July 2016

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The Quail Motorcycle Gathering · We Ride Yamaha’s New XSR900 Sacramento Mile · Wrecking Crew in Europe, Part 3 · Lane Splitting Legislation Update The Perfect Small-Rounder · Sena 10U Intercom News, Clues & Rumors Volume XXXIII, Issue 7 Publication Date: June 20, 2016 NY Burnout, California Style 21658.1. Transportation and Housing Committee unanimously on June 14th, and is scheduled On The Cover: Does this bike look familiar? Probably not, (a) A motorcycle, as defined in Section to be heard in the Senate Appropriations Editor Surj leans our Low Rider into a corner on especially with the back half enveloped in our secret test track. Note the proper Harley attire. 400, that has two wheels in contact with Committee on June 27th. After that, eau de burning rubber. This thing started Photo: Angelica Rubalcaba the ground may be driven between rows of it goes to the full Senate for a vote, and its life—well, its second life, at least—as stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane, Contents: assuming it passes, the Assembly will Tony Spinks’ TT500-powered Coolest of including both divided and undivided streets, need to approve the changes—known in NCR ...... 3 the Dirtbag 2016-winning creation, which roads, or highways, if both of the following Pit Stops ...... 4 California guv-speak as concurrence—and we then gave a bit more space to in the Uneasy Rider ...... 6 conditions are present: then it’ll go to the Guv’na for signature. naughty back pages (“Something Spinks” – New Stuff ...... 8 (1) The motorcycle is not driven at a speed of We’re uncharacteristically optimistic, Locals Only, March 2016) of CityBike a few Events ...... 11 given the unanimous passage in the Trans Excessier ...... 12 months back. committee. One Hundred Years. One Hundred Women Sweet ‘n’ Low ...... 13 AFM Round 4 Program ...... 16 Another Dirtbag Now would be a good time to contact Quail, The Gathering ...... 18 winner, Justin Martens, to your state senator and ask them to support New York San Francisco Small-Rounder ...... 22 picked it up, or at least Maynard ...... 24 this bill—you can find your legislator at - part of it, and has been July 3 23, 2016 Hertfelder ...... 25 FindYourRep.Legislature.ca.gov. Stay sending us photos of Doc Frazier ...... 26 tuned here for updates, or keep an eye on the bike in various Devine ...... 27 LaneSplittingIsLegal.com. Classifieds ...... 28 states of disassembly Be a part of Locals Only ...... 29 to assembly, now with Resting ‘Stich Face Put Some Tank On It ...... 30 a Suzuki four provided Last Page Photo ...... 31 Just because your NFL team hasn’t made Motorcycling History Sac Wrecker ...... 33 by Captain Dirtbag himself, Poll Brown. the playoffs since Nixon was President, and Ride the final leg of the Sisters' Ride their fans insist on referring to themselves Find us online at: Speaking of Dirtbag, the as "Cheeseheads," it doesn’t mean everyone Carson City to San Francisco CityBike.com latest photo from Justin: in Minnesota is a dud. /CityBikeMag this celebratory shot of more than 50 miles per hour. Consider the wits of Duluth, who each /CityBikeMag him burning off the rear in honor of the (2) The motorcycle is not driven more than Meet and Greet with coast to coast riders July 22nd inaugural Dirtbag Challenge NYC. 15 miles per hour faster than the speed of year pump out an enormously entertaining Group Ride into San Francisco and Grand Finale Party July 23rd /CityBikeMag traffic moving in the same direction. catalog from a little brick building in a bad Legislative Update: AB 51 (b) This section does not authorize a part of town, that’s covered in snow most of Contact CityBike: the time. Or freezing rain. www.SistersMotorcycleRide.com PO Box 18738 Picking Up Speed! motorcycle to be driven in contravention of Oakland CA 94619 Last month, we reported on the non-status other laws relating to the safe operation of a The latest Aerostich catalog arrived at Phone: 415.282.2790 vehicle. 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Senior Editor: Robert Stokstad bill—like an ATK dual-sport resurrected from the depths of the San Rafael harbor— including both divided and undivided streets, For instance, this book review of A Hard Chief of the World Adventure Affairs Desk: roads, or highways. Dr. Gregory Frazier has not only started moving again, but it’s Motor Onward on page 174 caught his Staff Photographers: Robert Stokstad, also been amended in a very favorable way. 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Take you plate with you when GO TO ZEROWASTEMARIN.ORG/OILFILTEREXCHANGE FOR MORE DETAILS July 2016 | 3 | CityBike.com off the bike to prevent theft and flummox Aerostich.com to signup. This is clearly a the afternoon, covered in mud; exhausted us into a life of joy. Ingrid was twisting the Helmut and Editor Surj. bird access. What do I head for the rows of tables, arranged in parking-ticket authorities. CNCed from catalog for people who actually ride their but still laughing. throttle on her Beta; cold, wet, filthy, and I hope to find? Not the usual van or truck in the back, tables in solid aluminum, the rounded edges also motorcycles—a lot. tired… on the home stretch. I imagine her a fucking clue—but front formation. It’s all old-timers so far; That’s when we heard the devastating protect your bike's cover from rips and smiling ear to ear in anticipation of a hot Hanford is three crusty characters with unkempt beards, - Brian Halton news. tears of a sharp plate edge.” shower and a cold beer, and I can only hope hours from The thick glasses and Triumph or H-D shirts. A few riders encountered a horrific scene: that she never saw what hit her. Bay and there’s no That's also on Halton's list and he figures Remembering Ingrid Fedje There are basically three types of stuff a bad decision compounded by another, way I’m waking up it will pay for itself in no time It started like every other Ingrid Fedje, long may you ride in peace! here: vintage British / Euro parts, dirtbike on top of another, resulted in a fatal that early without should he—in a Sheetiron, but with rain. As parts old and new, and Harley stuff, which collision between a Beta and an F250. The - Gwynne Fitzsimmons a damn reasonable senior moment— usual, we had bikes with flats, dominates—there are endless tables and uninsured driver, on a suspended license, reason. So I crashed forget to reinsert his bikes that wouldn’t start, blankets of H-D barrels, heads, cases, and chose that day to drink too much and out in a fair-to- plate as he traverses and hangovers. I did give up every other imaginable piece, including a drive. He struck the Beta at speed and fled middlin’ hotel in the Golden Gate. Not my entry, but also as usual, broad selection of long chopper forks. the scene on foot. Central Dustbowl that he would ever do headed up the coast with and woke up early If I was building a chopper, I’d be pissing that intentionally, of the dog and my better half Photo: Bonnie Kellogg No need to inject my opinion. Whatever enough to get to the myself with glee right now. course—but after all to await the rest of our gang is going through your head right now is Ridin’ To The Quail With Bonnie and Tim from 2 Wheel Safety he is 100. on day one. They began similar to the words I would like to have CityBike Training for coming out even though Steven Fooshee scored the Hi-5 gloves. Shortly after 8 AM ($10 regular admission straggling in around four in written. time), the hipsters start showing Want a catalog of In the spirit of making up for all the bad they couldn’t join the ride, and for the up, casually tardy and purposefully your own? Head to shit we do, we decided in the Q1 board generous donation, and a big round of So many ripples from the effects of those nonchalant: guys in tight, grubby jeans, bad decisions: the OMC holding onto gear meeting that CityBike should use The “you guys are awesome” to everyone Quail Motorcycle Gathering as another that rode with us and donated. flannel shirts and “motorcycle boots,” that didn’t get picked up. The campsite extensively tattooed with oh-so-deep opportunity to raise We rolled out for The Quail not too some money for a statements like the Sailor Jerry Americana- much later than planned—I “led” the styled “overcome” on the back of one good cause, like we group, while Fish swept, comfortable did with the Ride obviously real rider character’s neck. They and official on our spankin’ new, six- look like extras from one of the thousand Friday Give Back speed FJR1300, which you’ll hear more (AKA “Fuck Black shitty black and white “I work on this about in a future issue. The ride went motorcycle with my own hands soulfully” Friday”) ride last well, but I’m not going to tell you the November (“Ride movies that seem to be so happenin’ right route, because I want your inquisitive now. Friday Give Back: nature to drive you to join one of our We’ll Do It Again rides in the future. Between the expanses of disassembled Next Year” – News, Photo: Linda Key Hogs, I find interesting bits here and there. Clues & Rumors, Thanks again to Helimot for hosting A complete, original-box model—the January 2016), that us, and to everyone that came out for fairgrounds for early bird access. kind you build yourself—of a Honda cause being Alameda helping us help CASA in their righteous CB750 four. But it’s the DOHC CB—not Sort of. Ingrid tracking her Tiger. County CASA. mission! as attractive to my eyes as the original CASA is an - Surj Gish I got the time wrong, which is actually an motor—and it’s $100, and I don’t have needing to be broken down. The lives excellent organization that provide one- improvement—I’ve gotten the day wrong time for that shit. Then a gorgeously slim forever changed and the grief that will be It Ain’t The Quail, But It’ll Do: to-one advocacy and support to abused, before. Anyway, I thought early birds arm- aluminum trials tank that looks like it’d be everlasting. The Hanford Swap Meet neglected and abandoned children who are wrestling over the sweetest vintage worms easy to mount on just about anything. But started at 7 AM, but turns out it was 6:30. it’s $350, and I don’t have a bike to put it Ingrid Fedje was the rider, one of a dependents of juvenile court. Volunteers It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a red and white as the one I started riding on Shit! Some more punctual old timer is on, and I don’t have time for that shit. sisterhood of women over fifty who have help with the emotional and physical right proper swap meet—a full-size affair, the street on at 14 years old, unburdened gonna snag my… whatever it is I’m looking found joy astride a motorcycle. A woman safety needs of abused and neglected not just some miscellaneous add-on to Out at the back of the dustiest part of the by a helmet or a license, but seriously for. that was game for any adventure, she children; advocate for their educational, another event, a few tables of unwanted field, I nearly give in to nostalgic lust at the faded, like it’s been sitting in the sun was riding the Sheetiron as a guest of the mental health, medical, dental, and family parts and debris masquerading as parts. When I arrive at the fairgrounds a few sight of a ’69 Honda CL350. It’s the same since, oh… 1970. I want it, even though OMC. visitation needs; and work to increase the As a child of a semi-pro mechanic / minutes after 7 AM, the it’s nowhere near as clean as the one I had. likelihood that the children are placed in professional automotive machinist, swap guy at the gate tells me The dilapidated condition, the… what do Her new Beta was a perfect bike for the good homes, with families in which they meets and other car events were pretty there are at least 150 the guys at The Quail call it? Oh yeah, the ride, and she had enough skill to get will thrive. frequent occurrences in my youth. These people inside. The good patina. through day one, although she had a hard sorts of things were also just more common shit is almost certainly get-off along the way and sustained an The plan was to meet at Helimot early the But I’m a pragmatic rider, and I’m struck back then—mostly replaced by eBay, all gone at this point injury to her knee. Friends helped her get morning of The Quail, enjoy some coffee by a surprisingly sensible bout of “what Craigslist, and specialty forum classifieds. so I wander somewhat the bike upright and down the hill where with Helmut and Linda, and hit the road the fuck am I gonna do with this thing?” aimlessly, wasting time she once again threw a leg over it and for fancy festivities by 8 AM. We, or rather Classic Cycle Events, run by Marshall I linger for a minute, but move on when I checking out the show headed towards Fort Bragg. She was riding Helimot, sweetened the deal with a free Baker, puts on the Hanford and El Camino realize that—you guessed it—I don’t have bikes spotting the grass with her soul mate Toby Evans, and they pair of Helimot’s hot-hot-hot (like sexy, not swap meets every year. Marshall took over time for that shit. area just after the gate. decided to skip the last split (Sherwood) high temps) Hi-5 gloves to be given away in management of these events from Dani There’s one table with a pile of cheesecake and instead elected to stick to pavement for a pre-ride, post-coffee raffle. and Glenn Bator five years ago. This year’s Oh yeah, swap meet. pinup signs sprinkled amongst the Harley the remaining distance. Hanford marks 48 years of motorbike parts Turnout was good—twenty-something Photo: Surj Gish parts. More interestingly, this guy has an spread out on blankets in the county seat of riders—and we raised $625 for CASA. Ingrid was a mother, a sister, a multifaceted Kings County, in the southern San Joaquin Extra big high fives from the whole woman—she danced, sang, rode, sky Valley. dived, and genuinely loved life. She was Wrecking Crew to Santa Bob for bringing also a member of Knyte Ryderz RC, a the SFMC crew out, special thanks to Hanford is a small town of 50,000 or so women’s riding club. souls (and at least a few hollow shells) on Highway 198, between I-5 and 99, west I think of Ingrid “Yeah, six speeds. For real.” 275 8th Street, of Visalia, east of… pretty much nothing. San Francisco, CA 94103 fondly. She was There was industry here back in the olden part of a group of days, but when I roll the grumbly CityBike women for whom F250 diesel into central Hanford at 11 PM freedom’s light is on a Friday night, it’s a ghost town: dark, just beginning to empty streets devoid of people. It feels brighten. Sometime like a wasteland—not a West Oakland after fifty, we wasteland, teeming with activity, but just (women) are dead, like some barren waypoint out of The released from so Road. much self-imposed Open 7 Days a Week obligation, and a I drove in the night before so I could get www.sfmoto.com motorcycle is the to Kings County Fairgrounds, where The honda.com: ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET, EYE PROTECTION, AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING. NEVER RIDE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL, AND NEVER USE THE STREET 415-255-3132 ideal steed to carry Hanford happens, first thing, for $25 early AS A RACE TRACK. OBEY THE LAW AND READ THE OWNER’S MANUAL THOROUHLY. For rider trainging Photo: Bonnie Kellogg information or to locate a rider training course near you,call the Motorcycle Safety Foundation at 800-446-9227

July 2016 | 4 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 5 | CityBike.com old payphone, which I snap a photo of. He getting some pretty killer shots of the riders Roadside Repair & Recycling gets irate, “Are you taking pictures of my being all racy, while I managed some pretty Heidi Lypps and Tekla Balukas of Riders signs?!” phone-y phone videos. Recycle shared hard-won lessons from “No sir, just this payphone,” I say with a When an AMA Pro rep scooted up and their travels to Alaska and elsewhere in a smile. gave me, Max and some other photogs a presentation on travel preparedness and stern talking-to about leaning on the berm roadside maintenance at Scuderia on “You better not be!” he grumbles. at the track’s edge, we decided to head to June 2. Using one of their well-traveled Just Ride (Your Own Ride) seemingly all too happy to egg us on with I hit him with a bit of eyebrow-raised the other end of the track to get away from DR650s, they demonstrated several tools its embarrassingly shameful “reporting.” stinkeye and consider employing a witty those troublemakers. I’m not sure who and discussed recommended items to “Ride your own ride, bro” is one of The whole thing explodes and burns, retort like, “Fuck you, hillbilly—I’m pack. those slogans that gets passed around by maybe because it’s easier to argue than to from Oakland, and Holding up a first aid kit, Heidi said: riders as if it’s self-evidently meaningful. come to terms with this core truth: forty- I will cut you.” But “Trouble shooting can also involve your It’s not, at least not without some nine good human beings died for no good I think twice— own body, as we have learned.” corollaries—and note that I included fucking reason. uncharacteristically— bro because I can’t recall ever hearing a They strongly recommended carrying This is why I ride. and stay silent, because woman rider engage in this particular I don’t have time for replacement parts for items that are form of sloganeering. I don’t want to watch the news. I don’t that shit either. known to frequently break. For Heidi want to argue on Facebook. I don’t want and Tekla’s DR650s, this means a spare It can mean “ride at your own pace, I end up buying WRENCH ON YOUR don’t worry about anyone else,” which to watch friends, relatives, countrymen pulse coil as well as fork seals and brake gouging at each others’ eyes; don’t want three ancient fire pads. They mentioned the old-school sounds good on the surface—not too extinguishers—the slow, unless of course you’re holding up to engage in these rancorous brawls. trick of running a spare clutch cable OWN RIDE? old timey ones with directly next to the cable currently in someone else; not too fast, unless your More than ever, I want to escape the the twist lids—for pace is way too fast for conditions, or The use—if it fails, you just connect the stubborn stupidity, the denial, the $40 each, a very old ends and keep riding; no need to pull Man, or some other rider whose idea of lazy-faire lack of willingness to put in crosswalk push button Photo: Surj Gish the appropriate pace differs from yours. the tank off on some remote mudslide FINISH THE JOB: any effort, mentally or otherwise, the sign, and a “slow traffic masquerading as a road. Packing a pdf It’s also occasionally dragged out as reinforcement-centric mindset: “I’ll allow use turnouts” sign, all of it was rolling around on the track but it of your bike’s repair manual on your phone a facile defense against criticism of it, but only if it matches my preconceived which somehow are exempt from the “ain’t sure wasn't us, and we prefer to have our can also get you out of jams: “I’ve looked at Recycle oil and filters! antisocial riding, for example, if a notions.” I want to pack it in and ride got time for that shit” rule. own bad behavior pinned on us, not some the exploded view of my carburetor more member of Bay Area Stupid-Moto were away—not move to Canada in protest, stranger’s half-ass horseplay. than once,” said Heidi. but just disappear into the constantly I make my way back through the rows of to defend his wobbly YouTube clip of him tables, managing to refrain from buying a More action shots, more walking, more riding down stairs, slaloming amongst refreshing asphalt void for a while. One attendee, John Cooper, recommended perfect red and chrome Husqvarna tank action shots, more walking. Being “media” carrying a multimeter to troubleshoot Pick up FREE pedestrians as “just riding my own ride, This too shall pass—again and again, it from the seventies, to the lawn area where is hard work—I’m sure you’re cryin’ me bro!” electrical issues. He joked that the hardest seems. more show bikes have shown up. There are a river right now—but next time, I'm part of the process was remembering how some of the usual suspects: BSAs, Indians, oil recycling gear But you’ve heard this before—I’ve beaten But it’s hard to break away—impossible, smuggling in a pitbike. to use a multimeter. Here, here, John— Harleys—and I’m sure one or two of these this behavioral effects horse nearly six actually, for me. So I bide my time, keep those things can be durned confusicating. bikes were at The Quail the previous Eventually, the sun set and it was go time and information at feet into the ground, and “ride your my mouth shut, and try not to get too weekend—but some really cool racey for racing. You know what else is hard Tekla pointed out that in the event of a own ride” is just another example of the frustrated by the insanity of it all. I take our Riders Recycle bikes have shown up: a Laverda twin and a about being “media?” You can only be in surprise electrical issue or a saddlebag lazy thinking our society now accepts to the road every chance I get, blending one spot at a time, can't see the video feed, as discourse. It’s just another meme, Moriwaki racer. too close to an exhaust pipe, a hydration booth at the: into traffic—even my daily commute is and can't hear the announcer—I couldn't bladder can double as a fire extinguisher. from the olden days before memes had a meditative contradiction, wildly alive I make another pass through the stuff- hear who was winning what. to be accompanied by inane and / or and intense, peaceful and calming. That for-sale area to make sure I haven’t Other good tips included using a hose inspirational photos. probably sounds crazy to most of you, somehow missed an SRX600 or ‘73/’74 I recognized Shayna Texter, because she's clamp and butter knife to “repair” a broken awesome and because she was wrestling THE NHRA NATIONALS This sort of easy-answer, hollow maybe all of you. Eldorado being offered at a must-buy price. brake lever, pre-coating spare inner tubes Predictably disappointed, I load up my a major high-speed wobble that made in baby powder and gluing on the rubber catchphrase-passing-for-insight is This is why I ride. 100% non-motorcycle loot and fire up the her hard to miss. Clash of the Titans III, tips of cell-phone X-mounts so they don’t endemic in modern communication— between Jay Springsteen and Scott Parker? AT SONOMA RACEWAY actually pretty thoughtful relative to diesel for the 3-hour straight line freeway rattle free on the highway. They also trudge home. I still don't know who “won.” Maybe it’s demonstrated a tubeless tire repair. the one-size-fits-all because I won the bet with Max and he emoticonography of If you’re a bike builder—or hipster doesn't want to pay up. Practicing repairs at home first is highly JULY 29-31 extremely short form dressing up as such; or a restorer, or you recommended: “Every skill you have, out channels like texting. just like checking out old bike parts and in the wilderness, it’s going to be 30 As I write this, you’ve got some time on your hands—the Bryan Smith takes it home, again. to 50 percent Americans—wait, Hanford is worth the droning freeway harder.” trip. Hell, I had a great time and somehow humans around And since didn’t even get any motorcycle stuff. the world—are in the event was mourning, deeply - Surj Gish sponsored by shaken by the most Riders Recycle, recent, most deadly Another Mile In The Sac single-use paper mass shooting in US Ah yes, another Sacramento Mile. funnels were history, and along with The annual flat track in Sac is always distributed and the candlelight vigils amazing, but the difference this year we were urged to and genuine discussion is I've got on a fancy-schmancy hi- properly dispose and analysis of why viz orange AMA vest with MEDIA of our oil, no and how do we stop emblazoned across my back, with fully matter where the this madness, we’re photo-geared-up Max by my side. ALL oil change was For more information on how & devolving in real time, ACCESS, bitches! Photo: Max Klein conducted. as we always do, worse every time: attacking Well, all access except for the twenty feet We did manage to grab a - Sam Devine where to recycle oil and filters visit: good spot near the finish line for the big each other, hating of space between two doors that we were Du-Mecca Pilgrimage mindlessly, justifying told we couldn’t walk across, so we had to race, so we saw Bryan Smith careen across From 3:14 Daily and bullshitting based go back the way we came and then back the finish line with a glowing rear brake The final chapter in An’s Euro-trip, after the on the talking points of around the front to end up basically in that rotor and an equally bright smile to win his part where she embarrassed Diavels with a Valencia @ 25th our various ideologies. same room we started in. Hmph. sixth consecutive Sacramento Mile. Vespa in Cannes and the part where her and - An DeYoung her Mister autocrossed their way to Museo The media on both After a nutritious dinner of cake and Piaggio in Pisa… sides, corrupted by the cookies in the turf club, we headed down COOL FREE STUFF • USEFUL TIPS necessity of revenue, is Photo: Angelica Rubalcaba trackside to get up close and personally With my meager CityBike per diem just a 415-970-9670 dirty watching practice laps. Max was smoldering pile of ash on the hotel room

July 2016 | 6 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 7 | CityBike.com We headed in. I felt like Veruca Salt. I. It was only as we were leaving that we expected, and required with most intercom which I’ve always found to be pretty bar-mounted remote, these things are only Want. It. Now. overheard someone in our tour group say installs anyway. intuitive—learning the new motions for issues if you’re a current Sena user. that Dovi was at the factory, just as we the remote may be a little frustrating at Assembly line after assembly line with Start by yanking the entire liner and Beyond these pretty minor complaints, meandered about, ogling bikes. first. Old dogs, new tricks… rows of exquisite Italian specimens: cheekpads. Once the helmet is stripped, and potential issues with placement of the motors, parts, bikes, mechanics… sorry, After the tour, we hit the Ducati factory place the speakers, route the wires, attach Sound from the 10U’s speakers is remote itself—again, very much a bike- M where was I? Oh right, the factory. store. I was expecting to load up on Italy- the contoured battery pack on the lower excellent—loud and clear—so good that specific thing—the 10U is nearly flawless. only exotica, but was disappointed to find back edge of the helmet shell, and then I actually asked my contact at Sena if the We made our way through the production I applaud Sena’s innovative approach with GARAGE it was pretty much all standard catalog find your preferred spot to stick the tiny speakers had been upgraded since the 20S line, unable to touch (or test ride) the 10U—it’s a thoughtful use of space that stuff. Whatever—my carry-ons were controller. Reinstalling the liner hides came out. Nope, they said—same quality anything, no pictures to prove I was there, results in a near invisible intercom system Vintage / Modern already at max capacity anyway. everything nicely—on the Corsair-V, the speakers. Maybe there’s something magical with far fewer limitations than expected. If Motorcycle & Scooter either. battery is hidden by the neck roll. about the composition of my Corsair-V you have a beautiful helmet you don’t want I have no idea where Ducati will send my compared to the Shoei Neotec my 20S lives Service Specialists We were eventually led back upstairs to the to sully with an elephantine tumor on the husband next, but you can bet your sweet Once I had the guts inside my lid, I in. Maybe it’s earwax buildup on the older Du-seum. The lighting wasn't great, but left side, or just like cool tech, the 10U is an ass I'll crash that trip too. placed the remote on the left grip of my 20S speakers. Hard to say, but I’ll reiterate: nevertheless, I peeled the expensive Italian excellent option. (Pre-1975? Come on in!!) trusty R1200R and immediately cursed the speakers on the 10U are the best duct tape off my camera lens and tried to - An DeYoung its existence. Grumble, grumble, that intercom speakers I’ve personally used. $299. Learn more and find out where to buy get shots of everything. shit’ll never work, and so on. I tried other Moto Garage at Sena.com. The museum contains a comprehensive placements, and reluctantly settled on It’s always a little tricky to quantify battery 415-337-1448 history of Ducati placing the remote next to the clamp on life with normal use. I haven’t killed Fish Reads Harley-Davidson 112 Sagamore St, SF, CA. 94112 and its bikes, Mike Hailwood’s #24. the fat part of the bar. Yeah, it worked, and the battery in the remote or the helmet- CVO Motorcycles • Porting • Polishing • Bologna, and back that up with some wild from early models it stayed in place, but it was hard to get to, mounted assembly. For example, I can start tales—but we pretty much just went to through recent and working the control was tricky because the weekend with a fresh charge, ride four By Fish bed. World Superbike and I’d placed it where it wasn’t easy to access hours on Saturday, a few more on Sunday, If you’ve ever been curious how Harley- Cylinder Head MotoGP winners, and actuate. and still have juice left for the week’s Davidson’s CVO (Custom Vehicle The next morning, my husband managed none of which fit commute, probably another five hours Operations) bikes came to be, Harley- Specialists to relay enough information to an Italian Later, we got our hands on one of those into my backpack, Davidson CVO Motorcycles by Marilyn In Business Since 1978 pharmacist to return with an array of cold newfangled six-speed FJR1300s so no matter how (stay tuned for the review of Stemp has answers for you. All Makes medicines, all likely illegal in the US—so much the guide left I tried a little of everything. Then a little that in a future issue) and Even if you weren’t curious, there’s All Models me unattended, I was I tried left grip placement more. unable to acquire any actually a pretty interesting story of All Years of the remote again. On what happened when Mother Motor I'm a trooper—I work for after souvenirs. CityBike Photo: An DeYoung the FJR, it felt ok. Yes, it found itself with an empty production all—so we soldiered on to our date with I had to pause for forces my hand outward line during a sales boom. Starting destiny, a bit more a bit. Yes, it’s hard to get from FXR leftovers, the CVO story is a sedated than usual. used to… for maybe shining example of Harley dominating NGINE YNAMICS But first, a stop for E D , LLC New Stuff 30 minutes. Yes, I’ll its market. The book is full of amazing Phone 707-763-7519 pizza down the keep bitching about it, Fax 707-763-3759 visuals and in-depth information on each • Valve Seat & Guide Replacement • Race Prep • • Flow Bench Testing • Competition Valve Jobs • street from the It’ll Be Our Little Secret: Sena www.enginedynamics.com probably forever, but the of the CVO models factory, because 10U Intercom reality is it ain’t that bad, at from the inception when in Rome… 2040 Petaluma Blvd. N.Petaluma, CA 94952 By Surj Gish least on some bikes. More importantly, of the division to the or Bologna. Close it’s exceedingly easy to use in that Sena seems to have been focused on present. floor, we waved goodbye to Piaggio in enough, right? position, almost second nature. Pontedera and headed north—destination making some of their intercoms essentially The CVO story After checking Bologna. disappear from sight for a few years now, In the end, my level of comfort with the starts with the York, in, we were given starting with the SMH10R—a split remote placement has turned out to be Pennsylvania plant headsets so our Two hours later, we arrived to drizzly system with a low profile helmet-mounted very bike-specific. The good news: if that had housed the tour guide wouldn't winter weather in Bologna, found our hotel controller with a separate battery. The you can’t get used to the bar-mounted VR1000 effort and have to scream at Photo: An DeYoung and had some dinner. By this time, I was 10U, which is available for Arai full-face, remote or ride a bike with grips that production of the us the whole time not just exhausted from our nonstop pace, Schuberth C3 and C3 Pro, and Shoei GT- are simply too short to accommodate MT500. Both bikes (increased volume a moment of silence at Carlos Checa's but also feeling the effects of a recycled Air, Neotec and J-Cruise helmets, takes a it, Sena offers an optional wristband are neat bits of H-D always helps with comprehension) and bike—even though he broke my heart oxygen airliner plague. Awesome. different approach—hidden battery, very remote for $99. history and worth every possible lens except our eyeballs when he retired. I gently placed my hand small, stealthy controller on the helmet, your time to study up Our tour of the Du-factory wasn't until covered with stickers so no photos could be on the fairing and quietly whispered: “I Finding a spot for the remote that with a more full-featured remote controller Photo: Angelica Rubalcaba on, but we’re here to the next day. I'd like to say we ran amok in taken inside the factory. forgive you… mostly.” works for you is important. The thing mounted on the bars of the bike. talk about the CVO is basically the heart of the system— total. I don’t have music on all the time, motorcycles today. We here at CityBike are pretty big fans the little guy on the helmet only offers but at least 50%, plus some phone-as-GPS of Sena stuff—I use a 20S on my daily volume control and on / off functionality. action. Sena quotes “up to ten hours of talk The CVO line is Harley’s factory custom helmet, which replaced a long-serving You could hypothetically start music on time,” a seemingly realistic number based line of bikes. More than just bikes with the SMH10—but we were a little dubious your phone and just let it run, but you won’t on a few weeks of use. Screamin’ Eagle catalog sprinkled over of the 10U’s potential for reasonable be able to cue up “Shake It Off” via voice them, the first CVO motorcycles were Gripes? Of course. The joystick is a little daily use, especially in consideration control, make—or even answer—calls, or exceptional bikes with limited-production of its somewhat precious price of $299. otherwise control any aspect of the system tricky if you’re on crappy roads, which is Miniaturized stuff often suffers as a result while you’re on the move. Some riders will to say if you’re on roads—in the Bay Area of the compromises required to make said think that’s ok, that these devices destroy at least. This only really applies if you’re stuff tiny—so we worried the battery life the purity of riding or whatever, but those triggering a command that requires a would suck, it’d be hard to use, or that guys stopped reading right around the title non-momentary press of the joystick—for it’d require significant reworking of the of this review, so let’s leave the Luddites to example, holding it down for one second Repair & Service We Ship Worldwide helmet’s interior to fit. their complaining and talk about how the to pause “Master of Puppets” so you can remote works. have a friendly conversation with a fellow Not that I haven’t gone to town on a brand motorist at a stoplight. Simpler activities, new helmet’s interior plastic with an X-acto As previously mentioned, it’s easy to use like pressing the bottom button quickly to (“Do I Make You Hornet, Baby? Shoei’s if you put it on the grip. There’s a joystick trigger voice recognition, aren’t susceptible Hornet X2 Dual-Sport Helmet” – New that is simple to actuate with even the to this issue. Stuff, October 2015) to make an intercom fattest of thumbs, which does things like CALL US FIRST! fit, but I have to warn you, as usual: don’t increase or decrease the volume, skip shitty The active areas of the volume control try that shit at home. songs that your partner somehow got into buttons on the helmet-mounted controller Salvaged & New Parts! your music library, and so on. There are aren’t very large, so finding them and Our worries were for naught. Installation also a couple buttons—one on top, the actuating them requires some adjustments was easy, only complicated by the usual other on the bottom—that trigger things if you’re used to just reaching up to press Tue–Fri 10–6 Sat 9–5 treacherousness of pulling all the liner bits like voice dialing. If you’re used to the jog and spin the jog dial on one of Sena’s out of an Arai Corsair V—but that’s to be dial functionality of the other Senas— uh… “rotary dial” intercoms. However, like learning the new movements for the July 2016 | 8 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 9 | CityBike.com paint schemes and custom styling touches. made the Screamin’ Eagle bikes were a Locked Up: ABUS Detecto it around Laguna Seca Raceway in the EVENTS 2nd place in the ‘57 World Grand Prix! Cool bikes at a cool destination— the Later, they’d get hopped-up engines successful venture for H-D. X-Plus 8077 back of your truck with just the alarm AFM 2016 boasting more displacement and power blaring, and you'd still blow the 92db limit TheZenHouse.net Black Lightning in Eureka—with lots of Once the Screamin’ Eagle line was July 2016 than standard models. By An DeYoung at the track and get black-flagged in to the August 5-6, 2016: International Police great riding on the way. Check out our Season established as a July 1-3, 2016: Hollister Freedom Rally How does the saying go? “Tell someone paddock, where you’d be stoned (hit with Motorcycle Competition & Expedition coverage (“From Eureka, With Envy” – Pit Schedule This book takes sustainable business (Downtown Hollister, CA) Stops, October 2015) of last year’s show you love them today, because life is rocks, not get high) for being a cursed (Piers 30 & 32, San Francisco, CA) Get more details you from the venture, H-D broke OPEN The powers that be down there in on our back issues page at CityBike.com/ short. But shout it at them in German, bike thief. Think you have riding skills? Get your at afmracing.org/ beginning, the CVO unit out because life is also terrifying and Hollister have apparently given up on back-issues.html. when Harley- on its own, giving it It stops screaming after about 100% law-abiding ass out to SF to be schedule. confusing.” freedom, which as we know, isn’t free, Awards will be given for most envied Davidson access to the full line fifteen seconds and re-arms humbled and inspired by the mad skills settling instead on independence for 2016. in the categories of Cafe, Vintage, Round 4: June 25-26, 2016 chose the of bikes and a green That’s the message from this screaming itself, which on display, probably enough to reset your The formerly-free-as-in-freedom, now Sport/Racer, Vintage Racer, Custom, Thunderhill FXR as a light to build fully loud Detecto, your neighbors idea of what skilled riding is. 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July 2016 | 10 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 11 | CityBike.com Gimme The Sweet & Lowdown Excessier! HARLEY-DAVIDSON LOW RIDER S Yamaha’s New XSR900 By Surj Gish copy of one of the other kickass, real-deal has arguably been hit the fewest times with For starters, it’s black, which is the right Photos by Angelica Rubalcaba Bay Area motorcycle magazines. the Branding Stick. It’s downright subtle, as color to start with if you’re lookin’ to look this stuff goes. like a proper badass. There’s a stunning arlier this year, I wrote about Just as Max says a little further on in this another V-Twin, Moto Guzzi’s lack of chrome, meaning the toughness here article, that shit stops now. This’ll be But like I said, you know it’s a Harley- of that beautiful black paint on the tank elemental Griso (“Go Go Griso!” – the last time we do this “hey guys, sorry, Davidson because this bike has the purest EMarch 2016), and examined the concept and bodywork extends to most of the bike, but we’re gonna cover another Harley… H-D look of the bikes in the 2016 lineup. other than the “magnum gold” wheels. of what American riders consider to be or Victory… or whatever…” dance. Are we This perfect familial resemblance is a classical round-towner roustabouts— becoming Thunder Press Bay Area? I think cornerstone of the Harley-Davidson The S also lacks extraneous bits and bikes suited for cruising short distances, the answer to that is obvious given that we thing, of course—the MoCo is fanatically bobs—the lines of the bike are unspoiled looking cool, and generally just being photographed me riding the Low Rider S in dedicated to making every Harley look by unnecessary baubles. Sure, there are badass. a high-viz ‘Stich (it’s no, in case I’m wrong and feel like a right fucking proper Harley- DOT-mandated reflectors, but ditch that Here we are a few short months later, about that obvious thing) but what we are Davidson, but the Low Rider S gets it so shit (wait… don’t do that—safety first!) burning rubber on a bike that embodies becoming is the same damn thing we’ve right. It’s a beautiful thing. and you’ll have a low, dark and handsome By Max Klein always been, which is all about all kinds of friend for your daily rumble ‘round town. I got to spend the day on an XSR at the exactly that sort of thing—perhaps more Still don’t know what I mean? Think about Photos by Brian J. Nelson motorcycles. press launch down in Sandy Eggo and was than any current production bike— Triumph’s modern classics. Got one of Although H-D calls the bike a “factory uthentic. pretty damn impressed with it from the on the bike) you can do Harley-Davidson’s blacked-out Low Rider Loud-mouthed beardo rant complete. Let’s those in your mind’s eye? Good. Now custom,” which it is, if you are comfortable get-go. There is a well-thought out circular that too. S. Any and every hipster rehash of talk about this here Harley. think of one of those bastardized pseudo- employing such an oxymoronic term, theme carried through from the lights vintage-y bikes like Ducati’s Scrambler. the Low Rider S can be considered as an old CB350 (if you can still find So the XSR has a strong It’s a sweet, low-ridin’ Harley that almost First, we know it’s a Harley because there A to the instrument cluster, to the exhaust The Triumphs look legit, correct—the an alternate take on the street fighter guarantees you’ll be enlightened to the way one…) ridden by a guy one overpriced tip. All of the aluminum accents tie the motor, good suspension, are iconic little (and big) bar-n-shield of the Hog, its charms are hard to resist. shapes are right, everything looks like it concept: “I’ll have one black motorcycle two-bladed ax away from a lumberjack machine together visually and give it an modern electronics, dealies all over it. Everywhere. On the tank, and semi-retro looks should, whereas those other bikes look please, light on the non-essentials, with costume uses the word authentic when appearance that matches the performance. Since this is CityBike, where in recent years of course. Gauges? Check. On the cases? all for $9,490 ($9,900 like lumpy, poorly-formed clay models extra balls.” describing their creation that—let’s face we’ve sometimes had to do all kinds of Yup. On the tires? Yup. Did I mention the motor? if you want the sweet of vintage bikes, sculpted by a kid who’s it—should be described as unsafe or apologizing and excuse-making to certain Those balls are provided, quite massively, 60th anniversary color Wait…on the tires? Yeeup. eaten way too much sugar with his paste. unrideable and/or deathtrap. Authenticity In the weeks leading up to the press launch, segments of the “community” every time by the Motor Company’s Screamin’ Eagle scheme—worth every Another example of this is the awkward has been stolen, misappropriated, and I’d not ridden anything ballsier than my we ride something that isn’t sporty, dual- The heavy-handed branding ain’t news if Twin Cam 110 cubic inch (that’s 1,801 cc penny if you ask us, Japanese cruisers from the eighties—never Yamaha is taking it back with the XSR900. KLR, so the three power modes were sporty, or more recently adventurous or at you’ve ever looked at a showroom-fresh for those of you who have abandoned the especially Editor Surj) quite right. The XSR is not a rehash of some has-been least European, I’m gonna go ahead and get H-D for more than a few seconds. We had US Customary System) V-Twin. After Also helping with and you can customize seventies nostalgia. It wasn’t cobbled that shit out of the way right here: CityBike a lot of fun ‘round CityBike World HQ Harley has long been criticized for their some discussion ‘round the garage, we slowdowns was the it? together in the dark, moody, soulful barn is about motorcycles. joking about the multitudinous logos, conservatism, but it’s core to the things the re-christened this mill the Growlin’ Bear slipper clutch, which Sure you can probably scoop up a pile of and we even cooked up a contest idea, in MoCo does very well, which is building because that’s much more representative of a free trade, shade grown, organic coffee The Low Rider S is a motorcycle, and a allowed me to downshift old parts masquerading as a functional which we’d give a t-shirt to the reader that bikes that are innately Harley-Davidsons. of the sound it makes, and we’re not real plantation, not the subject of a gritty black- damn engaging motorcycle at that. So if with near-reckless motorcycle for half that, spend the other guessed closest to the actual number of Beyond the ludicrous obviousness of creative. and-white movie with no discernable plot. you’re firing up your fountain pen and abandon and remain half on parts making it an almost modern bar-n-shields on the bike, like “The Price that statement is the point here: the Low parchment to write an old-timey letter Back to the balls: the 4” pistons—you This bike is actually authentic. It is built wreckless. The clutch bike. But in the end you will still have a Is Right”—abandoned because we can’t Rider S looks perfectly, classically Harley- about how “that Guzzi thing was ok, know, like in a small-block V8—of the the around the 847cc triple motor, which you pull is reduced by 20% fraction of everything the XSR is right out count that high and we’re kinda lazy. Davidson-esque. but no more goshdarn Hardleys or I’m Screaming and/or Growling Eagle and or may recall is not only a CityBike favorite making the XSR fairly of the box. (“2015 Yamaha FJ-09: CityBike Calls It easy to ride around done with CityBike,” well, you’re gonna Here’s the thing, though: the bike is Bear puts out a whopping 116 foot-pounds Early—2015 Bike Of The Year” – March town. If that isn’t authentic enough for you, I need to shuffle down to your friendly obviously a Harley-Davidson, but not of torque at 3,500 RPM. Out in the real 2015) but a favorite of many lesser beings will tape an X on your headlight and wave neighborhood bookstore and pick up a because of the branding; in fact, compared world when we’re not talking numbers, Don’t get me wrong, as well. a checkered flag when you pull into your to the rest of the H-D line, the Low Rider S that means that pretty much any time is I have nothing garage at night. I draw the line at making against making a bike sparks for no reason though. welcome to me. They “authentically yours,” and fortunately range from one perfect neither does Yamaha. They offer a full line Max got his start with Ye Olde CityBike back for wet weather to one of accessories for all your bike-pimpin’ in 2014, bashing hipsters in our Essay Contest that will make you wet needs including seat cowls, fly screens, and before it was cool, before you’d even heard of your pants. for those looking for a more punishing, hipsters: “Once word got out that some asshole with a fanny pack paid four grand for a broke- After a brief stint in the authentic riding position, clubman bars. down RD350 it was game over for reasonably nanny state, I switched If you really feel the need to go into a dark priced nostalgia bikes.” it over to the least garage and spray sparks from a grinder restrictive mode and let (likely without actually cutting anything me just say this: nothing is more authentic than second-gear power wheelies. Well done, Thanks to modern, normal-sized rims, you Yamaha. don’t have to spoon on comically bulbous In addition to the power modes, there are Firestone tires. You get to run sticky also three choices for traction control: modern rubber that’s actually capable of minimum, maximum, and for the brave, turning, and the adjustable 41mm inverted off. forks and equally adjustable shock help keep that rubber firmly planted to the All the go-go in the world doesn’t mean pavement. Don’t think that Yamaha simply much when you have to slow down, and the went to the FZ-09 parts bin for its much- brakes did not disappoint. The ABS works maligned boingy bits—the valving and well and was not intrusive, unlike Editor spring rates are unique to the XSR 900. Surj, who kept texting stuff like “So, how is Authentic performance. it? Did you get to ride the yellow, black and white Speedblock one? That one’s gonna be the best.” July 2016 | 12 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 13 | CityBike.com thinking the same thing we thought the The suspension was much better than The cruise control on this bike is the best What the fuck happened?!? I never— whole time we had our it in our stable. I expected: stiff without being bouncy, I have ever used. Unlike every other bike never—thought I would miss having a Yeah, it’s limited in range by lack of supple without being spongy. It just kinda (other Harleys included) I never suffered Harley in the garage, but I do. It might be creature comforts, although saying that worked, in spite of the limited travel. from premature deceleration. Most other that I am a year older. It might be that my makes me feel like a sad little crybaby. But, bikes would disengage the cruise control Dad recently sold off his fleet of Brit bikes like the Griso that started this discussion, The S, was, however, somewhat with a gentle forward caress of the throttle, and bought a Hog and I’m coping with that the $16,699 Low Rider S is a blast around uncomfortable over long distances. The but the Low Rider needs a vigorous tug in my own way. town, a hot rod amongst sedans and and lack of wind protection at speed gave me to get it off. Sure, the first time was a bit Whatever the reason, I finally get it. While commuter boxes, a stripped down, vicious- the sensation of doing a continuous pull awkward, but after a bit of practice it I still wouldn’t call myself a cruiser guy, I looking wolf amongst the sheep. up. Harley refers to the bike as having “mid became second nature. controls,” but compared to the six bikes in also wouldn’t classify myself as not not a Max Gives In my garage they might as well be highway At the end of my time with the S, I wanted cruiser guy. I’m a motorcycle enthusiast, pegs. it louder. I wanted more chrome. I wanted and I know a good bike when it slaps my By Max Klein wind protection… but it was rainy and ass with 116 ft-lbs of torque. Every cruiser review I’ve done for CityBike The relatively forward-mounted pegs, cold when I rode it. I wanted to open up the has started with the following disclaimer: I combined with the wide tank and lack of 2016 Harley Davidson Big Book O’ Bling As SF chapter Director of the AFM, Max am not a cruiser guy. wind protection, had my knees flopping and start pimpin’ my ride. is—perhaps understandably—CityBike’s around like Kermit the Frog’s arms after most obvious “not a cruiser guy” rider / That bullshit stops now, and it’s due to this about an hour and a half on the freeway. writer… but we’re working on him. bike. Fortunately, I needed to stop for fuel at I’ll admit that I was not overjoyed to learn about the same time that my muppet go time. And I mean go—the S in the name thanks to said throttle whacking—and we had another Harley next up in the simulation became unbearable. I’m calling apparently stands for speedy. When you by the way, I can confirm that the mirrors queue, but if you disobey Editor Surj… that a feature, not a shortcoming. twist that grip, you better be ready. work well enough to see said cherries in well, I just don’t like seeing a grown man Speaking of stopping… your mirrors, having seen ‘em myself— Therein lies the problem, if you can call pout. you’ll need to stop, or at least slow down. Brakes have always been my least favorite it one. While there is a backstop for your I’m happy to report that the brakes are It took less than 20 minutes—in the rain part of most cruisers. You’d think that bum, it isn’t really enough to keep your ass even—to get it, “it” being the reason that stopping would be from backslidin’ a big (heh) focus of into the cloud of teams responsible smoke you’re most for designing bikes likely generating for a world where as you burn off yet 650 pounds is a another back tire. “little bike.” Alas, This means you most of my prior end up clinging cruiser experiences aerostich.com/cb desperately to offered binders that the bars like a couldn't stop on a leather-clad trapeze half dollar, much artist, trying to Photo - Bjorn Nybo less a dime. It took ©2016 avoid becoming by John Christian Nygård - 2015 a fistful of front and another skidmark a heavy foot to reel behind the bike. aero cb 07 2016.indd 1 6/1/16 1:10 PM in the last Road It’s manageable, but it kept me from fully more than up to the task. Harley doesn’t bikes like the Low Rider S are popular. King I took out. But the dual discs on the enjoying to brutish torque the bike puts share the size of the rotors, and rather than It’s sexy, in a corn-fed Midwestern manner. front S had me using only two fingers for out. If this engine was only in more of a indulge you with some story about how The rumble of the big twin is both calming most of my stopping needs. I only used the standard motorcycle… we couldn’t find a ruler in the garage at CityBike World HQ I’ll just admit it: “Hey, and invigorating, depending on how far rear brake when navigating a dirt parking But it’s not like they didn’t warn us. Harley we didn’t measure ‘em.” But they work, you twist the right grip. It did just about lot at Laguna Seca. There were even times even says, “Get behind the fixed speed real well, due to the four piston calipers everything I asked of it. Did I mention it’s a around town that I forgot that I was on a screen and hang on.” clamping down up front and the double- damn sexy machine? cruiser. Beyond that, the riding position is pretty piston jobby out back. The long-standing American tradition Yes. I said it. all right by me. The “mid” controls are Unlike some of the other bikes we ride, we of using a bigger hammer still exceptionally forward-ish if you’re can’t bore you with a bunch of suspension is alive and well at Harley used to sporty-bikes and standards, but acronyms. Harley uses the word Davidson. They hit their they’re workable. One beef: while you “premium” to describe the suspenders, and proven Dyna chassis with can stand on the pegs, the rubbers are although travel isn’t what we’d call long, a 110 cubic-inch sledge an interference fit—held on only by the it works well enough for the task at hand, of a motor and the result friction between the metal and rubber. which again, is being a badass-about-town, was just what you might Sounds ok until you’re ignoring common which might even include hopping curbs expect: this beast pulls like a sense and standing on the pegs when and other such nonsense. tractor, specifically a tractor one of the rubbers suddenly slides off. I designed to harvest ass. You BMW Motorcycles of San Francisco could get all entitled and bitch about how In spite of that premium suspension, know, for hauling or shoving 790 Bryant St. San Francisco, CA 94107 that shouldn’t happen, but anyone with cornering with any quickness means you’re into cans with equal parts 415-503-9988 . www.bmwmotorcycle.com minimal brainwaves happening should be dragging hard parts. Keep your corner whoop. speeds sane and you’ll keep the sparks to a BMW Motorcycles of Walnut Creek quick to point out, “it’s not a dirtbike, you 1255 Parkside Dr. Walnut Creek, CA 94596 minimum, if that’s what you want. That burly motor wants dummy.” to settle in at 80mph. 925-938-8373 . www.bmwmcwalnutcreek.com Point taken. Electronics are simple and seamless: ride Everywhere. Seriously. by wire and cruise control, ABS, keyless “I was forced to do those The low, flat bars combined with those ignition and a nifty factory security rolling burnouts, officer, forward-ish “mid” pegs put the rider in a system. The fueling delivered by the ride otherwise I would have been C-shape facing the direction of travel. It’s by wire system is buttery smooth even speeding.” not a good position for touring, or riding when it’s delivering a big kick in your ass, for very long in one sitting, but to my mind and the cruise control system is one of the It wasn’t just the motor that it’s a much better stance than the fight- easiest, best systems we’ve had the pleasure was happy at 80 either—the the-power, fists-in-the-air pose required of using, especially when you punch resume bike tracked like it was on by cruisers with higher bars. It works ok in and that motor get you back up to speed rails. Not some bullshit short bursts, like the rest of the bike. post haste. BART rails either—we’re talking top notch Japanese If you get tired of whacking the throttle, or If you’re thinking, “this sounds like a bike bullet train level rails. you end up with cherries in your mirrors more for riding than for posing,” you’re

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8:00 Practice Groups 1-5 If you have ever wondered how the AFM Chicago, New York and Mississippi gave the 500cc bikes a hard time as well. Riders Meeting 8:00 came to be, wonder no more! Thanks to chapters the club became very California Politically things were confusing and July 8:25 Practice Groups 1-5 RD 1 9:15 Riders Meeting Paul Ritter, author of the book "Racing the centered. The St. Louis chapter was the changing. The AMA wasn’t interested Gods" (Available from Octane Press) we only exception in European-style racing and there was 11 Mon Thunderhill East Practice Groups 1-5 RD 2 Race 1: Legacy Light 9:30 9:45 are going to get you all caught up on AFM hope that the AFM would develop into 12 Tues Thunderhill East history. The article below is an excerpt In early 1963 the Sacramento area the FIM representative for the U.S. The 10:50 Practice Groups 1-5 RD 3 Race 1: 250 Superbike members of the S.F. Chapter formed Sponsored by Catalyst Reaction from his blog (paulritterblog.wordpress. FIM instead selected the USMC, and the 12:00 Lunch Break com): their own group and became the AFM’s AFM became a USMC affiliate (whatever August 10:05 Race 2: 750 Superbike 5th California chapter. The original four that meant). The USMC put on some 1:00 Practice Groups 1-5 RD 4 Part Two: The Wes Cooley Era, 1960 SoCal chapters had become two: Los 15 Mon Sonoma Race 3: 700 Production FIM-sanctioned races in Daytona which Practice Groups 1-5 RD 5 10:30 through 1964. Angeles and San Diego. Later that year drew some top European riders, but they 27 Sat Thunderhill East 2:10 the S.F. Chapter had its charter pulled, NRS Practice Starts Race 3: Lightweight Twins The early 1960s were turbulent times couldn’t draw enough spectators and 28 Sun Thunderhill East then re-issued after a special election. The the USMC folded in 1963. A new group Race 3: Formula Singles for the AFM. The club was changing as reasons for this move aren’t clear from the 29 Mon Thunderhill Full 3:15 National Anthem / existing chapters left and new chapters called MICUS (Motorcycle International old material, but they hint of a personality Committee of the U.S., I think) was 30 Tues Thunderhill East Mark Grids 10:50 Race 4: 600 Superbike joined. Also the political relationship with clash between Wes Cooley and S.F. the European-based FIM and other U.S. formed to replace it., 11:15 Race 5: Open GP Chapter President Pete Adams. Whatever 3:30 Race 1: Formula 50 motorcycle it was, after the special It isn’t clear exactly what happened with September Sponsored by Fast Line Cycles racing Race 1: Clubman Heavy election Adams was MICUS and the FIM but I remember 19 Mon Thunderhill East Race 5: Super Dino organizations no longer S.F. Chapter Gordon Jennings writing about Mike Race 1: Clubman Middle was 20 Tues Thunderhill East 11:40 Race 6: Formula I President and the Hailwood racing at Willow Springs. It constantly charter was renewed must have been in the very early 1960s 3:50 Race 2: Formula III Sponsored by Galfer Brakes changing. Sponsored by Spears Racing so it was probably an FIM-sanctioned October 12:00 Lunch Break Through the During this rather race through AFM as a USMC adfilliate. Race 2: Clubman Light flux and flow turbulent period the 5 Wed 2 Day Intermediate Race 7: Open Superbike Jennings wrote that he and the other local 1:05 of this period Club was very active in racers who were very familiar with the 6 Thurs Thunderhill East Race 2: Vintage Sponsored by Pacific Track Time the AFM California, and racing Willow Springs track felt they would have 7 Fri Thunderhill West Race 3: Formula 40 Heavy was guided events were held at an an advantage over the first-time-visiting 4:20 1:30 Race 8: Formula IV mainly amazing number of Sponsored by JPH Suspension European racers. But after about 5 laps of 8 Sat Thunderhill East Race 8: Legacy Middle through the locations. During the practice on his Norton Manx, Jennings Race 3: Formula 40 Mid efforts of one 1960-1962 time span 9 Sun Thunderhill East 1:55 Race 9: Formula Pacific wrote, Hailwood was cutting lap times Sponsored by JPH Suspension man, the late Willow Springs was that made him go weak in the knees. 22 Sat Thunderhill West Sponsored by Dunlop Race Tire Wester “Wes” Shadric Cooley. not on the California event lists, but races 4:40 Race 4: AFemme He and the other Willow Springs fast 23 Sun Thunderhill West Service were held at Santa Maria Airport, Pomona, guys suddenly realized how much better Sponsored by MCTechnologies As a registered corporation under Santa Barbara Airport, Vacaville, Hanford, Winner's Circle Presentation California law the AFM was required to they needed to be. Eventually the AMA Race 4: Formula 40 Light Riverside, Cotati, Oakland, Stockton, became the U.S. representative of the November 2:40 Race 10: 450 Superbike have a board of directors and a chairman. San Luis Obispo, and Stead Air Force Sponsored by JPH Suspension The club organization included the FIM, but that was several years down the 1 Tues Laguna-Seca Base in Reno, NV.. All of these events road. Race 4: 350 Production Race 10: Legacy 250 “National Board” whose duties involved were combined bike-car race weekends, a 2 Wed Laguna-Seca Sponsored by Feel Like A Pro setting the rules, issuing licenses and common practice at the time. The cycle Around 1963 the relationships with the 14 Mon Sonoma Race 10: 250 Production coordinating the regional chapters. The racing was limited to a short practice and sporty car guys began to sour. Both car 29 Mon Laguna-Seca 3:00 Race 11: Open Twins chapters did the negotiation with race heat races on Saturday, then another short and bike racing was growing and the tracks and ran the races. Under the original practice and a couple of Main events on car folks wanted the time the bikes were 30 Tues Laguna-Seca Pit Rules: Race 11: Open Production charter the members of the Board of Sponsored by San Jose BMW Sunday. There were only Grand Prix style using, and the bikers wanted more track Speed limit in the pits is a walking pace (5mph). Directors were appointed by the chairman. classes, usually 125cc, 250cc, 350cc, 500cc time for their growing entry fields. The 3:25 Race 12: 600 Production Wes Cooley became the Chairman of the and Open. There were no Production new Sacramento chapter began running Seat time No intentional wheelies, stoppies, or other exibitions of speed. Sponsored by Keigwins@theTrack Board in late 1959 and held that position classes as we know them today. It was a bike-only events at Vacaville while in convenient partnership since the bike SoCal Willow Springs started having 3:55 Race 13: 450 Production until the end of the 1964 season. During makes you Kids under the age of 16 may not ride or be a passenger on any this time the AFM became known as the races gave the spectators something to bike-only racing. By 1964 the AFM had Race 13: 650 Twins “Wes Cooley Club,” as Cooley was not watch while the car guys took a break mostly bike-only events. Bikes would pitbike. and the bikers didn’t have to worry about sometimes still appear at car events but FASTER!!! Race 13: Formula II only the chairman but somehow became the secretary and treasurer as well. Since organizing a track worker crew. as demonstration only. The 1964 AFM Pets must be leashed at all times. season schedule had eight points-paying 4:20 Race 14: 750 Production the chairman also appointed the members Frequent road race winners during this of the board of directors, Cooley exerted events, four in Northern California at July Race 14: Legacy Heavy period included Buddy Parriott, Don Please be aware of traffic in the pits at all times. a LOT of control over the activities of the Vacaville and Cotati and four in SoCal at 16 Buttonwillow Vesco and John McLaughlin (the father of Willow Springs. The S.F. Chapter began club. In Southern California the AFM was the successful 1970s and 80s racer Steve Riders are responsible for their pit crew and guests. Paddock Vendors Wes Cooley. His style of rule made many a new trend by running the first AFM 17 Buttonwillow McLaughlin), with names like Ron Grant Production bike race, a 100 mile race at Catalyst Reaction Suspension CT Racing Pirelli Serious RnD people unhappy and eventually led to a and Tony Murphy appearing in 1962. The 23 Thunderhill East show-down in 1964, but from the notes I Cotati on the 4th of July in 1964. The Alcohol abuse and drug use is prohibitied. Dunlop Race Tire Service Ocean Heat Sportbike Upgrades big classes were dominated by British bikes rules were pretty box-stock and the event 24 Thunderhill East Fastline Cycles Pacific Track Time Texas Tea Oil was given it seems clear that the AFM may with G50 Matchless and Norton Manx not have survived without him. was quite a success. Production races have Only entered riders and race officials may enter the racing surface. Feel Like A Pro Project Serenity Massage Trackside Massage fighting for the lead in the 500cc class and been part of the AFM ever since. August Galfer Race Pace Motorsports VnM Motorsports In the early 1960s the scope of the club British twins from Triumph and BSA in 13 Thunderhill West the open class. In the smaller classes most Cooley quit the club at the end of the GP Suspension Racer Gloves Zoom Zoom Trackdays narrowed. The Florida chapters left the 14 Thunderhill West AFM to join a new group called the United race bikes were Italian origin with Ducati, 1964 season and AFM National promptly States Motorcycle Club. The USMC Parilla and Aermacchi. vanished. It was very nearly the end of 15 Thunderhill East was based in Florida and was backed by the club, but there were some people who Huge Thanks to the 2016 AFM Club Sponsors The Honda CB72 (250cc) and CB77 stepped in to fill the void left by Cooley’s some of the same people who had started (305cc) were introduced in the early 1960s September abrupt departure, and the AFM survived. NASCAR, including Bill France. Also and race bikes built using those engines 3 Thunderhill West the Chicago, New York City, and Biloxi started appearing more and 4 Thunderhill West MS chapters dropped out of the club. more often in the finisher In their place came the San Francisco lists, especially in the 350cc 24 Buttonwillow Chapter, chartered in 1960. The S.F. class. Previously the class was 25 Buttonwillow Chapter was informally known as the Mill the domain of the expensive Valley Chapter or the Point Reyes Café and hard to find British AJS October Racer’s Society – obvious references to the 7R. Bikes based on the 305cc 15 Thunderhill West infamous Sunday Morning Ride. In 1961 a Honda, usually with 350cc big- chapter in St. Louis, MO, was added and a bore kits fitted, started filling 16 Thunderhill West charter was granted to a group in Portland the fields in that class. OR. The Portland group never really got it November together but the St. Louis chapter was very In 1961 Don Vesco acquired a active and for a while was one of the more Honda RC161, a four cylinder, 5 Thunderhill East stable of the AFM Chapters. They were a twin overhead cam, 16 bit of an oddity as they did not road race. valve 250cc bike that totally 6 Thunderhill East They sanctioned road rallies and observed dominated the 250cc class and trials events. With the loss of the Florida, in the combined races

Special AFM Round 4 Program Insert The 2016 Quail Motorcycle Gathering

Photo: Jeff Ebner Photo: Surj Gish In a typical swingarm layout, loading the fool. If you have to ask… But there were Photo: Jeff Ebner Robert Talbott’s Best of Show winning 1925 BMW R37. chain transfers a certain amount of energy some business cards strewn next to bike, so Photos by Jeff Ebner, Surj Gish exposed valve springs, open chain-drive rugged H-D style was something I’d never his table and give me a full run-through of back to the chassis of the motorcycle. That I grabbed one in case I needed someone to and C. Noto primaries, suicide clutches. These things really done en masse. the bike. energy tends to pull the front of the bike drunk text later. th were dangerous! upward rather than spinning the wheel. he 8 year of the famous and Speaking of Seventies H-Ds…for me, the The experience was surreal, like we were So far, no little silver ‘Taco has shown up on respected Quail Motorcycle Moving the path of that energy transfer Beyond the bikes with malicious intent real highlight of The Quail was meeting a two people who spoke different foreign upward remedies that, resulting in a bike a delivery truck, though—I guess I haven't Gathering brought an amazing were the people who loved them. If you’ve literal childhood hero, Mert Lawwill. languages, finally speaking together in our been drinking enough. arrayT of classic and custom bikes, served up that will stay planted under throttle, never been to Virgil Elings’ moto-museum native tongue. Here I was, kneeling on the Yes, that Mert Lawwill. allowing it to accelerate sooner on corner An is CityBike’s one-woman Sacramento in blistering (for Carmel) heat. The CityBike down in Solvang, you owe yourself a visit. hallowed Quail greens next to an honest- Wrecking Crew was there, after leading a exit without unsettling the front wheel. operation—the northern-most member of He brought an MV Agusta triple racer If his name doesn’t make you smile, you to-goodness Street Tracker, talking energy charity ride benefiting Alameda County Mert says the bike is almost impossible to the CityBike Wrecking Crew, AKA “Sac from the Sixties that was once deemed were short changed. Please go watch On transfer and suspension theory with Mert CASA (see “Ridin’ To The Quail With wheelie. Wrecker.” “worthless,” because it didn’t win. Any Sunday, then come back and finish Lawwill! CityBike” on page 4) from Helimot. Here are reading. Mert’s focus has shifted in recent years Jeff: Playing Favorites our stories from the green. Virgil doesn’t mince words. He’s a If you followed Mert’s career, you know to a new cause: prosthetic hands for he was one of the amputees that still want to ride and Photo: Surj Gish By Jeff Ebner pioneers of mountain race. His innovations have changed the Sunburn already blistering at the end of bike frames in the lives of many riders, and he continues ride to the ride, because I’m part of CityBike shopkeeper in Mert’s booth, I found just the day, my mind swam with the sights, late Seventies, staying to make advancements—take a look at or some such nonsense. one bike with a tiny for sale note stuck to sounds and smells of the wide variety of with them through the the entry placard: a gorgeous silver Bultaco mertshands.org. Those of you who were there when the machines on display. My nostrils still had a Nineties. The Street racer. prizes were handed out know the truth. I whiff of burnt oil and hot copper thanks to Tracker suspensions Fish has graduated to writing things with ink will say no more. I’ll admit I wanted it. But with no price the pre-war bikes, their mechanical clatter concept came about pen on cardboard scraps. He’s still preaching written anywhere I could see, well, I'm no and slow-beat idles likely only heard a few as he was white- the values of carburetors, but will allow fuel But back to the Quail bikes. There were so knuckling his Pro injected engines within eyesight. many wondrous motorcycles and scooters, Cruiser mountain An: “So The Wrecking Crew but I never was able to find the area where bike downhill at 30 they kept the bikes that were up for grabs. I mph. It occurred to Race Team Sponsorship Is A circled that green so many times that Mert him that if he were on No-Go?” (you know, Fish’s new best friend, Mert a motorcycle, even 60 By An DeYoung Lawwill) probably thought I was some mph on this terrain kind of stalker because I stopped at his It seems Editor “Future Wrecking Crew Photo: Jeff Ebner Photo: Surj Gish would be no big deal. booth every pass to chat. Race Team Sponsor” Surj is under the Bicycle front suspension impression I will be racing AHRMA after Soon I was helping sell a few Lawwill Fish: Heroes character whose surliness knows no Mert brought along one of his Street had been around, and these systems my brief mention of my desire for a vintage t-shirts (two to myself, I’ll admit), By Fish bounds. After all, it takes a special kind of Trackers. Based on pre-2003 Evolution were reasonably developed—but rear race bike last month (“ARHMA-geddon” checking sizes, and rehanging a few crazy to spend time collecting these absurd Sportsters, these bikes feature an amazing suspensions at the time were “abysmal.” – Pit Stops, June 2016) after attending, display shirts. After my stint as temporary This was my first attending The Quail death traps. dual-pivot rear suspension. You don’t Motorcycle Gathering. I’d heard the stories The biggest complaint was loss of forward spectating and shuffling race notice it at first glance, but these are very energy, when there’s none to spare. Mert bikes around the paddock at and made assumptions, comparing it to the At the opposite end of the spectrum from trick bikes. the death machines was a remarkable went to work on the problem, and the yet another AHRMA race at Mark Leonard fires up his 1931 Moto Guzzi Sport multitude of car shows I’ve attended over 15 to pick up his 1st place Antique award. the years. But that thing they say about collection of Fifties to present BMWs. So I was fortunate enough to catch Mert created the first lossless rear suspension. Sears Point. Or Infineon, or assumptions? It’s true. many examples of the signature look and during a lull in traffic at his booth, so There’s an interesting story surrounding Sonoma Raceway, or whatever obvious refinement—even the bikes from while An was taking over operations of the that suspension that I’ll have to tell you it’s called now. I was completely unprepared for the the Fifties were so clean and elegant. I was booth, I asked for details about the bike another time… but the concept here is that variety of bikes and vendors. This was the shock is actually compressed between That must be why he asked force fed Seventies Harley culture from an and its unique rear suspension. He was me to write about the vintage not just a gathering of polished 100 early age, so comparing BMW elegance to more than happy to walk out from behind the suspension links, rather than between point restorations—there were so many the swing arm and the frame. race bikes I found—and no awesome examples of doubt purchased—at The Quail Motorcycle Gathering. motorcycles that actually Wayne Rainey’s ’83 GPZ750 took the AMA Jim Carducci shows off the latest iteration get ridden. Had I known I could take Motorcycle Hall of Fame Heritage Award. of his eponymous Dual Sport. my pick, I would have paid A single cylinder Moto closer attention to each bike. Guzzi Falcone from the Instead, my head was spinning Fifties caught my eye after waking up at 4:30 AM to right away—the gigantic make a 7:30 AM meet time at forward-facing cylinder Helimot for the CityBike ride head was just gorgeous. to The Quail. Then it struck me: the flywheel was exposed, I don't wake up that early for like a giant spinning anyone, so this was clearly a wheel of death, ready very important event. After to maim you, should being robbed of my beauty you become inattentive. sleep, however, once I arrived Everywhere I looked, at Helimot I was also robbed there were bikes with Photo: Jeff Ebner Photo: Jeff Ebner of the major award for longest Photo: Jeff Ebner July 2016 | 18 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 19 | CityBike.com times a year. Seared in my retinas were the Behind the Brits was the overflowing restored examples of our favorite machines Mach 1 was the 916 of its day, built for brightened when ride ratchets things up considerably. In midnight, the spring which retracts the side beautiful metal shapes of the Thirties—to Japanese collection, with a few more in one place, at one time. Where they fall the racetrack and little else. Mine starts TJ and his old Tiger. I walked into the the case of “Hobbes,” as my Tiger became stand broke or fell off somewhere along the me, a sweet-spot of mechanical simplicity modern examples of elegance and short however, is that motorcycles are to make power at about 6,000 RPM, and first room. I’m a known, the memories were indelible. way, allowing the stand to hit the pavement and elegant lines. Being confronted with all speed. Amid the Hondas there was the meant to transport the body as well as the redline is 8,400. It’s surprisingly hard to rabid Italophile sending sparks flying, unless I went faster There was the night I was wrenching on British-influenced GB500, the Dakar soul, and while it’s rewarding to pore over a get the engine spinning that fast on public and it was the than about 70 mph. Slower than that and I it in the garage of the condo I was renting (and Competition Off Road category) 1949 Vincent Black Shadow, seeing one in roads, but on the racetrack the little Ducati small bore Italian would have to hold it up with my left leg, all at the time, when a crazy neighbor fired winning Africa Twin, and the extremely motion—or even better, riding one—is far comes to life. At one point I looked down at racers that were the while trying not to freeze myself in to his pistol, sending a round through the more exciting. the big Veglia tachometer and noticed the my favorites, hypothermia. garage across from me. Sirens sounded, needle hovering a few hundred revs over until I ventured Virgil Elings’ Spirit of the Quail winning MV. police stormed the place, and I opened Those memories have never faded, despite The Quail Ride, redline, the engine singing in a voice I’d downstairs in the garage door, open-end wrench (why having owned and restored numerous held the day before never heard on the street. to the basement yes, it was a Whitworth) in hand, only motorcycles since that Triumph went Saturday’s show allows where Robb has to be told to “put your hands in the air!” on to its next home, but seeing it after all show participants and The great thing about The Quail Ride is another fifty or by Cupertino’s finest. The Tiger’s tank these years made them so much more spectators the chance that a large percentage of the motorcycles sixty bikes. As was painted a beautiful two-tone white meaningful. I guess that’s what happens to see bikes in motion. being ridden on it are older models. There my eyes swept and metallic burgundy, and after the first when motorcycles touch your soul. Motorcycles may be were vintage Velocettes, BSAs, Nortons, across the sea of part art, but nothing Triumphs, bevel drive v-twin Ducatis, couple hundred miles a crack developed motorcycles I Moto Noto has an ongoing and perverse illustrates form and BMWs, Moto Guzzis, and plenty of specials the center seam, allowing fuel to leak caught sight of a fascination with Ducatis, but is now in a weird function better than and Café Racers. through, ruining the paint and requiring bike that made new ‘thing’ with an Austrian v-twin. seeing and hearing Photo: C. Noto a re-spray. Then there was the night I Perhaps my favorite bike is owned and my heart skip a that beautiful Vincent rode up to Twin Peaks in San Francisco. ridden by Deb Sell of Monterey. Deb and long straights, but tucked in the middle of beat—my old ‘69 roaring up the hill out Returning to Cupertino well after her husband Stacey are perennial attendees the pack of a hundred or so other riders, Triumph TR-6R, the one I restored back of Turn 5 at Laguna and as is always the case, it’s the stories nothing could squelch my happiness— in ‘91. It looked exactly like it did the day Seca. Oh yeah, I forgot rare psychedelic factory paint of the behind these older motorcycles that give not the chilly, misty weather, or even the I sold it, with many of the same nuts, bolts TJ and Deb Sell. Photos: Jeff Ebner to mention that 8 or so of the 100 miles are overall Japanese class winning ‘72 CL350 them life. In the case of the little Honda, it fact that at our next rest stop I noticed and fasteners I installed. done on the same track where local legends “Flying Dragon.” Then there were the my recently repaired exhaust hanger had this beauty and rarity was overwhelming, Roberts and Rainey won so many races, I stood there in awe. I’d not seen the two different examples of Honda’s CBX, fractured again. My ride was over for the and picking a favorite would be folly, but hearts, and minds. motorcycle in decades, but there it was, heavily modified, with that 3-foot wide six- day, but the sixty miles I did complete were there are a handful of machines my lens a time warp on skinny tires. Gordon cylinder the centerpiece exhilarating, and I still had the show on kept finding again and again. McCall was not far away and I said to of each. Seeing these Saturday to look forward to. him, “Gordon! This is my old Triumph! I become a more common Chris Canterbury’s twin turbo R100, 2nd place winner, There was Mark Leonard’s pair of The Ride’s final stop before returning to built this thing back in the early Nineties.” custom platform has Custom / Modified. Antique class Moto Guzzis, a ‘29 Sport The Quail Lodge was at Robert Talbott’s Someone overheard me and said, “How me wondering about 14 and ‘31 Sport 15 (2nd and 1st in class, amazing new Moto Talbott Collection, do you know it’s yours?” I looked at him the increasing rarity of respectively). Another Italian favorite, which Editor Surj got a sneak peak at last and said dryly, “Obviously, you’ve never the stock bike and their the 1964 MV Agusta 350cc triple racer month (“Moto Talbott: An Early Look restored an old motorcycle.” climbing value. of Virgil Elings—the one Fish noted Inside The New Moto-Museum in Carmel was once deemed “worthless”—won the Riding motorcycles provides us with A few steps from the Valley” – June 2016). The winemaker was coveted Spirit of the Quail Award and the unforgettable experiences. Restoring old, Hondas and you’d find kind enough to allow us a sneak peek at his Competition On Road category. obsolete motorcycles that you then get to yourself tripping over newly-assembled collection, and my mood Photo: C. Noto Among the MV triples there was also Walt pairs of BMW K1’s and Siegel’s Bol d’Or MV F3, reshaped in a R69’s—the Germans way that uses the elegant shapes of the seemed to have Photos: Jeff Ebner past but firmly retains its modernity. To duplicates of everything, BMW Motorrad me, this was the prettiest of the modern / save the show-winning USA classic and classic / modern hybrids of the 1925 R37 road racer. I’ve participated in The Quail Ride for the show, topping even Siegel’s own Monster- past three years, always on my exhilarating With the intense sun finally setting on the if finicky ‘66 Ducati Mach 1. It has a The Ultimate based “Leggero” (which won the Industry Authorized Dealer Riding Machine® ocean west of Carmel, I realized just how originally belonged to her brother, Mike, Award). propensity to vibrate which results in unique an event this is, combining many variety of conditions ranging from loose who died in 2001. After his passing she In the middle of a cluster of Vincents was disparate pieces of motorcycling into one nuts and bolts to fractured welds like the inherited it but had no idea what to do Brent Lenehan’s stunning Dunstall Norton cohesive whole. It’s as complete a picture one that joins the exhaust hanger to the with it. She didn’t ride and didn’t even of the last 110+ years of motorcycling as frame. That’s what happened last year, like motorcycles—viewed them as “death you’ll find anywhere, and an absolute must prematurely ending my ride and leaving machines.” for any Bay Area motorcyclist. me stranded by the side of the road. Chalk DON’T JUST In time however, getting the little Honda it up to that single restored and running, and then learning cylinder, 1960 vintage to ride, became a labor of love and homage steel, and an engine that to her late brother. She started riding it CHASE demands to be properly around town and her love for the Dream thrashed in order to grew into a love of motorcycling. Since then make horsepower. It is she has added two more bikes to her stable EXPERIENCES. Italian after all, from the and has “no intention of ever stopping country whose machines riding.” exemplify the phrase CATCH THEM. “ride it like you stole it.” The Honda only gets ridden a few hundred After last year’s failure I miles a year, most of them on The Quail MAKE LIFE A RIDE. resolved to fix the failing Ride. It’s history like this that gives what Every ride holds infi nite possibilities, and the all-new S 1000 XR is exhaust hanger properly would otherwise just be an assembly of designed to let you enjoy them all. Here, a powerful 160 hp engine and and my friend and I metal and rubber into something with light weight blend with a commanding seating position and amazing long-distance comfort. Two riding modes (Rain and Road), ABS and reinforced and re-welded a soul—something to be used, but also ASC are all standard, while numerous extras let you make it – and every the mount, satisfied we’d revered and preserved. Old motorcycles road – your very own. Find out more at bmwmotorcycles.com. Jeff is CityBike’s wandering photojournalist. repaired it properly. have soul and Deb Sell’s little Honda Photos: Jeff Ebner Dream has ton-up soul—even if it will He’s recently gone through a few SV650s Suited up in my period-appropriate Davida CalMoto and is now riding and sorta collecting early barely do 70—and that old chestnut about 810, which stood out with its scrubbed open-face helmet, goggles, and Barbour meeting the nicest people on a Honda is Nineties Japanese sportbikes. 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By TJ Noto trademarks. registered name and logo are The BMW North America, LLC. of BMW USA, a division of Motorrad ©2015 BMW mile to a top speed of 135 mph and was the 1 and I were screaming up the hill toward east on 68, then south along River Road. calbmw.com calbmw.com world’s fastest production bike from ‘69 to Motorcycle shows offer us an opportunity The Corkscrew, while machines from The Mach 1 is better-suited to tight and ‘75. More on that bike in a future issue. to see hundreds of beautifully preserved or every decade swarmed around me. The twisty mountain roads than droning on July 2016 | 20 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 21 | CityBike.com corner. Throughout the 5-day tour, apex and chief mechanic feelers enough to have to remove them, apexing too early. It’s not an unsettling after apex, I often found myself crawling Mike Cardenas has been then by the next session grinding the pegs dive, just eagerness. up the tailpipe of a larger bike in front of to an intensive week of themselves and dragging a knee. I’m not In fact, eager is the word for the 300. Eager me. The same on corner entry. The 300 is suspension training at a big hanger-offer, but the bike was so Kawasaki Ninja 300 to dart around the city on your way to so light and confidence inspiring that I was Race Tech’s Corona, planted I had plenty of smooth, predictable work. Eager to travel long distances (again, able to reel in bike after bike braking into a CA headquarters. Mike time to work on body position. with the cinder block seat swapped for the corner. is a true professional, Only one part of the track managed comfy Corbin), and certainly eager to dice having started out to unsettle the bike a tad. On the back it up on a track. Riding the Ninja 300 is Between corners there’s no furious wrenching with Vance straight, which is really more of a gradual highly engaging and satisfying, a fine tool acceleration, so setting up for the next turn & Hines in the 1980s, off-camber curve, the bike wallowed a in today’s world of blunt instruments—and is less hectic. No coming in hot, widening and now running a teeny bit when I upshifted. Admittedly it’s hard to deny the fun of piloting a bike to of the eyes, tightening of the shoulders, or full-service shop that this was probably due to a lack of clutch its full potential. clenching of the butt. There’s plenty of time handles everything from to think, to process the speed, to link the dirtbikes, to cruisers, corners seamlessly. This is not slow riding. to supporting AMA It’s steady riding. Photo: David Eberhardt pro flat trackers. Mike’s young understudy, Really ?! Yep, I stared at the speed to be Forrest Johnson, sure. And then BAPA-BAP-BAP, the rev installed the Race Tech parts in short limiter kicked in and the party was over. order, and Mike fine-tuned the sag when The Perfect Small-Rounder? But what a ride. 120 mph out of a 300cc I picked up the bike. After this, like a Photo: Austin McCabe well-tailored suit, Race Tech claimed Touring on the 300 also afforded plenty machine. Admittedly the indicated reading was probably optimistic, by about 5-6 the suspension should need little to no By Courtney Olive The bike’s candidacy as a tourer may one at all costs. It also required shifting, of desolate areas to test top speed, that is, adjustment, “you should be able to bolt it Photos by Courtney Olive, Austin mph, if roadside radar booths are to be surprise you. I tossed on some universal- lots of shifting. when we could find a long enough straight on and ride or race.” McCabe & David Eberhardt fit soft saddlebags and, with the help of a stretch for the Ninja to claw its way to believed. This Ninja has a four horsepower What the 300 lacks in straight line speed advantage over stock, owing to the pipe f you’re a regular reader of CityBike, Corbin seat to replace the rock-hard stock Maximum Miles Per Hour. The Mac Track is a small-bore bike’s (which, at anything less than arrest-worthy and fueling mods, but those billboard you’ve become acquainted with the piece, my 6’1” frame was perfectly happy dream: a 14-turn, .6 mile sprint track built speeds, isn’t much), it makes up for in The test proceeded something like saddlebags probably counteracted some of emerging “tall-rounder” genre of bikes: on the mini-Ninja for 10+ hour days. I for karts and supermoto racing. The day I cornering. Simply downshift to fifth, this: shift into fifth, pin it, and the bike that. theI large displacement, upright riding toured with a group that consisted of a showed up was a week before the local club climbed pretty willingly to above 100. racing season started, so several Ninjette position, tall-suspensioned bikes patterned Beyond that the bike began to fight In any event, the littlest Ninja deserves way Photo: Courtney Olive (loosely) after the Multistrada, or the more credit than the “beginner bike” status racers, both 250 and 300, were there the weave effect from the aerodynamic testing, which made for great camaraderie TDM850, or some other pre-ADV craze that most folks relegate it to. If you’re not smoothness on my part with the full- Courtney lives, rides, and writes in Portland, interference of the soft saddlebags. Staying and plenty of fun competition—unofficial, motorcycle, depending on who you talk to. bashful about the throttle stop, the shift throttle upshift, but a few clicks of the OR. He is currently working on a trifecta of pinned and shifting into sixth, the weave of course. Well, hold onto your helmets folks—I’m subsided at 110mph. But so did noticeable lever and 5-digit RPMs, then you can have rebound adjuster was all it took for the vintage middleweights: a Honda CB400F, coining a new term: the small-rounder. acceleration, at least in the way that term a blast with this bike on the open road. I’d found the Ninja quite confidence- G3-S shock to smooth out in that section Kawasaki GPz550, and Honda VF500F. A few months ago we reviewed the latest is typically thought of today. The Ninja But, to make a case for the 300 as a true inspiring in all environments, even with and accommodate my riding style With any luck, he’ll get all three running and iteration of the littlest Ninja (“Kawasaki continued to gain speed but, at this point, small-rounder and round out the trifecta, the stock suspension, but it was now on perfectly. end up with the combined horsepower of one another level. The track has numerous modern bike! Ninja 300: Just Right?” – February 2016) each mile an hour became a count of “one- it’s got to prove itself at a track. Suspension sorted, I spent the rest of the ripples, yet I scarcely felt them. Under hard and found it to be a fun, capable mount: Mississippi, two-Mississippi, 111!, three- day enjoying what a fun track bike the 300 It’s no secret that Ninja 250s have had braking the Ninja bowed gracefully and just right was the verdict. I wholeheartedly Mississippi, four-Mississippi, 112!” is. I’d forgotten how nice it is to have the a vibrant club-racing presence in recent predictably, no diving or pogoing. Within agree, having spent the past year building I was dang impressed that a 300cc bike full range of throttle available in a corner. and riding a Ninja 300. years, and the 300 has taken it even the first session I was grinding the peg would do 112mph, especially with further. Up here in the On a big bike without traction control, By building, I mean simple bolt-on windsock saddlebags, but there was more Northwest, the Ultra one needs to gingerly crack the throttle modifications such as a pipe and fuel on tap! The bike fought its way to 115 mph, Lightweight class has open as you enter the corner, rolling on tuning, larger rear sprocket, Pirelli Rosso II and eventually hit redline at 118 mph. At exploded in the past five steadily—but usually no more than 1/8 tires, better brake pads and stainless steel Photo: David Eberhardt that point it was time for a status check— years with (relatively) to 1/4 throttle while the bike is heeled lines. And by riding, I mean everything yes, I had plenty of time to think through a affordable racing, very over. It’s like trying to focus a microscope from ordinary commuting, to a five day, brand new GSX-R750, a Street Triple R, fourth, third, even second (OEM slipper status check—should I stay pinned or not? tight competition, and with nothing but the coarse adjustment 2,000-mile tour of twisties, to a couple of and a “vintage” (quotes because I’m still clutch!—what me worry?), tip it in, and The motor was still pulling, so hell yes! hordes of bikes on the knob. On the 300 I’m rolling all the way in denial that 1994 constitutes vintage) pin it. The 300 has old-fashioned traction through the throttle, dialing it in and out trackdays. The 300 is highly capable in The digital speedo flickered back and forth grids—many of which each of those areas; it might just be the FZR1000. Each bike packed at least three- control; it’s called low horsepower. aren’t far from stock. to suit changing conditions. Again, there times the horsepower of my 300, yet the from 118 to 119, back to 118, then finally are virtues to good old-fashioned low perfect small-rounder. Short of a mid-corner oil slick, there’s made up its mind that we had achieved Similar scenes abound Ninjette more than held its own. at AFM. Point is, it’s horsepower. The virtues of the little Ninja in a simply no chance of breaking loose the 119. By now my chin, elbows, and knees not a stretch to say the commuting environment are well- Keeping up with the three-timers required rear. With that knowledge in mind, you had ball-peened their own little indents And corner transitions couldn’t be easier. Ninja 300 is practically documented: light, maneuverable, great a few things: five-digit RPMs at all times, get on the gas much sooner than on larger into the tank. Still pinned. Stilll pinned! Just a breath of pressure on the bars and it an “unbolt the lights mileage. But how about the other two of forethought, and commitment, the goal of bikes. The 300 rewards this with a strong Aaand… 120!!! goes. It’s so light and willing to turn that the latter two being to maintain the first and steady increase of speed through the and race” kind of bike. I had to train myself a bit to keep from the trifecta? Photo: Courtney Olive To find out for myself what the bike had to offer on the track, I took it out to play at the Mac Track outside Portland. But, before I did, I cheated a little: I reached out to Race Tech for suspension. The Ninja 300 may be pretty good box-stock, but there’s always room for improvement on stock suspension—especially on a bike where the OEM marching orders were to build it to a very tight budget. Race Tech kindly lavished the 300 with their fully adjustable G3-S shock, new fork springs, and Gold Valve emulators, which they can do for most any bike, with custom spring rate and valving for your weight and riding style. I turned to Cardenas Motorsports in Tualatin, Oregon to install these components. Cardenas is an authorized For current pricing and complete details go to funtrackdayz.com “Race Tech Center,” which means owner July 2016 | 22 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 23 | CityBike.com made that association. “You should get to At the Stump Jumper enduro, I limped know some.” eded HERTFELDERHERTFELDER back early and discovered the cooler had shrunk again, to the point I had to turn my “I know some,” I said, “and I like most of sprained foot sideways just to get it in the them. I don’t understand the obsession Illustration by Mr. Jensen ice—now just the common bagged stuff with loud pipes.” from 7/11. Illustration by Mr. Jensen In my head I was just getting rolling: Are Behind the driver’s seat was shelving from recognized the sweet loving statement for a shoe store that had suffered a miraculous what it was: a death sentence. The bad part came later when the 220- As we talked, a guy on a Harley “What’s the matter with loud loud pipes like deer whistles? Do deer volt lady said, “You have your foot in my V-Rod rode by, making it impossible motorcycles?” the rider of the effortless whistles save lives? How do you know if “short circuit” fire, eight hours after the maynardmaynard power had been shut off for non-payment. A month later we noticed Roach’s cooler,” without moving her lips. HERSHONHERSHON for us to hear one another. Perhaps interstate tourer asked. your whistles or your pipes have saved your mustache had fallen off, and the ceiling you’ve never had that experience. life? Maybe your black vest saved your life. One shelf, still labeled 8A-9EEE, held an “Yes, but don’t worry about the grapes, He’s disgusted, I thought. He suspects of his van had grown The V-Rod rider, surely a considerate Or your bandanna. Or that magical little ancient Coca-Cola cooler that was always ‘cause I ate them,” I I may be un-American. I a skin of random man in every other aspect of his life, had bell hanging from your frame. filled with cracked ice and beer because of replied, flashing wonder if he keeps a copy reached the meeting place first and chosen to equip his machine with extra- Roach’s “2 for 1” policy: take one beer now, her a smile that of the constitution in his “What do you mean, legislated oach O’Malley got his nickname parked my bike. There was a row of cost un-muffled exhausts, a practice much put back two later. might have been Can-Am Spyder trikes, a dozen of lighted, mirrored top box against?” he asked. after foolishly stepping into a like wearing an old Harvard sweatshirt, The ice in the cooler more charming, them, a club ride as it turned out. I got to so he can show me the woodchuck hole while wrestling had I not left I except different in every way. “I mean that if amendment guaranteeing aR 360-pound Triumph Trophy up the was the serious stuff talking with the guy with the nearest one. we’re prohibited my bridgework As I often do when I am disgusted by loud our unrestricted right to steep side of Jemima Mountain. The that results from from riding in inside the Band- He’d had a series of motorcycles, but he bikes, I imagine riding across the plains keep and bear maximally severely broken leg took so long to heal furiously smashing certain places, Aid tin in my had short legs and felt somewhat less strong on a little-used two-lane highway. I pass offensive exhaust that O’Malley developed a permanent a 50-pound block it’ll be noise that jacket pocket. as he grew older. Meanwhile, bikes got a farmhouse just off the road, the farmer plumbing. sidewinder style of walking, easily with a 12-pound keeps us out. It’ll She began taller and heavier… and he found himself sitting on his porch in the morning sun, mistaken for a drunken lurch by those who sledgehammer: hefty “They’re antisocial,” be because people are taking swipes having to worry about being able to handle feet up, reading the paper. He never looks don’t drink much and kept regular hours. It chunks that you could I said. “They’re noise fed up with the racket.” at the floor his own bike. One day, he told me, he just up as I pass, never knows I was there. was only a matter of time before some wag hold in a smashed pollution… and if with a brand saw the light. He and his wife love their “Where have you been said, “That O’Malley walks like a stepped- paw and, by the time “Is that V-Rod faster than your BMW,” motorcycles are new broom, trike, he said, showing me the deep luggage that motorcycles are on roach.” you’d written your I asked, meaning: Is that obscenely loud suitably space in the nose. prohibited?” he asked, name with the melting V-twin pose-mobile any faster than your Young, impressionable boys in his reinforced with evidently unconvinced drops, it would feel well It’s a different feeling, he said, riding one silent, effortless, interstate tourer? neighborhood adopted his style of a strap from a pair that the sound of enough to drive home. of these. You lean yourself, not the bike. I locomotion. This usually came to a halt of Roach’s Scott motorcycle exhausts is not sensed a little hesitation, as if he suspected “Probably not much soon after the junior Roaches were wearing The floor of the coach goggles. music to everyone’s ears. I might think that real men still ride single- different,” he said. “I’ve out the soles on one shoe twice as fast as was normally so filthy ridden a couple of V-Rods By the date of our track vehicles. Probably it was just my “Well, on the 17-Mile the other—imitation may indeed be the that, if you were sitting and they are pretty fast own club enduro, imagination. Drive in Monterey, sincerest flattery but, if it costs money, with your head between motorcycles.” your knees waiting for the van was As the Spyders were leaving, another California,” I said. “Places forget it… floored with wall where people live who a low-branch impact guy on two wheels arrived. I walked over “You know, I do not like Roach soon took to driving a big Ford to wall Persians simply won’t put up with headache to lighten up to where he’d parked and noted that loud bikes,” I said, adding cube van; one of those things that looks and Roach’s milk it. And why should they? and you opened your eyes for his helmet, a full-coverage model like that I especially hate loud slow bikes. like a van pulling out of a garage somehow crates filled with Why shouldn’t people who a rest, well, you might think yours and mine, was flat black, unlike his snagged the building and ended up almost empty chin And… they’re everywhere. Loud, slow live in nice little towns near big you were sitting outdoors. gleaming six-cylinder BMW tourer. dragging it down the highway. There were lube cans, short mopeds; loud, slow 50cc scooters, and cities be able to sit and chat in local The van’s walls and ceiling two reasons for buying it: first was that he lengths of chain, I wondered how many K1600 riders loud, slow, 35-horsepower dual-sport sidewalk cafes without having to yell at one were covered with cheap pressed singles. The noise lasts longer too, because got it cheaply from a fellow who lived in the wood paneling and kept in such repairable tubes (some wear helmets that appear to have been legislated against, loud bikes will be why. another?” they go by so slowly. semi-posh Haddon Hills apartments who condition that a mud-covered red, pre-historic I believe), rattlecanned with primer… or barbecue Loud pipes say: Look at me. I could care “You know it’s safer,” he said, “riding a loud had to either get rid of the thing or move; rider would track more dirt out than he useless passenger pegs and old Sandy Lane grill paint. I’d just as soon my helmet was In addition, there are lots of other less what you think. It’s all so cheap, so bike. The sound from the pipes is louder second was that Roach could easily walk had brought in. Someone once said the van number plate paint can lids. visible, even conspicuous, thank you. motorcycles, some slow, some faster, with transparent.” width paneling. Philippines mahogany, I than any motorcycle horn. Way more upright past the van’s stored overhead rear was an example of “Early Filth” décor. Bright helmets save lives, y’know. Not that blatantly loud exhausts. It’s embarrassing. think. We sat on the milk crates inside the “You don’t know any Harley riders,” he people crowd me over on this bike than did door and thread his gimpy leg behind the it’s quantifiable. Are the faster ones faster because of the The Roach Coach was also where you’d van and listened to Mr. X complain of said, assuming that when I talk about in my years on Harleys. I’ve ridden over steering wheel with a fair amount of grace Next, the Korean War combat boots he slamming his leg into a Barcalounger that The BMW rider and I had ridden together noise? Nope. Only noisier. find the riders who broke down and guys on loud, slow bikes, I am speaking of 100,000 miles on Harleys.” and not much grunting. always wore (because he dragged one foot some slob had left in the woods. before, we decided, and began to talk about managed to get back with no help from the sideways and low shoes would scoop up The K1600 rider looked at me out the Harley riders. It’s a mystery to me how he I reflected for a moment on the winding Roach stopped riding in the dirt when where we might go today. “sweep” crew. For those who perpetually gravel) were replaced by Hush Puppies. The 220-volt hausfrau handed him a few corner of his eye. path that leads a long-term Harley rider his doctor warned him that he’d position broke down early, the van became sort of a Then the big 40-quart cooler that used ice cubes, suggesting he stuff them into to the BMW shop, where he settles on the next broken leg facing backward; so rolling clubhouse. to hold an inexhaustible supply of beer, his sock. When Roach drove off into the what may be the best Gentleman’s Grand if Roach got lost in a snowstorm, he’d with room to spare to immerse one or two unknown he left the milk crates and we Touring rocket-ship in recent years. That’s certainly freeze to death, unable to retrace John Boone once showed up with his sprained ankles and maybe a stump-struck haven’t seen the gimpy bugger since. a big leap, bigger by far than selling an R-1 his steps. totally collapsed front wheel sliding on a ON SALE NOW foot, had been replaced by a 20-quart Clearance Sale and buying a Super Téneré. ski-shaped piece of abandoned rowboat. And some of us envy him. Visit us for a wide selection Still, Roach came to all the enduros, and The motorcycle was just plonking along in model that opened from the other side so of clearance items. $359 Only $149! What lures guys from rolling thunder to his box van was the place to go for a tire low gear as John walked alongside, steering you couldn’t even look into it without a Get Ed’s latest, 80.4 Finish Check on Johnson Leathers Textile Jacket the civilized murmur of those slanted, pump that actually worked or a 16 mm with one hand. It looked remarkably like a mirror. Amazon.com! crowfoot wrench to tighten something We stock a large selection of heavy duty jackets, with Force eld Body Armour six-outlet K1600 mufflers? I never seeing-eye dog leading a blind man. pants, chaps, & bags. found out. And we never settled our without having to take half the motorcycle In Stock Only misunderstanding. He still thinks loud apart to reach it. Mr. X (so called because no one could Reliable, timely service at Custom garments and accessories. pipes save lives even if he no longer has recall his name, and in time began Carried in San Francisco by Inside the van was a solid steel workbench any. Do you suppose he’s afraid now, introducing himself as such) once made SF Moto and in with an ancient wrought iron vise with reasonable rates on all We repair, alter and clean leather products. unprotected by an invisible noise shield? his way back to the coach with his fuel San Jose by Road Rider. so many missed sledgehammer hits on tank upside down on his lap. He’d split Our leathers are guaranteed against If I see the guy in three years, after he’s the upper surfaces that it could have been the bottom seam, so he took the tank off, makes of motorcycles defect for life. We make custom 1 & 2 piece leathers! ridden thousands of miles on his inaudible, exhibited as modern art with a guaranteed turned it over, and connected the cap honorable mention. A better place to refined, imported iron, will he still defend overflow tube to the fuel line using a ball Visit our new shop: loud bikes? And tell me about his years on hammer a bent brake pedal straight point pen with the guts removed. Harleys? was hard to imagine, at least this side of 990 Terminal Way, San Carlos Pittsburgh. One day, Roach showed up with a 1833 Polk St. (@ Jackson) San Francisco - johnsonleather.com Maynard started a Facebook page for 110-pound girl who operated on 220 volts. OLD COUNTRY Opposite the workbench was a swing- HOLLY (800) 730-7722 • (415) 775-7393 motorcyclists and road cyclists that use I actually heard her tell him that she loved INDUSTRIAL blood thinners, but have continued to down shelf / bed that could sleep him just the way he was, that she’d never ride despite the added danger. If you ride two uncomfortably or seat five, also change a thing about him. 101 Force eld Body Armour, e worlds despite it all, please go to facebook.com/ uncomfortably because of the raised edge leading “So armour technology” This statement was followed by WarfarinRangers and post something: a that put your lower legs to sleep in a very TERMINAL Body protection system specialists. pronounced coughing by those who’d story or a photo. And be careful out there. short time, depending, I think on the BRITTAN weight of the mud stuck to your boots. been around the course a few times, for we July 2016 | 24 | CityBike.com July 2016 | 25 | CityBike.com Like that one day, when I was riding a dr. gregory w. samsam DEVINEDEVINE Nighthawk 250 back from the North FRAZIER Bay on Highway 101, going precisely the speed limit. The Priuses were just blowing by me like tennis balls past a blind dog. Yep, the same people that so staunchly and righteously adhere to the speed limit through the twisties are the Illustration by Mr. Jensen same people going 75 in a 55 with nary a shred of remorse. budget After lamenting and weighing options, he That day, I was righteously going the and route. concluded that shipping or flying his dead speed limit because—just like most But having motorcycle for $1,800 or $2,500 anywhere drivers in the curves—it’s all I could ool or foolish, Surfer Boy was having survived was not part of his ‘round the world muster. a surfing motorcycle adventure. being a epiphany, that the $2,500 motorcycle was When we first met on the side His helicopter Crew not worth the hit his budget would take. He Isn’t it funny how those things correlate? ofF a road in Chile, he said my riding pal surfing Chief and Door unloaded his surfboards and flew himself We use the law to justify our actions t used to be Volvos. Driven by reserved Richard Livermore and me, on our 33 lifestyle, Gunner in onward, abandoning the motorcycle in school teachers and accountants, when it aids us and dismiss it as soon year-old Honda GL650s, were “the coolest supported by Vietnam from South America. these tan bread boxes trundled to as it’s inconvenient. It reminds me motorcyclists” he had met. a meager Social 1971-1972, he theI market, going slightly slower than the of George Carlin’s Stuff bit: “Have He said, “I’d had a pretty good ride on Security check knew how to you noticed that their stuff is shit and Richard and I told him he had the cool that BMW, over 40,000 miles and really speed limit. You’d come around a corner of $800 a swallow your shit is stuff?” It’s all a matter of category all to himself, our being well no major expenses until near the end. and there they’d be, jamming the road like month, meant worries perspective. And whoever is in our way is outside the designation. He had ridden a It and I had survived several near death a cork in a booze bottle. he had to find about the jerk. It’s never us. Illustration by Sam Devine $2,500 ‘83 BMW R65 from Anchorage, experiences, including a high speed rear a motorcycle death and Now it’s Priuses. Those holier-than- Alaska to where we met in Chile, many of tire blow-out in a two lane tunnel with a When I was a non-stop, everyday that fit his disaster, thou, little almond-shaped battery carts those miles with two surfboards affixed to semi-truck and car speeding along behind budget. He that and their smug drivers, still the right side of his motorcycle. me and a major pot-hole wheel bender in or safety benefits. And motorcyclists scrimped riding staying just under the posted Bolivia.” are diametrically opposed to this belief, His name was Ioane Langemak, and he and saved, solo limit, somehow entitled to road-clogging slow speeds sacrificing safety and comfort for speed was a WTFOT dedicated surfer from sold his few on The motorcycle, last seen at a shipping and agility instead. Hawaii. He said he had dreamed of riding possessions and started an old office in South America, had been left with because they’re polluting less a motorcycle around the world while his ‘round the world motorcycle, sleeping in the keys in the ignition and the title in the than you are. It’s helpful to try empathizing with that bicyclist, I started getting pretty aggro as of stopping, drivers are simply unable to stopping to surf the better waves along adventure with no goals jungles and dodging errant hands of a shipping agent. He told the agent slow car in the twisties. They’re out for a Heading up the One towards Stinson I rode around town. Turns out that just fathom that anyone could safely navigate the way. His dream was burnt on to his of setting any world record, vehicles and animals were it was a free motorcycle for anyone who leisurely drive, and so are we. Our leisure Beach, I come around a corner to find about everything is in your way when the road at higher speeds. brain so hard that every time he was told seeking fame and fortune, or signing merely day-to-day happenings that cared to take it, possibly making it a runner the tail end of a Prius that’s been given just happens to be about twice the pace of you’re a cyclist. And it doesn’t help your At the end of the day, we’re all just trying by a naysayer that it was a foolish dream or any book or movie deals. He merely comprised part of his adventure again or as an organ donor. a liberal bumper-stickering—do they theirs. demeanor to know you’ll have to pedal the to get somewhere. It’s when our paths unrealistic he became more driven to make wanted to ride a motorcycle and surf. through life. hand out a starter pack of stickers after As we sat around the table in the restaurant, damn thing back up to speed once you’re overlap and intersect that we rub elbows Sam is our SF-based columnist. He it a reality. a Prius purchase? It’s got stickers for the Langemak knew his global ride would be I knew some of the weaknesses of his R65. one of the kibitzers asked, “So is your forced to slow down. and bump heads. Priuses and Volvos may motorbikes, kitesurfs, and picks guitars. tough and dangerous, especially given his When I asked him if he had changed one dream now a nightmare? Are you done Sierra Club, for democratic presidential Get a copy of his book, “Fifty Rides,” at Bicyclists feel very entitled to their ride. be the choice cars for drivers willing to part known to fail, he said he had not and with your ‘round the world adventure candidates and Hawaiian turtles— SamDevine.com. After all, they have almost no effect on sacrifice some rapidity for environmental it was working fine. I told him its failure surfing ride?” and of course that one with the solid was likely not to be if—but more likely recommendation to “Visualize Whirled the environment and they’re a danger when—and suggested he should have a Langemak laughed and said, “The dead Peas.” to almost no one on the road besides BMW is nothing. I am looking for a cheap themselves. Taxis and bicycles have a back-up plan, like how to get a replacement Once stuck behind one of these rolling HELIMOT Swap Meet if needed. We discussed several options for 250cc motorcycle for the next leg of my notorious rivalry because the cabbies are trip. When I was drafted and ended up in political bulletin boards, I usually hang out working, trying to get paid and bicyclists when the failure might occur, eventually about ten feet back and wait for them to & Suit Sale trading e-mail addresses as Plan F. Vietnam I figured that would be the end are getting in the way. It’s all about who’s of my trip through life. Forty years later roll past a few turnouts. After they ignore blocking who and who feels entitled. Fourteen time zones and five months later I’m still living an adventure, just a trip of a ample opportunities at courtesy, I ignore a Saturday July 16, 9:00-5:00 It’s this sense of entitlement that dictates he used the electronic Plan F to tell me he different sort.” few rules about not passing across certain lines and then we all go on our merry way how we act. My favorite example of this is and I were in the same town and wanted to Four years ago we moved from 10,000 sq ft meet. He traded e-mail addresses with some of and relax a little bit. the new mother with her stroller, pushing the group, saying that his starting with out into traffic without so much as a to 3,000 sq ft. We still have a garage-full and We met at a motorcycle-themed “baka” was reflective of his adventure. The At least that’s how it usually goes. But this sideways glance. She’s got a precious life in a yard-full of motorcycle parts. We want ‘em restaurant and for several hours traded origins of the word can be traced back to guy immediately pulled over and flipped that fancy wheelbarrow and has suffered gone. So we’re having a BIG SALE. We road tales, often having other patrons Chinese and Japanese origins, meaning a me the bird. months without carcinogens and alcohol have exhaust pipes, seats, shocks, side join us with their own contributions. fool, but he said in Hawaii it reflected his You have a lovely day, too, sir. and no one had better come between her covers, gas tanks, and much much more. The conversations were as wild as the being a bit foolish. and the frappuccino waiting on the other Jim Davis will bring Ducati parts. And we participants who ranged from global road Jeez. I wasn’t even being a jerk. It’s usually side of the street. will have at least three motorcycles for warriors to adventurists who had survived Having listened to his tales of adventure by accident when I’m a jerk, but it does sale. Also, soft saddlebags, hard saddle- some of the worst urban traffic on the from Alaska to Chile chasing waves with happen. When things are flowing and We motorcyclists are guilty of the bags, top cases. And! We have 50 suits planet. two surfboards strapped on his motorcycle, endorphins are rushing, the front tire entitlement card, too. It feels like my right left, from used and abused to new. And! I thought instead of using the earlier hovers just inches from the bumper and to go through a turn at double the advised Boots, close-outs and used, just about all Surfer Boy laughingly said I had jinxed his moniker I had dubbed him with, that of the engine revving loud enough to change speed because I’m taking most of the sizes. And! Gloves, factory seconds, used, motorcycle by bringing to his attention Surfer Boy, a better fit might be Adventure the radio station on the car stereo. Yeah, risk and piloting a rocket that’s equipped other brands. the possibility of the failure of the part Baka Motorcycle Surfer Dude. not too good for people’s perception to handle it. And when cars don’t use We’ll have patches, normally $8, for $2, and which did exactly what I predicted, shortly of motorcyclists, I know. Perhaps the the turn outs, I feel entitled to pass over probably a few other things on sale. after we met in South America. It failed Dr. Frazier’s all-color coffee table book, the double yellow because now they’re DOWN AND OUT IN PATAGONIA, aforementioned Sierra Club supporter We’ll have a list, somewhat and he spent several days finding a fix that received this treatment from me in the breaking the law. The sign said “Slow complete, on the website. Check the “Latest Posts” fit within his budget. Once the part was KAMCHATKA AND TIMBUKTU, traffic must use the turnout,” didn’t it? available at MototorBooks.com, is the first- past. on the left side of the main screen. We’ll update repaired he traveled a few more days only the list as we find more stuff. to have it fail again. 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