For whatever reason, I got a wild hair to start looking at old stock late 70’s Honda CBR motorcycles. I found one that appeared unmolested with low miles, and was certainly cheap enough, And I was fully planning on looking at it today.
But then the wild hair went away.
Ive had numerous motorcycles over the years, and just like a boat, sooner or later they all became a “ I don’t want this nomore”.
or I wrecked.
or I almost got ran into..
or I hated riding the thing…
Me and a motorcycle are best left separated.
I have been pretty frugal this last month considering the amount of money I usually throw away on the monster. MOF, Excepting the tires, that Selling the drag radials kinda cancelled out that expense, I haven’t done anything stupid at all.
That leaves me to focus on getting the Monster right for next month when me-n-him take our anticipated annual drive to the Mississippi gulf coast. This venue is a sketchy objective to be sure, given that it’s held on the gulf coast during the height of Hurricane season. I bailed on it last year because of a weather forecast, only to find out afterwards that the tropical storm that was in that forecast passed them by…
All I know is that the room that I want for the 3 nights i’d be there is 1200 non-refundable dollars. Instead of that, I have an alternate held that is fully refundable up until 10/6. ( which would at least get me w/i two days of a ” go/no go” decision) If everything is good up to that point, I can cancel that room, and see if the one I want is still there. If not, I fall back to the alternate…Heres to hoping.
I drove an S550 Mustang for the first time last night…a sold car that I needed to put gas in. The previous owner had put some freakin obnoxious exhaust system on it
And now that i’ve driven one, and can speak from first hand experience,…..three things:
As much as I hate loud assed exhaust systems from outside the car, Being inside the car that has one turns that hate into a form of disgusted loathing.
Having driven my car enough to get a good seat of the pants feel for how fast it is, an S550 left stock like this one was, would get its ass handed to it courtesy of the orange and black slow assed desert lizard living in my basement. maybe if the Mustang wasn’t trying so hard to sound fast with its loud assed exhaust, It would’ve felt faster, but all i got from matting the gas pedal was BLAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
The only things I can say positive about the car, is that I like the way they look compared to any previous version car ( after 1970). The Auto trans is cool and the way it rev matches and downshifts while slowing is pretty neat.
Other than that though….it’s just like any other car..and at 40k for a used 27k mile 18 model, it’s just a spectacular waste of money, for the same piece of cheese between two slices of white bread that anybody else with 40k can buy.
I’ll continue to throw my money away elsewhere instead.