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Post by SylvreKat on Sept 9, 2018 17:12:42 GMT -5
Meanwhile UncaLeo, please do keep telling us your memories and stories. I might not understand any of what you tell about the mechanics, but I sure am enjoying the pics and the non-mech parts. Although I'm curious about those really long extended tailpipes on "Old Red/Blue"--why??
And I agree, that Harley really was purdy. Did those little chrome duo-bars around the fenders have any actual purpose, or just to add to the purdy?
>'Kat, still not wearing her dog-mask while driving ANYthing!! Nor my Walmart mask (yes, I actually do own one, which is getting remade into a Krypto the Superdog head!)
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 9, 2018 23:48:12 GMT -5
Meanwhile UncaLeo, please do keep telling us your memories and stories. I might not understand any of what you tell about the mechanics, but I sure am enjoying the pics and the non-mech parts. Although I'm curious about those really long extended tailpipes on "Old Red/Blue"--why?? And I agree, that Harley really was purdy. Did those little chrome duo-bars around the fenders have any actual purpose, or just to add to the purdy? >'Kat, still not wearing her dog-mask while driving ANYthing!! Nor my Walmart mask (yes, I actually do own one, which is getting remade into a Krypto the Superdog head!) Kat, I don't understand anyone hijacking other's threads to trash them. I don't do that and nobody should. My "friend" relishes in trashing me because my earlier posts on the chopper included incorrect approx. dimensions from 50-year old memory. That's why I looked up the TRUE dimensions of both the Harley parts and the old Chevy 409 parts... JUST TO PREVENT THIS GARBAGE. And as you say... I don't care... NOBODY cares including me except I'm sick of being called a liar. Ah, the weird long exhausts... I did NOT build that monstrosity... LOL! Bought it that way as "raw material". I have NO idea why the original owner fabbed up those pipes, or the Brooklyn Bridge sissy bar. I liked the old Hog much better without them. The chrome bars on Harley dressers were actually to protect what's under them... They worked (sorta) but really were more for "bling"... Like the tailfins on a '59 Caddy. Please post pix of the new dog-head! And ride safe! Leo |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 10, 2018 1:28:52 GMT -5
Old Blue was a real looker, even if it was red. I bet you wish you could have kept the Porsche 356. A body kit for a 356 replica costs 20 grand these days.Chassis and mechanicals are extra. Old Blue looked better in blue... LOL! And with her new motor, was a LOT faster! That old Porsche 356B was FUN to drive. Only had about 60hp if I recall, maybe not even that much but would do an honest hundred absolutely wound up tight. It would however, cruise ninety all day on the Autobahn! Not that ninety was enough... LOL. One of the "adventures" of driving the Autobahn back then was doing ninety, coming up on an ox-cart doing 5mph with a Ferrari coming behind doing one-fifty... Cheesh! Talk about being between a rock and a hard place! That happened to me just once (and once is enough)… I went around the cart on the shoulder, the Ferrari went around everybody in the left lane... And... back THEN, Germany, like Texas, allowed drinking alcohol while driving. German Autobahns and Texas freeways WERE the most dangerous roads around back then. All changed nowadays of course. Autobahns safest highways going... And Texas? Well, outlawing drinking while driving didn't change much... LOL! Ride safe, Leo |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 10, 2018 7:35:14 GMT -5
Not all the OCG's favorite rides were on TWO wheels... Or ANY wheels at all... I had this sweet little Chevy pickup with matching outboard boat when Betty and I got married. This pic was taken the day before our wedding! We honeymooned camped out at Lake Grapevine. Those were some great days... I was doing award-winning creative as head of an ad agency I formed in-house within a major savings & loan, and the Missus and I were about to embark on a 36 year adventure!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 10, 2018 7:50:14 GMT -5
And of course, the most important part of my life for the past 36 years next to the Good Lord IS my sweet Wife, Betty. Below, we share the wedding cake in Betty's house where we tied the knot back in 1983... Seems like yesterday.
Wish it was. The finest true-blue human-being I've ever known. She always has my back, and I always have hers. She never got into bikes, but did meet some of my riding pals who've passed on now. Her favorite "tale of the past" was Little Jan drag-racing "Old Blue". Could be she doubted it until my pals who were there told her about it. I still chuckle remembering her wide-eyed questions to "Mustang Jim"... She REALLY raced in just her UNDERWEAR?... Ah, YES! And Leo APPROVED?... Ah, well, the whole doggone grandstand APPROVED! Standing ovation... LEO! YOU were a very BAD BOY! Ah, well, if YOU say so! But honey, Jan won us SO much money on that race! You're STILL a bad boy.
Betty's first husband was another "real man" who liked to get with people he disagreed with and insult them in-person. A really dirty fighter, too... Liked to pick a fist-fight and then pull a knife. Before she finally got the nerve to leave, he knocked out most of her teeth, broke her nose and did similar to her kids. 
The years have been less than kind to us, but with love, it all works out.
That's us at our Grandson's wedding in Houston... Since then, Betty's had a heart attack and a stroke, and I've had a stroke... I'll not bother posting pix of the old Suzuki, the bagger or my pet Honda Accord... You've all seen them on other posts. I'm ending the trip down memory lane here. Betty was enjoying it as much as I have but the hijacking of the thread has ruined it... Betty and I have never had so much as one argument in 36 years, and now she cries at night over the trashing this thread has generated... and ALL over stupid things that aren't even pertinent to today, AND were absolutely factual to begin with.
When lowlifes unwarrantedly attack either of us, it affects the other in terrible ways. She won't watch the forum anymore with me. Can't blame her. Thanks a lot, Mr. BS police. Be real proud of yourself.
Anyway, for what it's worth, that's the abbreviated history of the Old Chopper Guy...Ride safe, and enjoy your memories.
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Post by floridagull on Sept 10, 2018 14:04:51 GMT -5
I enjoyed it! Screw the trolls!
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 10, 2018 20:41:16 GMT -5
I like reading the Chopper posts; fact, fiction or otherwise. Its a lot like watching the news.
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Post by SylvreKat on Sept 10, 2018 22:15:16 GMT -5
I have to say, my very VERY favouritest of all your pics is that last one you posted. That is truly just as sweet a pic as they come. I saw it and immediately had to smile. Still am smiling.
I can see why your daughter gifted you the Honda. How could any kids not be full of love for their folks, when their folks are so very full of love?
Makes me a little sad there's no Leo sharing my life like your sweet Betty has. But maybe someday still.
>'Kat
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Post by oldchopperguy on Sept 11, 2018 0:20:14 GMT -5
I have to say, my very VERY favouritest of all your pics is that last one you posted. That is truly just as sweet a pic as they come. I saw it and immediately had to smile. Still am smiling. I can see why your daughter gifted you the Honda. How could any kids not be full of love for their folks, when their folks are so very full of love? Makes me a little sad there's no Leo sharing my life like your sweet Betty has. But maybe someday still. >'Kat
You'd love our daughter, Cyndi. She's as close to a "guardian angel" as a human gets. If she was starving, she'd give her last meal to somebody worse-off. Since she looks better in a Bikini at 62 than most teens, last Christmas I jokingly asked if she WAS starving... LOL! She demurely replied: "NO, I just have more self-discipline than you do." OUCH! She DOES tell the truth... Gotta work on THAT! I put a pic of an elephant on the fridge... Seems to be working!  The funny thing about the car is that when we bought it, nobody at the dealership knew it was anything but a mint Accord EX-L which (OH, THANK YOU!) this marvelous dealership restored to LIKE NEW condition. Then we noticed it was faster than the average one, and local Hispanic tuner kids began to bug me to sell it. I contacted the dealer for information, and their tech who was great, said the only clue to the car's heritage was that the major suspension and brake parts they restored were Honda factory performance items. They replaced them exactly, number for number. My salesman did say it seemed mighty "frisky"... but wrote it off as just an extra good one... Hmmmm… When the title arrived, it showed not "EX-L" for a model, but "UEX". They are very obscure, and hard to find info on. They were only made in 2003 and 2004 to compete with the then-new Cadillac sedans on the track. However... their claimed 495hp and automatic tranny could NOT keep pace with the Caddy 656hp and 9-speed manual. So... the amazing little UEX passed unnoticed from automotive history, most of the approx. 400 made to die on obscure tracks... A tiny handful got converted with a standard "chip", factory exhausts/mufflers and such, dropping them to 256hp. No longer racers, but retaining the special tranny, suspension, brakes, fuel-injection, etc. Not winners on the track, but what marvelous grocery-getters. Lil' Rhonda will definitely haul the kitty litter home quick! Apparently they are rarely found except with collectors in Japan. Only what Honda enthusiasts tell me. I'm no collector or racer, just a happy owner!We know there is ONE identical in Fort Worth... Betty and I encountered it while visiting the doctor and talked with the proud owner. He thought he had the ONLY one.... Nope.
IF I drive it until I'm ninety, it will still have only about 140K miles on the clock. I already put it in my will to go back to Cyndi so she can enjoy a "collectible" vintage fun ride! Ride safe!Leo PS: Be patient, there are still some good guys around!  |
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Post by pistonguy on Sept 11, 2018 22:20:57 GMT -5
Hey piston--why are you bothering to read these? You've already established you don't believe Leo's stories. You think he's wrong. Ok. Fine. We get it. But you know what? I. DON'T. CARE.He's telling what he remembers. Sometimes memories aren't accurate. So what? Did you call your own uncle a liar when he either misremembered or embellished facts telling a story from his past? You've never ever embellished a story to make it better telling to your buddies? Just because you think you know otherwise, doesn't make it right for you to get all puffed up about what Leo is telling. Let him tell his tales. If they so offend you, well you know, nobody makes you click on this thread and read them. >K Ok yelling in Red... cute. You like my own mother you don't know a spark plug from a drain plug. you have no clue.. You are the least competent person on this board to weigh in. You do nothing but provoke and instigate his bs, Oh Unca Leo tell us more stories of the factory Honda racer that doesn't exist.. how revolting! you pander to it and Stroke Leo's Ego.. Snit you don't even ride, oh I hurt my thumb or whatever and can't ride for a year and a half, deal with it Tootsie.. Any of us for real who's works for real builds can never forget the details, it impossible.. and the numbers are so all over the board its pure bunk. Nothing more annoying in the industry is to meet someone and they have to tell the story of "I had this bike that was so fast" Oh ya we have spent out lives working with that bike from stock to wild. bs that what it is.. I come on there boards to help people with my areas of expertise, thats it, no chest pounding of who I am and what I have accomplished. A total Squid Poseur thing to do on a Scooter board.. Chopper has found a willing audience on a Scooter board to pound his chest. why not on the Harley boards? why not on the Honda race car boards? because they would have his bs for breakfast and told to Go Away with it. Nothing to contribute other than Look at Me.. honda-tech.com/forums/road-racing-autocross-time-attack-19/2004-uex-accord-factory-racer-3323343/Read it.... |
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Post by floridagull on Sept 12, 2018 6:15:51 GMT -5
IMHO, OCG is not in any way "chest thumping" or bragging - he is sharing stories of his life. If you do not like them, please do not read them - it is really that simple.
There is a magazine called "Reminisce" that has articles like what OCG writes. Perhaps Leo should submit some articles/pictures to them as well? A more appreciative and forgiving audience there, I am sure...
Accuracy and specificity are fine for a post that is trying to solve a problem, but this is fun stuff in the non-scooter area - no martinets here, please...
If we insisted that every word submitted to "scrabble 5 letters" actually BE a word, where would we be? ;-)
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Post by flyangler on Sept 12, 2018 8:55:13 GMT -5
IMHO, OCG is not in any way "chest thumping" or bragging - he is sharing stories of his life. If you do not like them, please do not read them - it is really that simple. There is a magazine called "Reminisce" that has articles like what OCG writes. Perhaps Leo should submit some articles/pictures to them as well? A more appreciative and forgiving audience there, I am sure... Accuracy and specificity are fine for a post that is trying to solve a problem, but this is fun stuff in the non-scooter area - no martinets here, please... If we insisted that every word submitted to "scrabble 5 letters" actually BE a word, where would we be? ;-) Wait, you mean they're not? |
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Post by floridagull on Sept 12, 2018 9:27:03 GMT -5
ROTFL...
Sadly, no - although we do try...
I think Bandito 2 waits until either you or I post some series of letters not in any lexicon, and then builds a real word off of our vain attempts... ;-)
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Post by pistonguy on Sept 12, 2018 21:56:40 GMT -5
IMHO, OCG is not in any way "chest thumping" or bragging - he is sharing stories of his life. If you do not like them, please do not read them - it is really that simple. There is a magazine called "Reminisce" that has articles like what OCG writes. Perhaps Leo should submit some articles/pictures to them as well? A more appreciative and forgiving audience there, I am sure... Accuracy and specificity are fine for a post that is trying to solve a problem, but this is fun stuff in the non-scooter area - no martinets here, please... If we insisted that every word submitted to "scrabble 5 letters" actually BE a word, where would we be? ;-) I don't give a crp about a little extra icing with some Whipped Cream and a Cherry on top but how about keeping it within the realm of reality? If its not catching the hand guards of a AR on fire in semi-auto form or a tinny person standing on the gas tank waking the throttle with there other foot and surfing a supposed 250 hp bike without a wiggle or the. or Neutral drops by hand, de Chipped by 250hp or so Honda, thats impossible to do even with todays engine management systems . just all bs. |
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Post by JR on Sept 13, 2018 11:31:16 GMT -5
oldchopperguy, pistonguy, wheelbender6, SylvreKat w650 cyborgHere's the reality pistonguy , not your thread, not your whipped cream, not your cherry. Want to help people fine by all means put all the whipped cream and cherries you want on "your" threads. In the mean time if you don't like what this poster says then either eat your cherry elsewhere or share the cherry here in a polite manner. I'm thinking one day you just didn't wake up and know what you know but rather "someone" had to teach you, you learned from personal experiences and when you get as old as the poster here you might find your memory fading a bit too, happens to a lot of people including me. There are those on this forum who remember the forum scooter wars of years past and many people left, were hurt, or just quit the forums all together. The main reason for it all was people being rude, ugly and thinking that some were just beneath the ones who had knowledge and didn't want to get along. I myself was one who didn't get along but old dogs can learn new tricks, I did and I'll not tolerate any nonsense that leads back to the days of the forum wars. It's simple disagree all you want do it politely and enjoy the whipped cream and cherries or hit the road. JR
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