Totally Off-Topic Photographs

Robster · January 14, 2014, 05:24:51 PM

Classic cruiser, love those 70's crash bars and highway pegs.!!

keldaw · January 14, 2014, 08:24:29 PM

hey guys , don't bring them bikes up to qld and hang out with 2 or more mates or they will get ya ..and lock ya up .. ,, kel ,,

robbiegal · January 14, 2014, 08:27:13 PM

Quote from: 'Robster' pid='39610' dateline='1389682491'Classic cruiser, love those 70's crash bars and highway pegs.!!

am I seeing centre stand as well?

czark · January 14, 2014, 08:28:41 PM

Who doesn't love Harleys!

robbiegal · January 14, 2014, 08:47:41 PM

i'm not real fussed on them
big heavy lumberjack things & darn noisey

tho , they are probably much better than when I had the odd ride on a few ... like decades ago!! ha ha

Fulvio · January 14, 2014, 10:16:32 PM

Quote from: 'czark' pid='39621' dateline='1389693521'Who doesn't love Harleys!

Meh. Yanks are real good at low-tech heavy-duty "big iron" industrial design. Harleys, Kirby vacuums, Kenworth trucks, Cadillacs, etc.

Forget the wank value of owning any of these, and clearly there are much, much better, more civilised, high-tech and ultra-reliable alternatives from other parts of the world.

I would never have swapped my Suzy GS-850 for a Harley, for example.

Unicorn · January 15, 2014, 11:19:07 AM

Nevol · January 15, 2014, 12:08:40 PM

'mazing! :angel:

Pedro · January 15, 2014, 12:28:15 PM

Freaky. How does that work?

(And don't talk to me about Kirby vacuums!!!)

Pedro

robbiegal · January 15, 2014, 04:22:33 PM

Quote from: 'Fulvio' pid='39636' dateline='1389699992'
Quote from: 'czark' pid='39621' dateline='1389693521'Who doesn't love Harleys!

Meh. Yanks are real good at low-tech heavy-duty "big iron" industrial design. Harleys, Kirby vacuums, Kenworth trucks, Cadillacs, etc.

Forget the wank value of owning any of these, and clearly there are much, much better, more civilised, high-tech and ultra-reliable alternatives from other parts of the world.

I would never have swapped my Suzy GS-850 for a Harley, for example.

it's all a matter of personal taste
ps we has a suzi 650 'waterbus' many many many moons ago
loved that bike and did thousands of miles on it - very long inland & coastal trips away with the tent and all that - it was fantastic - now, i just don't even know how i did it - that is youth for ya!!

Robster · January 15, 2014, 05:31:24 PM

The Suzuki 'waterbottles' were a great bike and restored examples pull in some good money.!!

Steveqld · January 15, 2014, 06:36:35 PM

I'm also a Suzuki man. My current ride:

You don't get too old to ride but the aches come a bit more frequently and painfully. Just have to remember that you can't do now what you used to do when you were 20.

My wife still goes pillion and it only took her 40 years to learn not to try and stand the bike up when I'm leaning it into a corner. She's even asking why I don't trade it in for a Harley but that's a bit hard to justify. A Triumph cruiser maybe.......

duggee27 · January 15, 2014, 06:53:42 PM

Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='39620' dateline='1389693433'
Quote from: 'Robster' pid='39610' dateline='1389682491'Classic cruiser, love those 70's crash bars and highway pegs.!!

am I seeing centre stand as well?

spot on .... it takes bit of of a technique to get 300kg up on the stand:shock:

JeffH · February 16, 2014, 04:14:44 AM

A new set of totally off-topic photographs. Willard Wigan Gallery
"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:23-26

QuoteYanks are real good at low-tech heavy-duty "big iron" industrial design.

Saw an example yesterday -brand new Dodge Ram pulled up at the newsagents in our little town!

I think a custom grille would be in order for Australia

Triggersmob · February 16, 2014, 09:56:08 AM

:good::good::good: