Recent content by WuzzaCBXRider

Some body better go for a ride.

Starting in late 79 effective for 1980 model vehicles, as most of you will recall, the speedometers were limited to 85. That’s all the higher they went. My new 82 CBX came with an 85 mph speedo and if it didn’t have a pretty severe needle wobble I would’ve kept it. I sent all three gauges to a...

Sure is. How did they get such water pressure back then?

Nice find Tim. The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson WY has saddles at the bar too. I had a nice stiff jigger of tequila there one day.

I don’t mind a bit that they don’t look like a bike I could buy. I can’t buy an F1 car either. What I don’t care for are the camo type paint jobs blurring the lines of the bodywork. Look at this Yamaha. Several blue, grey and silver horizontal stripes along the sides. WTH?

It doesn’t disappoint in California either. How far are you from Topaz Lodge on 395 in NV, south of Carson City?

Taking the wheel to them it’s $45 for a mount and balance. Probably twice that with wheel on the bike. Shop labor here is $180 per hour.

But the straps did, up and down rubbing the paint. Over time they can really screw up the body work.

But but…how does it turn? :laugh:

You could scrub them in real good by the time you got to Yosemite. :firing: Just a couple hundred miles away….

Re: “but have now since bought a real machine since it gets used just all the time.” Is the “real” machine a Rabaconda?

I just came across this on another forum. I’ll mention it here since you’ve already bought yours. He’s asking $415 and is in Ohio.

But he said he (doesn’t) need selling.

Mine looks absolutely awful and it’s never had a screen. I’m surprised it doesn’t overheat it looks so bad. So far no leaks though.

Wow, what a collection of old rust and rubber. Hmm, ol rust an rubber, sounds like a country song.