YamaHead

Too damn heavy for too much dosh....after all, I'm just a lowly CAD jockey w/ an expensive wife at the time. Just make sure it's not shod with sketchy tires is my lesson learned.

Another King Tide shot from Cape Disappointment OR coast...

Sunset at Cannon Beach....

YZR-M1 from '02...

Not sure what the listed price is as I just noticed the sign in front stating For Sale by owner. I bought my place 5 yrs. ago for $102k...now you can't touch any place for less than $200k here in Elgin. A good friend of mine just got evicted from his tiny cracker box house in Oregon City....the Landlord sold it for $425k...Insane pricing in Portland area as well as the whole state.

Only had 2 "Cruisers" in the past.... 1st was an '83 XJ 750 Maxim....was great in a straight line, but a handful in the twisties due to the screwy front end geometry. Seriously reliable though...rode it in 13F & snowing before...did surprisingly well because of the rearward weight distribution. Went on a coupla group rides w/ some Harley buddies & kept up with no problem. This beast would do a smokeshow from Hell...don't ask how I know. Then when it came time to sell it....some rat bastard nicked it! 2nd was this Kymco Venox 250...Taiwanese made but pretty sure motor was built by Honda....liquid cooled, 90 deg V-twin w/ Keihin carbs...low, pretty comfortable & economical- 62mpg regularly. Sketchy tires though...I came home from the upper Clackamas river the last time I rode it....went into a LH sweeper doing about 40 mph, the next thing I saw was some guy leaning over me telling me not to move & a LifeFlight helicopter was on it's way. Apparently the rear wheel stepped out & the caught...highsided me & I landed on my right shoulder & neck....damn near killed me. Still feeling the effects of that to this day. This pic was from that ride before I started back home.... A year later is when MRSA damn near killed me... absolutely blessed to still be here. My MetalFab mate that I've been drafting for...for 20 yrs...is Harley guy. At 1 point he had a '96 Buell S1 Lightning...that was my 1st ride on a Hardley power'd bike...140 hp w/ a V&H pipe, in a 53" wheelbase chassis...as short as my RD 400F. It was like riding a 2-Wheeled BigBlock Vette....handled well with great brakes. Later on, he built this chop w/ an 80" motor & a RevTech 6-speed gearbox. The only real parts that were Harley was the motor & the frame down tubes...He fabbed up the rest himself...even had it blue-tagged as a production vehicle. It rode pretty nice...especially with that gearbox...

13F again this morning...w/ a bit frozen fog...reminds me of a few times I slid around in similar condition on my Seca 550 back in the day. It cleared off nicely with plenty of blue sky...so I managed to get the Mullet out for a spin again. I checked out the Trail by the Rail to see if any more progress has been made on it....as they have received another grant towards the completion of it....but no joy yet, but it's always fun to blast down it on the eBike.... So since I had the camera with me, I got a pic of this straight old mid 60's GMC short-wide....I've had 2 of these in the past, but the short-wides are not too common. Blasted camera has some kind of muck on the lens that only shows up when the light is just right...

Won't be long before it starts looking like this around here....

Cool looking house w/ some real character that's for sale a few blocks away near the train station...

Like others have mentioned....don't wish him any ill....but his problem is quite obvious....

BadAss trick RD 500....

Smoker with a twist.....FFE RZ....(Forkless Front End)... All though if it was mine, I think I'd mount a heat shield between the pipes & that front shock...

Gotta agree with ya there Pedro.... that Beast looks like a blast to ride!

"Bob Defiant" keeps raising it's ugly head....

From the DuQuin Mile back in '85....

Yanagawa & Corser back in '96 I believe....

Shame that this didn't make it to production....

There's that balance point....

Not a damn thing wrong with that @Clive....no matter what @Six30 try's to sell you....

Yep, it does snow in AZ....

Worlds largest 420 bud....kept a whole village high for years. Wonder if any of them are ancestors of Tommy Chong?...