Rider's Choice

So I took my brother-in-law's 02 FZ1 into Rider's Choice on a Wednesday,
and it was sold by Saturday. He got the $5900 he was looking for, and
didn't have to hassle with test riders, tire kickers, etc. It really
worked out well for him. I have to say though, that if they couldn't
sell a late model standard creampuff like this, then they can't sell
anything at all. The transaction went very smoothly.

Probably a quarter to a third of their stock was Harleys. There were a
few choice bikes scattered here and there, but that's a function of
what's brought in. I saw a lot of what I considered to be nondescript,
middle of the road bikes, with a few really interesting nuggets thrown
in.

I liked the Yamaha with the swingarm front end, the BMW R69S with period
fairing, a Duc 998, an R1, an R6, etc. There might have been 5 in the
entire warehouse that I liked, but that's me.

Ken

 

Yamaha GTS1000, sold in the early 1990s. Not popular when new, now a
cult bike.

 

1992 Yammy GTS1000. very odd machine.

some pictures, http://home.planet.nl/~dreuning/gts.html

this shows something of how it worked
http://home.planet.nl/~dreuning/gts/gtsexpl.jpg

 

(FizzsR1) wrote in message

Bimota Tesi.

Same idea, totally different bike. Ducati-powered, too.
http://www.sportbikez.net/pictures/mod/tesi

And reborn in naked form as the Vyrus, when someone bought a bunch of
Tesi spares after Bimota tanked.

http://www.motalia.de/html/vyrus.html

Some did, but not this one.

 

Obviously no cults around here. They've had that bike for at least two
years. They had it when I bought my Intruder from them a year ago.
They had it for a long time when they were on El Camino Real in Santa
Clara.

don

 

But, not very popular with BMW solo riders. The Earle's fork front end was
prone to extreme squirreliness. I rode one for a couple years and was
always a bit intimidated by the tank slappers that would come on for no
apparent rhyme or reason. The R69S engine I now have was from another bike
that went down in an 80mph tankslapper and trashed the frame. The rider
lived to tell the tale, but the legend is, more than a couple riders died on
Earle's forked Beemers.

nb

 

in Sunnyvale, and in Santa Clara on El Camino. According to yahoo yellow
pages. sounds like a place to check out...

 

They moved from their El Camino location. Now they're at 1292
Forgewood Ave. in Sunnyvale.

They are! Quite an interesting collection of bikes, I thought.