Forum: Hacks
12-26-2012, 10:33 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,448
How wide is too wide?
Just reading the thread and thinking...metric width of 1850mm is roughly six feet give or take.
Legal width of any vehicle here in the province of Ontario Canada is 108" or nine feet.
My Honda...
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Forum: Face plant
11-09-2012, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 191
Views: 42,099
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Forum: Hacks
11-06-2012, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,719
Pink is reserved for elephants after a late night
Actually its width is the same as my height. <g><g>
However for those of you young enough can you recall a 1960 Buick with those
huge fins? There wider than the 108" allowed for vehicles, then. I...
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Forum: Face plant
08-21-2012, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 172
Views: 26,822
When Do You Call It Quits?
As with others, a little voice (one of many I hear) was louder than the others, Stop, if you wish to stay alive.
Round that time (2005) was experiencing medical maladies, first a diagnosis of...
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Forum: Face plant
05-12-2012, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 7,613
:rofl
As someone similar however much...
:rofl
As someone similar however much larger in size and weight was advised you'd be better off not
even taking the course. In my case had ridden since age 15, that was 45 years of riding...
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Forum: Face plant
12-13-2011, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 9,857
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Forum: Face plant
11-08-2011, 10:03 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,391
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Forum: Hacks
11-07-2011, 12:08 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,961
Moto Guzzi Rig
History lesson. When I was contemplating an update to my the 1981 Honda Goldwing
with Velorex chair, was duly impressed by Unit Sidecars. Unit was the name
of the leading link fork, the sidecar...
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Forum: Hacks
11-04-2011, 09:52 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,063
Thank you both for your offers.
This shall...
Thank you both for your offers.
This shall not be a short-term project.
I also need to do some digging of sourcing.
You're both on the west coast although Kamloops is
closer to the drier...
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Forum: Hacks
11-04-2011, 09:32 PM
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Replies: 168
Views: 17,881
To paraphrase PopEye: "I is what Is" or...
To paraphrase PopEye: "I is what Is" or variations on the teme.
So have decided something to fit me is not a URAL.
they are just too darned physically small. Wonder wah the germans used to...
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Forum: Hacks
11-04-2011, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 8,362
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Forum: Face plant
11-04-2011, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,667
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Forum: Hacks
10-30-2011, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,063
Need some (helpful?) advice...
In the last few years have been ill. However once the sidecar bug has bitten it is impossible
to even quench the desire to have a third wheel to the side.
Reluctantly sold my '81 Honda Goldwing...
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Forum: Hacks
10-30-2011, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 77
Views: 7,270
Doug Bingham
I corresponded with Doug way back when I was an importer to Canada of Unit Leading Link forks.
I also owned the first Hedingham XL in north America.
Those days, sadly are long gone. However my...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
10-22-2011, 04:41 PM
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Replies: 141
Views: 9,984
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Forum: Face plant
09-13-2011, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 103
Views: 16,402
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Forum: Regional forums
09-05-2011, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 7,857
Quitting Riding Motorcycles
Rode BMW's with a sidecar summer and winter when younger. About 1978 an altercation with a Toronto streetcar on a wet slippery winter's night destroyed the chair, the bike and my physical being....
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Forum: Face plant
09-03-2011, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,746
Sometime though one tumble can in turn lead to...
Sometime though one tumble can in turn lead to physical and I suppose mental complications
later, after the physical parts appear to have healed.
Had one major mess some three years ago; still ...
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Forum: Face plant
08-08-2011, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,171
Sounds as if the police will ensure justice is...
Sounds as if the police will ensure justice is done, however that may be.
As for your foot surgery, ensure the wound is kept scrupulosly clean,
maybe keep a bottle of sterile water solution with...
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Forum: Face plant
07-27-2011, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,563
Water truck eh?
Here in Southern Ontario many municipal transit operators have a
adhesive label on the rear of the coach "If you can't see my mirrors,
I can't see you!"
It is a good thought given coaches in...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
04-25-2011, 02:00 PM
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Replies: 21,027
Views: 4,506,491
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Forum: Face plant
04-25-2011, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,994
Idjits at crosswalk
Sadly in this the era of mobile phones combined with attention often
directed elsewhere, pedestrians talk on the phone, walk and chew
gum all at the same time oblivious to anything surrounding...
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Forum: Face plant
11-01-2010, 10:02 PM
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Replies: 78
Views: 10,384
The opposition did not see you, Mr. Speaker.
At this point in the riding season, now that it is November and you're in Ottawa, do you think you'll get that much more riding for this year?
Still a scary thought and also no matter how many...
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Forum: Americas
10-28-2010, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,156
No offence taken, eh?
Have a friend who has utilized MedJet twice, in different situations.
Hence decided given the monetary cost of medical care in the United States, and elsewhere if one does not have adequate monetary...
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Forum: Americas
10-25-2010, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,156
Unable to obtain any form of travel insurance!
I am recovering from the effects of continued chemotherapy for both Non-Hodgkins Llymphona plus the effects of Lupus.
My motorcycle is to be fully insured in Ontario, and said insurance for the...
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Forum: Face plant
09-06-2010, 10:51 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,401
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Forum: Face plant
09-06-2010, 10:32 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,235
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-06-2010, 10:17 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 853
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Forum: Ride reports
06-09-2010, 09:40 PM
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Replies: 82
Views: 13,323
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Forum: Canada
02-06-2010, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 249
Views: 19,446
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Forum: Face plant
08-02-2009, 08:24 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 6,645
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Forum: Hacks
07-02-2009, 08:18 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,499
Ural and others way too small.
Ah, somebody of normal size! :)
I too am like you with one or two exceptions.
I am 6'8" tall pushing 400 pounds and my build is such that when my feet are on the footpegs of a Ural, my knees...
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Forum: Hacks
05-18-2009, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 65
Views: 10,982
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
12-10-2008, 10:12 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 3,542
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
12-07-2008, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 4,041
My first and it was the worst
Am assuming this is where you the rider crashed versus something crashing in to you on a motorcycle. My worst was at the corner of Broadview and Main Streets in the preamalgamation Toronto's then...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
12-07-2008, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 4,041
My first and it was the worst
Am assuming this is where you the rider crashed versus something crashing in to you on a motorcycle.
My worst was at the corner of Broadview and Main Streets in the preamalgamation Toronto's then...
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Forum: Equipment
11-23-2008, 05:31 PM
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Replies: 373
Views: 66,266
hair crack at mounting point
Drill a small (1/16th of an inch) hole slowly using a manual hand drill or pin
vise where the crack currently ends.
Purchase a small tube of clear silicone, and plug the hole.
The material will...
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Forum: Equipment
11-23-2008, 05:01 PM
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Replies: 373
Views: 66,266
Long Sleeping Bag
I have a long mummy type bag which I purchased at Black's Camping when they had a store in Toronto. That has to be 25 years ago if it's a day.
Black's like many UK companies have left Canada for...
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Forum: Equipment
11-23-2008, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 373
Views: 66,266
Foul Weather Rain Gear
Foul Weather (Rain gear):
MAKE: Peter Storm
MODEL: Two Piece 90SK
SIZES: small - XXXL
MATERIAL:
100% Polyurethane Outer
100% Polyamide Inner
Bright Yellow...
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Forum: Equipment
11-06-2008, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 435
Giant sized motorcycle jacket/pants
Have ridden two different machines for years and years.
Yes ,an adventure it has been. First a BMW with a hack
up until an altercation with a tram and dump truck, and
since 1981 a Goldwing...
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