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Long Beach International Motorcycle Show 2012
Rode up to Long Beach yesterday and met some friends at the convention center. Nothing really sparked my interest at the show. I just bought a new Triumph Bonneville this past week at Rocket Motorcycles. Was hoping to find some Mobile Warming battery operated heated leather gloves, which no one seems to have for the past year.
Honda displayed their new CB1100 and their new 500 series (sport, naked and adventure) motorcycles. Suzuki had their new 250cc naked fuel injected twin, and they started making the DRZ400 SM again after a couple years of not.
Ural had a sidecar outfit complete with a paddle; the sidecar can be detached and floats.
Yamaha had their adventure offering outfitted with a winch. What will they think of next?
Did take a few pictures of my buddies Rob and Cody having fun, plus some of the items I mentioned above.
We had fun and look forward to next year!
Other Pics of ’09 Long Beach International Motorcycle Show
This 1963 Honda 125cc GP motorcycle idles @9000 RPM!
One shot of the VJMC booth.
Another shot of the VJMC booth.
Cycle World’s HD tracker.
Cycle World’s Yamaha XS650 Street Tracker (I think it is bored out to 750cc).
Another Cycle World tracker, this one has a Yamaha FZ1 engine.
Don Emde’s Flat Tracker from the 60′s.
World’s fastest electric motorcycle. 176 MPH. Built in 6 days and runs on 440 volts.
Harley Davidson flat head 45 (750cc) flat tracker.
Nice old Italian motorcycle, the Gilera.
Really nice 1967 Honda CL160.
Indian 4 cylinder.
Vintage Harley Davidson (not all HD’s were V-Twins in the beginning.
The new Honda VFR1200!
My wife really likes the comfort of the Goldwing!
Baja Blitz DB30 Mini Bike aka Doodle Bug
I picked up one of these last week on Craig’s List. It is so new, it still has the protective plastic over the seat. Hopefully, when my grandkids come to visit next year, they will be able to ride it around and have some fun.
Mini Bikes were real popular back when I was a kid and rode many, but never owned one. These bikes are the only current ones being built and sold as new, although there are “kits” out there. There is a site called http://www.oldminibikes.com/ and it has so much information about people that collect and restore the old ones. Usually powered by a lawn mower engine, some were sold with small motorcycle engines. Because of the very light weight, not much power is really needed to make these go.
This one has a 2.5 hp engine and it takes a bit to get going with an adult on it. A popular, and relatively inexpensive, modification is to change the engine out with a 6.5 horsepower engine that is usually sold at Harbor Freight for around $100. Anyway, for the time being, I will just keep this one as new.
Victor’s Ducati Monster
Here’s a beautiful motorcycle owned by my good friend Victor. He has MMS also (Honda Nighthawk 750 and a dirt bike).
1966 Yamaha 200 Electric
I had a friend I worked with (James Cunningham) in Houston, Texas in 1970 that owned one of these. He used to let me ride it to work, with him on back, almost every morning when my motorcycle was down for whatever reason. We both worked at R. Leon Sheetmetal Specialties. I remember it being a very smooth running motorcycle, I loved the 2 stroke smell too. Anyway, here is a picture I found somewhere on the Internet that looks like the one I used to ride.
1971 Honda 750 K1
I found these pictures on the Internet that looks alot like one of the many Honda 750s that I had owned in the past. They certainly were nice smooth bikes back in the day and there were tons of aftermarket stuff for it. Enjoy these pictures:
1971 Suzuki T 125 in Kansas
David in Kansas sent me these pictures of his Dad’s 1971 T 125. It has been garaged all these years and is pretty much original only needing a throttle cable and the usual maintenance to bring a classic like this back to life. If anyone is interested in buying this, email me and I will put you in contact with David.
Sure brings back memories!
My old 96 DR350 Suzuki is still going STRONG!
Kevin, the new owner of my old DR350 recently made a trip from San Clemente to Mojave. Kevin sure knows how to enjoy that bike! Here are some pictures he emailed me:
Thank you Kevin for keeping in touch and sending the pics!
2009 Kawasaki ER6N-More Pics
Pat is already doing some mods to his ER6N. Looking pretty sleek and I bet the new exhaust system sounds great!
