Getting as bad as you, Jim. I've been at work for 12
hours now... but almost caught up on the mail
backlog! :-) This is talking bikes, furs, so if
you're after skunks, I'd skip this email...
--- jmhcustomart <jmhcustomart_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I completely rebuilt the Twinstar myself, from the
> ground up.
Would make a decent project bike, but in my case if it
doesn't have 600cc, I don't bother trying to squeeze
more go out of it. It's just easier to get a bigger
bike... From your description, it would look really
neat.
The Shadow sounds like what I'd do to a cruiser if I
was planning to keep it. My Virago was only a
stop-gap, so didn't do much with that. You've put
some serious work into the Shadow by the details given
in your post. Will be way cool.
TOTAL shame to be without it. :-( But if you're eyes
are crook, then riding is probably not a plan anyway.
You need to look twice as hard when riding. Once for
yourself and then once for the other driver, who
probably isn't looking...
(My turn for a quick gripe.) I was U-turning
(legally!) in the UAV and a bike tried to T-bone me
the other day. He tried to blame me, but a witness
and the first aid officer who attended also ride bikes
agreed that there was no way the biker was doing
anywhere near the speed limit. The nice police
officer attending gave me a fine for failing to give
way. Very unfair since the bike rider came around a
corner onto the road I was on. He should have been
able to easily swerve or stop, but stuffed up and
dropped the bike instead.
He was just lucky I saw him sliding and layed the boot
into the UAV and got it out of the way, else he'd have
gone right into the side. Not a pleasant
consideration... Being a rider myself, I look for
bikes. But give me a break, at least LOOK when you go
around corners! Semi-trailers do U-turns where I was
turning, so if it had been one of them, then he'd be
street pizza for sure! Even more ironic is the guy
was a local bike mechanic and was wearing sneakers and
jeans, that didn't take the slide at all well. Idiot.
> twin 3.5" speakers, and a 160 watt
AM/FM/auto->reverse cassette stereo. The
> rear speakers are 6 X 9's, mounted (hidden) in the
> saddlebag lids.
I was going to put a bass engine under the seat or my
Kawasaki ZXR, but my friend who helped build the
Strathfield Monster DB truck (set the Australian Sound
Pressure Level record of 155.2dB) said if I did he
would hurt me... His opinion was accessories and junk
live in cars. Since I have twin 12" subs in the UAV,
I suppose I can live without a stereo on the bike...
:-)
> And I've still got a lot of shit to do on
> it...(big sigh). I'll have to ride it at least once
> before I sell it, though.
To be bikeless! AAAAAAAAHHH!!! I had a friend who
kept a wrecked Suzuki GS1000 on his verandah for about
five years, even though he was too crook to ride. He
just couldn't bear to be without a bike...
Still, in your case, is probably a good option to fix
the eyes first. Hope you get a great price for them.
Will be REALLY hard to replace the Twinstar, so would
suggest selling the Shadow first.
Ride free, citizen. If you can do so safely.
Scrapper, sympathetic Black Dragon...
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Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 03:19:55 CDT