Motorcycle trips...
Omaha, NE to Fairbanks, AK and return - 1975
Dodge City, KS to Prudhoe Bay and return - 2003
Houston, TX to Tierra Del Fuego and return - 1977
Circumnavigated the Mediterranean from the UK - 1966
What's this about a stinking trailer?
Cheers!!
Jim
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ten years daily driving a 59 Bugeye 1275 and only a couple of throw out
> bearing issues . . due to my bad adjustment no doubt and one from Moss that
> fell apart in chunks very quickly. The current TB (an original I found via
> eBay) has been fine for the last few years. Not much to complain about.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Rick Fisk <refisk@chartermi.net> wrote:
>
> > And the Trans-Canada highway was a little more "rustic" back then. :-)
> >
> > Bought my first Bugeye in 1968. Mine was reliable, I lived in SoCal so
> > winter
> > was a joke, and I loved it as my daily driver. I still have it today!
> >
> > Another Rick
> >
> > Sent from my keyboard
> >
> > > On Jul 3, 2014, at 7:24 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I bought my first Bugeye in 1967 and sold it in 1968, because, as much
> > as I
> > > loved it, it was unreliable, cold in the winter, and just sucked as a
> > daily
> > > driver. I sold it to two guys that had just come back from a trip from
> > > Massachusetts to Alaska on the Trans-Canada highway on a Norton
> Commando
> > > and a Royal Enfield. The Bugeye looked like a Rolls Royce to them,
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Peter Caldwell <peter@nosimport.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> 6
> > >> John floated through here Tuesday night enroute to Alaska with 2
> > >> KL(R?)650s on an undersized bike trailer with 8 inch wheels!
> > >>
> > >> Pray for him and his cousin as the make their way to Calgary to drop
> off
> > >> the trailer and continue on 2 wheels.
> > >>
> > >> If anyone's in Calgary, buy him a new trailer for his return trip.
> > >>
> > >> They were planning on being at Mt. Rushmore for the 4th. (Personally
> I
> > >> prefer my dead presidents on paper in my wallet)
> > >>
> > >> I'm sure he'll post something somewhere.
> > >>
> > >> Wish them well.
> > >>
> > >> Peter C
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