something to do on your R65

[Ed Miller]

Yes it's pretty, and yes you (and anybody else on this forum) are welcome to swing by.  I live in the foot hills of the coast range and the precipitation this winter has been crazy.  If one more person tells me we need the rain I swear I'll drown him.  Usually when we get cold weather it doesn't precipitate but this winter it has, giving me more snow than usual.  Last Saturday alone I got 8 new inches.  I had my friend drag my CRX out with his 4WD Toyota pickup so that I could go to the OVM banquet Saturday night and to work Sunday; it was two days before I could get back up my driveway.  That's with 4 studded tires.  It's just my driveway; the roads everywhere else are fine.  I"m hoping I can ride to work Friday, if the ruts in the snow are wide enough for my foot pegs to fit through without toppling me.

[suecanada]

Wow, Trolle's videos got my heart racing..in fear and admiration and jealousy. I'll never do that kind of riding but I'd like to think I could ::)no way!!! Anyhow, one thing I thought was that ya can't be timid!! One negative thought and you'd be down. Sorta like Nike says...just do it! I now have a friend in our vintage club that has a TL125 Honda and some other small bikes and he has 50 acres of bush and field...so I want to give it a go on the smaller bikes....even when I was young and foolish and had the 175 Can Am enduro I didn't do that stuff...I never even accomplished a wheelie and if i can't get that down...how can I ever get over a log?? So I need instruction from some of my vintage friends. I even took a dirt riding course back in '76 so I have the lessons in my head..just need the nerve....And as the years go by my brain is not easily fooled to think that it would allow me to do foolish things....at least I need to work up to things.  For instance I think it is high time I really learned some balance and throttle control to be able to walk beside my bike as it runs at walking speed. Also, I'd like to ride slowly standing on only one footpeg. Remember how we used to get on our bicycles....one foot on one of the pedals and pushing off with the other leg?? Then throw the pushing leg over and off we go. How about the "jam the back brake on and swing the rear end around in a skid"? Loved doing that on a bicycle.
 

[thrang]

With the mudguards removed, the R65 makes a surprisingly nimble off road tool, makes a wonderful desert basher (well until the air fliter clogs up).

I've always had a hankering for a 65gs after seeing one at the Berlin euro demo in the mid 90's. I'm pretty sure they were never on the market over here as I've never seen one in the UK.

[Ed Miller]

The Danish army was selling off theirs a while back.  The price wasn't bad but shipping would be a lot more for me than for you!