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Friday, 3 June 2011

:)

The title sums up my day pretty well. Started of pretty early and had the roads for myself. The 35-40 kilometers shortest route to the Virago was happily ignored in favor of the back roads.


The Virago has a new headlight. Bought it at a local flee market for 2,- euros, I think it looks great.


The bike gave us some troubles today, so we did a lot of work with only minor progress, but progress = progress and we had a great time, helped by the brilliant weather.


The way back on the CB was incredible. On one hand I wish I could get a video chip implanted in my eyes to share the sheer beauty of the reflections of the setting sun on the front fender and headlight, on the other hand I am to selfish and keep the experience to myself. Absolutely fabulous.


The BMW is a blast to ride, the Virago really impressive, but the CB is just so hugely pleasant to ride. You can accelerate out of a corner and throw it into the next while the exhaust is screaming for more and when you've had enough you can just cruise home. I love it.

Thursday, 2 June 2011

May it rest in pieces

Well, that was the end of my video camera :)


Anybody who got a spare GoPro Hero left for me or is feeling the need to sponsor one, contact me :P


All joking aside. I paid 20,- euros for it two years ago or so, so I can't really be sad that it got destroyed.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Yamaha GL 750

Al salone di Tokyo 1971 la Yamaha presentò questa GL 750,
4 cilindri in linea raffreddata a liquido. Sarebbe potuta essere la prima "race-replica", parente (almeno nel motore) della TZ 750 cha avrebbe dominato le gare della Formula 750.
La federazione però non ritenne necessaria l'omologazione di un modello stradale come base di una moto da corsa derivata di serie ed il progetto cadde così nel dimenticatoio.