Something I ran across- motocycles
Posted by rkj
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This one jumped out at me
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You're just an old fashion guy Peter, lets see if I can put one of my favorites up here [funkgarden.com] |
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A friend of mine in high school had a Ducati 900 Super Sport. He was really serious about this bike and had full leathers and helmet in matching blue and silver colour scheme. We worked together as pump jockeys at a gas station on the highway. Whenever he showed up for work, he'd come roaring off the highway laying this monster bike over from side-to-side threading the long Esses of the highway off-ramp. I still get goose-bumps whenever I see a photo of one of these bikes. He had custom exhaust pipes on his bike. The OEM pipes shown in this photo swept below the engine. He found the pipes dragged on the ground when the bike was leaned over too far. His custom pipes went up and over the gear case instead. With the pipes up out of the way, the next things to touch ground were the footpegs. The ends were all beveled off from scraping the road. He made an adapter to raise the footpegs a bit higher. That lasted for only a week before he decided to put them back to stock height, because he scared the crap out of himself. He found he needed the footpegs dragging, like curb-feelers, to tell him when enough was enough. I never got into street bikes myself. My buddy's Ducati ruined that for me. If I couldn't own a Ducati like this myself, nothing else would do. 
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