Recent content by Matt_the_Rat

I've heard the "open pipes are ruining America" argument before. I've always been on the noizey side. Even with cars. Didn't really feel like I had to worry about such goobldgook on a Cafe' Racer board. But, opinions are like ar$$holes. Everybody has at least one.

Ah! now I understand. Thanx brother....

I'm in the panhandle near Destin and Panama City. Only 900 miles from Orlando. We have some twisty roads around here. Just a few through the farm lands in the north and just over the Alabama State line.

All perfectly good Triumphs need to be bastardized like that.

YES. I am Cool with open pipes on a 250, and I'm OK letting a 22 year old ride a bike that makes noise. The bike came with stock mufflers that were gutted megaphones full length and wide open and sounded like crap. We cut them down twice. When we got them short it sounds better. The little...

That's a fact. It's getting the Crap ridden out of it. I was riding my SR500 with him, and I had to work pretty hard to keep up with that little 250. Trey has already scuffed up both of his boots cranking it over as far as he can....which is hard to do in FL. We don't got too many of them...

friend of mine picked up a $400.00 CB250 nighthawk for his son. Kinda an ugly bike, with crappy paint, shot tires, wore out chain,leaking carb busted ignition switch. The bad news was there was no title. Luckily he knew a guy with a tow truck who could help him out. So me and the kid went...

Hey dudes... I'm Matt. 46 or so. Me and the wife own a Pool Cleaning company. We're located i NW Florida between Panama City and Destin. Currently I'm riding a Cafe'd cx500, an SR500, slowing putting together a 82 gs1100g giant café bike, and I have a Triumph Tropy 1200 for riding out...