New bike shake down cruise, not a GRiSO.

Grignapoco Posts : 194 Join date : 2014-03-25

Ok so the GRiSO sits while I take the Honda out for a shake down cruise. Nothing fell off or otherwise disintegrated so it was a success.

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Well where's the fun in that?

Sfregiato Posts : 467 Join date : 2014-06-13 Age : 74

Love that wall! I'd park the honda right up next to it for some shot's.

Don Abbondio Posts : 200 Join date : 2014-05-31 Age : 75

Canyon Carver wrote:: Love that wall! I'd park the honda right up next to it for some shot's.

GRiSO would look better. Smile

Biondino Posts : 238 Join date : 2014-12-04

I do like the look of that cb...wire spoked wheels would complete the picture.

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Canyon Carver wrote:: Love that wall! I'd park the honda right up next to it for some shot's.

YOU A MEMBER OF A FIRING SQUAD OR WHAT?

GRiSO Posts : 1163 Join date : 2013-11-26 Age : 60

plantboy, ghezzi, you two started my day off with a good laugh!

Sfregiato Posts : 467 Join date : 2014-06-13 Age : 74

ghezzi wrote:

Canyon Carver wrote:: Love that wall! I'd park the honda right up next to it for some shot's.

YOU A MEMBER OF A FIRING SQUAD OR WHAT?

Well I've pissed on enough walls to know a good one when I see one. drunken

As a photographer for over 40 years, I can tell you the difference between a good photo and a great one, is the background.
Not only what's in the pic, but what's not, is the key. cheers

Grignapoco Posts : 194 Join date : 2014-03-25

Yeah well forgive me for the poor composition of the photo. Just before this was snapped I happened to notice a group of heavily tattooed gentlemen who seemed really interested in my brand new bike. The fact that I was carrying my Sig MK25 in 9m instead of my regular carry weapon, a Colt 1911 Series 80, heavily modified and usually loaded with Speer Gold Dot hollow points. I chose to exit the area quickly, rather than litter the streets of old Superior, Arizona with a few leaking gang bangers. Maybe next time I will carry both. pirat

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Don Abbondio Posts : 6080 Join date : 2014-03-13 Age : 69

Outa this world over here - glad I live in Austria

Grignapoco Posts : 194 Join date : 2014-03-25

S.E. Arizona ain't for pussy's, that's for sure.

Grignapoco Posts : 148 Join date : 2014-01-20

Enzo the baker wrote:: S.E. Arizona ain't for pussy's, that's for sure.

Sorry but pussy's feel the need to carry...

cya
Scot.
no school massacres round here.

Grignapoco Posts : 148 Join date : 2014-01-20

The Saint wrote:: I do like the look of that cb...wire spoked wheels would complete the picture.

Really, early 80's CB's had mags not spokes...

cya
Scot.

Don Abbondio Posts : 200 Join date : 2014-05-31 Age : 75

Scot p wrote:

The Saint wrote:: I do like the look of that cb...wire spoked wheels would complete the picture.

Really, early 80's CB's had mags not spokes...

cya
Scot.

Comstars I think - really ugly.

Sfregiato Posts : 467 Join date : 2014-06-13 Age : 74

Enzo the baker wrote:: Yeah well forgive me for the poor composition of the photo. Just before this was snapped I happened to notice a group of heavily tattooed gentlemen who seemed really interested in my brand new bike. The fact that I was carrying my Sig MK25 in 9m instead of my regular carry weapon, a Colt 1911 Series 80, heavily modified and usually loaded with Speer Gold Dot hollow points. I chose to exit the area quickly, rather than litter the streets of old Superior, Arizona with a few leaking gang bangers. Maybe next time I will carry both:pirat:

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Well that explains it then! Why not get a gun rack for the handlebars? BTW I sold my RCBS Rockchucker years ago. Cool

Biondino Posts : 238 Join date : 2014-12-04

Scot p wrote:

The Saint wrote:: I do like the look of that cb...wire spoked wheels would complete the picture.

Really, early 80's CB's had mags not spokes...

cya
Scot.

You are quite right, but even back then, spokes looked better on cb's and the like.

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Grignapoco Posts : 148 Join date : 2014-01-20

The Saint wrote:: You are quite right, but even back then, spokes looked better on cb's and the like.

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I'm not really into the whole retro for the sake of retro, there is no reason to use spokes on a road bike. Problem with the GRiSO is because it has a bucket headlight it automatically gets dumped into retro comparisons, now with the GRiSO SE guzzi have gone with the flow and taken it a step backwards in time....

cya
Scot.

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A step backwards? I'll go with that.
Anybody care to weigh their SE Alpina spoked wheels with discs & tyres? . Bellagio stock spoked alloy wheels complete (with tubes), weighed in excess of 14kg each. Less than 10kg now.

Don Abbondio Posts : 200 Join date : 2014-05-31 Age : 75

Hey Alan, i know you can find almost anything you want to find on the net, but both your links are to the 'modern' (2013) retro CB, not the original from way back when. scratch

Personally I far prefer the style of my G 12's alloy Marchesinis to the SE's laced spokes. Smile

Tiradritto Posts : 363 Join date : 2013-07-02 Age : 63

Enzo
Nice looking bike what ever wheels it has.

Grignapoco Posts : 194 Join date : 2014-03-25

Scot P, lets address a few things alright? First off we do have a problem with gun violence in the U.S. I was in LE for 23 years and I saw it first hand. Secondly,I find it sad and in incredibly poor taste that you would use the tragic death of 20 children and 6 adults at the hands of a deranged young man to somehow prove a point that had nothing to do with my original post. Lastly 1980's series CB Honda's had cast aluminum alloy wheels not, as you so incorrectly stated, "mag's" which is short for magnesium, lighter and considerably more expensive see: Marchesini, OZ, Dymag etc.

Enzo the Baker,
cya

Tiradritto Posts : 329 Join date : 2014-04-21

I believe the European CB's and probably the home market got spokes on the Deluxe version. But unlike the GRiSO, tubed tires. I'll take tubeless thank you. The CB looks mighty fine in spokes though. But I'm a bit biased towards them. Comstars weren't ugly, but they weren't handsome either. Luckily Honda did not bring them back.

If you ride up to The Grotto, Bartlett Lake, Payson and Prescott you'll feel less of a need to carry.... Rolling Eyes

Hint. Hint. Smile

Godfather Posts : 3154 Join date : 2013-05-28 Age : 59

Scot p wrote:

Enzo the baker wrote:: S.E. Arizona ain't for pussy's, that's for sure.

Sorry but pussy's feel the need to carry...

cya
Scot.
no school massacres round here.

Not the right forum for any of this... Mad

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Grignapoco Posts : 148 Join date : 2014-01-20

Enzo the baker wrote:: Scot P, lets address a few things alright? First off we do have a problem with gun violence in the U.S. I was in LE for 23 years and I saw it first hand. Secondly,I find it sad and in incredibly poor taste that you would use the tragic death of 20 children and 6 adults at the hands of a deranged young man to somehow prove a point that had nothing to do with my original post. Lastly 1980's series CB Honda's had cast aluminum alloy wheels not, as you so incorrectly stated, "mag's" which is short for magnesium, lighter and considerably more expensive see: Marchesini, OZ, Dymag etc.

Enzo the Baker,
cya

Droping the gun thing to keep Steak happy..

Mags is a general term for cast alloy wheels whatever form they may take, you wanna be pedantic whatever.

cya
Scot.
please don't shoot the messenger..

Grignapoco Posts : 148 Join date : 2014-01-20

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Alloy, but also a Mag, on my GRiSO...

cya
Scot.

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