Recent content by xrljoel

Not a stupid question. In BC it appears people ride trials bikes on pretty tough trails as opposed to just closed course use. You'd be hard pressed to find such technical trails in Ontario to justify a trials bike for general off road use. At the same time, Beta offers the X-Trainer (and the...

To carry your point further, employing an enthusiast in some roles has downsides too. When we had our nursery/garden centre we had plenty of people looking for work who were quite proud of being active members of various horticultural societies. The trouble was, they were less interested in...

It takes a special person to work in retail, ANY retail. Like anything else, there are good days but from my experience there are too many days that are at worst; soul-crushing. I can't imagine what it would be like now, as my retail experience ended about 10 years ago. The impact of those bad...

You've experienced the bike with "character" now. The good part of ownership and riding, plus the bad parts - increased service/ownership costs and needing to find just the right buyer from a smaller pool when it's time to move on. Do you want to continue with that? Many do, including me, but...

My vote goes to the 1977-78 version as the best looking bike ever though this picture doesn't do it justice. I never got to own one, and I'm pretty sure with my knees now, I wouldn't even be able to get my feet on the pegs, but hoo-boy that is one sexy bike!

And Studio cycle is a good, local dealer.

You can prune it now. You can also spray it anytime now with a dormant spray kit, which has horticultural oil (insecticide) and lime sulphur (fungicide). While you might kill some bees by spraying it when it's in bloom you WILL destroy most of the blooms and eliminate almost all fruit production.

Yeah, you can count me into that group that has shied away from new for the most part. While the GasGas IS a new bike (Euro 4 it turns out) it's well down-market compared to other offerings. Plus it was heavily discounted and It's VERY VERY red. It also reminds me of my first bike, a 1980 DT100...

I can understand why somebody would buy one. Not me for all the reasons you note and more, but likely plenty of somebodies. There's people who will just say, "I like it." Good enough. I saw them at the show and they are nice looking bikes. Most people aren't that demanding of the motorcycles...

Choosing the rain riding mode will also reduce your fuel consumption now that I think about it.

That was my experience with my 1090 on loose surface as well. I'd get a gas can to strap on as opposed to an expensive option. Then you can leave it behind when you're heading home.

This is more, what am I GONNA do in my garage today, and probably tomorrow. With my shop finished I'm going to turn on the little heater and finish sorting, cleaning and organizing my tools. Then I'm going to sort my Norton commando parts in preparation to getting it on the lift to finish it...

It's definitely a place worth visiting, even without a motorcycle.

Love those Triumphs. Sat on the new Scrambler 900 at the show and liked it a lot. Used twins are plentiful and reasonably priced. Hmmm....

I'm pretty sure it's fixed at KTM, and just not a thing for CFMOTO, but I understand your reticence. I wouldn't be interested in a CFMOTO yet as I think their dealer network and everything around supplying that network is still a work in progress I think. I think I'm over the ADV bike segment...