's most
likely he's never been over 100mph. He has, or had, a dust encrusted
junker in his yard. http://tinyurl.com/ycmtqswa Gotta' love that sissy
bar! LOL He says it's an R90/6, but of course, the engine emblems and
side covers are long gone, which is exactly the type of thing Wieber
would do to further inflate his story. So it's very likely an R60/6.
Regardless, somewhere between 40 to 60 hp if it was in good condition
and tune, two things that would never be true of anything Wieber owns..
He won't post a photo of registration because even if the thing was
ever registered in his name, it would show how many decades it's been
since he's ridden. BTW, those old BMWs were highly overrated in their
day. I know, because I had a '77 R100RS, and was very happy when I got
rid of it.
This the best you can do...trying to say a R90/6 is a R60/6?
https://goo.gl/photos/zSL5ietBG8r75rGE9
https://goo.gl/photos/z4mqvUcspm5TbUP67
https://goo.gl/photos/F3g2GGqYuDYsAKBx7
Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh!!
Nothing in that phot0 tells us it's an R90. The R60 looks the same -- I rode one from Lausanne to Dusseldorf, and it looks like the same bike.
I wish you lived close enough to take my bike for a spin. Almost 4
times the horsepower and light years better than the old beemers in
almost every respect.
It probably would scare the **** out of me. g My fastest bike was a 1967 Triumph TR6 -- the single-carb version of the Bonneville. It almost coughed and died going over Loveland Pass on old Rt. 6 (12,000 ft.), but that was before I-70 was completed and it was the only way to go. I thought I was going to have to push it over the top and that ain't easy at 12,000 ft.
I see that the simpler boxers are finding new
life in hipster land, as retro "cafe racers." This guy's youtube
channel https://www.youtube.com/user/10341037 has many compilations of
examples. Stripped down, no battery, often no fenders, block tread
tires, etc. Some are more art than practical. But the class does
provide low cost riding for those who live where they can get
insurance for such things. I talked to a friend yesterday who owns a
vintage ('81 IIRC) bike. If he lets his insurance lapse, it can't be
renewed. He says that in his area some get around the problem with
vintage registration, which technically only allows limited use.
Interesting. That explains a couple of things. In Paris, in the late '70s, a "cafe racer" was any smallish or medium pocket rocket with a lot of fairing.
I had never heard the term before, but after watching those videos, now I understand some bikes of the period. In Greenwich Village and East Village in the late '60s there were a few bikes with those long tanks and short saddles, usually Harley-engined but with a few Triumphs and BSAs, and with hard tails. From what I could tell, these were not original hard-tail Harley frames, but were welded into hard tails.
I saw a couple of the same bikes in Provincetown, Cape Cod, a few years later. I never knew what they were about and I never heard them called "cafe racers," but they looked a lot like the Brit examples, except with the hard-tail frames.
If I had a classic bike I'd want John Surtees's MV Augusta from the 1956 Isle of Man TT:
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-joh...-60076747.html
Or maybe a Norton Manx of the same period:
http://www.racingvincent.co.uk/25_Bi...20Manx%201.jpg
I'll bet that those bikes, particularly the Norton, were the styling cues for the cafe racers.
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Ed Huntress