On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:05:22 PM UTC-5, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 3/11/14, 5:57 PM, Tim wrote:

On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 7:36:26 AM UTC-5, F*O*A*D wrote:



I get a kick out of you "full-time retirees." You've got nothing of



consequence to do all day long, all week long, all month long, so you



have to find a zillion little hobbies to fill out your dance card. Golf,



model airplanes, RV'ing, firearms, motorcycling, bluegrass festivals,



guitars. What's next, line dancing?





Sounds like a great life to me. I can hardly wait to do the same..



BTW, Harry, as much time as you've spent in here over the last several years, how do you find enough time to wear out a back tire on your "Super bike?"







Gee, Timmy, I guess I am just lucky. How many miles do you get on

knobbies on your Cushman?

Sorry dude, I never have had a Cushman. How's yours? BTW, last bike I had that was equipped with a 'knobbie' was a 500 Yamaha XT like this one.

http://www.carsstone.com/images/yamaha-xt-500_key_3.jpg

Great mud tractor, but early 70's-mid 80's Yamahas didn't have the best engines. At lest it was better than the disastrous TX 500 twin that liked to break cam chains, which hammered the valves right into the pistons. (This task would usually perform at even minor acceloration with no given notice!)

http://www.cyclechaos.com/images/5/5...lue-5954-0.jpg

But it's big brother the TX 750 twin was beknownst to allow a connecting rod to ventilate the engines lower end.

http://motoprofi.com/imgs/a/a/d/p/c/...1974_7_lgw.jpg



I traded my Yamaha TT at a Yamaha/Honda dealer for a used Kawasaki KZ750.
http://kzrider.com/archive/images/pu...1123101578.jpg

Excellent bike. 4 years and about 30,000 mi. later it was about done .
But it was a fun bike.