Fun Ride Pix

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227708
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Fun Ride Pix

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I haven't posted anything on the forum in probably a year or two but couldn't resist tossing in a couple of pix today. Temperature was in the mid-70's (not bad for February) and the Ducati wanted to go for a ride. I grabbed a Canon G11, stuck it in my pocket and shot about 50 photos during the hour and a half outing. The two images below are both taken within a few miles of my home. I had great fun cruising the main street while cracking the throttle to set off all the car alarms.
When I ride the BMW and do that, alarms don't go off but every refrigerator in town wants to meet my bike.
Tomorrow the thermometer is likely to drop back into the 60's and down to below freezing at night. I can live with that, particularly after flying back east in mid-January IFR most of the way and landing on snowy, icey runways at almost every airport there and back.

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Post by nnnnnnorman »

hey rob a great bike and a great way to spend a warm day. we are still in the 50's here in sussex in the UK but ive been riding near every day. rain or shine. roll on the summer. :cool: :thumbup: :)
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Post by fredskidoo »

Well put Robert
every refrigerator in town wants to meet my bike
It really is down to the Paso being soo damn sexy . . .
I myself have owned 3 refrigerators (BMWs)
The Paso's ability to pull some tail is remarkable, frankly
and I wouldn't have it any other way . . .
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a bike that pulls. and a bike that pulls. fantastic. :thumbup: :cool: :)
1990 906 paso red and white
1991 906 paso black and gold
1997 ST2 red
2004 ccm r30 with 710 conversion
175 moto morini road race replica
a box of bits r100 bmw scrambler project
1962 rover 95 p4
1997 iveco daily
a non running xt600...stator needed
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fredskidoo wrote:Well put Robert
every refrigerator in town wants to meet my bike
It really is down to the Paso being soo damn sexy . . .
I myself have owned 3 refrigerators (BMWs)
The Paso's ability to pull some tail is remarkable, frankly
and I wouldn't have it any other way . . .
this is over my head...what have BMW and refrigerators got in common? :dunno:
Cheers Claude.

...long live the square framed duc!

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no personality and a cold, technical design ?
Although I must say this changed in the past decade :)

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...got it! :thumbup:
Cheers Claude.

...long live the square framed duc!

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Actually, every refrige in town wants to meet my BMW because when I crack the throttle, the BMW sounds like the compressor in a supercharged, double-door, 27.5 cubic foot icebox just kicked into afterburner.

Well, maybe not that bad but still...the bike just doesn't have the visceral throb of a big, twin-cylinder engine with performance pipes.

Back in '86 when I bought my first BMW K-bike, my Ducati/Harley/old English scooter buddies all made fun of the way the machine purred. OK, so did I. However, I accumulated more than 150,000 miles before I sold it and bought the '98 K12 which now has just under 90,000 on the odometer. Only major maintenance on the K12 was 15 hours work installing a new clutch and rear main seal but that beat hell out of paying the dealer $2500 (or more).

Yeah, I love the sound of the Ducati and the Norton and the Harleys (the H-D's are now gone because sound I about all I could love about them) but the refrigerator doesn't destroy my hearing on a cross-country ride nor has it left me on the side of the road cursing its lack of reliability.

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