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Keyser Soze

On 11/22/16 2:25 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 10:56:31 AM UTC-8, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/22/16 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:55:10 -0500, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:20:56 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:30:44 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

I got rid of my first motorcycle after a bizarre accident in Kansas that
left both me and the bike uninjured, thanks to a quickly falling
snowstorm. Traded the Honda for a nice, safe, used Chevy.

One of my best sources for rice burning motor cycles was from people
who bought them thinking they were the perfect commuter vehicle. All
it took was the first wisp of snow or a little black ice on the road
and they were real cheap but they usually needed a little work. ;-)
I put them back together, shined them up and sold them in the spring.
One year I threw a Honda 350 in my van, took it to Florida and paid
for my trip. It sold in a day.

Going down on ice usually doesn't do any severe damage...few scratches, turn signals, maybe brake or
clutch lever.

Experience talking...luckily with a small Honda 125. I was in uniform going to work at Ft. Belvoir.
MPs stopped and told me I wasn't allowed to ride a motorcycle when there was snow on the roads. I
didn't challenge him, but I still wonder if that 'law' really existed!

That sounds more like a base restriction.

As for damage, you do OK unless you hit something. The RD350 Yammy I
got cheap had 2 bent fork tubes. I thought I would be truing the front
wheel but it survived OK.
I had to paint the tank on a 125 I picked up and replace some stuff
missing from the right handlebar.
I learned how to paint with rattle cans in those days. The Yamaha
paint job was a 3 step process. The trick, as with any spray painting
is never stop moving and pulse the valve.

I wonder if "survival" of bike and rider is as true today, what with the
much more massive bikes and faster speeds and plastic parts...

I don't know, My GS is a 1000cc bike, but I managed to break my tibia riding my 250cc dirtbike 3 yrs ago down in Baja with much more protective gear including wearing trials boots. Hurts about the same if you ask me.

When I got into motorcycles, the popular Japanese and Brit bikes were
mostly 125-250 to maybe 500 cc's, and pretty lightly built. With some of
today's bikes, you'd need a crane to get them upright if they tipped
over.

I don't remember what the top speed of my Honda was back then,
probably because I never hit it. I know the speed limit back in the day
on the Kansas Turnpike was 80 mph, but I never did more than 60 or so.