Mid-South ride, eat, and meet

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The bend at the end of the cable is is at the carb end. Pretty common weak point. Yep. new cable. Will have Leo reinforce this area to help prevent this problem. This is a common to airheads. The cables come into the carb body at about a 45 degree angle, it doesn’t take long for that bend in cable becomes permanent. Again almost impossible to properly tune the bike with these worn out parts.

 

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Another view of the bend and deformation of the cable. Thank goodness that Airheads are simple by choice.
I know take some needle nose pliers and straighten it out. Naw, new cables.

 

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Yes, noticed the small amount of gear lube on the throttle tube and gear. Will add plenty during reassembly. Nothing will ruin a ride like a malfunctioning stiff throttle assembly. Your right wrist knows immediately.

 

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Leo, checked the pics. Barry we’ll use the the throttle and gear&chain for now, I’ll order new cables. Thx Leo. The project slowly moves forward.

 

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A buddy of mine sent me 2 pics of a 1978 R100RS he recently acquired. Nice. I really like the 2 tone red paint scheme.

 

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R100


The S was added to his ‘91 R100, which is actually a rare model to the US.

 

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I guess the two tone red scheme is actually Smoke Red. The gold pin stripes kinda hid the smoke paint scheme. Any way the bike is gorgeous. I’m sure it’s a great bike to ride.

 

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‘94 r1100rs-2010/11



The first Oilhead was the ‘94 R1100RS. Here with big lid system cases, RT trunk, hand guards, headlight cover, bigger rear fender on the front fender. This guy knew his bidness. Wouldn’t surprise me if he had a Staintune exhaust system and a mapped out fuel/air system.

 

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We even wear the same brown wore out Red Wing shoes with white socks, unbelievable.

 

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Happy Days Ridden My Bikes

Yep, happy days for me. Back then I lived on my motorcycles. The RS, the K100RT, the R90/6. I rode solo, with a couple of local BMW clubs, a couple of local biker groups, a few patch clubs. I just wanted to ride; so it was rides, runs, rallies. Life was good and and riding my bikes was center stage. That’s why I was smilen.

 

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The first Oilhead was the ‘94 R1100RS. Here with big lid system cases, RT trunk, hand guards, headlight cover, bigger rear fender on the front fender. This guy knew his bidness. Wouldn’t surprise me if he had a Staintune exhaust system and a mapped out fuel/air system.

The Flip-a-lever was a nice little add on, the heated grips gave me warm hands in cold weather. The best addition to this bike is top self shocks. I went with Ohlins; good choice. Along with good rubber, the two best upgrades for this bike.

 

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Tired of social distancing, so Sunday I headed over to ShakeRag to see some bikes and bikers.

 

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ShakeRag


No bikes, then a few bikes showed up.

We had a short biker meeting then left.

 

[barryg]

Well, Old Glory was still flying high.

 

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My local getaway/hideaway/ Out of the way semi secret hangout shut down. What’s the world coming to? :

 

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Rider Motorcycle Touring & Commuting

June 1977 One Dollar




Saw the thread about Rider Magazine being digital and may be gone altogether. I’ve got quite a few boxes full of old motorcycle/biker mags. Ran across this issue. Kinda interesting from a history standpoint.

 

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Nice article by Larry Ginzkey riding from Kansas City to Mount McKinley, Alaska then back home to Kansas City. On a ‘75 R90/6 no less.


The R90 made it with some injuries, the Windjammer gave it’s life in the endeavor; RIP. No doubt a trip of a life time.

 

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You Own the Road




The ‘77 R100RS was the latest greatest.

 

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Saeng Fairing Windshield


On a R90S

 

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TripTrunk


Was looking at this ad and a lite bulb went on.

My buddy the ‘Virginian‘ Dave Swisher What’s his milage total 1.6, 1.7 million. WOW.