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Old 09-01-2019, 11:41am   #1
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Let's see, new bike, cold tires and a handful of throttle
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I used to work at a Suzuki dealership when I was in college. Just for about six months, but in that time I saw some shit. One day I was working the sales floor because all the actual salesmen were eating lunch or something. A guy comes in with his wife, looking at street bikes. I ask him how much experience he has riding bikes. Turns out, zero. So I steer him away from the drive-shaft equipped GS1100 he's looking at and towards a nice 650 or 750. Then in comes the owner's son who goes ape shit on me, tells me I'm banned from the sales floor, and proceeds to get this guy to buy the most expensive bike we have (the GS1100.)

Guy does all the paper work and then I'm told to teach the guy how to ride it, in our back lot. He dumps it twice going maybe 5 MPH. He's constantly popping the clutch and killing the engine or getting the front tire off the ground and then killing the engine. It's a total disaster. I spent an hour or so with him and he's still totally incompetent. He needs, honestly something like a 400. Or maybe a Honda CL-70.

Anyway, after selling him a few helmets and other accessories, it's time for him to take it to his insurance agent. His wife and kids are there, and he's blipping the throttle like he knows how to throttle blip. Our store sits on the busiest street in town. He blips it one more time, dumps the clutch, and rockets straight out onto Rangeline road and right into the side of a tractor trailer doing 45 MPH. He does a Wiley Coyote on the side of the trailer, while the bike goes under the thing and gets ran over by about 8 tires, and then hit by a large commercial truck for good measure.

I gave the owner's son a look that could have melted diamond and ran out to drag the guy off the road before he got smashed. His wife was hysterical, his kids were crying, but he was apparently just a little shook up. Then the owner's son said "You know that you'll have to pay for the bike still, even without insurance if that's the case."
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Back in the mid 1960s after school I worked for a sort of large local grocery store chain. (they had 5 stores)

The family was well to do and the owner had 3 sons who all worked at the family business. The youngest (and wildest) graduated from high school and daddy bought him a brand new Vette convertible.

It was about 340 HP and after all the paper work was done the kid took it out and stood on the gas. Made it a couple hundred feet lost it and he went sideways into a light pole and fire hydrant. Did a lot of damage. Daddy took what was left of that car back and the punk was given a Volkswagen beetle as a car.
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MM. GT 380 or GT 550?
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I bought this back in the early 80's. Kept it for several years, then sold it to a young kid who came over with his dad on a Honda gold wing. Kid drove it for 5 minutes, comes back and has a mile wide grin. Then his dad says, "hey do you mind if I take it for a spin?". I agree and he drives it for 5 minutes or so, and coming back to my house, he says, "damn that thing hauls ass".

Easiest bike to work on since it was a 2 stroke.
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GT380, my first motorcycle.
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Back in the mid 1960s after school I worked for a sort of large local grocery store chain. (they had 5 stores)

The family was well to do and the owner had 3 sons who all worked at the family business. The youngest (and wildest) graduated from high school and daddy bought him a brand new Vette convertible.

It was about 340 HP and after all the paper work was done the kid took it out and stood on the gas. Made it a couple hundred feet lost it and he went sideways into a light pole and fire hydrant. Did a lot of damage. Daddy took what was left of that car back and the punk was given a Volkswagen beetle as a car.
Sounds just like one of my best friends from HS. Got a brand new 1984 Vette with the 4+3. After several relatively minor accidents, including running over a brick mailbox in his subdivision, he finally killed it by taking a turn too fast and launching it over a bar ditch into a yuge oak tree. Parents owned a grocery store, too.
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GT380, my first motorcycle.
I had a Suzuki GS550, was truly a rocket ship/wheelie machine. Six speed, a few extra teeth on the rear sprocket. A really fun bike. Before that I had a Kawasaki 400 street bike, and prior to that a Honda CL-70 which was the first "street bike" I ever rode at about age 12. Never actually had a dirt bike but rode them many times, including Kawasaki 125 and 250, a couple enduro bikes, three wheelers, etc etc.
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I had a Suzuki GS550, was truly a rocket ship/wheelie machine. Six speed, a few extra teeth on the rear sprocket. A really fun bike. Before that I had a Kawasaki 400 street bike, and prior to that a Honda CL-70 which was the first "street bike" I ever rode at about age 12. Never actually had a dirt bike but rode them many times, including Kawasaki 125 and 250, a couple enduro bikes, three wheelers, etc etc.
Please correct me if wrong but I thought you used a smaller rear sprocket to get better acceleration. Sort of like changing a 3.23 rear in a car to a 4.11!
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I had a Suzuki GS550, was truly a rocket ship/wheelie machine. Six speed, a few extra teeth on the rear sprocket. A really fun bike. Before that I had a Kawasaki 400 street bike, and prior to that a Honda CL-70 which was the first "street bike" I ever rode at about age 12. Never actually had a dirt bike but rode them many times, including Kawasaki 125 and 250, a couple enduro bikes, three wheelers, etc etc.
my second motorcycle was a GS550L.
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Please correct me if wrong but I thought you used a smaller rear sprocket to get better acceleration. Sort of like changing a 3.23 rear in a car to a 4.11!
you'd use a larger rear sprocket to get better acceleration; though it would reduce top-end MPH.
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I never rode a motorcycle. All my friends did. All the ones that are still living limp now.
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I never rode a motorcycle. All my friends did. All the ones that are still living limp now.
I have a "kink in my gitty up" from playing football in Jr High. totally screwed up my knees ( grew 5" in one year and played football. Bones were "soft" and screwed up both my knees)

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GT380, my first motorcycle.
My first was a basket case 71 Yamaha DT-1 250 dirt bike. Literally brought it home in boxes and crates.

Got it together and finally started. Didn't sound "quite right". Asked my know it all room mate if it could be running backwards. He said it was impossible.
He got it started, tached it up, dropped it into 1st gear and proceeded to rack his nuts on the as he rode backwards off the barn bridge.

Another one of Mike's entertaining screw ups
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Exactly. It was aftermarket and I kept it and the OK license plate it came with. Bought it used and low miles while I worked there. Got pulled over by Joplin cops a few times before they noticed that. $10 fine for Expired Tags (that I never actually got, tags that is.) Eventually the bike was stolen. Never once had legal tags. Different times man.
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