One of the best things about an old bike:

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 10/09/2017 at 23:17 • Filed to: None

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Show up at a car show in your $1100 reasonably clean vintage motorcycle and park it next to some dude’s $100k ‘67 camaro restoration and proceed to fit in just fine.

One of my exhaust bits fell off on the highway at some point today... $7 at the muffler shop later and they flared me up some 1.5" tubing I can cut later and weld some mufflers onto it so my damn ears can stop bleeding. A straight-piped 500 v-twin sounds good but... when you’re right on top of it it gets tiring at 70mph @ 6800rpm or so.

EDIT: One of the weirdest things about the CX is that at idle it sounds like any old lazy torquey Harley whatever the hell but it’s a super short stroke engine with super short gears so when you accelerate you’re shifting more like a sport bike. It’s bizarre. I’ve ripped through three gears by the time I hit 35mph.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 10/09/2017 at 23:28

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Resto-mod muscle cars are the best deals out there right now. Their $100k is your $25k.

atfsgeoff > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 10/09/2017 at 23:30

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Is it true that the CX500 was the first production motorcycle to use tubeless tires?

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 10/09/2017 at 23:52

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M license status?

jminer > atfsgeoff 10/09/2017 at 23:56

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It was among the earlier bikes, but a lot of 78 Honda bikes used those comstar wheels that ran tubeless tires.

AdverseMartyr > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 10/10/2017 at 00:00

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Uhmm... if you rip through 3 gears by the time you hit 35mph on a sport bike... your doing it wrong. ;)

Also, I love the bike.

DipodomysDeserti > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 10/10/2017 at 00:34

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What did you say about straight piped twins? I can’t hear you!

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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 10/10/2017 at 08:33

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Bike hasn’t been in one piece long enough to go get it. Also I’m having trouble getting ahold of my birth certificate.

Thanks obama

benjrblant > DipodomysDeserti 10/10/2017 at 10:48

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Good lord, son.

benjrblant > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 10/10/2017 at 10:49

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Did you consider taking an MSF class? A weekend of MSF netted me a little card and one quick trip to the DMV later, I had my endorsement.

benjrblant > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 10/10/2017 at 10:50

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“Just tryin’ to sell it fer what I got in it, man.”

DipodomysDeserti > benjrblant 10/10/2017 at 12:32

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You should hear her at 10k RPM

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > benjrblant 10/10/2017 at 14:00

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Too expensive for me

nerd_racing > benjrblant 10/10/2017 at 15:44

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This is exactly what I did and it was well worth the cost. Learned a ton and I had been riding for a while.