Motorcycle Reliability

[Trampis]

No.

And I'm not in nostalgia mode.

So...are you a Harley guy or not?

You posted in a Harley vs everything else thread without stating your preference...bad on you bro.

[Felix]

I always LOVED the sound of the 2 stroke triples:



They sound like nervous power chords.

ah yes, the H2 Triple which I owned and lived to tell about it......and just like in the video I remember lifting the front wheel off the ground while traveling at better than 60 mph.....unlike the cat in the video, mine was completely unintentional.....

don't know how long that dude has owned that H2, but rack that cat's ability to stay alive.......so far

[Felix]

The one in the video looks exactly like my buddy's.

that was the 72 H2, which came in one color-blue
mine was a 73, which allegedly was more refined (rubber grommetting, steering damper) which was supposed to result in a much smoother ride-yeah, fucking bullshit-those things were made to do one thing and one thing only and that was go fast in a straight line (which they did like nothing else I've ever ridden)

Alas, a few beers in him and no helmet and at night, he met a tree when he left the road.

the 750's were much more squirly than the 500....lose your concentration at the wrong instant and that monster would get away from you in a hurry.....you're buddy's not the only one that ate it on an H2, I knew two guys here in Idaho that both crashed on 750's......ones in the ground, and one is eating his food out of a straw for the rest of his life.....

[smackaholic]

That Triumph triple does sound nice. It sounds sort of like a V-6, but better. My old SHO with the yamaha V-6 sounded sort of like it, but, in a bad way. It was kinda fun to bounce it off the rev limiter though. Too bad the bloke riding it left his bullocks in his OL's purse and fails to properly wind the piss out of it. The GSX-R sounds nasty in that jap inline 4 sort of way. The duc just needs to be heard live. Listening to it on youtube just doesn't cut it. It is all about the tone. And yeah, 2 strokers are fucking nasty. Love their sound, be they 250 singles or 750 triples. They are just evil sounding. One of the most badass bikes I ever heard was a V-max with pretty much straight pipes. When I heard it I could have sworn it was a small block chevy, until I turned around to look.