December 2010

News, Clues & Rumors Volume XXVIII, Issue 10 Publication Date: November 18, 2010

On The Cover: Master Lensman Kinney Jones snaps Editoron-Cheese Ets-Hokin as he pretends he knows how to ride. Next press intro we’ll send someone who can wheelie...sheesh...

Contents: NCR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 New Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 New Bikes, 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2011 Ninja 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Scooters? Really? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Stockton Mile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Mike Padway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Maynard Hershon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Ed Hertfelder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Dr. Gregory W. Frazier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Tankslappers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

CityBike Staff: PO Box 10659 Oakland, CA 94610 phone:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415/282-2790 e-mail: . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Find us online: citybike.com News ‘n Clues: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Staff Editor-in-Chief:. . . . . . . . . . Gabe Ets-Hokin Senior Editor: . . . . . . . . . . Robert Stokstad Chief of the World Adventure Affairs Desk:. . . . . . . . . Dr. Gregory Frazier Staff Photographers: — Robert Stokstad — Gary Rather Art Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alan Lapp Advertising Sales: . . . . . . . . . Kenyon Wills Publisher: . . . . . . . . . . . . .EHW Partnership

Contributors: Brenda Bates, Dan Baizer, Craig Bessenger, John Bishop, John Burns, Joanne Donne, John D’India (RIP), David Edwards, Mike Felder, Dr. Gregory Frazier, Will Guyan, Joe Glydon (RIP), Brian Halton, Maynard Hershon, Ed Hertfelder, Harry Hoffman, Otto Hofmann, Jon Jenseon, Patrick Moriarty, Lary Orlick, Bob Pushwa, Gary Rather, Curt Relick Mike Solis, Ivan Thelin, James Thurber, Adam Wade. CityBike is published on or about the 15th of each month. Editorial deadline is the 1st of each month. Advertising information is available on request. Unsolicited articles and photographs are always welcome. Please include a full name, address and phone number with all submissions. We reserve the right to edit all manuscripts. Web hosting and design by mojotown.com ©2010, EHW Partnership. Citybike Magazine is distributed at over 150 places throughout California each month. Taking more than a few copies at any one place without permission from EHW Partnership, especially for purposes of recycling, is theft and will be prosecuted to the full extent of civil and criminal law.

THANKS FOR PICKING ME UP, STRANGER As reported in these pages previously: Brian Halton, founder and head of CityBike Magazine since 1984, sold the magazine to Gabe Ets-Hokin and Kenyon Wills in March 2009. Since that time CityBike has changed to meet the needs of our times, and is now available at about every motorcycle shop in the Bay Area. We’re more widely available in the Santa Rosa, Vallejo, Livermore, Gilroy, Santa Cruz (and everywhere in between) sphere than ever before. Many shops now have one of our iconic red newsracks out front (see separate ad with locations, this issue), and we continue to occasionally misuse punctuation and report things that aren’t exactly true, but most of it’s accurate, and that’s good enough for most people that read us. We would like to point out (or remind you, if you’re smart) that CityBike is unique to the S.F. Bay Area. Other people don’t have such a thing, and our Lombard Street (S.F.) rack and rental shop locations generate comments from out-of-towners about how lucky people in this area are to have a magazine like CB.

GODSPEED, KARI PRAGER

CityBike’s desire is to deliver high-quality information about something that most people in our society don’t understand.

Kari’s departure left a gaping hole in many people’s lives, especially those of his family. But the entire motorcycle industry will miss this incredible icon.

Without your participation and readership and our partnership with local shops, we are incomplete, and hopefully you feel the same way too. So thanks for picking us up, and we hope to torment you further in 2011. —The CityBike Team.

Kari Prager, founder and principal of California BMW passed away on the morning of Sunday, November 14th, 2010. According to a story in the Mountain View Voice, Kari’s death was caused by “respiratory problems.” Kari was 63 years old and is survived by his wife Gail and two daughters, Kristin Prager and Maya Nolan. Kari had a long list of accomplishments. He studied at Dartmouth and Harvard but decided to become a motorcycle mechanic, which led to him and Gail starting Bavarian Motor Works and then California BMW in 1981. Cal Moto and Tri-Valley Moto have been loyal supporters of CityBike for ages, and we appreciate that. Please check the Cal Moto web site (calmoto.com) for more information about memorial rides or funds set up in his honor. CB Contributor Jim Thurber knew and worked with Kari and wrote these words on very short notice:

I met Kari in the late 1980’s when I first moved to the Bay Area. His reputation was known far and wide in the BMW community but nothing quite prepared me for the relaxed, easy-to-talk-to BMW expert I encountered when we first met.

That fact is precisely why we decided to buy into print media at a time when the entire house of cards seems to be collapsing for other publishers. We’re special, we’re unique, and we offer something different. The Internet, while a great place for getting data, isn’t so good at delivering our specialty: lots of words strung together by serious journalists who are experienced at writing and evaluating motorcycle stuff. In other words, intelligent and well-written information about a topic dear to all of us. We’d also like to note that we invented the Internet business model long before Al Gore did—we were free and available 24-7 in 1984, and people have been “forwarding” us to their buddies since then as well. And “user-generated content?” We were doing that, with reader-submitted articles gracing our pages from the start. CityBike is your paper, and we encourage active reader participation—in fact, we depend on it. December 2010 | 3 | CityBike.com

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Whether CityBike is new or old to you, we encourage you to read this issue (and than pass it along to a friend) and then ask yourself if you’re getting anything like this online, and whether you like what we’re doing or not. If the answer is that we do in fact have value, please pick us up monthly at your local shop or subscribe. We’re brick and mortar, just like your local shop, and we’re linked to them through our distribution system. They support us with paid advertising, It’s important to us when people mention that they saw an ad here to the people who placed that ad. Please give those guys a salute for stocking us or running an ad (or a hard time if not), because we’re all local, and we all depend on each other for survival in one way or another.

But Kari’s greatest love was riding and sharing this love with other riders. He was a most accomplished street rider but adored dirt and frequently could be found tearing up the hills outside of Hollister or Coalinga. He led off-road rides at rallies and enjoyed teaching dirt riding to even rank novices (like myself).

written in a language scratched by foraging partridges under the deadfall.

Sometimes it was difficult to keep up with him. Kari was a very, very fast rider but also enjoyed physical exercise. During his annual “Two Pass” ride he would stop momentarily in Yosemite, in late afternoon, to climb a local peak. This ensured he would get home no earlier then 9:30 pm but Kari didn’t mind. He loved the whole world and exploring it was his life’s passion.

Editor-in-Chief Ets-Hokin wrote this report from West Marin:

Nothing can harm me once this beautiful life joins something common to every creature in this place.” Ride fast and take chances always, Kari. CityBike will miss you.

RIDING THE LEGGERA

Like a lot of you, I have a regular Sunday ride. It leaves from Tam Junction, just a few miles north of San Francisco and winds along the coastal cliffs to the amazing West Marin section of California Highway 1. This last Sunday’s ride was, to use an Internet colloquial, epic by any measure. Not because the weather was unseasonably warm, or that the route was fuzz-free, or that the sunshine brought out friends I hadn’t seen for years, Kari Prager, on October 16th, 2010, in his most natural state—sharing his infectious passions and seemingly limitless knowledge—at the Los Altos Rod & Gun Club. Photo: Eric “GoGo” Gulbransen. Kari, may we meet again someday. or that the last 15 miles to breakfast in Point Reyes Station was a fast, fun freight train a result, almost all the people we spoke with It didn’t matter what you knew, or didn’t —Jim Thurber that made me feel like an irresponsible know about motorcycling. Kari could have returned and many purchased a bike. But 25-year-old once more. everyone always felt welcome, whether there Editor Ets-Hokin, like most Bay Area cared less and would instantly tailor his residents, had many encounters with What pushed it over the top was emerging conversation to fit your level of knowledge, to purchase a bike or simply to hang out. Kari over the years and is shocked and from the Station House cafe after my making you feel relaxed and at home in Kari also loved teaching. When I was saddened, as is everybody associated with customary bacon and fried-oyster omelet his presence. This style, combined with rebuilding a 1977 R100RS Motorsport CityBike. Kari was a gentle, generous and and seeing Terry Otton standing across professionalism at every level, helped make Kari was my hands-on instructor, ensuring friendly soul, yet had strong opinions— the street next to his amazing $140,000 his dealership one of the top sellers of that everything went together the way it always with knowledge and education to NCR Leggera (I was almost hit by a passing BMW motorcycles for many years. was supposed to. Never critical, he offered back them up—and ran a taught, sharp rental car as I bolted across the road to advice and shared his shop tools, the best Kari didn’t sell motorcycles—he sold business. You never felt like he didn’t have check it out). that money could buy. The end result was adventure. I worked for him as a Saturday time for you—even when he genuinely I had never met Terry, nor had I mentioned a superb motorcycle that I enjoyed riding part-timer for over a decade. Kari wasn’t didn’t have time for you—and he always his name when I wrote about the bike for years. It was special because I had put it remembered who you were, an enviable interested in closing a sale as much as he to respect his privacy. Turns out Terry together myself, with Kari’s help of course. trait. We need more men like Kari, but was making the customer feel welcome. As we’re doubly saddened when we realize his enjoyed the CityBike story (“Hattar Moto’s NCR Leggera Special,” June, 2010) and herd is getting thinner, not thicker.

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friend to strangle me to death if I crashed and survived, handed Terry the keys to my embarrassingly shabby little bike, and took off down the road. I was expecting a hard-to-control, firebreathing beast and got a pleasant surprise. Sure, there’s over 100 foot-pounds of torque on tap and the bike weighs much less than a race-prepped 250 Ninja. But I found it to be almost docile at rational road and engine speeds, not that different from the Ducati Hypermotard it’s loosely based on. Of course, that’s until you crack the throttle. The front end gets light in about any gear and the bike leaps forward like a scalded cat. Steering response is featherlight, the carbon brakes are fiendishly powerful (but still easily controllable) and the bike never feels skittish or odd the way a supermoto would. Overall, the impression the bike gave me after my 5-mile test loop was that of a factoryprepped racebike—not surprising, given NCR has been building Ducati racers since Mike “The Bike” Hailwood made his famous comeback at the 1978 Isle of Man TT. It was also comfortable, easy to ride and wasn’t so loud as to be uncomfortable or embarrassing. It’s docile and mellow (although the fueling was sort of bad at slow speeds under steady throttle) until you wick it up past 7000 rpm, when it does turn into a fire-breathing beast. That’s about perfect for me.

had no problem with his cover being blown. Otton, an investment-firm CEO, is clearly a guy who knows how to enjoy his money and doesn’t care who knows it. He also seems to enjoy the attention the bike generates any time he stops near a group of gearheads, sounding like a tour guide as he points out the delicious hand-made Italian goodness his ride is festooned with. So when the conversation reached a lull and Otton said, “you can even ride it if you want,” I only needed a little talking-into for the sake of appearances. I instructed a

low on the standards level as well as the esthetics and more often than not means stepping over the limits of safety. It can be a Challenge. We’ll leave off the legality part for those so inclined to digress. The annual Dirtbag Challenge gives Dirtbag contenders 30 days to build a chopper (out of anything but a Harley) for under $1000 that can complete an approximate 100-mile ride. I’ve been going for a few years now, as a spectator and camera-battery killer.

from where it has been held previously, as attendance is approaching rockconcert numbers. At least 500 spectators were on hand, as well as a gourmet lunch wagon and a hot dog stand to accommodate the hungry throngs.

“Low Life” started as a YZ490 motocrosser. Photo by John Logan

This year, I was a little later arriving than I normally like to, so I didn’t have much time to mingle before Poll (pronounced “Paul”) banged the drum to call the gathering to order. Poll said, in no uncertain terms, that this is not an organized ride, all you fuckers are on your own. If you get pulled over, break down or fall down, well too bad. There will be a couple of chase trucks to pick up the disabled bikes. If ya can’t make it back ya can’t enter the judging. Judging is “only” by your peers here, except for the Spectator’s trophy, voted on by the crowd at the end of the ride.

Contributor John Logan hit the 2010 Dirtbag Challenge and gives us this report:

Poll went on to explain that this year’s ride would take us down Julian Farnam’s VF700F Interceptor complete with “Fran Pavely Can Kiss My Ass” pipes. Photo by Alan Lapp 280 to Hwy 1 thru Pacifica and Half Moon Bay to Pescadero Rd and Stage Road, back to San Gregorio and Hwy 82 up to Alice’s Restaurant. From there it would be a quick jaunt north on Skyline to 92 to 280 north and right back here to Dirtbag central in the Hunters Point industrial area. And that’s where the party really kicks in—because the ride out is only for the Dirtbag Contenders (and a few select support riders and vehicles) the postride gathering is what all the spectators remember about the Dirtbag Challenge.

Dirtbag 2010; How Low Can You Go?

See more pictures and video of the 2010 Dirtbag at SouthBayRiders.com

The prevalent view of being a dirtbag generally places you kinda low in the eyes of society. Some are born into it. Some are dumped into it. Some live for it. The desire to acquire Dirtbag status then means going

Other CityBike staff were on hand to make sure the event was recorded for posterity, and we were impressed by how the event has grown. It’s now located in an industrial cul-de-sac around the corner

Terry does report the bike is lacking in range, with a small tank and extreme, sub30-mpg thirst for unleaded premium. But judging from the skinny chicken strips on the rear tire, Terry has a good time with his motorcycle—money well spent.

Photo: Bob Stokstad

Kari was a not-so-secret poet. We don’t have permission to print his work in its entirety, but the closing lines of his poem “In the Pines” seemed especially poignant—thanks to posters on the SBRiders and ADVRider forums for re-posting:

Smog THIS, beeyatch. Photo: Alan Lapp

Go visit citybike.com for a walk-around video of the bike with Gabe and Terry.

DIRTBAG CHALLENGE

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The band was monstrously loud, burnouts, burning tires, an impromptu stunt show and the presence of a bizarre, YZFR1-powered monowheeled sled called the “Unitard”(owned by East Bay Rat John Firpo) roaring up and down the street added to the sense of dangerous, freewheeling fun. Go to dirtbagchallenge. com for a list of the winners and more photos. And don’t miss it next year, you big dummy.

49 MILES CityBike contributor Otto Hoffman tells us about his Halloween fun: “The 49-mile ride, organized (if you want to use this word!) by Pete and Kim Young, has already become a yearly fixture in the San Francisco motorcycle scene. Riders

complimentary food and beverage (catered by acclaimed chef David Haydon), but there will be a platoon of moto-celebrity guests, including Mr. Daytona himself, Scott Russell, current AMA Roadracing star Danny Eslick, former AMA Champion Rich Oliver, ‘82 500cc FIM World Motocross champ Brad Lackey, off-road racing legend Rodney Smith and from the great film On Any Sunday, 1969 Grand National Champion Mert Lawwill.

of motorcycles older than 35 years were invited but a little cheating was gracefully overlooked. And, since it was Halloween this year, costumes were encouraged. About 250 participants (my estimate) took advantage of this free event to see and smell a fantastic collection of old-timers and take part in the tour. It left shortly after 9:30 am from the parking lot of the Bayview Boat Club (south of the AT&T Park) after receiving some final instructions and safety hints from Pete, who also handed out maps of the proposed route. Since due to traffic controls it was very difficult to keep a group of such a great number together, some chaotic but, nevertheless, fun riding took place. Several stops were made—Fort

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Point, Fort Funston and finally at the top of Twin Peaks. Then, most of the participants returned to he Bayview Boat Club for a hearty lunch and further motorcycle talk, vowing that they would return next year!” Paul D’Orleans posted an outstanding photo essay of the day’s festivities can be found at his most-excellent blog, thevintagent.blogspot.com. Here’s what he had to say about the ride:

Pablo: No problem. But I do lose tire in Serbia. No front, just back. No Ducati fault, but the road in Serbia is bad. Very, very bad. I don’t need new tire, but repair tire. Now a-okay!

The clouds parted, it was Halloween, and over 200 old bikes showed up at the Bayview Boat Club in San Francisco to enjoy the sound and smell of each other’s bikes, have an awkward ride through city streets, and freak out the citizens. And while there’s an element of dressup in every vintage motorcycle ride, the fortuitous confluence of S.F.’s favorite holiday with Pete and Kim Young’s ‘49Mile Ride’ made for an especially delicious and much-anticipated event. With the help of the Yerba Buena chapter of the AMCA, everything went smoothly, with only the usual run-ins with (non-costumed) police and a few minor repairs along the route. As the San Francisco Giants baseball team made it into the World Series, the city has been orange and black—perfect Halloween colors—for a few weeks now, so it’s difficult to parse the baseball fanatics from the revelers of All Hallow’s Eve, but since it’s San Fran and the sun is out, nobody really cares. The usual fantastically varied selection of bikes showed up, with various sub-genres (vintage, chopper, café) co-mingling and admiring the best of the breed. For the first time since the 49-Mile Ride’s inception, I wasn’t able to attend (France is just a bit far), so like the rest of the world, can only look on with pleasure and remember the feel of the cool ocean air, the smell of two-stroke oil, the thrill of filtering en masse through traffic, and the smiles of friends.

TOP SHELF PARTY The boys at Top Shelf Motorcycles— Marin’s newest independent repair shop and a CityBike advertiser—are throwing, probably against the advice of their accountant, yet another one of their famous parties, and you are invited. And you would have to be a sucker to not come. Not only will there be December 2010 | 6 | CityBike.com

And there’s more. They will also be screening this summer’s AMA Calistoga Half Mile National with host Brian Drebber, on their 18-foot big-screen high-def TeeVee. There will be prizes, discounted riding gear for purchase (including the new Scott Russell-replica Arai Corsair V helmets, signed by Russell if you wish) and a huge turnout of eccentric local moto-enthusiasts. I’m going to be the first one to do 100,000 NCR ourselves will be on hand if you kilometers in one year. But maybe I no can stand it, too—we like to freeload like finish, huh? anybody else. Samson: I’m sure you’ll finish Pablo! But why do you have doubts? More on yourself or the bike? Any problems so far?

Samson: What about service? You’ll surely need some work along the way. Have you done anything yet? Or is that all planned out? Pablo: First service in Tokyo, I had 25,000 kilometers. Second Service in Sydney. I had 36,000 kilometers. Next I think ahhh…. New York. I should have 47,000 kilometers. It’s just a service. Nothing wrong, just a service. Like a change of the oil, and chain. Things like that. It’ll start around 3:00 pm on Saturday, December 11th at the Top Shelf man-cave located at 757 Lincoln Ave. in San Rafael: call 415/453-MOTO (6686) or visit the website at topshelfmotorcycles.com. Look for Door 19 or the red CityBike rack and you’ll know you’ve arrived.

SAMSON GOES ‘ROUND THE WORLD WITH PABLO PIROZZI Pablo Pirozzi is currently riding around the world on a Ducati Multistrada 1200. Munroe Motor’s Samson Ng had a chance to sit down with him while he rides thru San Francisco down to Southern California. Samson: Hi Pablo! Having fun so far? Pablo: A lot of fun… I always have a-fun when riding. Samson: I’m sure, what’s not fun about riding a Multistrada around the world… So how long is your trip? Pablo: 100,000 kilometers! I’m going to be the first one, 45,000 has been done. 65,000 has been done.

Samson: So what else does Pablo like to do for fun? Pablo: Just a ride. I always have fun when I ride. Samson: Just ride! Got it! So what do you think about San Francisco so far? Pablo: I love San Francisco. It’s perfect for a-me to relax, no? Samson: So when do you finish this epic ride? Pablo: In June. I hope I finish! Samson: Good luck with that! Go Giants?!

(He just smiled and walked away. before) told us about his motorcycle Samson was sure he had no idea what he business. He has designed a locking was talking about) tie-down strap called the Lockstrap (yes, we NEW STUFF know, it rhymes with “jockstrap,”), a X-Mas is almost here, so time tie-down strap to do your patriotic duty and with a thin start shopping. Here are steel some gift ideas, or if you don’t do that kind of thing for whatever reason, some stuff to buy for yourself:

AEROSTICH Some new stuff for the holidays from Aerostich; there’s an iPad case, made of impact-absorbing foam sandwiched between a layer of soft fleece on the inside and durable nylon twill on the outside. It’s $24. Aero also offers the Ride-Ready Gear Rack, a two-shelf rack system made of chromed steel wire. It’s big enough for helmets on the top shelf, and a coat rack on the bottom will hold up your riding gear. Perfect for the garage or hallway, $117. There is also a small, compact CO2 Power Kit that includes five 16-gram CO2 cartridges, a control valve and a 3.5-inch flexible adapter hose, all contained in a sturdy, 5-inch-by-5-inch nylon bag. On Veteran’s Day, our friends at Aerostich RiderWearHouse announced they are thanking military servicepeople by offering a 10-prercent discount to all active-duty personnel on all its Aerostich-branded apparel and accessories. Call 800/222-1994 or head to aerostich.com.

LOCKSTRAPS A couple dressed up in dualsport gear walked into the Lookout, a vintage barbecue joint that overlooks Lake Elsinore, CA while NCR was having lunch with CityBike Contributor David Edwards. The gentleman, a local rider named Jeff Cranny, heard our conversation and (as has happened December 2010 | 7 | CityBike.com

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EVENTS December Every Friday night ‘till Thanksgiving: TT and Short Track at Sand Hill Ranch 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm: Get out to Sand Hill Ranch (50 Caamino Diablo, Brentwood, CA 94513) with your dirt-tracker and ride under the lights. Cushion track, knobbies work best.$25 for motorcycles, $25 for PeeWees and $5 for spectators. sandhillracing.com or call 925/240-6247. Every Saturday: $7 All-you-can-eat Bacon and Waffles at Godspeed! 10:00 am to 3:00 pm: Godspeed Oakland, 5532 San Pablo, Oakland, 510/547-1313, godspeedoakland.com Seriously, what more do you need to know? $7 gets you a mimosa and all the bacon and waffles you can hold, although if you get too greedy and pass out, they might brand one of your ass cheeks with a waffle iron. Watch motorcycle racing on their giant TV or play pool or video games. First Monday of each month (December 6, January 3): 6:00-8:00 pm: NORCAL Guzzi Bike Night at Applebee’s in Milpitas (84 Ranch Drive, off N. McCarthy Blvd.). All motorcycles welcome! Call John 510/377-5575 or check pastariders.com for more details. First Monday of each month ( December 6, January 3)

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First Monday of each month (December 6, January 3): 6:30 – 10:00 pm: Northern California Ducati Bike Nights at Benissimo (one of Marin’s finest Italian Restaurants), 18 Tamalpias Dr, Corte Madera. NorCalDoc.com Third Monday of each month (December 20, January 17 ) 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm: East Bay Ducati Bike Night at Pizza Antica (3600 Mount Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, 925/299-0500) Bike parking on the street right in front of the restaurant, indoor and heated outdoor seating, excellent wine list. All moto brands welcome. Bring your appetite and a smile, be prepared to make new friends. Third Sunday of each month (December 19, January 16): 9:00 am: . California (Northern) Moto Guzzi National Owners Club (MGNOC) breakfast at Putah Creek Cafe in picturesque Winters, California (Highways 505/128) MGNOC members and interested Guzzi riders meet for breakfast and a good time. The Putah Creek Cafe is located at Railroad Avenue. More information contact: Northern California MGNOC Rep, Don Van Zandt at 707-557-5199. First Saturdays of each month (December 4, January 1)

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First Monday of every month (December 6, January 3):

6:00 pm: American Sport Bike Night at Straw Hat Pizza in San Leandro (14680 Washington St.) Bring your Buell and hang out with like-minded riders. All brands welcome! Our meeting of Buell and Motorcycle enthusiasts has been happening the first Monday of the month for the last 12 years, without ever missing a meeting. We have had many local and national celebrities from the Motorcycle world grace our meetings. It has been fun and exciting. Our 12th Anniversary is happening Monday, December 6th at 6:30 pm in San Leandro, California. Our meeting location for this celebration will be at Dick’s Restaurant and Cocktails. The address is 3188 Alvarado Street. San Leandro, Ca. 94577. Their phone number is 510-357-5639. The meeting will located in the special meeting facility room that they have. amricansportbikenight.net

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Mission Motorcycles (6292 Mission St. Daly City, missionmotorcycles. com 650/992-1234) has Brown Bag Saturdays: 15% off all parts and accessories you can stuff into a brown paper sack. Third Sunday of each month (December 19, January 16): Moto-Sketch at Tosca Cafe: come and sketch a live model draped over a custom bike. $7 to sketch, free to just watch. Tosca Cafe, 242 Columbus Ave. in S.F. Friday, November 19—Sunday, November 21 Friday 4:00 pm-9:00 pm, Saturday 9:30 am-8:00 pm, Sunday 9:30 am-5:00 pm: San Mateo Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the San Mateo County Event Center, 2495 S. Delaware St. San Mateo, CA 94403. Check out the latest bikes and schwag, attend seminars on motorcycle-related topics, check out the vintage bikes, custom bikes, and there may or may not be a SupermotoUSA race event held at the fairgrounds in conjunction with the event. Also, the vendors there sell sausages served on a bun that is

Time TBD: Mission Motorcycles, 6232 Mission Street, Daly City, CA 94014 Toy Drive for the victims of the San Bruno fire. Drop off donations of clothing and toys and then go for a ride, followed by a barbeque. Call Mission Motorcycles for more information: 650/992-1234,

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3:00 pm: Top Shelf Motorcycles, 757 Lincoln Ave. in San Rafael: 415/453MOTO (6686), topshelfmotorcycles.com. Top Shelf Motorcycles holiday party: celebrity guests, prizes, discounted accessories, moto-video screenings and complimentary food and beverage. See “News, Clues and Rumors” for more details.

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His latest innovation is the LEO VINCE “Folding Tail,” which can convert for street or racetrack The new (for us) Honda CB1000R (see “New for 2011” for more details) looks bad- use. Sounds like a good deal for $200. Go ass, indeed, but like most new motorcycles, to impactarmor.homestead.com for more info or call 916/725-2936. has a big exhaust can that looks like a Mondrian-designed Shofar. Luckily, Leo MATCO TOOLS Vince is already on the job with four Don’t have a compressor or need power models of exhaust for the CB, including tools in the pits or out on the trail? Matco titanium, carbon fiber and this exquisiteTools has developed a line of cordless looking stainless-steel GP Pro ($479) shown here. Leo Vince makes pipes for the electric power tools, including impact wrenches, axle grinders, a drill driver, European market, so they have to be wellscrewdrivers and more. made, durable, and quiet (although they The tools are designed include removable sound baffles if you with interchangeable hate your neighbors or are already batteries, so you can deaf). Also available is a save money by just carbon-fiber underbelly buying one battery heatshield ($119) for many tools—three and a connector battery types power pipe that 10 different tools—and eliminates the line is also intended to the catalytic be upgraded as technology convertor progresses, rather than thrown ($259), just to away for obsolescence. piss off the liberals. They’ll be available in December— For more information go to order from your local Leo matcotools.com or call them at Vince Forza dealer or go to 866/289-8665. leaovinceusa.com or call 510/232-4040. December 2010 | 9 | CityBike.com

RS4 125

New for 2011

Melee in Milan different tuning that brings the torque peak down 1000 rpm and also loses 18 h, new-bike season: we motohp (boo!) from on top. Still; 162 hp isn’t journalists live for it, as it means bad for a naked. The rest of the package someone will buy our crummy is basically the same bike as the trackarticles for at least another month. This year’s is a good one, with lots of new product oriented superbike, with radial-mount calipers, 320mm floating brake rotors, despite this goll-durned global recession. and titanium-nitride-coated tubes on Just a couple of weeks back, the OEMs squandered the last of their P.R. budgets on the fully-adjustable 43mm inverted fork. week-old shrimp, discount champagne and From there, Aprilia’s people removed the upper cowl, designed a little bikini a few underemployed Milanese fashion models to unveil the latest new bikes at the fairing similar to the current Tuono’s, added a fattie motocross-style bar and gigantic EICMA motorcycle and bicycle show. Here are the highlights, focusing on said, “here, ride this.” stuff coming to the USA. Some of the most interesting features are also on the V4R Tuono’s brother, the APRILIA RSV4R Factory APRC SE. That’s a lot of Tuono V4R and RSV4 Factory APRC SE letters for a bike model, but what you need to know is the APRC stands for Aprilia A different frame and tuned-for-torque Performance Ride Control, a joystickmotor is one way to build a naked, a controlled electronics package that tried-and-true recipe Honda and other measures wheel speed, ground speed, Japanese OEMs have been following the bike’s pitch, yaw and roll angles for a while. Aprilia goes a different way. and probably hat size and inseam to Starting with the original Touno, Aprilia keep the tires firmly on the has just removed the ground fairing, slapped on some By Gabe Ets-Hokin

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under all conditions. The traction control is eight-way adjustable and also includes two other features of great interest to hooligans. The first is wheelie control, and it’s not what you think; instead of keeping you from doing wheelies, as you may find on many sportbikes, it helps the rider make smoother, Aprilia RSV4 Tuono more-controlled landings from what will probably be a perpetual state of onewheeledness on the new Tuono. Don’t they have lawyers in Italy?

superbike-style bars, sliced a grand off the pricetag and called it a day. Gotta love it.

That continues with the 2012 Tuono V4R. The starting point is the 65-degree V-Four-powered RSV4R superbike. It is a little revised from the full-honk 180 hp mill in the RSV4R, with different gear ratios and slightly

The other gizmo is called Aprilia Launch Control. This cues the motor to deliver full power to the rear tire as soon as the clutch is released. It’s not really clear how this works from the press release, so stay tuned for reports on the

Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200

RSV4R Factory APRC SE (Piaggio, do I have to type that out every time?). Oh, and there’s an electronic shifter too. The sad news is the new Tuono won’t be in USA dealers until the end of 2011. There is no pricing yet, but I’m thinking somewhere around $16,000. 1200 Tuono The new Dorsoduro 1200 shouldn’t surprise you; it’s been rumored for some time. I have ridden the 750 Dorsoduro and found a very impressive motorcycle, a bike that belies an underwhelming spec sheet. It’s heavy and has horsepower numbers that won’t exactly win bar bets. But when ridden back-to-back with its competitor, the Ducati Hypermotard 796, it comes out ahead, with more compliant suspension, a smoother motor and a more refined, usable feel. So how can you go wrong adding another 450cc of displacement? You can’t.

Which makes me wonder why Aprilia is going through the trouble to bring this model in. Just getting a product in compliance with Federal and California emissions requirements can cost many times the profit margins on 1000 of these, and Aprilia probably sells fewer than 1000 bikes total in the USA annually. I would wager it’s a way to keep a buzz going about Aprilia products, or maybe the Aprilia people just think it’s cool. Why not put the 550cc SXV V-Twin or maybe a 650cc Single in there? That would be so many shades of awesome even I would run out

BMW R1200R and F800R Lightweight, sweet-handling and torquey, the original R1200R is one of my all-time favorite rides. For 2011, it’s made even better with the dohc cylinder heads from the HP2 and R1200GS, good for a claimed 110 hp (BMW gives power numbers at the wheel) and 88 ft.-lbs. of torque. Redline gets stretched out to 8500 rpm to broaden the powerband. Also, the instruments are now reworked with two round binnacles for the tach and speedometer, and the muffler is shortened. As with the prior model, ABS, traction control and other electronics are available options, as are enough luggage and touring accessories to make the R lighter than the R1200R. Plus, it had a into a competent tourer or commuter. chain drive and a comfy-looking, upright That retro look of the instruments is seating position—but it wasn’t available for extended with the R1200R Classic. the USA. Nobody’s going to mistake it for an That was then. BMW has finally decided we R90S, but with wire-spoke wheels, a can handle the F800R. It will appear in BMW chrome exhaust and a classy racing dealers around January, with an MSRP of stripe, it does harken back to the classic $9950. Options include ABS, heated grips, Beemers of the ‘70s. USA pricing and availability has not yet been released, but tire-pressure monitors and more. the 2010 R1200R starts at $12,795. DUCATI DIAVEL I drooled over the R800R when it was Not all of us like cruisers. Okay, some of announced in Europe in 2009. And why us despise cruisers and all they represent not? That F800 motor is cheap, cheerful, and stand for. But after much speculation, silky-smooth and plenty powerful at 87 Ducati’s first cruiser in a generation was hp. At 450 pounds wet, it was 50 pounds

At the heart of the Dorso Grande is the liquid-cooled, dohc, 90-degree 1197cc V-Twin. Unlike previous Aprilia Twins, this one is designed and built by Piaggio, Aprilia’s parent company, rather than Rotax. Piaggio is known for building ultra-reliable scooter (as well as aviation and marine) engines, but this is no buzzy little weed-wacker. It makes 130 horsepower at 8700 rpm and 85 ft.-lbs. of torque at 7200 rpm—not exactly an 1198R, but plenty strong for the street, and if my experience with the 750cc version in the Shiver and middleweight Tuono is any indication, it will be electric-smooth and refined. The chassis is well-suited for a streetbike. The bike’s pushing 500 pounds or more wet, so it looks more like a supermoto than it actually is, but the hybrid steel-tube and aluminum chassis should be rigid and nimble enough. Fully adjustable, sportbikespec suspension and radial-mount Brembo brakes make this a potential track weapon (again, maybe a bit heavy) and a definite twisty-road tool. Like its 750cc little brother, the 1200 has fuel-injection, rideby-wire throttle and three fueling maps the rider can switch between on the go. The bike will be coming to the USA in April, but no word on pricing—my crystal ball says about $12,000.


Aprilia’s other new model may be a tougher sell. If you love smalldisplacement bikes, and wonder why the USA market doesn’t have more available, you may be excited by the RS4 125. It’s a replica of the RSV4 in an 8th-liter package, with an aluminum twin-spar frame, full bodywork, inverted 41mm fork, radial-mount four-piston caliper and 300mm disc. Wet weight will probably be well under 300 pounds, which should keep the claimed 15 hp of power output interesting enough for the teenaged audience (most European countries restrict new riders to smalldisplacement motorcycles) the bike is intended for. It’s actually coming to the States, and for USA buyers, this bike could be but an interesting disappointment—it will probably be priced well north of $5000 and won’t be freeway legal in most U.S. states, even if it may be capable of 70 or 80 mph.

of metaphors, but it will probably never happen. But who cares? I’m going to try to get one on a go-kart track and have a good time anyway.

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Ducati Diavel

officially announced, and it may send the most hardened anti-cruiser hecklers into the nearest lifestyle leather facility to get some chaps and conchoes. It uses a full-honk version of the wonderful 1198cc Testastetta motor also found in the Multistrada 1200 called the “11º,” referring to a new 11-degree valve overlap angle (in contrast to the 41-degree overlap—the time where both intake and exhaust valves are open—angle on the 1198 superbikes). It makes 162 horsepower and 94 ft.-lbs. of torque. That’s good for street riders— although it’s down 8 hp and 3 ft.-lbs. of torque from the 1198, Ducati claims it increases bottom-end power delivery and

widens the powerband. Interestingly, the EFI is built by Mitsubishi and Mikuni rather than Marelli or Bosch. Aside from tons of power and original styling, the Diavel is slathered with the latest in moto-tronics and other conveniences. A ride-by-wire system is there to allow precise throttle response, with three different power modes selectable by the rider. “Sport” delivers the full 162-hp Monty, “Touring” sends full power to the wheels with moderated throttle response, and “Urban” limits power to 100 hp. Ducati Traction Control (DTC) is also rider-adjustable, allowing well-heeled cruiser-ists to rear-wheel steer their beast around the nearest dirt track. And ABS, the other side of the DTC coin, is standard as well.

It may look like style over substance, but this is a Ducati, so special attention was placed on having a sweet-handling chassis. Most importantly, weight has been kept to a minimum. At just 463 pounds of claimed dry weight (456 for the “Carbon” version), the Diavel is lighter than some allegedly newbie-friendly 600cc cruisers I could name. The frame is a chrome-moly trellis bolted to cast-aluminum side plates, much like the current Monster models. The front suspension uses fully adjustable 50mm inverted Marzocchi fork, and the rear gets held up with a linkage-equipped Sach monoshock. Brakes? None other than what look like the race-ready four-pot Brembo monoblock calipers found on the superbikes. The only things lacking may be cornering clearance—Ducati made the

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the claimed 484-ish pound claimed wet weight of the Euro model. Updates for 2011 include a fatter aluminum handlebar and a new marker lamp. Honda still hasn’t announced pricing for its 2011 models, but we can make a guess. The 2010 CB1000R is anywhere from 6780 percent the price of a CBR1000RR in European markets. The 2010 CBR1000RR is $13,399; 75 percent of that is just over $10,000. Kawasaki’s Z1000 is $10,599; I’d expect Honda to price its model at a few hundred dollars more. CBR250R

2011 Honda CB250R

seat as low as possible (30.3 inches), which means lower footpegs, and Ducati videos show the rider coming close to dragging his toes on a spirited street ride—and quick steering, due to a 62.6-inch wheelbase and M-roadster-sized 240-section rear tire (which Ducati claims was specially made for the Diavel to offer phat looks and optimal handling, but sheesh, that’s wide).

HONDA CB1000R

The Honda CB1000R isn’t actually a new model—it was introduced in 2008 for the Euro market—but it’s gotten some But this is a cruiser (isn’t it?), so how it updates for 2011 and more importantly, looks is as important as how it goes. This is, we’ll get it here in the USA. The basic of course, subjective, but I think Ducati’s formula is a sound one: single-backbone designers have fulfilled whatever brief they aluminum frame with single-sided swing started with. The bike looks low, menacing arm holding the nothing-wrong-withand muscular, and the “Carbon” version, that 998cc fuel-injected motor from with special lightweight Marchesini the ‘06-’07 CBR1000RR. It is, (some of wheels, carbon-fiber side panels and you would say, “of course,”) given the headlamp cowling, works even better. The tuned-for-torque treatment to make it use of plastic is minimized, and interesting more street-friendly, but it’s still making details abound, like the billet-look mirror/ a claimed 123 horsepower at the crank; turn signals, hideaway passenger footpeg/ dyno reports peg it at about 110 hp at the bracket units (a T-shaped grab handle also wheel. Front suspension is a three-way deploys for passenger comfort), wheeladjustable 43mm inverted fork; a preload hub-mounted license-plate bracket and and damping-adjustable monoshock with burly handlebar clamp. Not cool enough? HMAS linkage handles things in back. How about a TFT color display under the Braking is done with radial-mount fouridiot lights? Or forged aluminum wheels piston calipers and 310mm discs (traction decorated with machined Icing on the cake fans, despair: it doesn’t look like we’ll get is 15,000 mile major-service intervals. USA an ABS model for the USA). Tires are MSRP is $16,995 for the standard model, standard-sized sportbike radials, with a $19,995 for the Carbon. 180-section rear. A 25-degree rake and 56.9-inch wheelbase show a middle-ofAlso from Ducati: an EVO version of the the-road approach to handling, so given Monster 1100 replaces the Monster 1100S

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and an SP version of the 1198 to supplant the 1198S and 1198R. An 1198R Corse is also available.

2011 Honda CB1000R

After almost 20 years of being absent in the USA 250cc sportbike market, American Honda is coming back with the aggressively styled liquid-cooled CBR250R and CBR250R ABS. Although pricing hasn’t been released, there are plenty of details that may make Kawasaki — makers of the outstanding $3999 Ninja 250R — nervous about its USA sales (which have been tremendous). The new CBR is clearly aimed at the smallest Ninja. The motor is a 249cc, liquid-cooled, four-valve dualoverhead-cam Single, smoothed out and sophisticated with fuel-injection and a counterbalancer. The frame appears to be tubular steel, and the bodywork — love it or hate it — seems heavily influenced by the controversial new VFR1200. Wheels are 17-inchers, shod with radial tires (the back tire, a 140/70-17, is 10mm wider than the Ninja’s), and braking is handled with a two-piston caliper and 296mm disc in front. ABS is available. Seat height is .4 inches higher than the Ninja’s at 30.9 inches, but the seat looks very narrow at the front, negating that difference. Curb weight is a claimed 359 pounds, 15 pounds lighter than the 250R (add 9 pounds for ABS). Tank size is smaller than the Ninja’s 4.8 gallons at 3.4 gallons of dino-milk, but I’m guessing the FI Single might best the parallel-twin Ninja on range thanks to better fuel economy. The theme in the moto-press for 2011 will be how the two bikes compare. It looks like the Honda will be a more nimble performer (both bikes have monoshock suspension and 37mm forks) thanks to its lighter weight and shorter 53.9-inch wheelbase. However, the motor could fall short in performance — it’s not the zesty, big-power mill out of the CRF250R motocrosser, but

an all-new unit with lower compression and longer stroke, probably tuned for torque and newbiefriendliness. If the Ninja puts around 26 horsepower on the ground, expect the CBR to do somewhat less — although it may best it on torque.

really sets it apart is the counterrotating crankshaft—the first in a production supersport. Michael Czysz will be jealous. It also features ride-by-wire and traction control, naturally.

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But the main issue will be price. Honda usually prices its products at a slight premium over the competition, which means the base model could be $4500 or more and the ABS-equipped version could be over $5000. Or maybe not—this bike is being built in Thailand, and I’m guessing most of them will go to India, so the pricetag could be about the same as the Ninja, even with FI and ABS.

The rest of the bike is nice looking, but it also hints that the bike may be a lot more affordable than you’d expect. The chassis is a combination of aluminum plates and steel tubing, and suspension is by Sachs and Marzocchi. Even the brakes are a step down from the full-race Brembos you’d expect to see. Given these budget-y components, I’d expect a pricetag under $14,000.

But even if it matches on price, it will still be way donw on power. Will the sporty styling and Honda nameplate be enough to lure customers away from Kawasaki’s bestselling sportbike? Whatever the results, 2011 will be doubly interesting to smalldisplacement sportbike fans.

MV AGUSTA F3 After eons of speculation and reels of spy photos, MV Agusta—recently freed from H-D bondage—released its 675cc F3 sportbike to the press at the Milan show. Aside from it being very easy on the eyes, details are still sketchy as of presstime, so we don’t know weight, power, price or all the other details that get gearheads salivating. Still, there are some nuggets in the P.R. materials handed out. MV really plays up its three-cylinder heritage with this new model, and that’s to be expected, given MV’s past success with that configuration. This motor is very modern, with no connection to the past other than number of cylinders. MV claims it’s the narrowest, lightest and most powerful in its class (of two?), but what

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2011 Kawasaki Ninja 1000

The Bike You Gotta Like are rubber mounted (with a damping weight attached to ust like people, motorcycles make first the rear side of the heel guard) and the new clip-ons are impressions. Some good, some bad, 10mm closer inward. Touring some indifferent. Occasionally, you ability is enhanced with a find a bike that just feels, instantly, like stronger aluminum subframe, a really good, well-rounded, all-purpose passenger grab rails, and a fuel motorcycle—and the 2011 Ninja 1000 cell that can hold five gallons, is such a creature. It’s not the fastest, lightest, best-handling and probably won’t over a gallon more than the Z1000’s. Also, the front make any magazine’s 10-best list, but close your eyes and imagine your favorite fender is different (actually a parts-bin ZX-6R item), as is bike—it probably doesn’t meet any of the rear sprocket (for better those criteria either. high-speed fuel economy) and Do I sound gushy? Well, don’t take it too instruments. seriously. I only spent about 120 miles and If you can’t remember what five or six hours riding the thing in our I wrote about the Z1000 last favorite paved playground of West Marin year (and I can’t blame you, at the usual pampered press intro. Not as I can’t remember, either), really enough experience to know, really, here is a quick refresher. how well this bike will hold up over the The motor is a liquid-cooled long haul. And, let’s face it, you could ride an ‘85 Suzuki Madura 700 with three dead 1034cc four-cylinder unit that cylinders and a flat tire on those roads and doesn’t really share its basic architecture have a great time. But there are some things with any other Kawasaki. It’s rated at 135 that make the big Ninja stand out. By Gabe Ets-Hokin, Photos by Kinney Jones

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a minimum for serious touring. To make it sweeter, the counterbalanced engine was noticeably smoother than I expected, thanks to the vibration-isolated footpegs.

high position (the shield can be set in one of three different positions, with a locking lever that can only be manipulated easily with the bike stopped) there’s buffeting The chassis is similarly sportbikeand windblast around the sides of the ish. The frame is made of fat screen, while the lower positions don’t aluminum beams, front suspension block much wind. I predict a healthy is an inverted, fully-adjustable market for aftermarket screens, and in fact, cartridge fork and there’s a preload- Kawasaki will offer one. But the seat is fine and-rebound-adjustable rear for an all-day session, the seating position shock mounted horizontally in is about as good as it gets, Kawasaki’s new linkage. Wheelbase and decent fuel is 56.9 inches and rake is a steep consumption 24.5 degrees—stable but sharpcoupled with steering. For brakes you get that big gas tank four-piston radial-mount calipers means a solid and a radial-pumping front master 200-mile cylinder. The whole thing weighs tank in at 503 pounds. Pricing? $10,999, $400 range; more than the Z1000. rpm, just a blink away from cruising speed. That means quick passes or corner exits are never really a problem; just twist and go.

We dutifully rode the absurd 55-mph speed limit on the best high-speed road in the world, on bikes capable of hitting 140 mph in seconds. You bet we did.

Before the fun, the tech brief. Although it shares most of its components with its Z1000 brother—which I tested around this time last year (“The New Standard?” January 2010)—it’s different enough that you can’t just say Kawasaki slapped on a fairing kit and called it a day. In fact, the fairing, equipped as it is with ZX-10R-ish styling and outward-facing louvers to channel hot air from the engine away from the rider, may be the least important mutation. For better longdistance rider comfort, the stepped, twopiece seat gets 10mm more foam. Footpegs

or so horsepower, but what’s important is where it makes that power. It’s making maximum power at 9600 rpm (compared to 11,500 for a ZX-10R or 13,500 for a ZX-6R) and maximum torque at just 7800

But we all know you can’t ride a spec sheet, so we headed out to Mount Tam and Highway One on the red and black motorcycles. What struck me was how refined and easy to ride the 500-pound bike is. In fact, if you had to guess its weight, you’d probably spot it 50 pounds. It’s easy to paddle around at low speeds—the seat is low enough for smaller riders to feel comfortable—and low-speed steering and FI tuning makes it unintimidating to ride in stop-and-go conditions, further aided by a light-feeling clutch and a precise gearbox. On the freeway, you realize how the Ninja could be a fine travel buddy. The fairing takes a lot of windblast away, although the windscreen isn’t the best. At the


Kawasaki actually had a bike on display with a prototype of its accessory hard luggage, but it was a little disappointing. The mounting brackets are big ugly black steel tubes and the hardbags (which are very nice) stick way out to the sides, which will make lane-splitting difficult. Also, because of weight-distribution issues, you can’t run a top-box with the sidebags. Contrast this to the Triumph Sprint GT, with very nicely integrated mounts. The Ninja’s look like hastily designed add-ons by contrast. No problem, there’s always soft luggage, and these modern synthetics mean you can wear the same underwear for days. Where the Ninja Grande shines is in the twisties, as you’d expect.

So you’ve probably read the sort of review that concludes with something like, “although this bike doesn’t have sexy spec-sheet numbers, it’s more than a sum The Ninja 1000, in my mind, works better of its parts” before. Damming with faint than the Z1000 and may be the bike a lot praise, eh? But in this case, even though the of older enthusiasts are looking for. They Ninja 1000 doesn’t have sexy spec-sheet want something that will get the adrenaline numbers, it’s more than a sum of its parts. flowing, yet still be comfortable enough for And this time, I mean it. Kawasaki has creaky knees, stiff necks and compressed been very impressive lately in its ability to discs. But younger riders will respect the build satisfying, interesting bikes that are power and sharp handling. It’s a bike for value priced, and the Ninja 1000 is a good everybody, and it’s not just a good allexample of this trend. arounder, it’s actually really good at more than one thing. best high-speed road in the world, on bikes capable of hitting 140 mph in seconds. You bet we did.

That’s because Kawasaki’s goal was to make a bike that was fun to ride, with sportbike performance, brakes and handling combined with standard-bike versatility and comfort. It delivers, too. Steering is light and easy, with a smooth, linear turn-in, but it never felt twitchy or unstable, even at high speeds. In low speed turns, it’s as easy to ride as a much lighter bike, despite the long wheelbase and stubby clip-ons, although you probably won’t mistake it for a supermoto. Suspension was about right, although it could have used more fine-tuning. My only real complaint was the brakes, which would probably benefit from new pads and steel-wrapped lines. Stock, they felt somewhat dull and insensitive, much like my ninth-grade gym teacher. They replaced her, too. But as I like to say, all brakes do is slow you down anyway. Like any good Kawi, this bike is about straight-line ass-hauling, and it’s got a great motor for it. Good fueling (although it’s a little tricky smoothly transitioning from a closed throttle, like many fuel-injected bikes) and smooth power delivery, with a nice kick in the pants around 7000 rpm. Only 135 hp, you say? Maybe so, but that’s a lot, even with 500 pounds to push around. More than enough to break the law very badly, not that I would know anything about that. We dutifully rode the absurd 55-mph speed limit on the December 2010 | 15 | CityBike.com

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Twelve Hundred Bucks most mere mortals can handle. It has y regular riding buddies piled on the ability to swing the speedo needle past 90 miles per hour in first gear. It is the usual abuse when they saw my bright-red Yamaha Zuma 50 uncomfortable and impractical around for the first time. What was the catch? Did town and can only be counted on to draw the unwanted attention of local I lose a bet? Was there not a GSX-R1000 in my garage? What in the name of blessed law enforcement. What I really wanted a acceleration was I thinking? I shrugged my shoulders and buzzed away in a cloud of blue smoke while the stupid grin plastered on my face grew wider. The whole scooter thing was never an outlined goal of my moto career. It just kind of happened.

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A couple of friends bought a pair of beat-up Yamaha Zuma sport scooters as a semi-joke and began mobbing them around town on a regular basis. Then a few more clean examples turned up. Pete, my right-hand man at the shop, turned in his beloved Honda CRF250R for a Zuma for transportation to and from his classes at the community college. Soon, there were enough Zumas circulating the streets that it almost seemed menacing. We began to sell Bel Ray Si7 injector oil by the case. Gates drive belts and Michelin Bopper semi-slicks were showing up on the order sheets. There was talk of late-night speed trials on the local bike paths, impromptu circle-track races in empty parking lots, and even the occasional off-road barging session onto local park land.

area with the stones to brave the freeway have the stories. A frightening percentage have the scars to match. Owning another sportbike with street-legal credentials was tossed off. The idea of succumbing to the simplicity of a nondescript middleweight for jaunts to the taco stand seemed almost too logical. It may be a motorcycle condemned to local transportation purgatory, but there is no rulebook that states emphatically your choice of everyday cycle be as blatantly uninteresting as a slice of Wonder Bread. I hate Wonder Bread.

There was that fitful dream after one too many Mark and his motley crew pretending they know how to read in burritos of questionable front of the MotoWrx store at 1204 Portola Ave. in Livermore. origin where a naked retiree, having fashioned a Visit online at motowrx.com or dial 925/371-8413. suspender equipped barrel break from the typical. My unexpected out of a stack of burned-up Metzler motorcycling paradigm shift was gathering Marathons, thrusts his lukewarm PBR steam, and before you could say “Mods and towards his bright yellow ‘Wing and Rockers,” I was scouring the Internet for said a few laps of the lower 48 would used Zumas and running a review of my make a man of me. I indicated I would reasoning between ads. rather have a prostate exam on national television. Just before he smothered me I lucked into feeding my speed addiction with a stuffed bunny sporting Becker by masquerading as a coach for a couple of goggles, I woke up and immediately I was intrigued to say the least. Not track day outfits 30-plus times a year for crossed touring bikes off the list. by the havoc-causing potential the almost five years. It was any speed freak’s diminutive cycle presented, mind you. gasoline-soaked dream; all the track time I batted the whole Adventure Bike genre My days of mayhem for mayhem’s sake I could possibly stand in exchange for a back and forth for what seemed like an are finis. It was the sheer practicality of semi-honest effort at showing newbies the eternity. Chancing a peek at the KTM the machine that caught my attention. track-day ropes. Finally, my knees gave website produced nothing more than a Gas prices were beginning their climb up under the weight of multiple surgeries sincere case of sticker shock. I opened the towards $4 per gallon and I was pouring spanning three decades. I reluctantly hung BMW Motorrad homepage and two linta couple hundred bucks a month into up my leathers, intent on giving my dented covered dollars on my desk spontaneous the tank of my hoopty pickup to string carcass a bit of a rest. combusted. I took it as an omen and together the usual local destinations. quickly put out the fire. I avoid two wheeled travel on Bay Area It seemed I had no need for a what most freeways like a bear trap baited with a Be it a function of obstinacy or folks would consider a “proper” motorcycle. Chinese pit bike. Most cyclists in the unadulterated apathy, it was evident most After all, my gixxer is all the motorcycle

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manufacturers’ offerings held no promise. Nothing spoke to me. As luck would have it, the next mouse click revealed a completely stock 2005 Zuma 50 in San Jose listed at an attractive price. I tracked down my cell phone and dialed the number. The next afternoon found me taking a cursory putt around the current owner’s neighborhood. I poked and examined and tried my best to feign indifference knowing full well I was not leaving without the Zuma. We haggled a bit and agreed on a selling price. Other than a mild coating of pollen accented with bird droppings, the scooter was absolutely perfect. It was love at first ride, but after a week or two buzzing from the house to work, the scooter’s stock form was deemed somewhat lethargic. It was fun for sure, but I sensed a torrent of undiscovered power potential pulsing under the restrictive factory trappings. When I found the mountains of aftermarket parts available to me, I set up a reading room on a corner of the shop counter and began making plans for a complete makeover. I ordered some ready-made parts and cobbled together others. The transformation took a bit of wrenching and a crash course in continuously variable transmission theory (invented by Dutchman Huub Van Doorne in 1956). The little fan-cooled two stroke emerged sporting a heavily modified displacement of 74cc with a gain in performance that is nothing short of exuberant. It can rip along at 50 miles per hour in main drag traffic without breaking so much as a sweat.

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A Lensman’s View of Dirt-Track home and comes together because of loads of hard work from LMC members. Corner or those of you new to flat track racing—as I was earlier this year— workers I spoke with had been working at I’ll explain the discipline; keep your the track for a full week leading up to race fire-breathing V-Twin pinned around a dirt day hauling hay bails, prepping the track’s oval while ignoring your lack of front brake, surface etc. immediate proximity to other lunatics or just how sideways you are at 100 mph headed right for that plywood wall. Words and Photos by Matt Petty

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A forever homesick Mississippi expatriate, Andy Madden wrenches weakly, waxes poetically, and lectures an ever increasing population of motorcycling Philistines, all from a greasy pulpit behind Motowrx in Livermore, CA. He is also Max’s Grandpa. You can catch more of his sketchy outlook on life at smokingtoaster.com. Tell us about your forbidden scooter man-love: info@ citybike.com.

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A flat-track race is a great place to see all the types of horrifying oscillations a motorcycle can exhibit at speed and how to combat them. For example, the 120 mph straight-line death wobble is kept from being a full-blown tank-slapper by

My first exposure to the world of flat track came this summer at the AMA Nationals in Calistoga on a tip from a friend. The FedEx driver at work, Bill, is a salty Baja 1000 finisher and all-around hard-core guy, so when Bill called it a must-go event, I went. He made it clear that half-mile or mile events are pretty rare these days, particularly in California, and shouldn’t be missed because of that factor alone. In fact, the last AMA-level flat track clutch hand off the bars, holding the front fork leg in a one-handed tuck. At the end of the straight all hell breaks loose when they wrench their bikes over sideways, start dragging a foot and dive for the apex. Rally car racing is the only thing I can think of that shows the same impossible level of sliding coupled with flat-out drive through the corners. It’s no wonder that so many winning flat trackers go on to be winning road racers.

I can pour 1.3 gallons of 92 octane into the tiny tank and ride worry free for a solid week. Parking is a breeze. Insurance and registration are infinitesimal. The underseat trunk is roomy and adaptable, hurdling an important measuring stick by swallowing a twelve pack of Pacifico in bottles with ease. It even sports a convenient cubby on the splash guard to store gloves, sunglasses, or garage door openers. Consequently, everything else I own with wheels and a motor now spends long periods of time dormant. I’ve spent an uncounted fortune on the best motorcycles that a regular Joe can buy. I have cherished them, crashed them, cursed them, and cried over them. But when my final ride is complete, let it be known far and wide a silly little Yamaha scooter that sounds like a kazoo played through a Marshall stack has been the best of them all. It’s far and away the most motorcycling fun that 1200 bucks has ever provided. All I have to do is rotate the throttle to the stop and yet another stupid grin proves it true.

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race in Northern California was the 1999 Sacramento Mile. The sideways insanity witnessed at Calistoga opened my eyes to new fast objects to photograph and left me frothing for more.

The racers are split into three basic groups; single-cylinder machines based mostly on motocross platforms, Twins of all description and vintage bikes. Riders vary from small young guys fetal-yoga tucked down the straightaways and dancing Luckily, flat tracking is having a local through the corners all the way to a big renaissance. Lodi Motorcycle Club (LMC) ol’ vet who’s lumberjack/ax-murderer held their second-annual Stockton Mile style proved the “Sac Psycho” title on his on October 16th and 17th at the Stockton leathers. Fairgrounds. The event is a fundraiser for For the morning practices they all spill the LMC and helps keep the Lodi Cycle out from the pits in no particular order Bowl—a quarter-mile dirt oval that has and run relatively spread out trying to find been in continuous use for the last 50 their lines and size up the other riders. The years--operating. The LMC’s mission is Stockton track is an egg-shaped oval of to promote all forms of motorcycle racing loose dirt with an exposed wood and sheet and get racers of all ages and abilities on metal fence on the inside. The outside is a the track. The whole event is super downblend of chain-link, K-wall and plywood

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lmost seven years ago, I was riding my ‘75 Honda CB400F to the gym after work. As I entered the intersection of 12th and Folsom, a driver going the opposite direction decided to turn left, seemingly on a whim, and his car struck me and my bike. I flew over the handlebars and landed on my back on the car’s windshield. When the car slowed (yes, it was still moving) to a stop, I rolled off and sat on the sidewalk, taking off my helmet to assess the situation. Before I could assess too much, the driver took off. He just drove away. I couldn’t believe this was happening. I tried to see the car’s license plate as it drove away and started shouting it aloud over and over again, hoping to remember it. A woman from a nearby window called down and asked if I needed an ambulance, and I answered back to please write down the license plate number I was trying desperately to memorize. Still shouting the number, I walked out to my crushed bike in the middle of the intersection. There, with pieces of red metal flakes, broken plastic, and mirror strewn around it, sitting next to my beloved, lay the front license plate of the car that had just hit me. Miraculously, it matched my memory. Brian Halton wrote about this incident in this very magazine after it happened. The kid that hit me did turn himself in, and fortunately for me, I was not seriously injured (wear your gear!). The bike, however, was.

situation, no matter how counter-intuitive, don’t let off the gas and commit. Easy for me to say but in reality I was scared, for their sake and mine, just watching them run. Photo access meant

that you could get about a foot away from the action at some of spots. The first time I got buzzed photographing the front straight I literally nearly shit myself and the dosage of adrenaline released was

on par with a proper car accident. Just a thunderous wave of sound, exotic fuel smells and shotgun blasts of dirt. The whole race you really want them to not crash, to be okay, in contrast to other motor sports where spectators come for carnage.

You don’t get the feeling that anyone is looking to see a wreck. The riders run practice and qualifying heats into the afternoon broken up by some brief track-conditioning work throughout. Finals are from a standing start which keeps everybody in pretty tight packs for the top spots which are hard won. By far the most exciting, and profitable, race was the Expert Unlimited final with a $7000 purse at stake. After much sliding, slicing and dicing Sammy Halbert took the checkered flag and the dough for Expert Unlimited. He also won the Expert Singles for good measure. If you’re ready for some racing other than the obvious Superbikes/Moto GP and haven’t seen flat track before, come out to Stockton next year prepared to have your mind blown. Maybe you lived through the flat track heyday of the ‘70s; it’ll be like bumping into an old girlfriend. In any case: Be There, Be There, Be There! The Stockton Fairgrounds October 2011. (Thanks to Ray at A&A Racing for the hospitality and BorrowLenses.com for the photo gear.)


That CB was the first bike that was really mine. I poured a lot of love and some money into it. I learned how to navigate S.F. traffic as well as get nods from the Alice’s crowd. I learned how to do bike maintenance as well as polish the rust off. I rode it to work, on city rides, on errands, early morning Easter rides to Mt. Tam, and general life in S.F. It wasn’t totally cherry, it wasn’t perfectly stock, but it was clean, reliable and fun. It was kept in a garage at night with the rest of our growing bike posse. It was perfect for me in the City; small enough to manage, large enough to get over the bridges, zippy enough to make traffic fun, simple enough to do small fixes myself. And it was my baby.

You can see this baby shining under the lights at the Dainese D-Store (where I currently work) at 131 S. Van Ness in San Francisco. And yes, I’m nervous to ride it, but I’ve never been one to collect and not use. Its back to being my only bike—so I can’t imagine it will sit too long.

After the accident, the frame was completely bent, but there were a lot of salvageable parts. I sadly pulled off some of the shiny tidbits I had so meticulously collected and put together to make that bike; the side panels with the original stickers I had found online, the shocks I had bought that looked close to stock but actually worked, the four-into-one headers that had no rust, the muffler I had found new—and put them aside. A few weeks later, my friend Nancy came in to Scuderia (where I was working) and offered to sell me her 1976 CB400F for an insanely fair price. Hers was a runner that she used daily, so I knew it was a good one. My girlfriend and I had taught a free motorcycle maintenance workshop for women out of our garage for a few years, and Nancy had been one of the regulars. She knew we kept our old Hondas in good shape, and that we used them.

square one with the next. Yet, slowly, I was convinced that I could combine the two bikes and make another great bike. I ended up handing over the bike and many boxes of parts (including the engine) from that first bike to Charlie O’Hanlon at Charlie’s Place (charliesplace.com, 415/255-0316), and two years later, I have

I wasn’t sure I wanted to buy Nancy’s bike because I was so distraught about my own. I didn’t think that I wanted to care about a bike that much again. It’s not like totaling a modern bike, where you can take your insurance money and replace it instantly. First you have to convince the insurance company that your classic bike was not just an old beater, then you kind of have to start at December 2010 | 19 | CityBike.com

Shelli Bohrer has been pimping cool motorcycle apparel and accessories for 10 years. She started her career with Don and Crystal at Scuderia West, and continued in the motorcycle industry until she landed her current awesome job managing the Dainese D-Store in S.F. Shelli has ridden across the country a couple of times (once on a 1976 CB750F) and up to Alaska with her girlfriend Mary, and is now contemplating a sidecar rig for future adventures with their dog. Call her at the D-Store in San Francisco (415/626-5478) if you’ve got one for sale or maybe she could just borrow it? CityBike is looking for stories of reader’s rides for this new regular feature. Please send a description of your bike and some decent photos to info@ citybike.com.

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What the heck? All that time we spent practicing braking and swerving, and... nothing? How could that possibly be? Well, nothing surprising, really. We panic, trained or untrained. Ouellet’s report echoes what we all know; while a little stress can improve performance of well-repeated tasks, extreme stress leads to greatly reduced performance. The possibility of getting killed by an SUV at an intersection is one of your major extreme stressors. It induces panic because it happens so quickly it blows your cool.

.5 seconds to swerve or brake. Clearly this is not enough time. Why is this true? What are the tasks you need to perform if you want to live? First, you have to recognize the threat. This takes awhile, because if a car or truck creeps forward at an intersection, usually it’s just creeping up to the line. Only when the driver accelerates and enters your lane is it obvious that there may be a problem. In the meantime—guess what, you move forward. Now you have less distance to work with, and less time to react. More stress, more panic.

the SUV to what it looks like up close, and figures out how far away it is based on an estimate of how much smaller it is. Think this is easy?

bikes in front of the shop, noting that it specialized in the service of, and sale of parts for Harley-Davidsons. Undeterred, they walked in and asked for help.

No patter. Jay looked on, delighted at the progress and now and then thanking the guy, who hardly acknowledged Jay’s words. Maybe he grunted, George said.

You can’t consider a swerve until you figure out whether there is a clear path available. Should you swerve or brake? Should you swerve first, then brake? Say you decide to brake. Now you have to remember that you need to use more front brake than rear. You don’t dare stab at either, because you’ll crash if you do. How much time is left?

The proprietor of the one-man operation looked just like you imagine he would. No longer young, he had long hair, an unkempt beard and an enthusiastic belly. He spoke little and smiled less. Think about asking that guy for help when you’re pretty obviously light in your loafers. But Jay told him he’d just fallen off his bike on his first real ride and bent a few parts. If the shop guy would help, they’d try to bend them back into place so Jay could ride it home. Jay would be happy to pay for his services.

I feel sure George told me that the guy straightened the Suzuki’s handlebars and took the kink out of one control lever. The bike had fallen in roadside grass and had not dented its tank or broken anything expensive. The mirrors had both been rendered unusable and unfixable. The shop guy stood back from the bike and thought a moment, then said he believed he had a pair that might work. He went back into his little shop.

Okay, you get it, you are going to brake, and you are going to brake hard. You are going The critical events in an intersection aking a motorcycle course of any to use those practiced skills, you are going Once you figure out that the vehicle accident take place in less than three kind leaves me feeling virtuous and to be an “A” student in motorcycle accident is really going to cut you off, you have seconds. It can take you almost that entire incredibly safe. So when I recently avoidance class. Only, as Ouellet points to make a judgment of its speed. This completed a police techniques riding course, time to understand the unexpected and out, physics plays a very dirty trick on you. I felt that much better about my riding. I was As you ever so carefully and thoughtfully especially happy with the hard stopping drill. make your panic stop, it takes 75% of the So, I wondered, how much safer am I now? time to shave half of your speed. In the James V. Ouellet has been there for last 25% of your stop, you will have the last information will allow you to make a plan surprising event facing you. Accident motorcycle riders since he worked with half of your speed. In other words, you can for evasive action. Of course, this is relative clearly see that you are going to smash into reconstructionists often estimate the Harry Hurt, and before. He was part of to your own speed, so you need a sense of the team that produced the Hurt report in time it takes to perceive a situation at the side of that cage that is now picking how soon you will get to where the SUV three-quarters of a second, and the time 1984, but lately he is driving the motorcycle up speed and is dead in front of you. will be blocking your path. Determining it takes to react at another three-quarters safety world crazy with his study of Thousands of years of evolution kick in, the collision path of two vehicles moving at and you can’t help it – you mash the brakes of a second. This is your best case, and accidents in Los Angeles and Thailand. different speeds is not instantaneous. You it means you have taken up half of the hard. End of control, end of traction, start Why? Because he found “the absence available time getting ready to start braking need to watch the SUV for long enough to of crashing motorcycle, which continues of any apparent benefit of formal rider estimate its speed. or swerving. In reality, you are dealing towards you know what, but is now totally training on collision-avoidance actions in with an unexpected event, and it can take out of control. The cage is coming across. You have to Los Angeles.” The trained riders, mostly you more like two and three-quarters of a estimate the speed and path of the cage. CHP motorcycle officers “with extensive Another bad fact is brakes with more second before you actually start to brake You have to decide whether to brake or training and experience with on-duty power (discs compared to drums) are or swerve. If this is the case it is simply swerve, or brake, then swerve. But before street riding”, were just as likely to fail to more likely to result in locked-up wheels. impossible to avoid a crash. Experienced you do anything, you also have to estimate No data yet on ABS or linked brakes, take evasive action, just as likely to fail to investigators estimate that 2.5 seconds is the spacing. How do you do this? Your execute it properly, and no more likely to which may help things. more realistic for perception and reaction brain compares its estimate of the size of do both properly. time of a surprised driver. This only leaves Are there a million variations on how these accidents happen? Yes, there are. Do the basic principles apply to most of these accidents? Yes, they do.

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We can talk about different strategies, but the reality is that riding a motorcycle well while doing challenging maneuvers is never easy. Doing it well under these circumstances is not a good bet. No investigation has isolated whether riders used to stress do better. Racers, for example, are used to dealing with near crash situations. Maston Gregory, the ‘60s race-car driver famous for his many crashes, once stood up in the car before crashing. When asked at the hospital why he did it, he said, “did you see what I was about to hit?” Anyone who watches racing is routinely impressed by what experienced racers do with their motorcycles in a crash situation. Of course, they are also on high alert, unlike a casual street rider. While there is no formal study on this, I think that riders with racing experience generally fare better in collisions between a motorcycle and another vehicle. It certainly seems logical. There is a big new study underway in Oklahoma that may shed some new light on the subject. New braking systems are making their way to the market. Stay tuned, and stay alert. Mike Padway enjoys motorcycles and practices law. He splits his time between riding his bikes, hanging out with riders, and handling the legal needs of injured riders. You can contact him care of info@ citybike.com.


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saw George at our regular Thursday night sportbike meeting at a cafe/ bar. We were talking about affordable bikes suited for new riders, bikes that will nonetheless remain satisfying and fun for them past their first months in the saddle. We’d covered SV650 Suzukis and 500 Ninja Kawasakis when George mentioned the GS500 Suzuki Twin, a model that, as I think about it, had been in production in various displacements for decades. Eons. I owned a 450 in the mid-’80s, an ‘81, I think, almost the same motor as the 500 except for the bore or stroke. If memory serves, there were 400s before there were 450s. Speaking of 500 Suzukis, George said, before he moved here to Denver he’d lived in San Francisco. He’d helped a guy there who was buying his first bike, coached him, you could say. George made sure Jay took and passed the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course and bought good protective gear—even before Jay began bike-shopping in earnest.

Jay thanked the shop guy again. The guy waved off Jay’s gratitude. Jay asked how much he owed for the work he’d done and for the mirrors. The guy wouldn’t take any money. He was glad, he said, that he’d had the mirrors and that Jay and the bike weren’t hurt worse. He went back into his shop. Jay turned to George and said he couldn’t get over the guy’s graciousness. He’s supposed to hate me, Jay said. The two walked into the shop. The owner was already working on something at his bench. Jay thanked him again and asked him if he was sure he wouldn’t take any money for his work and his parts. George says it was kinda dark in there and he couldn’t see the shop guy’s face.

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The shop guy looked at the still-shiny bike, shook his head maybe a half inch side-toside and went back in the shop. He emerged with a handful of tools. He bent this part and tweaked that one until the bike began to look half human again, if you excuse the expression. As he worked, he focused on what he was doing. He made no attempt at a bedside manner.

Sure enough, when he came out he had a pair of used mirrors that fit Jay’s bike. He screwed them into the mirror mounts and sat in the saddle to adjust them, dwarfing the Suzuki. When he got them right, he leaned the bike back on the stand. Jay got

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George championed the V-Twin SV650 but Jay found a late-model, almost unridden Suzuki GS500F vertical twin, the model with the fairing, and bought it. George congratulated him and they arranged to go for a ride together, that ride to be the friend’s first venture out of his neighborhood.

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George said Jay lived in the Castro, a part of San Francisco famous as a gay-borhood. Jay was slender and gentle in manner, reminding one not at all of Mickey Rourke or Dolph Lundgren. George cared not a bit about his friend’s personal preferences. He liked Jay and was glad he was becoming excited about motorcycling. They rode way out into the remote Bay Area, to a well-known stretch of twisty two-lane canyon road. George followed Jay, who seemed to be taking it appropriately easy and doing well. But after only a few corners, George watched Jay ride his new GS500 slowly off the road halfway through a corner and disappear into a grassy ditch.

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hen the temperature is 92 degrees in the shade and the humidity is making frogs think they’ve died and gone to heaven, no one likes to point out that your rear tire is flat— especially at a friendly motorcycle event.

only flat on the bottom” or “Try pumping it up, maybe it’s just a loose valve.”

the dirt. The extended length of the 4-by-4 filled the bill nicely.

I sure had a lot of helpers. All these people standing around in a circle around two guys kneeling on the ground must have looked like a roadside crap game.

After removing the tire valve core, I broke the tire bead by standing on the tire, sprocket side down first, then flipping it over to finish the job (even a flat tire traps a lot of air).

The fellow kneeling down with me thought I was kidding when I said I was going to drop my spare tube in the tire and ride the remaining 50 -odd miles. He was wondering how to lift the heavy XL600 until I showed him how easy it was. I told him to pick up a cinder block I’d spotted holding open a side door on a nearby Laundromat and a length of 4-by-4 I saw lying behind a trash container.

With these handy ‘tools’ it was a snap to tilt the bike onto the side stand and slide Telling a rider his tire is flat and then the cinder block and 4-by-4 underneath accelerating past him is acceptable behavior the skid plate. Once the motorcycle was in competition like an enduro, but is settled upright the rear wheel was an inch considered improper etiquette at a friendly off the ground with a few feet of the 4-by-4 dual-sport ride. sticking out each side of the skid plate. Just 16 miles past the third reset at a dual–sport ride in Pennsylvania’s Michaux State Forest, my rear tire gobbled up a two-inch nail that Removing the rear wheel was just a matter went straight in, punched one hole in the outside curve of the tube and 10 holes on of slipping the chain off the sprocket, lifting the brake pull rod and trapping it behind the inside curve as the tire went flat. a frame tube, loosening the axle nuts and To my surprise the next 10 riders going slipping it clear and finding a clean place to past pointed to my rear wheel, slowed, leave it where it wouldn’t get stepped into then stayed with me as I parked. Some just wanted to stay around and give advice: “It’s

One of the crowd watching must have read a book about changing tires, as he told me that changing a tire with the sprocket side up was wrong because the sprocket can cut your hands. Well, I’m not too sure about that. It’s easier to ride a motorcycle with blood soaking the back of your gloves than it is to ride with a bent sprocket throwing the chain into a half hitch around the countershaft sprocket every time you shift out of third gear.

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Another acquaintance recently signed up for a high-end “adventure ride.” The company/group leader told him he must have a GPS to join their adventure ride, supporting the requirement by saying the group was going to be in such remote areas he could become separated from the group leader and end up lost.

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if I kept my nose in the wind and my eye along the skyline.

I thanked number 3 sincerely then I asked him for just one additional favor if he didn’t mind. Remove his inflator gadget and screw in the valve stem without losing too much pressure!

It’s quite easy to avoid contact with an XL600 sprocket because the things are geared to run over a hundred miles an hour and thus carry a sprocket the size of a Helper 4 was very, very strong but he road racer’s. couldn’t get the brake arm wing nut started. I couldn’t either because the brake rod was suddenly too short; I had placed the rod on the outside of the Another advantage to changing the tire swing arm to keep it off the ground, helper sprocket side up is that you can pin the 4 had BENT the rod around something it tire iron under the sprocket after that first shouldn’t and now it was too short. ‘bite’ on the tire. Then you don’t have to worry about it slipping from your hand and It reminded me of an enduro I had attended flying off toward magnetic north or a Buick long ago. My Bultaco was partly submerged in a deep mud hole with the mud line windshield—whichever is nearest. reaching to the ring finger of the gas tank’s My self–appointed helper smirked a little clenched fist symbol.. when I dug out a terry-cloth headband to wear until I cheerfully let him step up and A mud-spattered spectator with a gain hands-on experience in advanced tire linebacker’ build sloshed in to help me and I would have kissed him but I didn’t iron manipulation. want fellow club members getting the And eyes-on experience in the effect of wrong idea. salty sweat on tender optical tissues. We had been tugging mightily at the At this point volunteer helper number motorcycle when I saw that the mud line two halted all progress on the tire. With had risen only to the thumb of the clenched a flourish, he produced a can of “Miracles fist symbol. Unlimited Flat Tire Elixer.” With I explained as politely as I could at the time, great pomp and ceremony he attached that we’d get the motorcycle out of the mud this marvel to my tire valve, pushed much easier if he would just move his foot a the magical button and sprayed what appeared to be cheap shaving cream over little so as not to stand on the footpeg! his hand and arm! For a copy of Ed’s latest book, 80.4 Finish Check, Helper number 1 scurried away to save his eyesight, so I finished breaking down the

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The veracity of the tale is based upon what a journalist would call a single source. Therefore I submit it as a tale and not 100 percent fact. While I trust my single source I have not taken the time to back check for a second source. As the tale goes, the group leader had lifted up the lower section of his modular helmet and was bent forward eyeing his GPS when the motorcycle hit a pothole. The windscreen of the motorcycle bounced up as the face of the GPS viewer went down. The first result was a nose ripped off a face.

wheel would be out of control and down I would go. Is there anything to be learned from my being a novitiate, not GPS ordained? I think yes, my adventure motorcycle learning curve spot checked several points: 1)There is likely a theoretical economic relationship between electronic gizmos and pain. 2)Motorcycle travel common sense can beat electronic sense when applied.

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“Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.”

My acquaintance and I agreed the GPS was an expense that was not going to reduce his risk of racking good advice, given by getting lost if he used common sense, hardened mountain man Del kept his nose in the wind and eye on Gue in the 1972 film “Jeremiah the skyline while on an adventure ride Johnson.” I took heed when I first heard it and have lived by that advice for better than in the USA. We also agreed that rules were rules, and if a GPS was required he a million miles rolling around the globe. would have to spend the money to join A distant acquaintance recently chastised the electronically guided adventure. me for not joining him in the world of He dropped the big money and joined electronic-gizmo adventure riding. He is the group. one of the most electronically tethered A GPS bit the group leader on that motorcyclists I have met: GPS, a backadventure ride, not in the ass, but up GPS in case the first one fails, some on his nose. electronic spot checker for him to be watched on the Internet, intercom, solar and on-bike battery chargers for cell phone, computer, and digital camera. This selfproclaimed adventure rider is so drawn into the electronic world of motorcycle adventure travel I suspect if a motorcycle adventure marketing company came out with an electronically adjustable adventure rider codpiece he would be one of the first to purchase it.

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A journalist friend of mine had a similar experience, his nose being ripped upward and off his face. When I said, “That must have really hurt,” he responded, “You cannot believe how much that hurt.”

So I can only imagine the screaming redand-white pain the group leader must have felt as his nose was ripped upward. It is no surprise he then crashed, breaking a leg. Had it been me, I can envision the hard hit from the windshield, the pain, and then my right hand coming off the throttle to somehow try to stem the pain. The throttle would then slam shut and next the front

He chided me for not using a GPS and for my repeated claim that a GPS was not needed to experience a motorcycle adventure. I responded that I had tried them twice, once in Cambodia and once on the Dalton Highway to Deadhorse, Alaska. In Cambodia a fellow adventurist wanted to pop my GPS hymen and introduce me to the GPS world. While there was only one road on the screen I did note that the lake shown was not a lake when we were passing through the area. It was the dry season and the lake was a field of green grass. On the Dalton Highway I used a GPS to mark the waypoints where pavement turned to gravel and for how long. The purpose was to include the information in an updated edition of my book and DVD Motorcycling to Alaska (alaskamotorcycle. blogspot.com). While I kept the data, I later realized it was of little value because each year the sections of gravel changed depending on road construction. My conclusion after the two learning sessions had been that the GPS was a wonderful tool, much like a CB radio or a fully equipped chase vehicle following me. However, neither would be needed December 2010 | 23 | CityBike.com

3)Do not fixate on anything below the line of riding vision. This is the pith of adventure-motorcycling information I garnered from the GPS experiences, an opinion with which I will stick; I would rather have my nose in the wind and an eye on the skyline than my nose off my face. Dr. Frazier’s new book, Motorcycle Adventurer, has been described as “the true story of the world’s longest, most difficult and most perilous motorcycle journey ever attempted,” and “should be a must read for every red-blooded motorcyclist.” It is about the first motorcycle ride around the world in 1912-1913 and can be found at motorcycleadventurer.com.

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Porto tot el dia intentant trucar al 93 4533763 i no em dóna senyal. A quin telèfon us puc localitzar. He perdut les claus de la moto, i m’agradaria parlar amb tu per veure com solucionar-ho.

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Perhaps we will meet again at a Thumper Cafe somewhere.

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A great man and dear friends passing leaves a big emptiness in my heart. God’s Speed dear Kari.

When I replaced the old one with a 2008 model and it started using oil, I went to the KLR forums to see what others had to say about it. My impression of the forums is similar to your impression, except that I simply looked to see who wrote about oil usage. I avoided the political commentary and the rudeness. I looked for commentary about oil usage.

Anyway, I still have the forum on my “favorites” list, but I seldom go there, and will probably go there less and less as time goes on.

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2003 Suzuki SV1000S, silver. One original owner, still on first set of tires! Just 3000 miles, like new. Other items available. $4500. Ask for Otto: [email protected]

1999 Kawasaki Concours: 40k miles, plus upgrades, never crashed. $2345 or ? Auburn 530/823-8480

1994 Honda Gold Wing Trike $14999 Conversion by California Side Cars, dark blue extra clean.

2009 KAWASAKI Ninja 500 EX500 8,114 Miles Blue $3,849

2003 KTM 200 MX/C. Low hours, bought new in 2004. Garaged, well maintained, needs nothing. Only $3300 for this wicked dirt bike. Call 707/578-6686.

Sales dept.- Great inventory on new Honda and Kawasaki’s as well as used. We buy used bikes or can just help you sell yours.

2009 DUCATI GT1000 Touring, Full rigging of bags, heated grips and a nice tall windshield to cut the breeze. Clean and classic in black, white and chrome. 12,700 miles (serviced at 600 and 7500 miles). New $11995

2006 DUCATI ST3S, ABS and the oh so dreamy Ohlins suspension. 14,600 miles. Black and beautiful! Set up with the Ducati hard side cases, ready for you to load up and get outta town to wherever you want to go! This bike has been well loved and dutifully maintained. Jump on and go. $9495

1981 Suzuki GS 1000 G 26,000 miles, garaged, Great Condition, shaft drive. $1500 or B.O. Call 925/759-6530 or [email protected]

1984 Honda V-65 Magna: Garaged, well maintained. Many new parts, runs strong, easy restoration or just ride. $1250 OBO. Call J.C. 707/373-3914.

Bring your bike, title, owners handbook, and keys.

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SYM! 2009 Mio 50 Tops the Vino and Vespa. Go green with a 100-mpg four-stroke! Sale: $1999!

Service dept.- If you have your bike serviced and live within the tri-city area, we’ll pick your bike up and deliver it back at NO charge. While we are an OEM Honda- Kawasaki service center, we do offer service on all makes and models. Our tech’s all average over 25 yrs. in the industry [one over 40] so you know the job gets done right the first time.

We just added 16 new used motorcycles to the web site in the last 10 days, see all the new stuff by clicking “motorcycles” on the Motorcycle page at sfmoto.com.

CityBike Classifieds Reach thousands of Northern California motorcyclists. Just $15 for 25 words, 25¢ each additional word. Photos add $25. Industry classifieds are a higher price. Free 25-word listing for stolen bikes. Deadline is the 3rd of each month. Just fill out the form, or copy and send it with your check, payable to CityBike 69A Duboce, San Francisco, CA 94103

2010 GV250 Aquilia Fuel-injected 250 V-Twin Cruiser, all colors, just $3899

The Sales department says:

2008 Kawasaki ZX10R — U1049, «Willie D. Custom» With Lots of Goodies, only $8999 with this CityBike Ad!

2004 Yamaha V-Star 1100 Classic — C431, Windscreen, crash bars, saddle bags, Vance & Hines exhaust, $4899

2009 GT250R, fuel-injected, better than the 250 Ninja! $3799.

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We buy used motorcycles and scooters, we can also help you sell your ride with our no cost consignment program.

1998 Suzuki Bandit 1200S—C420 Very low miles, Great condition. 1005 mile, $3999

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2003 BMW F650 Dakar. Accessories too numerous to list here but includes ABS and BMW expandable saddlebags. 23K mi; adult owned and maintained in excellent condition. $5195. Wayne at 707-528-6099 or [email protected]

A new tool just arrived from Europe that allows us to make a working copy of your Vespa or Ducati key EVEN if you LOST your MASTER KEY! (red key)

2004 CRF250R — U970, Newly rebuilt motor! Only $2999

2007 Kawasaki ZZR600 — U1059, Great Commuter With GIVI Top Case, $5999

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ScooterLand US is leading the transition to newer, greener forms of transportation for everyone; 100% Green Technology Electric Bicycles, Eco Friendly Gas & Electric Scooters and Electric Mobility Scooters. Visit us online at www.scooterlandus.com or in our San Jose & Los Gatos Locations 408/ 354-4999.

USED MOTORCYCLES: 2000 Moto Guzzi Quota 1100ES. Original owner. 36K miles. Garaged, well maintained. $3800. guzziquota.com/forsale/ [email protected] 209/854-4567 2005 BMW R1200ST 8000 miles. Graphite and Silver. One Owner. Bought New in 2005. Always garaged. Below list: $9000. 415/713-5602. [email protected] 2007 KTM 990 Superduke: Orange and black, 7500 miles. Great condition. $8900 707/971-0306

2002 Moto Guzzi LeMans: 7000 miles, Champagne gold, factory titanium canisters, factory ECU chip, Corbin Gel Seat. $6000 Clay 510/758-7564, [email protected]

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Three Trials Motorcycles for Sale! 70cc, 250cc and 350cc. Call 415/781-3432 2006 Yamaha FZ1: Under 13,000 miles, excellent mechanical condition though will need tires soon. Everything else is excellent: just some cosmetic wear saddle bags / seat bag included $5000 or offer 831/917-2227.

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES For Sale: Complete 2008 Harley 96” top end. Cylinders, pistons, cams, heads, valves, pushrods, throttle body, tuner. Fair price at $500. Call 831/475-0353 or email dorseys8@ sbcglobal.net

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EBAY SALES eBay sales. Specialist with vehicles, 12 years experience, and 4000+ positive feedback rating. Flat listing rate. I can produce auctions with 20+ large format, gorgeous, high quality pictures with my dealer account and pro-grade camera. Dr. Hannibal Lechter reminds us that “we covet what we see.” Let me show people what you have and why they should pay top dollar for it! Interested in larger lots of identifiable, good-quality motorcycle and car parts to buy as well. [email protected] or 415/699-8760.

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