Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: Re: New Eldo owner!

Author: Matt Moore

Date: Feb 2, 2005, 7:08 AM

Post ID: 1718320372



Hey Chuck,
welcome to the list! What part of the mitten are you from?
Have you met Larry from GT Motors yet? If you need a book for any of your
bikes, he's likely the one to have it. He's also the local go-to guy for
parts and wisdom.

Matt in Leslie, MI (between Lansing and Jackson)
1973 Eldo


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Sherman" <chucks-@aol.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: RE: New Eldo owner!


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Gotta let you know where I'm coming from.

I'm kinda out there; usedta ride a little Honda Passport to the local
Harley nite just to be different. The Passport had a 70cc motor that
had been massaged from airbox to muff; she'd pull to a tad under 55MPH
on the flat and level. It was cool to go out on Woodward and run the
little critter at the same speed as some guy on a chopper; sometimes I'd
get the thumbs up from a passer-by which was hilarious.

As for the dweebies -

C'mon. I've seen guys posing with their custom rides at night with
sunglasses on! Anyone that needs so desparately to be cool needs to be
poked at; same holds true for beemersnobs. That's not to say all BMW
owners are snob and all Harley owners are dentists, but - if you take
yourself a tadd too seriously - then the shoe fits.

Riding the bike -

This is a year 'round thing, buddy! I live in Michigan; I was out just
this past Sunday the 30th. Was out New Year's Eve; make it a point of
christmas shopping on the bike, too - easier to get a parking space. I
normally ride to work about 40% of the time during the
spring/summer/fall, and pretty much park the car on weekends. All my
stuff is meant to be used - and if you've seen me ride/drive, you know
it's run pretty hard.

Muffs -

I like to tell stories; makes lists interesting, methinks. Here's one:

The crossover pipe on Lucy the hotrod Dnepr cracked at the tail end of
the first ridin' season, making all sorts of nasty noises. Since one
does not pull out the Custom Chrome catalog to order aftermarket pipes
for a Ukrainian sidecar motorcycle, one must improvise...

My dad is a retired tool and die maker; there is a complete machine shop
behind his house, so improvising is fairly common. Got out the
calipers, measured, and then hit the Internet to see what pipe was
available.

Found chrome plated brass tubing in New Jersey - 8' of the stuff cut to
size for all of $40, delivered. long straight pipes made from brass
make the bike sound like it has an additional 200cc's of displacement -
like a Guzzi or Harley. Nice.

Oddly, the company I bought the pipe from specializes in supplying
products to 'gentleman's clubs'.

So - Lucy the hotrod Dnepr is runnin' stripper pole pipes.

Sheesh.


Lannis wrote:
 

Chuck Sherman wrote:
 

 d) I'm not competing with some sportbike squid or a dweebie dentist on a


40K custom Harley when I'm on the street with a 'different' bike.

I like the 'look' of the polished Ambo covers -
with the Guzzisti look down on me if I polish my covers?

I'm askin' on account of the Beemer crowd disowned me when I put JC
Whitney muffs on my R75/5 and then (gasp!) drilled them out so that they


sounded like a proper bike. C'mon - it's not a trailer queen, its a
rider!

Don't want to offend anyone on the first post - that's for Post #3.

Until then,

Chuck.

Chuck -

See there, you can get away with all this loose talk concerning dweebs
on other brands and being disowned by the Beemer crowd, 'cause you're
new. Once you been here a while, you won't get by so easy with this
sort of divisive and non-inclusive anti-social language.

I don't mind it a bit, though, so you just carry on and say what you're
thinking....And polish away on those valve covers!! If you decide to go
back to the original finish, Mark has 324,942 loopframe valve covers in
the back of the shop that you can have for free, but you gotta call.
(How does he make money on that deal? VOLUME!)

Lannis (double, double toil and trouble....)

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