Will winter ever end?

[Zoney]

It's 40 right now and I'm about to take the cover off my motorcycle and go for a ride.

365 days of riding per year for me living here in Phoenix.  I will have lived here for fourty years now this summer.  more than half the time I have not owned a car, just a motorcycle. Oh, and, Honda rulez !  New bike shoud be here in 6 weeks.  This will be bike #49 for me that I have owned, ridden, and loved.  No, I don't still have them all 

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365 days of riding per year for me living here in Phoenix.  I will have lived here for fourty years now this summer.  more than half the time I have not owned a car, just a motorcycle. Oh, and, Honda rulez !  New bike shoud be here in 6 weeks.  This will be bike #49 for me that I have owned, ridden, and loved.  No, I don't still have them all 

Phoenix was nice when I was out there

I lived an hour south in Casa Grande.

I had a blast on those straight roads in my Challenger

[Tupac]

365 days of riding per year for me living here in Phoenix.  I will have lived here for fourty years now this summer.  more than half the time I have not owned a car, just a motorcycle. Oh, and, Honda rulez !  New bike shoud be here in 6 weeks.  This will be bike #49 for me that I have owned, ridden, and loved.  No, I don't still have them all  

I like Honda but when it comes to sport-touring Kawasaki blows them out of the water. The Yamaha FJR comes a little closer but none of them have the power or spunk of the concours. Also since it's basically a ZX14 motor with shaft drive instead of chain drive you have lots of aftermarket options.

There's one guy on the Concours Owners Group that changed out his cylinders with ZX14 cylinders (higher compression) changed some of the gearing, and then turboed it. His Connie puts out like 240 at the rear wheel. Just absolute insanity.



pic related, right after I pulled it out of the garage today.

edit: I'd like to change the exhaust into a 4-2 instead of a 4-2-1. According to the dudes in the internets it's worth about 5hp. Then I'll throw a PCV on it and call it done.

[DaCoon]

supposed to be mid 60's but overcast..........still...... ....

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I like Honda but when it comes to sport-touring Kawasaki blows them out of the water. The Yamaha FJR comes a little closer but none of them have the power or spunk of the concours. Also since it's basically a ZX14 motor with shaft drive instead of chain drive you have lots of aftermarket options.

There's one guy on the Concours Owners Group that changed out his cylinders with ZX14 cylinders (higher compression) changed some of the gearing, and then turboed it. His Connie puts out like 240 at the rear wheel. Just absolute insanity.

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pic related, right after I pulled it out of the garage today.

edit: I'd like to change the exhaust into a 4-2 instead of a 4-2-1. According to the dudes in the internets it's worth about 5hp. Then I'll throw a PCV on it and call it done.

Uh, usually you opt for lower compression if you turbo an engine.

[danny76]

Turbo's on a bike are barmy. I rode a Holeshot Hayabusa that the owner had spent a gazillion pounds on. It had a supercharger running from the crank and nitrous on the headlight flasher switch. It was utterly unrideable. In first and second a whiff of throttle would spin the back and lift the front simultaneously

Even with the huge power I had no problem leaving him on a stock CBR 1100xx because he simply could not convert power into forward motion, despite putting in the longest gears that would fit in the box.

[Rich46yo]

Just looked out the window. Its a bloody white out.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Turbo's on a bike are barmy. I rode a Holeshot Hayabusa that the owner had spent a gazillion pounds on. It had a supercharger running from the crank and nitrous on the headlight flasher switch. It was utterly unrideable. In first and second a whiff of throttle would spin the back and lift the front simultaneously

Even with the huge power I had no problem leaving him on a stock CBR 1100xx because he simply could not convert power into forward motion, despite putting in the longest gears that would fit in the box.

Sounds like your friend was a top notch Darwin award candidate.