Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / May 2008

Generally HS & post HS age kids to ~25 years old who like so called
"crotch rockets" are either in mid pack or below the bell curve in
terms of intelligence and therefore due to our piss poor HS bias on
brain dead football, basketball etc are basically too illiterate to

as most know Ive been on a mission to burn scientology incs a.s for
quite a while now, actually since ARS began in 1993... we had a few
posts a week... it grew to about 3,000 posts a day by 1995, USENETS
largest NG... then as scn began to shrink as a result of that and our

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I didn't get video, but the track photographer got some nice pics.

Andy took a cold ride up to Cheeseland to ride a Uly, and wouldn't ya
know... He found an 1125R. Too bad he couldn't stick around to ride one :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemackay/2529716181/sizes/l/

Not bad, for being 40-50HP down from most of the rest of the grid.
"In a remarkable performance Maple Ridge, B.C.’s Steve Crevier finished
third in the debut of the Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada / Ruthless
Racing Buell 1125R"

This past weekend I finished putting the Monster back together after
its second [1] winter makeover.  Custom painted CF quarter fairing,
passenger seat cowl, tail section and sidecovers, along with
beautifully clearcoated CF headlight bucket and headlight brackets

Departure: 10am Friday
<snip long tedious trip report>
http://tinyurl.com/5wkuqn (The trip was SLC to SLC, but I retraced the route
from today's departure and I didn't include the side trip to Tortilla Flat)

I got my June Cycle World subscription last week in the mail (X-MAS
present) and for some reason they pitted the two bikes in my subject
lines together. No surprise, the Buell won out but not by as much as
you'd think. What they should have done is compared the Ducati 848

So I took Bobs sv650 for a spin while wandering around Tortilla Flats
this past weekend, and have been riding mine the last couple of days.
For starters, the Gen I looks better than the Gen II, I like the
softer shape of things rather than the more angular look of the Gen

Hi Steve,
all indicates I will show up (with D/L this time :-) for the HD/Buell
demo ride tomorrow. Do you recall what are hours? Any chance to meet there?
Cheers, Andy

Over the past month I've had the opportunity to ride 3 very fine
"motorcycling" roads.
The first ride was in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Highway 9 from Santa Cruz to
Highway 35 and the Tunitas (sp?) Creek Road.  I loved this ride, it is well

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Heya Troy,
Any idea if Hwy 14 is open all the way through?
Wanna ride it on Friday?  You could break off at the Walden, or go all
the way to Hwy 40, if you can get the day off.  That KLR might need a

Cost about $160. Pockets all over the place, front chest in nice and
deep, side, back,little crazy ones in the sleeve. Two big vents on the
shoulders, not just the top of the shoulder but down the upper arm as
well, they work well. The collar is some felty material which is much