Madhatter wants a dirt bike….

[Madhatter]

superman needs his cape .....

 

[Madhatter]

just keep on keeping on.....

 

[Sierra1]

Don't take any wooden nickels?

 

[Madhatter]

The white and yellow is my buddies new 850

 

[Madhatter]

I snuck over to the dealer and bought a cool Guzzi T-shirt and put it in his top box as a gift. He picked up his new bike yesterday and from his comments he liked the shirt .

 

[Madhatter]

AF1 racing is also a Vespa dealer. Any Vespa owners on the forum. Color me intrigued.

 

[Madhatter]

So I wander over to the Vespa line and actually sit on one . This ain’t so bad . I’m actually thinking I might want one. 80 mpg , up to 80mph ( not sure I would ever ride a scooter that fast ) thinking it might be fun around here. In the photo I was doing my best riding impression . I just might do it .

 

[Madhatter]

well in the summer heat break from riding the Beta I decided to perform some maintenance ..... transmission fluid changed and new and oiled up air cleaner installed .... cleaned the chain , and ran out of time to do anything else .
I haul the bike on a receiver hitch carrier , but now have a new trailer that is 6x10 with ramp . added a tie down system to carry 2 bikes and with some fancy placement maybe 4 bikes even. when finished I will post some pictures .

 

[Madhatter]

Vespa GTS 300 .... going to do a test ride soon . any scooter bums on the forum , what's your opinion of the vespa.

 

[Madhatter]

So during the summer in central Texas riding break there are things to do . Honey do list , my list , always the work list. Almost nothing fun list . So I decided to get my trailer ready to haul lawnmower or bikes or what ever . Bought a track system from Rocky Mountain to tie the bikes or whatever in the trailer.

 

[Madhatter]

 

[Madhatter]

Finished it today

 

[Madhatter]

Should be able to hold up to 4 bikes I think

 

[Sierra1]

I like it, but, four bikes will be tight. They'll have to be overlapped, with some creative strapping.

 

[Madhatter]

you are correct . 2 facing forward 2 facing the rear is the plan . the rear of the bikes would over lap and there are enough tie down points to be creative . mostly it will haul 2 bikes at most but possibly haul more . I have 16 of the tie down rings ,4 per bike. I have to get more screws this morning , ran short .

 

[Madhatter]

To hot so in the water I go

 

[Madhatter]

BBQ sandwich at south side market on the way home. Tasty

 

[Madhatter]

got a lot going on these last few weeks .... work , wife honey do list , my 85 year old mother , my youngest brother had bypass surgery , my 89 year old aunt passed last Friday (not Covid ) and my uncle 93 years of age passed this last sundae (again ,not Covid ) .... this weekend I have a funeral of a friends elderly father in his 80's (not Covid ) ..... wow almost to much stuff .... but Baylor plays Texas State Saturday evening and we have tickets .... so that first cool fall day is not to far off , im ready to ride .

 

[Madhatter]

my newly rigged up trailer is being put to the test by my neighbor "trail boss ". he decided to go on a trip to Arkansas and take 2 buddies , his trailer will haul 2 bikes , mine should be able to haul 3 .... it will be tight . the bikes on the trailer will be an Africa twin , a KTM890 and a 1250 gs . I meant it for hauling dirt bikes around , so this will put it to the "test" for sure. I should have a picture of the loaded trailer soon.

 

[Madhatter]

Africa twin was already in the truck so they opted to leave it there . Hard to tell by photo how much room to load third bike on trailer.