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st. augustine

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  1. mo-biker, I have a 2002, bought it in 2004 with a couple of thousand miles on it. now i have 35+....All i do is change the oil (engine oil, not fork oil) and have gone through a shit load of tires. I once got on it and accompanied by daughter on her S4RS trip from Florida to California and back. That was 5300 miles or so. A couple of years before that, when she had a 750 monster, we went from the key west in florida to rivier du loop in canada and back (in the snow and rain). I also once test drove the soul-less griso (ok, it was the early model so i could be surprised about later attempts). I posted my thoughts back then.

     

    When I first got the bike, the posts were rampant about gear boxes blowing up (nice pictures were posted of pieces all over an australian hiway). I lost lots of sleep over this and probably shortened my life span by 1.32 years...but i lived through it and learned to just ride (with a similar grin you had, I'm sure). Like Adam Cramer from Liberty Vintage says.."I will never sell these motorcycles, unless my wife tells me to""until then its hard fought".

     

    Ride on...

  2. If you're a subscriber to Iron & Air magazine you will recognise this beautiful Guzzi from the cover of their latest issue. The Moto Guzzi "Diabola" is the first bike to roll out of Venier Customs workshop and is based on an '87 Moto Guzzi V35C. The bike was sent to me by Stefano Venier who founded the unique custom workshop that has it's garage in Pordenone (Italy) where the bikes are "re-born" and the design/sales office in New York, where Stefano is based. Stefano shared the story behind his new venture with me along with the build details of the Guzzi Diabola so I will let him take it from here...

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  3. Just moved to Jakarta after having a blast in Viet Nam. I'm looking to import my Scura and found www.rocket-company.com to do it. Their website talks about bicycles, which half the store is full of bicycles that cost more than motorcycles but the rest were Clevelands and a shit load of customs that he builds. Here are a few pics of something I thought you might find interesting:

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  4. you know, the guy made me ask myself sometime "is this for real?". did he really lose his job at MacD's? was that really his photo? Did he just say that?

    In the end, death as in life is a mystery. If there is anything real here, it's that he will have family and friends that will miss him. There will be a hole in some hearts.

     

    Now if there could only be an ending like in the movie Barbarosa (Willie Nelson (a fine Texan) and Gary Busey (a wild motorcyclist)) where someone of similar wit, who understands his fate, take on the role of Tex Redneck!

  5. don't worry, mine has 30,000.0 miles on it (riding 90 most the time on the interstates) and it is good for another 300,000.0 miles. I ride worry free, except when I am around cell phone talking, breakfast eating, mom's taking the short cut driving to work after dropping the kids off @ school!

     

    If its not one thing, it's another.

     

    St.

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