V1-V3, 350, 500 bike? Anyone selling?

OK, I about have my V6 bike ready and I got to thinking... what am i going to do on Saturday afternoons after Saturday morning practice. I guess I could walk the dog and drink beer all day (which still sounds like a good idea). But I had this crazy idea of getting an old V1-V3, 350 or 500 bike.

Here are my questions:

1. Suggestions on bikes for a tall, fat guy - 6'2" 260lbs - no two smokes
2. How cheap can I get one of the above turn key? Selling yours?
3. Tires for above - how much and how long do they last?

I like wrenching, but I like it more at home than at the track. If a bike takes a crap on me, I'd rather fix it at home so something semi reliable would be preferred if it exists (yeah, yeah, I know true racers swap motors out the night before the race during the van ride to the track in the middle of the hurricane while their driving and doing their taxes...)

I want old if I am going to even consider giving up beer all day, so skip V4 and V5 ideas.

 

Guess you didnt hear but, if your not racing Saturday afternoon, you aint practicing Saturday morning anymore.

You might want to include two-strokes in you want list. If your looking for just anything to race Saturday, nothing is easier, cheaper and more reliable to race than a V-2 legal RD. Can bump up a couple times and still find someone to race with too.

I have two V-2 Rd's, the between race weekends race prep goes like this. Check the chain and tire pressures, and go race it. Did that all year last year with the RD350, that captured two regional championships. Now the 400 is ready and was treated the same way for the three rounds it saw, including the GNF for both. Piloted by Kevin Aysque.

 

No, I didnt hear about sat practice. Damn, that sucks.

I'd rather drink beer than screw around with a two stroke.

 

quoted just for the sheer genius contained in that statement.

4 strokes rule. 2 strokes suck it.

 

You are much smarter then you look in person...

 

I like the way you think, Mr. Kelly...Ignore the oil burning lumpenproletariat, they obviously have no appreciation for the finer things in life, like beer, and coming back to the pits under one's own power...

 

Hey Charles,

I think me and Chumpster have a new friend.

Ken (The four stroke visionaries are making their presence known)

 

Mike: Why no V-4? I have a 1982 Suzuki GS450. Turnkey, track ready. Also about an hour from you, near Lansdale, Pa. Did I mention "Cheap"? E-Mail [email protected]
Rich Andrews

 

You are a very smart man!!!!!!!!

 

Nah, it is too close in age to my 87 FZR. I want something made before I was born just to experience a different era of riding/racing. It seems the CB350 is a good pick? Just looking for some input on old bikes of which I know very little. 1982 just isn't old enough.

 

uh oh....the 350gp grid needs more cb350's for sure!! bring it!!

 

The entire lot of you, except for Mr. RingDingDing, are in need of intensive psychotherapy and various forms of involuntary shock treatments, except for Tim, who needs a full frontal lobotomy for hanging out in NYC dressed up like some elite Wall Street pimp looking for a bailout...

And I blame this pseudo-insurrection on you, Ken, along with your Chummy cohort. Shame on you for trying to upset the equilibrium of the planets, for crissakes, the entire universe is run on two-stroke power! It's all very scientific so it's a fact that you can not dispute. Everyone knows this.

Learn to get with the system. Resistance is futile, and the beatings will continue until we have peace and love.

 

I found one of the late Bob Stanley's old bikes on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/75-H...ewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item335a3a502b

The front end on this would need to be changed back to be V2 legal, right?

 

I remember that bike...Not sure about the V2 rules, at worst I'd think you might have to go back to a spoked wheel...

Under wheel types you run into this: V2 and V3 will use wire spoke built-up or cast wheels if they were OEM equipment on the production bike.

Not sure about the brakes...You probably want to review this: http://www.wera.com/rulebook/?x=1098#ch11

...until somebody that actually knows this stuff backwards and forwards chimes in...Neat bike...

 

Fixed it for you, Charles, you can thank me later...

 

No beer is that good, wait, maybe Yuengling, no, no.

Ride any motorcycle or drink beer, sorry, ride any motorcycle wins.

 

I see a "chink" in the armor....

And BTW sir....love that tagline!:up:

 

Aw gee, Dingding, that's a heck of an offer there...Run the guy on his 350GP CB with your V2 "stock" piped RD350...

See how they are, Mike? Insidious I tell ya...

 

Whats the matter, chicken, bock bock.