Latest mod to the 750SS "ultralight"
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From: Brutus on 7 May 2010 12:38 Sorry for the top post but I'm being lazy...anyhow I'm in the local high-end bicycle store in town looking at drop bars for my road bike and see some carbon fiber bars which are indeed feather light. They're only $350 and the sales gal sez there not only lighter but they ride nicer by reducing the road shock! There was a bike hanging on a scale that weighted 14.5 lbs!! without petals. Many bikes in the $20k range....Yup people are willing to pay lots of moola for a reduction of grams... $20k for a high-end road bike sure makes some of our motorcycles look like bargains... "Twibil" <nowayjose6(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:ca11c4f8-7e19-4e8d-bfba-fcf990532b08(a)u3g2000prl.googlegroups.com... On May 6, 8:39 pm, "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > First you have to understand that Grams cost cubic dollars when > reducing weight. 8^) Oh, I *do* understand! I used to race, I still backpack the High Sierras on occasion, and I'd still like to hike the Appalachian trail some day... (Ever cut the tags off of your tea bags or the labels out of your underwear in a frantic last-minute effort to shed a few more grams from your backpack? Bless Colin Fletcher; wherever he may be.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Fletcher
From: Twibil on 7 May 2010 13:19 On May 7, 5:40 am, "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > You're right: it's little things that make a bike your own. > > like a troll doll hung from the lic plate. Good idea! You figure we can get some of Krusty's fingernail clippings?
From: The Older Gentleman on 7 May 2010 14:23 Bob Mann <bobmann(a)mts.net> wrote: > On May 6, 12:03 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > Gentleman) wrote: > > Tim <tomorrowerolsdot...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > >http://www.eti-fuelcel.com/DUCATI900SS.HTML > > > > Yes, in my search for a replacement I came across that, but $1330 + > > delivery + UK duty + paint isn't really sensible. > > > > It's a Ducati. > Sensible doesn't enter the equation. > If you were sensible you wouldn't own one in the first place. > Ducs are about emotion, not reason. > You speek da troof. Just phoned up about my tank - it's away for repair now, so here's hoping. It's done on an 'exchange tank' basis - give them your totten one, get one with a new bottom brazed in. Cost �250, then paint on top of that. Could be worse. New ones were about �1000 when they were last available. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Triumph Street Triple Honda CB400F Suzuki TS250 Suzuki GN250 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
From: The Older Gentleman on 7 May 2010 14:23 Tim <tomorrowerolsdotcom(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > My friend Tom, who at age 62, decided he was finally old enough to > gracefully ride a Harley, and bought a used Electra Glide classic > earlier this year, called me the other day to tell me that the bike > had "declared itself." I asked him what the hell he was talking > about, and he said "It has let me know in no uncertain terms that it > is a Harley.... the heelpad on the heal/toe shifter just rattled > loose, fell off, and bounced off the highway into the weeds!" I had > a simple one word reply for him: "Loctite!" A *real* bikehead would have said: "Lockwire!" ;-) -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Triumph Street Triple Honda CB400F Suzuki TS250 Suzuki GN250 chateaudotmurrayatidnetdotcom Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
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On May 7, 10:19 am, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > You figure we can get some of Krusty's fingernail clippings? I'll mail you a condom full of my DNA if you want... |