Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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RavinDave said:
I would love to have had that bike when I lived in East Tennessee. Had a few rice burners, starting with a Suzuki 305 when I was 15, one Norton 850 Commando I picked up in Minneapolis when my Suzuki 750 water buffalo broke down on my graduation from UTK bicentennial celebration trip, which Norton I rode back to Knoxville via Glacier Park wherein the collection of grizzly bear blood on the cover of Newsweek that bore Jimmy Carter’s picture in 1976, and then a couple Beemers. Sadly that last one, an ‘89 R100RT, is only collecting dust in my warehouse these days.
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Thank you. You had some sweet bikes. Bet that Bimmer is 1 oil change away from running like a sewing machine. I chose this Daytona over the Yamaha R7, Suzuki Gsx8r, (both 270' twins) and the CBR650 (inline4) because it has the best engine and transmission in class and is by far the most comfortable. It looks like a Supersport but if you notice the clip on handlebars are above the forks...not below. The seat is considerably lower than the bars too. Seating position is like a sport tourer rather than having all my weight on my wrists all the time and laying on the tank. I rode it from 1pm today until 6pm and my back nor wrists hurt despite having had the 2back surgeries. I absolutely love this bike.

This is the 1st bike I have had with traction control and ABS too...but I can turn either off in the menu even while going down the road. Can toggle between Rain, Street, and Sport throttle maps with their respective levels of ABS and TC also while riding. My favorite thing about though is the Triple cylinder engine. It makes 80% max torque at only 3500RPM...but pulls hard to 13k revs without running out of breath. Unless they quit offering models I like with them, I will never have a bike that isn't a Triple moving forward. With exhaust and tune/flash they make 102hp at the wheel. Which is more than I will ever need on the street. The closest thing to mine that I have ridden is a Honda VFR750/800 with the V4...and sport tourer ergos. Those bikes are still expensive used even with 30 and 40k miles on them. Hard to find too because nobody wants to sell theirs.

Edit: Norton just unveiled a 200hp superbike recently. It looks amazing on YouTube
 
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only street bike I kinda had was a Honda CB750, and it was just a loaner from a client..heck, had totake it back after many months as he never called me back as he was always out of country. Finally felt guilty and returned it. Got my license though.
 
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Orangeburst said:
only street bike I kinda had was a Honda CB750, and it was just a loaner from a client..heck, had totake it back after many months as he never called me back as he was always out of country. Finally felt guilty and returned it. Got my license though.
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Those are great bikes. Changed the world. Cb750 was THE first supersport. Made about 75hp at the wheel when everyone else was making 40 to 50 on their fastest bikes. Honda sold millions of them and the Jap bikes began to really get a foothold in the US. Honda began the "arms race" between the big4 Japanese brands that still rages to this day over 50 years later
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Thank you. You had some sweet bikes. Bet that Bimmer is 1 oil change away from running like a sewing machine. I chose this Daytona over the Yamaha R7, Suzuki Gsx8r, (both 270' twins) and the CBR650 (inline4) because it has the best engine and transmission in class and is by far the most comfortable. It looks like a Supersport but if you notice the clip on handlebars are above the forks...not below. The seat is considerably lower than the bars too. Seating position is like a sport tourer rather than having all my weight on my wrists all the time and laying on the tank. I rode it from 1pm today until 6pm and my back nor wrists hurt despite having had the 2back surgeries. I absolutely love this bike.

This is the 1st bike I have had with traction control and ABS too...but I can turn either off in the menu even while going down the road. Can toggle between Rain, Street, and Sport throttle maps with their respective levels of ABS and TC also while riding. My favorite thing about though is the Triple cylinder engine. It makes 80% max torque at only 3500RPM...but pulls hard to 13k revs without running out of breath. Unless they quit offering models I like with them, I will never have a bike that isn't a Triple moving forward. With exhaust and tune/flash they make 102hp at the wheel. Which is more than I will ever need on the street. The closest thing to mine that I have ridden is a Honda VFR750/800 with the V4...and sport tourer ergos. Those bikes are still expensive used even with 30 and 40k miles on them. Hard to find too because nobody wants to sell theirs.

Edit: Norton just unveiled a 200hp superbike recently. It looks amazing on YouTube
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Sweet. If I’d had your bike when I was 19 or 20 I woulda been dead 50 years ago. The integrated tech sounds amazing though. My old R100 only has about 53,000 miles and I am sure it would fire right up with a new battery. I just don’t like riding in Houston traffic and the roads aren’t fun unless you get outside the city.
 
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Orangeburst said:
only street bike I kinda had was a Honda CB750, and it was just a loaner from a client..heck, had totake it back after many months as he never called me back as he was always out of country. Finally felt guilty and returned it. Got my license though.
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When I made that epic trip to Montana and back, my riding buddy was on a Honda 750 and had no trouble at all.
 
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RavinDave said:
Sweet. If I’d had your bike when I was 19 or 20 I woulda been dead 50 years ago. The integrated tech sounds amazing though. My old R100 only has about 53,000 miles and I am sure it would fire right up with a new battery. I just don’t like riding in Houston traffic and the roads aren’t fun unless you get outside the city.
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I should have died in my worst wreck when I was 20. Doctors were surprised that I woke up from the coma. I agree with you...I would be dead if I didnt put bikes down after that one and not ride again for 25years. I want to meet my grandkids and be here to protect my daughter for as long as possible so I dont ride like that anymore. Haven't even tried to ride a wheelie yet. The front tire will lift for a second if I am wide open in 2nd but the TC quickly sets it back down. Dont know if I will ever ride out wheelies on this bike...it begs me to because it makes all that torque so early but I am really too old for screwing around like that. Its a great way to shed stress though. Put my tunes on in my ears and head out of town to the long back roads in the country and just ride wherever the road may take me. It has also got me working out more again...so its doubly good for my ailing heart. Hope you get riding again soon bud.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I should have died in my worst wreck when I was 20. Doctors were surprised that I woke up from the coma. I agree with you...I would be dead if I didnt put bikes down after that one and not ride again for 25years. I want to meet my grandkids and be here to protect my daughter for as long as possible so I dont ride like that anymore. Haven't even tried to ride a wheelie yet. The front tire will lift for a second if I am wide open in 2nd but the TC quickly sets it back down. Dont know if I will ever ride out wheelies on this bike...it begs me to because it makes all that torque so early but I am really too old for screwing around like that. Its a great way to shed stress though. Put my tunes on in my ears and head out of town to the long back roads in the country and just ride wherever the road may take me. It has also got me working out more again...so its doubly good for my ailing heart. Hope you get riding again soon bud.
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I was only half joking with my one-liner “Only 3 wrecks? Amateur…” the other day. It would take me all night with my 1-finger typing on this phone to tell the tale of my many misadventures on the motorcycle. Maybe my favorite was the after class cock-up on Cumberland. My Kawasaki 750 being my main transportation to attend classes at UT my freshman year, I was headed to my part-time job after school one afternoon, when the black Chrysler New Yorker in front of me stopped suddenly for a traffic light blocked from my view by the RR trestle. I slammed into his rear bumper and turned a flip in the air, landing on the back of his car. The front forks on my bike were bent double, so the guy driving the Chrysler gave me a lift to the little grocery store in Sequoyah Hills so I could work a few hours at $1.60 an hour…
 
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