Bob's I totally agree!
That said in the next 20 years we will be the standard bar setters! This is where all weak ass punks who tour and don't light things up will be forgotten and us street and track warriors will grow our legendary dynasty!
Making history all day every day homies!
W

On the note of legacy I snatching page 3 like the girl next door!

* Last updated by: Wolfman on 9/12/2013 @ 3:15 AM *

So does that make me a weak ass punk because I like to tour? So since I tour does that mean I don't ever tear shit up? I ride the living fuck outta my bike everyday does that make me incapable of hardcore hooliganism at or above your level?

No, it makes your level a clog'inn, flog'inn, no punknows the power of this puppy. The acceleration from a dead stop is faster than any race bike, sans a motogp bike. So you are one up on any racer with those shitpiles they're on. Those a-holes only dream they could trap 186. We are really, a breed apart.

Signed,

Reach Around

man if only I could have come close to standing around you guys back then...WOW speechless and honored to share a forum with you guys!

Absolutely 100% agree!

And hell no nasty, that doesn't make ya anything. I also love just riding, I don't tour traditionally and I KNOW you don't. Hitting great roads at a fun pace and finding a spot you have never been is WOT it's all about. What I feel and think when paying homage to the racing heritage, is we are tie backin to the roots man. The days I have spent goin roundy round with bends is time almost needed to help one find the performance 'edge' of the machine in a safer way. Any bike, any track time, helps to provide the rider with additional knowledge of the performance envelope. It can and is found on the street, but its a lot less forgiving. I am more comfortable pushing hard on the street because of the experience is all. And then I see the history on men like Hub and Kofla, wow. Talk about precision riding, taking that level of experience and rolling around on a 14R!!!! Holy shit. What I wouldn't fuckin give to just one time Roll like six or eight deep with hub and Kofla and y'all, the old and the new, damn, the bitches wouldn't know what hit em! :))

You don't want to stand around these cheating fools. The stories I could tell you. The stories Mike V could tell you. Here's one. That line, 'You ain't cheat'inn, you ain't win'inn kind of line goes like this. Some guy cheats, gets caught, swears not to cheat again, go thru the red carpet again, lose points to a championship? Next year comes around. As he finishes consistently up there during the season, the [hindsight] was, 'you shoulda counted cylinder fins.' At the end of the season, his 2nd place was 5 points away from a championship. "If you ain't win'inn, you ain't cheat'inn."

Rofl!!! That's just TRYING REAL HARD! I'm just kidding, Hub has it pegged! It's a game of who can 'catch' who usually. Lately the gymnastics are happening in the ecu's.

No, it makes your level a clog'inn, flog'inn, no punknows the power of this puppy. The acceleration from a dead stop is faster than any race bike, sans a motogp bike. So you are one up on any racer with those shitpiles they're on. Those a-holes only dream they could trap 186. We are really, a breed apart.
Signed,
Reach Around

Hahahaha! Absolutely! And the torque, the machinery we are playing with is flawless for the privateer type guy that wants to have fun. I love the street ride no limitations thing! The canonball is gonna be a freakin blast!!
Hub, the links and pics!!! As always sir! Flawless!

* Last updated by: Cblast on 9/12/2013 @ 12:19 PM *

I bought my own Superflow SF-110 flowbench and played with it porting my own heads in my spared room in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, two years later I divorced and had to sell everything.

I wish I could have warned you. Any female told me to get rid of the bikes, I got rid of them instead. You'll never compete with my first love, honey. Get use to it, or get over it, or get the fuck out! I've been a happy man ever since high school. The look on my high school buddy when he said he was going to get married. It was the saddest face I ever saw. LOL

A fucking flow bench?... Go to your room!

In 73 I bought my first new bike a Z1.a certain gentleman by the name of Lang Hindle became a friend. Honda 450 pistons flycut and balanced yoshimuira cams ,mikuni smooth bores , modified oil pan,ported head ,balanced crank and a Hindle header all ended up on my Z1.yup I had a 115 hp Z1 if anyone asked what was done to her"nothing , just a pipe"he laid down the shocks raked the front end a couple of degrees to improve handling.I loved that bike.My moms sister was going thru a divorce she and her three sons moved in with us .i was sharing the basement with my cousin one winter night he came home to find the Z1 in his bed front wheel on the pillow and blanket covering the bike.I think he called me fuckin crazy ass-hole

Awsome stories Kofla.
Top Quality History Lessons and photographic log.
Thanks for the insight to your memories.
Glad your part of the place.

Kofla, hub, fantastic stuff. Kofla, thank you for sharing that man. This thread is wayy more interesting than this months cycle world!!! By a margin!
And a flow bench Kofla...

This stuff is priceless!!! The part that gets me is he never wanted his picture taken and now he is weilding the camera....lol

I wish I could have warned you. Any female told me to get rid of the bikes, I got rid of them instead. You'll never compete with my first love, honey. Get use to it, or get over it, or get the fuck out! I've been a happy man ever since high school. The look on my high school buddy when he said he was going to get married. It was the saddest face I ever saw. LOL

A fucking flow bench?... Go to your room!

Lol, Hub, I can honestly say I was lucky because my ex-wife also loved motorcycles, lol ...back then, the flowbench only cost $1,800.00 I think I probably spent more than that in all the Neway valve seat cutters and valve guide pilots I had. It was money well spent!

In 73 I bought my first new bike a Z1.a certain gentleman by the name of Lang Hindle became a friend. Honda 450 pistons flycut and balanced yoshimuira cams ,mikuni smooth bores , modified oil pan,ported head ,balanced crank and a Hindle header all ended up on my Z1.yup I had a 115 hp Z1 if anyone asked what was done to her"nothing , just a pipe"he laid down the shocks raked the front end a couple of degrees to improve handling.I loved that bike.My moms sister was going thru a divorce she and her three sons moved in with us .i was sharing the basement with my cousin one winter night he came home to find the Z1 in his bed front wheel on the pillow and blanket covering the bike.I think he called me fuckin crazy ass-hole

darryle, I think I found a picture of your bike, lol

Awsome stories Kofla.
Top Quality History Lessons and photographic log.
Thanks for the insight to your memories.
Glad your part of the place.

1400R, thank you!

Kofla, hub, fantastic stuff. Kofla, thank you for sharing that man. This thread is wayy more interesting than this months cycle world!!! By a margin!
And a flow bench Kofla...

Cblast, I think this is the first time I read anything about Hub yesteryears.

This stuff is priceless!!! The part that gets me is he never wanted his picture taken and now he is weilding the camera....lol

Bobby, I wish I could turn back time, I guess now I am trying to make up for it and take as many pictures as I can.

Kofla

Riding My Own Biography
2010 ZX-14 MotoVlog

I probably spent more than that in all the Neway valve seat cutters

I saw those. I know how crazy the parts are. I attempted to change out the valve guides. They wanted $450 for the finished reamer alone. I bought one a few mills tighter for a 1/3rd the price. Took porting tubes, polished the new valve guide holes till the valve would move. I have video of the whole process removing the carbon off the heads with vinegar. Heat the head so I can pound the guides in and out. Made my own 45 degree head chuck from a wooden knife holder. I could pound the guide straighter and ream the hole all steady at 90 degrees.

Man if that was not backyard hack work. Don't you hate having someone work on your bike? Those horror stories I mean. There are great mechanics, but not many, right? I'll take my chances.

I think this is the first time I read anything about Hub yesteryears.

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I never let this guy out of my sight. Ron came in first, I came in second... This was at Riverside. Mine had Lester wheels on them. I wasted a set of mag wheels passing someone on the outside. I hit those alligator [yellow] strips, you are leaving the track so take these deliberate wake up bumps. That made the bike even heavier and the Yosh bike was way lighter, not to mention the seasoned shrimp they had for a hired gun. That's why your Lester wheel came up?

That said in the next 20 years we will be the standard bar setters!

my approach to history

Here's a mechanic... Check his other vids

Mr Millyard can help me synch my TB's any day!

Rofl! A homebuilt 5cylinder two stroke, wow, ya see how unbelievable he got that exhaust. It looks amazing. And that sound.

Thats is awesome! Bet that bike cam raise some serious hell!

They wanted $450 for the finished reamer alone.Made my own 45 degree head chuck from a wooden knife holder. I could pound the guide straighter and ream the hole all steady at 90 degrees. Man if that was not backyard hack work.

Tool prices were downright exorbitant in those years, I am not going to try to guess how much motorcycle tools cost now. Like you said, best bet was to improvise and make your own. In 2000 I lost all my tools in a rented storage garage fire. What I regret the most about losing my tools is that some of those DIY tools were made by me specifically for certain repairs.

Don't you hate having someone work on your bike?

Still in high school I blew a hole in the piston of my first bike, a Yamaha DT-175 and took it for service at the Yamaha dealership. I had to save every penny to pay for that repair. I felt that they overcharged me, that day I promised myself to learn how to do my own repairs.

Kofla

Riding My Own Biography
2010 ZX-14 MotoVlog

Man what I would give to hang with you and Hub in the garage!

Man what I would give to hang with you and Hub in the garage!

That would be great, but Hub is the man.

The last year I was involved in the motorcycle industry my niece was a little over a year old, next week she is turning 20 years old. Twenty years is a long time, motorcycles and motorcycling in general has changed, a lot. I didn't monkey around with tools or rode a bike in about the same time, until I bought my 2010 ZX-14 last year.

Kofla

Riding My Own Biography
2010 ZX-14 MotoVlog

What I regret the most about losing my tools is that some of those DIY tools were made by me specifically for certain repairs.

There just are not too many people out there nowadays that even do this. I know I still do. I know Bobby still does. I am positive Hub has a at least one tool chest full of homemade tools! :) I have a bunch of little 'tools' that I use for little jobs on the bike. Whether it is a little bendy socket that I tack welded to the end of a screwdriver to get in a spot, or a homemade oil filter grabber thingy. These are the ways that I am trying hard to teach my kids. We don't have to run to the store every time a maintenance issue crops up. We solve it with patience and contemplation most times. And sometimes better than the 'store bought' solution. Awesome insights. I too wish I could just be around to wrench on bikes with you guys.

* Last updated by: Cblast on 9/14/2013 @ 8:46 PM *

Hahaha! I think any real mechanic has at least a drawer full of DIY tools!!! I know I sure as heck do! Some were just for a one time use, others I use all the time, and once in awhile they're epic failures!

I need a puller or a slide hammer but had no room for either.
Before

After
Epic failure

* Last updated by: nasty on 9/14/2013 @ 9:48 PM *

That's funny as heck nasty, cause I was looking at ur first pic thinkin 'that should work!', then...

Rofl!

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