Da**** Posted August 24 Posted August 24 On 2/17/2024 at 6:52 PM, YorkshireBiker said: There must be a few bikers on here which is something nice to have in common to start a chat about. What you all riding? Currently on a Yamaha XV950R with a non running Kawasaki GPz750 sat in the garage. Profile picture still shows my old XJR1300 but I came off that last May and traded her in a few months ago. 2009 Harley Davidson Electra glide ultra classic over here!
po**** Posted August 24 Posted August 24 Airbrush art, motorcycle restoration, ***ting . Collection of older Triumphs, Harleys. Fun stuff !!
JimtheBear2 Posted August 24 Posted August 24 now, if we could actually initiate Tesla‘s idea of free electric oh wait that’s free no government will do that. That’s the only way to support all electric vehicles everywhere.
JimtheBear2 Posted August 24 Posted August 24 Sorry, I did the second post with the correction because it won’t let me edit my first post
Ed**** Posted August 26 Posted August 26 I've got a GSXR1000 which mostly gets used for track days and sunny days. I also have an R1200GS which is what I ride when I'm not on the Gixxer
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 So what is the longest ride anyone has taken? My longest trip was 680 miles from Rochester NY to Fayetteville, North Carolina and then back two days later. I rode down to go visit some friends on a Fourth of July weekend. Had to be back in New York to go back to work. Followed by a 500 or so mile weekend trip the following month to go visit some friends in Ohio. But my longest trip on two wheels was from North Catalina to Louisiana, just north of Baton Rouge. Bad almost 2 weeks visiting a friend and their family and then road back to North Carolina and got caught up in hurricane Hugo when they started rolling in. I was on I-95, practically leaning the bike sideways just to keep it going straight from the wind. Wasn’t until a tree branch. The thickness of my leg went blowing across the highway in front of me that I decided to get off the damn road. Pulled into hospital parking garage, spent the night with the janitors waiting for the hurricane to blow over. Fun experience, the Ohio trip I got caught in a thunderstorm from Ohio to New York nonstop I was soaked to the bone so all of my coats. I would ride with a long trenchcoat on top of my leather jacket was on top of a leather shirt. There wasn’t a single article clothing on me that was not drenched. When I finally made it home and pulled my boots off I literally poured the water out of them so my log trips were some of my most exciting ones. lol
En**** Posted August 26 Posted August 26 My longest single journey was The Nordschliefe Germany back home to Cambridge in the UK via Spa Francorchamps in Belgium; about 375 miles
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 Here in the United States we have a stretcher road up a mountain called the dragons tail. I plan to ride my trike out to where it is. It’s pretty much cross-country trip for me to do so and then ride that piece of road just twist up and down mountainside and I have to have a couple surgeries done first, but that is one of my goals before I retire writing which I hope to never do again as I got stuck for 12 years, not being able to ride at all
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 I have spent the last six years building. My trike from an old beat up falling apart should’ve gone to the scrapyard Volkswagen trike so I completely rebuilt it from the ground up. It is brand new in the eyes of my insurance company with 0 miles on the motor since it’s been rebuilt and a completely rebuilt transmission with the completely rebuilt frame.
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 Unfortunately, it will not allow me to put a picture of that trike up in this chat, but I do believe I have a picture of it in my profile
En**** Posted August 26 Posted August 26 (edited) 2 hours ago, JimtheBear2 said: That had to be some beautiful scenery Yeah in Germany it was lovely Roads around Nurburg are great. Stayed there for a week. Going through the Belgian countryside was nice..... But most of was motorways :/ Edited August 26 by EnEm1 Typo
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 Still probably a better view than here in over industrialized eastern seaboard States
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 Crowded, heavy traffic. Lots of flat farm land. Going through Pennsylvania was nice and along the Blue Ridge mountains down south was beautiful as well, but New York all flat Ohio pretty flat if not all flat most of the states is pretty flat and boring with lots of farm fields vacant lots run downtown. Nothing old-school majestic no old castles no really old bridges we have a few old Trussell bridges or wood covered bridges but nothing I’d take a picture of and you know as a former architect/archeology/anthropology student, not be totally impressed with.
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 no real great vistas on the eastern seaboard to really be impressed with. I live near the Genesee valley gorge and a few other gorgeous, which is nice but I’ve seen them times lived in the south for a little while and got to see quite a bit down there and at first, yeah I was in awe with some of the sites, but wow, I just shrug them off because I’ve been there seen that repeatedly
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 Oh, and I am a former truck driver who traveled north and south east of the Mississippi and every state north and south from Maine to Florida. So that’s why I really want to go out west for a vacation trip on my trip and just really taking the sites and the beauty of this country.
JimtheBear2 Posted August 26 Posted August 26 I will not be taking the same roads back that I am going to take out that way I get to see more of this country. I’ll stick to the northern routes on my way west and come back on the southern routes and then cut through the middle on a diagonal
thoughtcriminal Posted August 27 Posted August 27 On 8/23/2024 at 10:30 PM, JimtheBear2 said: I’ve heard horror stories of guys getting stuck with them. I don’t believe in any “E” vehicle. It’s retarded to think that an E vehicle is better. You buy one and it actually won’t make a smaller carbon footprint until you hit 2k miles!! That includes all the fuel used to dig the lithium from the ground, just for the battery. Then the coal burn to process it all it’s not including all the coal being burnt to create the vehicle around just that battery. Plus all the cold being used to make any individual part to create that vehicle. Then to believe that any countries infrastructure can actually support an all electric only vehicle systems is ridiculous. If every country switch to nothing but electric, they burn out their own electric supplies. No countries system is equipped to handle that yet not even close. If anything hybrid is definitely the way to go. I actually have ideas of putting a hybrid system into the truck I have now. I have a Honda Ridgeline and it has a trunk that I will put a bank of just regular marine batteries that can be recharged. I will connect them all to alternators that are connected to the axles or wheels in someway to make sure the batteries keep charging while I’m driving, so I don’t have to worry about plugging anything in until I’m done for the day. Another issue about all electric vehicles as you can only go so far and you’ll be lucky if you run out of battery in an area that actually has somewhere you can plug in in charge especially the US with some of the distances we drive. And if you do run out of juice somewhere and you gotta plug-in, it’ll take two hours minimum to get a decent charge and that’s if there’s somewhere to plug-in if not now you gotta call somebody with a diesel generator to run a generator for hours to give yourself a charge. And then, again with the carbon footprint, all the extra cold that has to be burned to produce the electricity the charge your damn vehicle overnight, there’s no savings at all!!!!!!!! I think a hybrid system would work for big tourers like a Goldwing. A limited edition 3 wheeled Neowing is coming out which is hybrid and I would love to try them - it's a bit quirky with two wheels at the front, but if it's good enough for Batman then surely it can't be too ridiculous Kawasaki have pioneered the Ninja7 hybrid - which would be practical if you live in a city with emissions free zones, but I'd rather just ride the Ninja 650. Yes totally agree, the production of electric vehicles is destroying the planet. In China there a fields and fields of electric cars sitting, rotting away never to be used as they were produced by start ups and when the funding ran out they simply abandoned the cars, didn't even want to sell them as it's cheaper for them to sit rotting away. It's AMAZING the power of MEDIA HYPE.
JimtheBear2 Posted August 28 Posted August 28 4 hours ago, thoughtcriminal said: I think a hybrid system would work for big tourers like a Goldwing. A limited edition 3 wheeled Neowing is coming out which is hybrid and I would love to try them - it's a bit quirky with two wheels at the front, but if it's good enough for Batman then surely it can't be too ridiculous Kawasaki have pioneered the Ninja7 hybrid - which would be practical if you live in a city with emissions free zones, but I'd rather just ride the Ninja 650. Yes totally agree, the production of electric vehicles is destroying the planet. In China there a fields and fields of electric cars sitting, rotting away never to be used as they were produced by start ups and when the funding ran out they simply abandoned the cars, didn't even want to sell them as it's cheaper for them to sit rotting away. It's AMAZING the power of MEDIA HYPE. Right start a *** fad and watch the stupid
YorkshireBiker Posted September 17 Author Posted September 17 On 8/26/2024 at 1:13 PM, JimtheBear2 said: So what is the longest ride anyone has taken? My longest trip was 680 miles from Rochester NY to Fayetteville, North Carolina and then back two days later. I rode down to go visit some friends on a Fourth of July weekend. Had to be back in New York to go back to work. Followed by a 500 or so mile weekend trip the following month to go visit some friends in Ohio. But my longest trip on two wheels was from North Catalina to Louisiana, just north of Baton Rouge. Bad almost 2 weeks visiting a friend and their family and then road back to North Carolina and got caught up in hurricane Hugo when they started rolling in. I was on I-95, practically leaning the bike sideways just to keep it going straight from the wind. Wasn’t until a tree branch. The thickness of my leg went blowing across the highway in front of me that I decided to get off the damn road. Pulled into hospital parking garage, spent the night with the janitors waiting for the hurricane to blow over. Fun experience, the Ohio trip I got caught in a thunderstorm from Ohio to New York nonstop I was soaked to the bone so all of my coats. I would ride with a long trenchcoat on top of my leather jacket was on top of a leather shirt. There wasn’t a single article clothing on me that was not drenched. When I finally made it home and pulled my boots off I literally poured the water out of them so my log trips were some of my most exciting ones. lol I’ve never ridden outside of UK and we’re not an overly large place so my longest one day ride was probably 200 miles at most. Current bike, although a cruiser, gets uncomfortable after about 30 min so it’s not something I’m going to use for long rides.
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