Tee Bee

It seemed natural to finally combine two of my favorite activites into a single outing. I've been configuring this motorcycle for an eventual trip from TX to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. I recently realized that it's now set up adequately for toting small planes and RC gear to the field, opening up new levels of fun.

Any other 1/2Aers into motorcycles? I've been riding all sorts of them for about 25yrs.

vicman

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Don't know anything about them.

flyinrog

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This comes up every now and then..yeah I have a few bikes too...was gonna try an make a trailer for mine..think I could get most of what I need under the seat of my silverwing scooter (dont laugh itll do 100) but havent flown for a few years,,maybe try it this summer...a bunch of us have bikes,,play an instrument and have a pet...thats what usually comes out with this question...Rog

combatpigg

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Darn I thought this thread was going to be about a motorcycle with a seriously geared down Black Widow.....

vicman

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I'm rolling on the floor and my stomach is aching!!!

flyinrog

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Always the smartass in a crowd...well the term scooter doesnt generally invoke speed in most guys minds....the real trouble is around 90 the windshield starts bending back toward your face...gets real spooky real quick..Rog

hkbii

Howdy gents. Tee Bee, If you are to be near Wasilla ak, come on by and will go flying and or fishing, Keith.

Tee Bee

Thanks, Keith!

MrGoodwreck

Great,

Now Im going to have to bust out my Honda Ruckus, Yamaha Zuma 125, and post pics of them hauling around a 1/4 scale

Tee Bee

Those are nice, Vicman! Classic machines.

GallopingGhostler

This is what I used in the late 1970's to transport my Littlest Stick, Schoolmaster and Q-Tee with. I still have it, it is a 1971 Honda CB100. I no longer have the package rack, but still have the ABS hard saddle bags for it (needs painting).I'd strap my medium sized flight box to the rear package rack, then carefully band the planes to the pillion portion of the seat, then drive 30 miles out of town to the model plane field.

Rubbernecker

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Not only do I ride (Honda Manga), but I will up you one. Here I am flying cover for my daughters first Powered Parachute ride. She loved it.

John

vicman

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Thanks TeeBee,
The CB750 was my high school love. I got it back after 20 years of separation. The KZ is just an old horse for sure. They both are fun to get around on.
You are going to have an awesome trip!

skaliwag

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Rubbernecker . Were you or your daughter's craft powered by Honda? Or Snowmobile.

Rubbernecker

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Both are Rotax. The one my daughter was in was their aircraft version, dual ignition 582. Mine is the snowmobile Rotax 503, single ignition. I'm way too big for the Honda powered one.

John

gene6029

Its amazeing how we all have similar interests. Heres a pic of one of my" OTHER" hobbies!......Gene

Rubbernecker

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Now would thsoe other hobbies be the lovely lady or the motorcycle? BTW, hope it's not your daughter and if it is, comment retracted.[X(]

John

hllywdb

I've got 1 1/2 bikes right now, the chopper isn't finished. I have a large leather Road King tour trunk for the first one that might fit a 1/2a plane. While I've thought about it, it just won't work for me. When I fly 1/2a I always bring 3 or 4 planes with me. Why? Because like any other God fearing, all American, authentic old fart, I have my routines.

I usually start by flying one of my lectric ones. Yep, I do have 4 of them, but before you get all excited and come take away my piston reset tool and confiscate any parts marked Kustom Kraftsmamship, lemme splain this to you Lucy! 2 of them are combat planes used at the club, and one of the combat ones is used by my wife, who doesn't fly combat but likes to fly the plane. The next one is a small 3 channel trainer I use to introduce freinds to the hobby as I can put it up just about anywhere. The last one is a Pacer that I electrified just to see if all this electric talk was real. Sorry, but after many motors, props, batteries, etc... it still pales next to the one with a TD on preasure.

So anyway, this is how the routine progresses: I fly the leekie, and say "wow, just put in the battery, turn the radio on and fly, this is nice!" So I fly it for about 6 minutes (I used to try 8 but after doing 2 (yes 2, I'm a slow learner) skinny dipping routines in the cannal to retrieve the plane when the battery dropped to zero on final, I stick to 6 minutes.

Then I put up my GLH with the 061 or my ME 109 with the 074 and 20 seconds into the flight I remember why I go through the trouble to bring nitro, battery, field boxes, etc.. to the field. Yep, I'm a believer again. (By the way, the 109 started life as an electric, so that kind of makes up for the Pacer) Then I put up something like my Slipstream and 20 seconds into that flight I've decided that I should drop the leekie ones off at the next swap meet because they just aren't in the same world as this. However, the next part of the routine is when I get home. That's when the de-scumming of the planes starts. As I simply hang up the leekie I say "maybe I won't get rid of it just yet."

So you see, if I could only drop one small plane, maybe a leekie into the bike, without the reality check, I might become one of the unenlightened over time. Thankfully I have my routines to save me and plenty of nitro to keep the faith. Another thing that helps is I don't fly that slow 3D stuff. I think it was invented to make the electric planes seem ok. For 3D, "Vertical" is pulling up out of a hover at 15mph. Wow! Awsome!" My idea is coming across the center of the field, gear up at 90 or 100mph, making an earsplitting scream that wakes my Granfather from the dead (who mutters something like "Sounds at least one click rich, maybe two" before rolling over and going back to his sleep) then pull up and go vertical until the cloud cover or my eyesight makes me throttle back. But I digress. So no planes on the bike for me anytime soon.

joebahl

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I have been known to strap a foamy on the back of my bike once or twice and the mini beast fits in my tour pack .lol The construction company i help run bought this for me as a bonus in 98. I sold my chopped 1954 panhead right before getting this one (getting to old to kick start the cold blooded B$%ch. joe

vicman

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Good on ya Gene!

GallopingGhostler

My other ride is a 1987 Suzuki LS650 Savage. People consider this a small bike nowadays. I consider it a throwback to the 1960's and 1970's, when a 650 was a large bike used often for touring. Picture is me across the Colorado border off Hwy CO-17, about 30 miles from Chama, NM.

Tee Bee

Here's the other bikes currently in my stable but they're not set up for 1/2A transport. The '94 Wide Glide has nearly 20yrs of tweaks and mods on it. With it's stroker motor, she runs strong and usually marks her spot when parked. The '06 Sporty is one of the last carb-equipped Harleys. It was my Dad's. His recent health issues have disabled him from riding any more, so he gave it to me last year. It was bittersweet since I miss riding with him. It's an 883 converted to 1200 with a nice list of go-better goodies.

Vicman, I like your KZ. Many years ago, I bought a beat up KZ550 for $200 and spent about $500 more fixing it up. Then I spent two fun weeks riding it to the California coast and back. Those were simpler times, for sure!

hllywdb

George, back in the day I put lots of miles across lots of states on Triumph and BSA 650's. Back then the Norton was the 1st true superbike at Isle of Mann, the 900 sportsters were kicking butt on the strip, the XL 750's on dirt track and ALL of the fast bikes were right hand shift. Always messed me up for the first few miles switching between the shovel head and Triumph

Tee Bee, the FLSTC in the pic is a 96 with over 140,000 miles on it! I put over 180,000 on the one before it. Pulled the original (with lots of tweaks) out at 122,000 and dropped in an S&S 113 and Baker DDR6. Ready for the next 20 years. Kind of like dropping a new piston/cyl set on a TD.

joebahl

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I owned a old triumph on a crome hardtail frame when i was a young pup it was old enough to have the trans seperate from the motor. I missed out buying it back in boxes 10 years ago but some one beat me to it. I new it my old scoot cause you dont see to many triumph crome hard tails frames .lol joe

hllywdb

Hey Joe, back then you could always tell those of us who were riding Triumph choppers. We were the first ones to start wearing clear glasses at night, because you never knew when the old Lucas (prince of darkness) 6V positive ground wiring would short out and leave you riding home in the dark