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Graham Cracker
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Remembering

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Yesterday I was sitting on a park bench when a gentleman rode by on a ‘70s Suzuki GT 750. Beautifully designed bike, and quiet too. It didn’t look like anything out of a Mad Max or Star Wars movie. It reminded me why I appreciate bikes like our GLs and others from that era so much.
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Agree 100%.

Most of the current day bikes look like some sort of mutant cockroach or alien bug! :IDTS:

Nothing like the looks of a classic motorcycle! action1

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Oh yes, those gt750’s are special.
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Was it the "water buffalo"? These older bikes have their own character. Bikes could be identified by how they looked, like older cars. Bikes and cars today look so much the same.
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that high up rear fender on the zoom-splats always strike me like a wedgy just waiting to happen (IMHO)
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rcmatt007 wrote:that high up rear fender on the zoom-splats always strike me like a wedgy just waiting to happen (IMHO)
Never heard a sportbike called a zoom-splat before lolol

Though it makes sense. Honestly, I don't see the point of having a race replica bike on the street. Sport touring, sure. But you're never gonna use the power and handling on the street.

Then you have bikes, like the current BOTM. Warhammer, if I'm not mistaken... :8)
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We saw this clown on the crotch rocket riding through the 2 miles of construction zone heading back from Deadwood.

He passed us going a good clip on the wrong side of the pylons in the closed lane on the highway.

Karma..

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Police looking for motorcyclist who ditched bike in wet concrete


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Rednaxs60 wrote:... Bikes and cars today look so much the same.
+1
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heraldhamster wrote:
Rednaxs60 wrote:... Bikes and cars today look so much the same.
+1
Totally agree too, rare to find a bike these days with it's own character. There is a meeting place at the seaside, Hunstanton, where bikers meet up. Two long rows of same old same old, but any classic bike, pre 1985ish, really stands out and get the most people crowding round!

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1980 CB250N Good to learn on
1981 CX500 good mid range tourer, went to Austria on it!
1983 GL1100C Pride and joy, sold when I bought my 1st house, big mistake
1985 GL650 Silverwing another mistake, horrible bike
1986 CBX550 Good commuter
1989 Suzuki GS750 (1976) cheap and cheerful until a dog ran out in front of me on Xmas Eve, 1991
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WingMan71 wrote:Most of the current day bikes look like some sort of mutant cockroach or alien bug! :IDTS:

Nothing like the looks of a classic motorcycle!
chewy999 wrote:Totally agree too, rare to find a bike these days with it's own character.
I remember people saying the same sort of things about then current bikes when I first got into motorcycling in 1985. A lot of people couldn't understand why anyone would want or need anything as big as a GL1200 at the time. Or with so many amenities either.

I attended my first motorcycle rally (Ride for Sight at Minden Ontario) in 1986 on my GS400. My friends laughed when I started blowing into my air mattress to inflate it "Can't you handle sleeping on the ground for one night?" but they stopped teasing me when the guy with the shiny new 'Wing on the other side of the circle pulled out an air hose and inflated his much bigger mattress...
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Boy, remembering indeed.

I used to bare bones camp off various motorcycles in the '70s and '80s. Bare bones out of necessity given the lack of bags and, in most cases, even a rack. As time has gone by, I've gotten softer, the bikes grew more useful cubbies for travel and, often, I now opt for the comfort of a motel room along the way. Not always, but often enough to admit I've grown soft... <sigh>
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desertrefugee wrote:often enough to admit I've grown soft... <sigh>
Don't think it's a case of going soft. As you grow up, you go camping etc and sleep on the floor and learn what that feels like. You may progress to a blow up bed but you still may have to get up in the middle the night and stumble around in the dark to go to the loo, and you learn from that. Moving on, you start staying in a bed & breakfast or motel, and finally a hotel. Each is a new experience and once you get used to a comfortable stop over, why go back to basics, after all you've proved you can do that.
That said, (in the UK) if the weather is good, Karen and I love camping. (with a blow up bed).
I am also happy to walk miles in the rain, so long as there's a hot shower and dry environment, and a pint or three at the end!

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Previous Rides,
1980 CB250N Good to learn on
1981 CX500 good mid range tourer, went to Austria on it!
1983 GL1100C Pride and joy, sold when I bought my 1st house, big mistake
1985 GL650 Silverwing another mistake, horrible bike
1986 CBX550 Good commuter
1989 Suzuki GS750 (1976) cheap and cheerful until a dog ran out in front of me on Xmas Eve, 1991
Current bikes
2010 CB1300 back on a bike after 19 years, two divorces, children grown up etc
1980 GL1100 NOW ON THE ROAD, still use CB1300.
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