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Bored at Mid-Ohio? Check your pulse. pg. 16 Pg.Inside: 08 New! Tech Q&A section Pg. 24 Beauties show at SoCal concours Pg. 22 Rescuing a Suzuki cafe bike Pg. 32 Flipping bikes for fun ... and profit Pg. 40 Hundreds of classifieds Vol. 31, No. 4 August 2010 $5 COVER STORY 16 Vintage Motorcycle Days report Pictorial of the annual mega-show. FEATURES 10 Barber preview 32 Flipping for fun What to expect at the fifth annual event. One club turns used bikes into projects with profits. 12 The webmaster goes analog What’s up with things at vjmc.org? 34 Show report Road America welcomes VJMC 14 Show report in Wisconsin. The VJMC/WOW show in Atlanta. 35 YA-1 20 Show report Help sought sourcing parts on VJMC Show and Shine in Washington. rare Yami. 22 Cafe rescue 36 CanGun spray helper TLC for a Suzuki GT550 Ease up on that trigger finger. 24 Show report 38 Club board meeting minutes Six pages of beautiful concours bikes What are the VJMC directors in SoCal. working on? 30 How not to ... Take care when trailering your bikes. DEPARTMENTS 4 President’s letter 8 Tech Q&A 6 Letters, news and miscellany 40 Classifieds On the cover Justin Davies of Niagara Falls, Ontario, rides his No. 412 Honda CB750F during Saturday morning practice at the AMA’s Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. More VMD coverage starts on page 16. August 2010 www.vjmc.org 3 PRESIDENT’S LETTER VJMC magazine August 2010 Vol. 31, No. 4 President Take a minute ... to read the minutes Hal Johnson e were a bit hesitant to publish the de- lia, the budget and 402-660-6710 [email protected] tailed minutes from our Face-to-Face financial issues, and meeting of your national board of direc- even the name of our Editor W Brendan Dooley tors, held in Phoenix in March. After all, who would magazine, (which [email protected] want to sit and read that kind of detail when there is currently does not Art Director so much that needs to get done in the garage? But have a name). I Rhonda Cousin in the end, we thought it would be a good idea in think we’ll put to- the long run because we feel compelled to provide gether some sort of a “name the magazine” contest Classified ads Gary Gadd all of our VJMC members with the information as soon as we can come up with a suitable prize. 817-284-8195 in order to encourage a sense of ownership in the So stay tuned on this one; we’ll put a notice in the [email protected] organization. magazine when we have the details finalized. Display Ad Director/ As the minutes show (pages 38-39), we dis- The minutes go into detail about many more West Coast Rep Bob Billa cussed a wide range of topics at this meeting and things that were discussed, but the minutes cannot 760-636-3288 made some good decisions that will positively impact describe to you perhaps the greatest benefit of our [email protected] the VJMC for years to come. The issue of insur- Face-to-Face meetings. This is the only time that Mountain States Rep ance was probably the longest discussion of the the members of the national board of directors actu- Hal Johnson weekend, and it put the process in motion for us to ally have discussions with us all in the same room. 402-660-6710 [email protected] purchase a general liability policy before the event We live in places all over the country, from Florida season was in full swing. I’ll provide some details to Washington, and many points in between. This Central States Rep Volunteer Needed regarding our policy in the President’s column for meeting provides an extremely valuable forum from the next issue. which to manage the affairs of the organization. We Northeast Rep Our magazine editor extraordinaire, Brendan get more accomplished, and more decisions made, Volunteer Needed Dooley’s report in Phoenix on magazine-related is- in this annual meeting than we do in many of our Southeast Rep sues inspired the board of directors to provide some monthly conference calls combined. It is money Louise McCarthy-Dutton 954-993-3993 financial incentive to those who wish to contribute well invested, and will continue to be a forum for [email protected] an interesting article to the magazine. If memory forward momentum of the VJMC. Membership Director serves me right, I believe there is a $50 pay-off Bill Granade for the submission and subsequent publishing of 813-961-3737 a feature-length article with photos. Sounds like Hal Johnson, [email protected] a good deal! President There was interesting discussion about rega- Mission statement: The purpose of this organization is to promote the preservation, restoration and enjoyment of vintage Japanese INTAGE APANESE OTORCYCLE LUB BOARD M E M BERS motorcycles (defined as those 20 years V J M C old and older, until 2011. We will embrace 1990 until then). The VJMC also will President: Hal Johnson Classified Ads Director: Gary Gadd Board members at large: promote the sport of motorcycling and camaraderie of motorcyclists 402-660-6710 3721 Holland St everywhere. [email protected] North Richland Hills, TX 76180 Lloyd Blythe 817-284-8195 [email protected] © 2010, Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club of North America, Vice President, and [email protected] an IRS-approved Not-for-profit 501(c) Commercial Ads Director: David Hellard (7) corporation. All rights reserved. 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Brown’s Plating Service, Inc. 1010 Krebs Station Road • Paducah, KY 42003 Phone (270) 554-1146 • Fax (270) 554-1170 E-mail: [email protected] www.brownsplating.com LETTERS, NEWS AND MISCELLANY CL72 inspiration for CL77 work I didn’t know how you did it, but now I had to perfection, our dreams of youth can go on, proof that what I wanted to do was possible. I’ve pushing us to achieve our own projects that When I was 12, four guys in the neighbor- read that article and looked at those pictures a currently collect dust in the garage. hood had CL77s. They would ride from one thousand times since then. When the June 2010 Thank you. friend’s house to the next. We’d follow on our VJMC magazine with the CL72 update hit my bicycles and try to catch a glimpse of the bikes Doug Mitchel desk yesterday, all work came to an abrupt halt. as they were parked for a short time. At the time It just blew me away! I thought they were just the coolest thing on the VJMC bikes in Canada My project is just about done. I’ve en- road. About six years later I bought a used one In case you have some space in the letters closed a few pictures for you. I have polished and rode it for about a year, then I had to sell it section of the magazine, here are some pictures and chromed every nut, bolt and washer. I have to pay for college tuition. I clearly remember from the 25th Classic & Vintage Motorcycle Swap rebuilt every piece from top to bottom. I can’t how sad I was and to this day I can still picture Meet/Show ‘n’ Shine in Tsawwassen, British tell you how much I’ve enjoyed this project. In the new owner loading that bike into a van to a few weeks when complete I will have, quite take it away. literally, a brand new polished 1967 CL77. I’m Over the years I always thought it would very satisfied with the outcome of my first try have been real cool to own a brand new one. In at restoring something. December of 2008, I purchased a basket case When I saw the odometer picture of Roger’s with the thought of restoring it. I started to read, bike it prompted me to write and ask where to joined the VJMC, and studied all about the early go from here. It’s a question that has bothered Hondas. As I started to acquire the needed parts me for the last year and a half. Roger’s motor- and begin the restoration, I just kept thinking cycle is so beautiful, how do you ride it? My to myself how cool it would be to have a brand kids think I’m crazy if I put gas in the tank and new 1967 CL77.