Subject: Where are they now?
Author: David Washburn
Date: Feb 10, 2005, 3:30 PM
Post ID: 1718370111
Thomas Halchuk writes:
| Dave |
| Whatever happened to the bike? |
After twelve years of riding and rebuilding year round I traded it in on
a new Jackal in the summer of 1999. I had just purchased a 1974 police
eldo basket from Mike Skaggs and realized that I needed a reliable bike
to get me to work while I restored the '74.
The '72 was a POS from the word go and would have frightened the hell
out of any sensible person who rode it. At the time I figured its flat
steering head bearings, rock hard tires and big-end death rattle were
part of the european motorcycle mystique I had read about in Cycle
World.
"It's suicide to send a kid up in a crate like that!"
I ended up replacing almost everything on the bike during the time I
owned it and got a lesson in motorcycle mechanics second to none. I
found my Guzzi Guru in a gentleman named Lefferts Brown who owned a
small shop called "Triumph of the Damned" around the corner from the Ear
Inn in Manhattan. Lefferts refused to do anything he felt I could do
myself and taught me the ancient lore of the Torque wrench, Tap and die,
feeler gauge and multimeter. I got my parts from Parts is Parts until
it folded and I heard about a new outfit called MG Cycle. I ordered
some things from Moto International back in '92 but they were
back-ordered and I haven't heard from them since :0
| The RHRC? |
She moved back to Scranton PA. where her lovely smile is lighting up
someone else's garage. I still remember the lazy Sunday afternoons she
spent polishing my alloy wheels with Mothers and an old toothbrush. She
did the decals and pinstriping as well, dressed in Daisy Dukes and an
old Monsters of Rock tour t-shirt...
| Going to the National? |
If it's not raining too hard that weekend. It looks to be a 12 hour
ride each way from NYC.
DW