...Traded the Gun for the Motorcycle...

[ParadiseRoad]

 

[krsmith58]

trade

you may have gotten the short end of the stick .

 

[Marshwheeling]

I’ll take the Sharps.

There is an early but pivotal scene on in “Rancho Deluxe” where Jack (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil (Sam Waterston) want to trade off a side of rustled beef. They are given the choice between an Elsinore (Honda dirt bike) and a Sharps buffalo rifle.

In 1975, I rooted for the Elsinore, and almost muttered “Que idiota” under my breath, like the bartender in the Volkswagen commercial. If Cecil had taken the dirt bike, we would have had a whole different movie.

As it was, he took the Sharps, as I would do today.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I remember the Elsinores. I really wanted one of the 250s in silver and black like they made them then. Now I would also choose the Sharps, and pretty sure it would be more valuable than a worn-out Honda.

 

[wingriderz]

I remember the Elsinores. I really wanted one of the 250s in silver and black like they made them then. Now I would also choose the Sharps, and pretty sure it would be more valuable than a worn-out Honda.

Hondas dont wear out

 

[Marshwheeling]

Hondas dont wear out

Gold Wings don’t wear out. Dirt bikes wear out.

 

[BigBill]

If you refresh the dirtbike engine and run it oil rich it won’t wearout.

 

[Marshwheeling]

If you refresh the dirtbike engine and run it oil rich it won’t wearout.

Fork bushings, fork seals, swingarm bushings, shocks, wheel bearings, seat covers, fenders, body panels, shifter splines, cylinder bore, levers, handlebars, fork tubes, frame breakage, rims, spokes... You can “refresh” all this and more when it wears out.

If dirt bikes never wore out, then nobody would ever need a new dirt bike, and I know you need a new dirt bike.

 

[Class III]

If dirt bikes never wore then nobody would ever need a new dirt bike, and I know you need a new dirt bike.

Oh how true.


My first ADULT sized dirt bike, a 1971 Yamaha RT360 has been bored, oversized piston and rings installed and deck planed on more than one occasion since I bought it in 1979. It's been stripped of all the RT "Stuff" and turned into mud/swamp BEAST.


It will get me places on the farm that only a paratrooper could get to.


Class III