I WON!!!!

Morrissey

Morrissey

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I can finally let the cat out of the bag, I won a 2025 Yamaha TW200 from Cannonball Rides! I got the call in February that I was the winner and picked up the bike last week. It's a lot of fun!

I did my first Cannonball Rides route last May, starting with a 250 ride. I really enjoyed the challenge of having a time limit and having to document the ride with pics at various locations. I enjoyed it so much I did another 250 ride and then a pair of 500 rides. They were great for getting me to ride places a little different than my usual routes.

CBR 2025 starts soon and I'm looking forward to logging some more of their routes this season!
 

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Congratulations @Morrissey.

Will we see the new bike in the Ride for Sight Poker Run, which is also sponsored by Cannonball Rides, in August?
 
Awesome, congrats
 
TwistedKestrel said:
I am not denigrating you, your victory, or the motorcycle in any way. But my first reaction was "Yamaha STILL makes those??"
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It says a lot about a bike if it's still being built 38 years later! Apparently the only update was in 2001 when they went to a 12v charging system, swapped out the front drum brake for a disk and removed the kick-start so they could make it a 5 speed. Otherwise, it's exactly the same as it was in 1987!
 
Congrats. Do a trial with it. Lol
 
Congrats.
If I remember correctly, I did my M2 course on that bike at RTI back in 2005.
I would buy one just because. If I had the space for it.
 
Lightcycle said:
T-Dubs are awesome farm bikes. Turning radius is ridiculously tight. I can do figure 8s with one in a single regulation size parking spot.
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Do you have a video of that? I know guys do figure eights in 2x2 parking spots with Goldwings - which is crazy - but doing it in a single spot in any bike seems a world more mind boggling to me.

As I try to imagine it, I think it would have been hard for me on my old BMX bike.

EDIT: Not questioning at all that you can do it. My mind is just blown and would love to see something like that. I can't find anything like that on Youtube.
 
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NuggyBuggy said:
Do you have a video of that? I know guys do figure eights in 2x2 parking spots with Goldwings - which is crazy - but doing it in a single spot in any bike seems a world more mind boggling to me.

As I try to imagine it, I think it would have been hard for me on my old BMX bike.

EDIT: Not questioning at all that you can do it. My mind is just blown and would love to see something like that. I can't find anything like that on Youtube.
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No video unfortunately. And I don't have access to one right now.

We used to have a couple of T-Dubs at one of the riding schools where I taught at, and I was always practicing tight zig zags, u-turns and figure 8s. The TW has a very short wheelbase, steep rake, wide lock-to-lock steering and relatively high foot pegs, so with enough counter-weighting, it will turn on a dime... or one parking spot.
 
You’ll have fun with it. I had one for years, used to ride 250km it to the our cottage every spring, then back home in the fall.

My kids learned to ride on that bike, it’s incredibly rider friendly, easy on fuel and rock solid reliable. You don’t win races, but you will get a ton of smiles riding it.

I don’t know why I sold mine.
 
Congrats Happy For You Meme : Congratulations I M So Happy For You Both ...
 
Lightcycle said:
No video unfortunately. And I don't have access to one right now.

We used to have a couple of T-Dubs at one of the riding schools where I taught at, and I was always practicing tight zig zags, u-turns and figure 8s. The TW has a very short wheelbase, steep rake, wide lock-to-lock steering and relatively high foot pegs, so with enough counter-weighting, it will turn on a dime... or one parking spot.
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That's too bad. I searched and couldn't find something like that. Every video demonstrating "tight" figure-8s were in bigger spaces. Closest I could come was Goldwings doing it in 2x2.

I bet a video like that could pick up a lot of views.

EDIT: Here's one video of a Goldwing. I'm not sure he *technically* ever does a full figure 8 in the 2x2, but it's still pretty awesome.

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