Two Wheel Photo Dump

Apples · Feb 1, 2026

I gotta get a pic of my 300L w/ it's rally tower - it's the one from Adventure Men Cave, Portugal.

It has a clear windscreen that attaches to the light stack framework, but at anything from 50 - 70 MPH it puts the wind that was against my chest and puts it square between my eyes. The buffeting was untenable. I run the tower sans windscreen while the two faux Baja Designs' 4-pot LED pods are covered in clear Lexan. For some reason that serves as a delfector, and it made 70 MPH possible in relative comfort (although my mechanical sympathy says NICHT to prolonged periods at that RPM and load. Or would that be my senior citizen physique...).

Only photo I have right now of it w/ the windscreen removed.

With windscreen (as noted earlier, this promotes buffeting to the helmet, so I run without it)

Please overlook the yard. It's green today and the tarped objects are gone.

McE · Feb 1, 2026

Apples said:
For some reason that serves as a delfector, and it made 70 MPH possible in relative comfort (although my mechanical sympathy says NICHT to prolonged periods at that RPM and load.

Story time

I was on a road trip on my old Ninja 250 and flogged it pretty hard lol. Long story but some girl tried to run me over right before the trip and my trusty FZ-09 with aftermarket suspension was out of service. Had to take my little Ninja I bought for racing at the cart track. Anyway, I stopped to fuel up in Atascadero and took a call while I was at the pump. Got distracted and somehow managed to leave my wallet there. The only time I've lost a wallet in my life. I made it about two hours up the 101 before noticing and hightailed it back. At full tuck, I was able to hold 96mph at a little over 13,000 RPMs for over an hour straight lol. That's as fast as that little bike could go. Unfortunately, it was too late and my wallet was gone. Bike took it like a champ, though. No signs of ill-effect motor-wise when I drained the oil and checked the filter.

That FZ was a fun bike. Still pisses me off that I didn't get to take it on that trip but at least I lived and wasn't too banged up to go. Stopped by the superbike world championship at Laguna Seca while I was in Monterey and paid extra to do a few hot laps on the track. Felt like such a fuggin dork out there on a Ninja 250

My old FZ

The Neenja

CORKSCREW, BABY!!!

DirtMcGurt · Feb 1, 2026

I was able to go to the MotoGP race at Laguna back in 05, the first year back in the US since 92. I’ll never forget the buildup of hearing the bikes warming up in the pits before the first lap of FP1. Hearing them get closer as they made their way to the corkscrew, and watching Nicky Hayden lead Colin Edwards, Valentino Rossi, and the rest of the grid into it. Gives me goosebumps thinking about it. I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to GP racing. Nicky went on to secure pole and get his first win in MotoGP and I was there to see it.
Anyway, I’m pretty jealous you got to ride the track. Being from the Midwest, that’s a bucket list track.

DirtMcGurt · Feb 1, 2026

My and the wife’s bikes, and my son’s 50 the day we picked it up.

Apples · Feb 1, 2026

McE said:
I was on a road trip on my old Ninja 250 and flogged it pretty hard

Sucks about the wallet! I think we've all done that at one point in our now-long lives...

Good to hear she took a lickin' and seemed no worser fer wear! Gives a little motorvation to recalibrate my sense of mechanical sympathy. Sincerely. I only know what I know until I may push the envelope. You assist that meter.

Left to my own devices, I think of the old adage:

Good judgement comes from experience, and...
Experience comes from bad judgement.

Thanks for the story!

Apples · Feb 1, 2026

DirtMcGurt said:
I was able to go to the MotoGP race at Laguna back in 05, the first year back in the US since 92. I’ll never forget the buildup of hearing the bikes warming up in the pits before the first lap of FP1. Hearing them get closer as they made their way to the corkscrew, and watching Nicky Hayden lead Colin Edwards, Valentino Rossi, and the rest of the grid into it. Gives me goosebumps thinking about it. I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to GP racing. Nicky went on to secure pole and get his first win in MotoGP and I was there to see it.
Anyway, I’m pretty jealous you got to ride the track. Being from the Midwest, that’s a bucket list track.

Outstanding!

Hey. I gotta question for you. Around 2003 or 2004 I remember seeing an X-Games Supermoto race that wound up being dominated by an American road racer and a European Supermoto champ... they left everyone behind and it wound up being the best motor racing duel I've ever seen, at least in the motorcycling world. It was phenominal racing, and our American rider on the last lap laid it inside our Euro friend to take the lead in an extremely hard-fought but friendly race.

During the cool down lap they must've high-fived each other 22 times! LOL.

Do you recall seeing a race like that? And, I say "Supermoto" but I am now uncertain of the correct description. This was pavement and dirt, part parking lot, etc... relatively small course but the racing was incredible.

McE · Feb 1, 2026

Supermoto is the all-star games of the moto world IMO. Wildly entertaining to both race and spectate.

Max Tremor · Feb 1, 2026

2 wheel photo dump. I could keep going with pictures. I’ve been more around the US on 2 wheels than 4. I have 2018 Gen 2 Vmax that puts out 230 HP, 2019 Goldwing Tour DCT, and 2021 WR450 that I have tagged for the street.

Mister Bevilaqua · Feb 1, 2026

Apples said:
I gotta get a pic of my 300L w/ it's rally tower - it's the one from Adventure Men Cave, Portugal.

It has a clear windscreen that attaches to the light stack framework, but at anything from 50 - 70 MPH it puts the wind that was against my chest and puts it square between my eyes. The buffeting was untenable. I run the tower sans windscreen while the two faux Baja Designs' 4-pot LED pods are covered in clear Lexan. For some reason that serves as a delfector, and it made 70 MPH possible in relative comfort (although my mechanical sympathy says NICHT to prolonged periods at that RPM and load. Or would that be my senior citizen physique...).

Only photo I have right now of it w/ the windscreen removed.

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With windscreen (as noted earlier, this promotes buffeting to the helmet, so I run without it)

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Please overlook the yard. It's green today and the tarped objects are gone.

I bet if you used one of those clip-on deflectors on top of the windscreen, it would provide enough of a kicker to redirect the window over your helmet or at least to the forehead or higher.

Apples · Feb 1, 2026

^ ^ ^ I tried one. It's in the shed now.

I prefer mostly naked bikes, anyway. And again, I got this 300L for putt-ing around on dirt roads and below-gnarly trails. The fact that I can lean forward, open the throttle and cruise at 65 - 70 on this smaller, lighter, less expensive machine is more value than I had hoped.

One day I may graduate to something akin to Max's 450 or your 701!

I rode bigger, faster bikes over half a lifetime ago. I are no stranger to ample power on two wheels. It's just that at my age now, I don't wanna crash fast.

Apples · Feb 1, 2026

Max Tremor said:
2 wheel photo dump. I could keep going with pictures. I’ve been more around the US on 2 wheels than 4. I have 2018 Gen 2 Vmax that puts out 230 HP, 2019 Goldwing Tour DCT, and 2021 WR450 that I have tagged for the street.

Holy smokes - that Vmax is insane, and insanely good lookin for the class of bike it is.

As is that WR! That's wicked nice.

You, sir, are WINNING.

Mister Bevilaqua · Feb 1, 2026

Apples said:
^ ^ ^ I tried one. It's in the shed now.

I prefer mostly naked bikes, anyway. And again, I got this 300L for putt-ing around on dirt roads and below-gnarly trails. The fact that I can lean forward, open the throttle and cruise at 65 - 70 on this smaller, lighter, less expensive machine is more value than I had hoped.

One day I may graduate to something akin to Max's 450 or your 701!

I rode bigger, faster bikes over half a lifetime ago. I are no stranger to ample power on two wheels. It's just that at my age now, I don't wanna crash fast.

I've been running a 450/500 in one form or fashion for the past seven years for my lightweight ADV travel. This 701 is just an experiment, and odds are I'll likely end up back on a 500 in a few years.

Max Tremor · Feb 1, 2026

Apples said:
Holy smokes - that Vmax is insane, and insanely good lookin for the class of bike it is.

As is that WR! That's wicked nice.

You, sir, are WINNING.

Haha well I can pass most things except a gas station. Both VMAX and WR are terrible on fuel. But, my 7.3 Tremor drinks the most fuel lol

DirtMcGurt · Feb 2, 2026

Apples said:
Outstanding!

Hey. I gotta question for you. Around 2003 or 2004 I remember seeing an X-Games Supermoto race that wound up being dominated by an American road racer and a European Supermoto champ... they left everyone behind and it wound up being the best motor racing duel I've ever seen, at least in the motorcycling world. It was phenominal racing, and our American rider on the last lap laid it inside our Euro friend to take the lead in an extremely hard-fought but friendly race.

During the cool down lap they must've high-fived each other 22 times! LOL.

Do you recall seeing a race like that? And, I say "Supermoto" but I am now uncertain of the correct description. This was pavement and dirt, part parking lot, etc... relatively small course but the racing was incredible.

I’m guessing that was the race that Ben Bostrom (the American) won the gold for Supermoto at the X Games. That racing is super fun to watch!

Apples · Feb 2, 2026

Thank you!

I looked once but seem to fail at the search words dealibob and found no pertinent material. This was when the innerw3bs was younger.

Apples · Feb 2, 2026

Max Tremor said:
my 7.3 Tremor drinks the most fuel lol

It certainly does, Ollie.

Bowtie76 · Feb 4, 2026

here are a couple of mine.

commuting home from work.

Some fun at VIR

More track fun

NC Bike, I'm the slow guy in the back.

Camping with the boys

Standard Plates from SD so I can get it plated to ride in VA

Modman · Feb 5, 2026

Going back quite a few years but dug up a few pics of my last ride... Might get another one day depending on where we end up moving. CRF250X which I made street legal w/ extra set of street wheels when I wanted to pretend to be a super moto dude. Other than that it was pretty much stock except for the FMF pipe.