Pedro

They have been busy

Chinese chicken!

Pretty funky on a boxer

Harley usually don't make styling that looks like it came out of some Hipster with a spray can's garage, but now they apparently do. The three wheeler, is it for the same guys who get out of it and get on an electric chair to ride around the rally? Maybe as an ice cream truck, maybe!

They just moved literally just to the other side of the border to get around sanctions. Fuck em, let them suffer like other Russian companies, or are they different because they make bikes?

That's good stuff!

What the fuck! Germans!

Bugs me more that he made a FWD Mustang than the Honda engine. Would have been really neat if he put a nice 2,4 Honda facing the right way with a proper drive unit, would make it handle properly while being completely different than a V8, probably better in some uses. Being FWD, I agree with all the rednecks, it's wrong. What really blew my mind is the guys on the electric chairs standing up and walking like normal people, do they just enjoy riding those things instead of walking?

I didn’t mean entering romaniacs on it, but maybe it’s nice on more agressive tires and maybe as a tourer to go to places where there’s gravel and sand maybe to go somewhere warm …

Leftover after eagle's lunch, probably seagull

The way you're getting a Vtwin feel with an engine that's out of balance to provide that. I don't like the premise that something is not working right in order to make it feel right.

Pretty colour, Bob! keeping it stock of going more offroad?

Surely it has one already! Hipsterville!

I don't get it, why make an engine out of a smooth architecture and then make it unbalanced in order to make it feel like another architecture? Seems wrong to me, seems too hipster. EDIT: Also, why just caring about the 270º cranks? Why not mention the crank position in all engines? Fucking hipsters!

I've got feelings too, man!

See, all the men want to be your friends now, result!

Grass fed horse cock, if you please

My 1150, I loved that bike, the balance on rough roads and the feeling it would always stop on a dime with a passenger no matter what kind of road, I also liked you could do a week's traveling on back roads and never really go above 2500 rpm. It's what got me touring with Maria so really fond memories of it, but it never really rode right. It was a 2001 or 2003 bike, I don't remember, imported from Hong Kong a couple of years after. I must have bought it with a clocked odometer as I got it with just 50 something thousand and sold with it 75000km. The gear change was always hard to get right at the end of a long day, the engine was perfectly smooth after my mechanic synched the throttles and adjusted valves but pretty vibey on the motorway after a few thousand kms. It rode fine balance wise, but something about that engine and gearbox made it tiresome after a few hours on the road, the hotter the weather the worse it got. After I sold it, a bearing inside the gearbox fell apart completely and it had to be completely torn apart, and a few weeks later the diff also needed a proper rebuild even though the tolerances were set straight at my last service when replacing the bearing and seal. Here it is looking cool: And looking less cool:

I think it's boring to vote over the same pictures again, and it's interesting to see what each specific member considers their own favourite picture of their bike for the entire year.

I like that exception, particularly since a specific flouncer had some nice editing and picture taking skills #comebackmawsley #dontflounce I think that's nice, but also think Bike Of The Year should be more interesting, open to all members and to other pictures than the previous votes and be a bigger thing than the monthly voting.

We get MOTY and TOTY, since December is pretty harsh riding weather for a few or most of our members why not have December's Bike Of The Month be Bike Of The Year with a picture taken anytime this year? (including December obviously)

Without wanting to sound alarmist. I would say the smart thing to do is go see a brain guy to rule out nasty degenerative stuff. My dad started having ocasional light lapses in balance, and only after other symptoms appeared (occasional lack of grip strength in one hand) did he take it seriously. The trip in France stuff, might it also have been something simple enough your confidence affected by the first fall and hurt ribs?

Love all of that. What a location with the castle on the cliff.