I'm back. The Americans won the first Cup race by 33 seconds. The second race was postponed because the first race start was delayed about 45 minutes to wait for wind to fill in the course. It is now 8-6. The Americans have to win the next three races to win the Cup.
Ok, some, the Gb500 had some. Probably the best Asian bikes I had were the '76 Yamaha Fazer and the '97 Yamaha ThunderAce. Those two definitely captured my soul! The Yamaha Vision I kept around for a long time and put 75,000 miles on the thing. Probably was just a good fairly reliable beast, but not particularly soul stirring. The SR 500 was a fun thumper, but failed in comparison to the English thumpers I'd owned. Those 20 pound flywheels are the difference. The Japanese stuff is just too revvy. Wrong feel. Yes, they will outperform anything English, but leave the soul behind! The 650 Suzuki is probably the best thumper they make that feels like a thumper! The Japanese thumpers I have owned were the SR250, SR500, TT500, XR250R, and GB500. The English ones were the 250 and 500 Matchless, BSA Goldstar, 500MX, 441 and Indian Velocette. The RE was the last thumper. My real favorites were the Matchlesses
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