By Admin
Surprise! All three hosts are on the podcast together this week, even if I show up a tiny bit late. We discuss a recent Gear Patrol article listing their picks for The Best Vintage Superbikes Under $10,000, and share our own point/counterpoint about the bikes they chose. While our views differed, we all agreed that there are plenty of cool deals to be found from the late ’80s through the late ’90s. Garrett and Eric also briefly update us on their project bikes, and I continue shopping for a new bike.
False Neutral – Budget Vintage Superbikes
All images are from Ebay auctions, and originally appeared on GearPatrol.com, accompanying the article mentioned above.
Jeff Glucker
Seafoam! Run some seafoam through the bike that’s been sitting! (It helped my TW200, and you probably have a small enough amount of gunk that it will actually work.)
Chevron Techron works pretty well too. The carbs on my bike get gummed up if it so much as sniffs ethanol or sits with fuel in the float bowls for more than a week or two at a time.
I vote for a color scheme topic at some point. I loves me the red, white, and blue Hondas and the history of that, but i don’t really know much about the story of other liveries really. Edit: not a demand or anything, just a request from a listener. Love the podcasts so far, keep em comin.
We discussed color schemes on last night’s episode. Watch for it next Tuesday.
VF1000R and VF1000F are two of the most disappointing bikes I’ve ever ridden. They might have been way more advanced than the CB900F, for example, but whatever. Despite the anti-Ducati sentiments expressed by you guys, I’d suggest the Ducati 900SS is a wonderful vintage superbike. It’s characterful and uncharacteristically reliable. Calling it a superbike is a stretch because it would barely outrun a V-Strom 650, but they definitely give the James May “fizz”. http://images.mcn.bauercdn.com/upload/670/images/ducati900ssx6-0538-01.jpg