Good quality tools make every task you undertake become a piece of cake......
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
You can learn all that...I was forced to when my VW Beetle put a valve thru a piston and the old man gave me a Haynes Manual and a Powerchief socket set ( made in Hong Kong crap).
The day I take a bike into the shop for an oil and filter change I'll hang up my leathers......
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
I grew up with 70's bikes and like to see them running about but I know that a lot of them were really crap in their day. I had lotsa two strokes - and so did all my mates - and most seized up at some time or other. Would be fun to have one but I wouldn't dare venture far on it. Would probably junk the oil pump and run pre-mix. There are not many oldies I would actually consider buying today. I rebuilt an old DR500 about 10 years ago and ran it for 5 years. It was reliable. Shoulda kept it I guess. Modern bikes are 10 times more reliable.
"May all your traffic lights be green and none of your curves have oncoming semis in them." Rocky, American Biker.
"Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, 18th C.
Ditto, they were as you say mostly rubbish compared to todays bikes. Contrary to opinion of the cabal of cunts who seem to own this place I do like classic bikes including 70's models (who doesnt love a 77 900SS?) but seeing anything old especially in jap crap in mint condition going for silly money I find very amusing. Its as if people have forgotten how bad they were as they start singing along at the pub about the good old days when men where men and H2's spat you off left right and centre. Speaking of which I see that purple H2 is now listed at 20 something k, all I can say is good luck mate because sooner later some moron will buy it!
I still have fond memories of some of the bikes I rode in the 70's. But I would not want to own any of them today.
Maybe you should have bought a nice little car
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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