Obakesan wrote:
> In article <47837bda$0$22524$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com>, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> I'll stick with Nortons, Guzzis, and Beemers, thank you.
> 
> BeeMs  I can understand (had a few meself), the others are in a different 
> wicker basket (although new Nortons are not to be sneezed at)

Well, at least we didn't get that "a Moto Guzzi is a sexually aroused 
BMW" thing ...

>> Scooters have always seemed just to gaye to me.  There is something 
> 
> yeah, but its fun to drag off a fella on a GSX-R 11 on one (especially when 
> rider gets shitty and snuffs it due to lumpy cam and being twitchy on the 
> start)

That is one of my major gripes ... always getting taken off the line by 
a scooter that then gets in front of me and runs out of top end at about 
ten percent of my own bike's throttle opening.

>> My old workhorse is an '89 Honda Baja, purchased new, which has made 
>> it's way down several mountainsides on its own.  I have preferred 
> 
> is that an XL by another name?

The Baja is also called an XLR in Honda-speak.  It gets parts from both 
bins.  I think its an XL frame and engine on XR running gear and disk 
brakes.  They also get twin headlamps, which just happen to be the right 
size for you to be able to snap in a couple of Cibie driving lamps in 
place of the Stanley reflector and lamp.  A lot of the early 250 motards 
were home built out of Bajas.  When I switched from the 12 liter steel 
tank to an aftermarket 18 liter plastic tank, I had to weld tabs on the 
frame downtubes where they are installed on the XR frame.

>> My big proposal to the Iron Butt Association for the 2008 riding season 
>> is a Japanese version of the 50cc -- theirs is US or Canada Coast to 
> 
> seen a fella who rode across the nullabor on a Vespa turn up to a rally one 
> year
> 
> deserves a medal of some sort

Leaving a greasy noseprint on the window of the train compartment as it 
crossed the desert between Perth and Adelaide was as close as I wanted 
to get.  I've also made it to Alice Springs in air conditioned, four 
wheeled comfort.  Doing it on a Vespa seems to be cause for mental 
health therapy, not a medal ... although I _DO_ have a standing 
invitation to do the desert on a BMW GS.

-- 
CL