Seein pics of y'alls bikes makes me want to go dig the Zuma out.
Unfortunately with the ice/sleet/stuff on the ground, I can't really ride it. But I can get it started back up again. Been sitting a month or so.
Been riding some kind of 2 wheeler or 4 wheeler since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I've had more bikes over the years than I can shake a stick at.
'83 Honda XR75
'74 Kawasuki 175 (trials bike. G6 or something like that)
'79 Yamaha RD400F. Loved it, but couldn't keep it together
'86 Honda "rebel" 250. First real street bike.
'85 Yamaha Maxim 700
'82 XS1100
'83 Yamaha Seca turbo
'88 Yamaha DT50. Miss that one for sure.
'92 Yamaha WR200 miss that one too, and gave it away (literally, freebie)
'03 Kawasaki ZX6R (636). Piece of garbage. Ran good, constant transmission issues
'01 KX125
'02 KX250
'10 Yamaha YZFR1-I don't miss that one. Or maybe I do? Odd!
'05 Yamaha Raptor 660, wish I still had that one.
'06 Yamaha Rhino 660, gave it to my disabled vet brother after fixing the engine
'03 Kawasaki Mule 3010
'99 Mule 2510 (gave to my dad)
'88 Mule 1000-modified, ran about 50 mph if you had the nuts to go that fast. Chassis and suspension suck!
'87 Suzuki quadrunner 250. Won a LOT of bracket races with it
'87 Kawasaki Mojave 250, won a lot more bracket races with that than the quadrunner. Ran on methanol, using a grizzly 660 carb, ported head, cams, 13:1 compression, and a tractor muffler. Put the hurtin on a LOT of banshees-but not all of them
'84 Honda ATC250R. Death trap.
'84 Honda ATC110
'83 Honda ATC110
'83 Honda ATC125M
'85 Honda ATC185S
'84 Yamaha Tri-moto 200 (YTM200EK)
'84 Yamaha Tri-Z 250 (another death trap)
?? Kawasaki Tecate-4, miss that one too
05 Yamaha YFZ450. Glad to see that money pit go away
'03? Kawasaki KFX400-ran great, suspension not so great
'03 Kawasaki Lakota 300, gave it to dad, then it was stolen from his place
'06 FJR1300 (exactly like the one in the pic above)-bought with a trashed engine, wanted to fix it but a guy wrecked his and wanted mine for parts. I couldn't not sell it to him. Good guy and I knew it went to a good purpose (get him back on the road). That guy rides more'n anyone I know, he's got over 220,000 miles on his now, bought it in 2014, took a break from 16-18 (military) and in 18 he crashed hard on the pig trail, and then I sold him mine for parts. Besides I don't really fit the "biker" persona. I love to ride but some of the guys that I met up with at rallies were just, well, different. Dunno how else to explain. To each his own, and I respect each and every one of you who still ride!
I know there's more, but I can't think of them right now
STill have the zuma, and I ride it. 03 YW50R, silver (no pics), 12,000 miles on it, give or take a few hundred. 2 stroke. 70cc big bore, 19mm carb, Yasuni pipe, clutch mods, runs about 60mph if everything is right. Had some kid in a camaro pull up beside me locally and rolled the window down and says "you wanna race"....sure, to the other side of the intersection, 200' or so. Buried him, but he blew past me not long after. I use it around town, and I load it into the trailer and it goes to the drag strip with me as a pit ride-and occasionally goes down the track, not with me on it though. Guy I know loves to race but can't use his left foot that well to race a bike, so I drag it up there with me and he'll race it in the motorcycle class for fun. I have a different cylinder here (race), and an Overrange clutch kit, and different pipe--ain't put all that on yet, but I'll have to get a crankshaft. The stock crank kind gets weak above 10,000 RPM, and I'm already able to get 12,600 max out of it, and the race ported cylinder and pipe will get me up around 15,000, so the factory crank won't last long. Plus aftermarket cranks are cut a little different which helps move air/fuel from the crankcase through the transfer ports, bit more power. Stock they are 4hp. Right now I'm at about 10-11. After all the rest of the "new" mods, should be up closer to 20.
YZFR1 had about 180hp, that was the most HP bike I rode on a regular basis. I worked at a dealer at the time and that bike was traded in with 1800 miles when I got it. Didn't keep it long either. Sounded great, just too much bike to ride practically. Top of 1st gear was 78mph. I think 105 is the fastest I had it. I just don't ride hard. When I worked at the dealer (also Kubota dealer, keeping it Kubota related...), I met this gal that was an immigrant from Czech, she came in cryin her eyes out because her bike broke down and wanted to know if I could run & pick it up to fix it. Sure. That's what I do. We hit it off. She had a 05 V-Star 650, AND a 04 Sportster 1200. The Sportster didn't have many miles on it, at the time the 650 had I think 3600. She rode, alone most of the time. I asked her why she didn't ride the sportster and she said after you fix my yamaha we can go ride together and you'll see why. She was right. Vibrating, noisy, hot powerless and ill-handling thing. It was, however, a Harley, but that was all I liked about it. After kinda getting to know her better we hit it off and dated for a couple years, rode everywhere (around here, up in the hills, pig trail, out into Oklahoma and into New Mexico twice, etc). Had a great time the two of us riding the little 650. Many say it's underpowered but I never had any issue, even riding two-up. With her being just over 100 lbs, and me being about 200, it did slow it down a little but we never was in a hurry anyway. Great gal, kinda miss hanging out with her. Classy, fun, down to earth, and being foreign, I learned a LOT about their outlook on things that "we" take for granted.
