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Posted by BryanUT on August 4, 2008, 8:14 pm
I found a scooter for ya:
http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/mcy/783059077.html [1]
Good luck saving money!
I double dog dare you to report back with your ongoing expenses and miles
ridden.
[1] I know it ain't a 125cc Zuma.
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Posted by Turby on August 5, 2008, 2:40 am
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:38:54 -0700 (PDT), "J.S."
>(3) I've already moved onward and upward from that too.
>(4) Now I'm zeroing in on a Yamaha XT250 or a Yamaha TW200.
Hey, p.jm - your protege' has learned your lessons well.
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Turby the Turbosurfer
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on August 5, 2008, 5:29 am
> (1) I don't buy Chinese crap.Chinese, actually.
It's not Chinese, actually.
>
> (2) It ain't no Zuma 125
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> (3) I've already moved onward and upward from that too.
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> (4) Now I'm zeroing in on a Yamaha XT250 or a Yamaha TW200.
That's going to make an even bigger hole in your 'I'll save a fortune'
theories.
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BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Yamaha XT600E Honda CB400F & SH50
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60
The bells, the bells.....
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on August 5, 2008, 8:35 am
> undermining my attempts to share information.
About imaginary ancestors, under-age sex and evil nasty Mexicans.....
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BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Yamaha XT600E Honda CB400F & SH50
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60
The bells, the bells.....
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on August 5, 2008, 12:01 pm
> The difference being hoyt was an abrasive, opininated curmudgeon that
> was an actual subject matter expert.
On some things. He'd built his own frames, for a start, and was good on
a lot of chassis tech.
Where he fell down was on anything more modern than about 1980 - I
remember duelling with him when I pointed out that manufacturers had
made race frames too stiff, in some cases, and were engineering flex
back into them to provide riders with 'feel'.
He wouldn't have it *at all*. Then, when provided with incontrovertible
proof that it was so, he referred to it as 'frame tuning'; making frames
more rigid for certain tracks. The fact that this logically implied
frames were made less rigid for others didn't occur to him :-)
Then there was a spat when he claimed to have worked on loads and loads
of old Honda 175/200 twins, 1970s era, and said that they were just the
same as the Honda CB250/Rebel lump (which was what the OP was asking
about).
I pointed out that the engines were *totally* different, the later
engine having vertically split crankcases, which is about as different
as you can get, and again, he refused to believe it, citing 'expert
friends' of his who told him it wasn't so.
He'd learned up to a point and then stopped. And then, of course, there
was his wonderful assertion that you needed a goodly dollop of carbon
inside combustion chambers.
Krusty knows a lot about carbs, to be equally fair, but not much about
anything else, and his knowledge also seems to have hit the same
temporal brick wall. And like Hoyt, he'll do anything to avoid admitting
he's wrong.
This always makes for amusement, as such people tie themselves in knots
in front of every other poster and lurker on the NG. Which is where we
came in with JS.
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BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Yamaha XT600E Honda CB400F & SH50
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60
The bells, the bells.....
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