| | hey chuck,
suzi doesnt have a ride any more,but ,the city of holly has what it call
battle in the ally. same time as suzi's was. mostly harleys but some
interesting bikes do show up. there is a ride in august,its called the
michiguzzi ride. its about a hundred miles with a stop or two to split
up the day,then it ends t a really good bbq. ill let you know if there
is anything going on as far as rides go. and the first saturday of every
month we meet up for breakfast and then go down the streeet to detroit
eurocycles to hang out for a few. its this sat if you are interested in
coming. l
its at grandmas pancake house in eastpointe, 9 mile road between gratiot
and kelley. im sure ill run into you around here,dont see to many loops
so itll be easy to spot you!
sam
Chuck Sherman <chucks-@aol.com> wrote:
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To the Michiganders:
I'm spittin' distance from Woodward; usedta live in Royal Oak but moved
a few miles north of there this summer. Moving puts a crimp in yer
ridin', lemmetellya.
I've heard of both Michigan dealers; when the weather breaks (read no
more salt to corrode old Guzzi bits) I'll make a run on the Eldo out to
both places to check 'em out.
I've bought from GT Motors in the past; they have a great book
selection.
As for Hazel Park...
I sold my URAL to a guy at between 10 & 11 mile and I-75. I forget his
name; he wanted me to trade even up for a Sporty chained to the back
fence of his yard.
To ther Michigan loopers -
I'm up for a spring ride; is there a rally of sorts for this sort of
thing? I know of Suzi's in the spring, but I keep missing it for some
reason...
sam heath wrote:
| | hey chuck welcome to the list and congrats on the eldo,
if your on the eastside of michigan you can also get ahold of jeff at
Detroit Eurocycles ,the eastside guzzi dealer, he's in eastpointe,MI.
thers almost always a loop in the shop being serviced!
sam in hazel park,MI(I 696/I 75 interchange)
70 ambassador
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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
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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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