A line about cruisers

[Big Dave]

Oi! Why have you said harleys AND cruisers? Oi! :P

Freudian - but I don't class a nice Sportie or FXDX as a cruiser either.

[Ixion]

And to Mr Jantar's Postie I would pose that you ride them 'to' their limitations - not 'within'?

Semantics. You ride anything 'within' its limitations, not 'to' them. Until you reach the limits.

I understand what you are saying. And I agree. I just don't agree that the only way to do it is to ride a crusier.

I ride (sometimes) an XT600 Yamaha. With knobblies. So part of riding is riding within the limitations of those knobblies.

I ride classic machines. With frames made from damp spaghetti , with a hinge in the middle. And no suspension. Once again, riding is a matter of finding those limits.

On a Bantam I would nowdays ride within the limits of the bike (cos I have forgotten them). Until I got back to riding up to the limits. I know some crusier riders to indeed ride up to the bike's limits.

I enjoy a bike where you have to push the bike: whether that be in terms of speed, ground clearance , grip or whatever. And pushing just a bit hard and a bit harder until you find just where that limit is. Then changing technique a wee bit until you find a way that pushes the limit a bit higher.

But I don't get crusiers.

Get a chook chaser instead. Still have the limits thing, and much more fun.

[The Lone Rider]

Freudian - but I don't class a nice Sportie or FXDX as a cruiser either.

You've just been spoiled for choice in bikes :P

[Big Dave]

Get a chook chaser instead.

The correct answer would be get a chook chaser as well.

Then we consider Id.
Elvis, the Fonz and James Dean, Pulp Fiction, Officer and a Gentleman, Brando, Marvin, Eastwood. Scarcely a giblet between them.

[Big Dave]

You've just been spoiled for choice in bikes :P

Fark yeah. There is only other journos (and some mechanics) that have ridden more. And not many of them. And with a few exceptions they don't ride them as far or through as demanding conditions as I get to.

[James Deuce]

Yes, but stick Steve McQueen in there and there's enough giblets for a decent pate.

[YellowDog]

I do find it funny that my Harley friends boast about and admire when they see the road grazings from ambitious Harley cornering (almost leaning over). Why don't they just buy a bike that can take corners?

[James Deuce]

The willful "missing the point" is quite annoying, eh Dave?

[The Lone Rider]

Fark yeah. There is only other journos (and some mechanics) that have ridden more. And not many of them. And with a few exceptions they don't ride them as far or through as demanding conditions as I get to.

Well share with you buddies man!

I can't even afford a bike that I want


But I can dream.
I want a V4 Suzuki 109r with an Arlen Ness harley front light. Fuck it, I want a v8 one, 2.5 litre.

And bright red.

Or black with lighting paintjob.

And a speed limiter so I dont kill myself. 150kmp sounds like enough to me.

Why has no bike company hired me for my clever design ideas?

[Ixion]

The correct answer would be get a chook chaser as well.

Then we consider Id.
Elvis, the Fonz and James Dean, Pulp Fiction, Officer and a Gentleman, Brando, Marvin, Eastwood. Scarcely a giblet between them.

So, if one chromed a chook chaser? The perfect solution ?

[Big Dave]

Or a chook chaser with a Harley Engine?

[Big Dave]

But I can dream.
I want a Fuck it, I want a v8 one, 2.5 litre.

where is your 'BAM' cisco? We don need no steenkin revvs

The reassuring throb of the vee twin stump jump plough thanks.

[Ixion]

Or a chook chaser with a Harley Engine?

But where's the chrome?

[The Lone Rider]

V twin nice, but a cleverly timed and tuned v4 (or at least mine seems to be) sounds nice as.

Throb throb skippty throb skip throb... yeah baby.
If only I could afford the aftermarket pipes.

I'm tossing up between Jadine drags and Vance & Hines Classics.

Jadines insane apparently, VH alright.. apparently also.

[Big Dave]

Why don't they just buy a bike that can take corners?

I agree there is no honor in those battle scars.

But what they lack in crossing the Kaimais is well compensated for on the Desert Road.