At Work On Saturday......

H2RICK · Post by **H2RICK** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:51 pm

a guy pulls into the yard on a bike while I'm in the office waiting on customers. My ears say "Suzi stroker!!!" and what passes for my brain says
"It's a twin, though." Turns out it was a younger guy on a gloss black T350R in quite reasonable shape. We yacked for over an hour, going over the bike checking things, showing him how to adjust and lube the chain, etc etc. I took it for a short hop for him because he wanted someone who knew what it was supposed to be like actually ride it and comment. I'd forgotten how weird those rubber mounted bars feel......but it all came back to me in about 15 seconds or so.

I told him about this board (down at the time) and also about the Wednesday night get-togethers at Fred's place for all the Suzi stroker folks. I have no doubt you'll see him there tomorrow evening, Fred. He seems like a nice enough guy and he doesn't wear a backwards ball cap or have $10K worth of tats. His attitude is very respectful and he wants to learn to do his own wrenching. Good on him, I say.
Hopefully he'll turn up on here in the near future.

Buffalo-guy · Post by **Buffalo-guy** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:10 pm

I look forward to hearing from him, or better yet, meeting him face to face. Janice remembers the add on Kijiji, that landed him that bike. Thanks for relaying the virtues of our motorcycle flop house. By my best recollection, the garage has been open to this crowd for 15 or more years. Where did the time go. Cheers.
Fred

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:25 pm

Fred what do you guys do on the bike get-together, is this held at your shop?

Can you post photos of your shop so we can see it?

Buffalo-guy · Post by **Buffalo-guy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:16 am

[quote="TLRam1"]Fred what do you guys do on the bike get-together, is this held at your shop?

Terry.
We call ourselves "The Loyal order of Water Buffalo's" I can't believe I haven't seen more use of that line outside the Flintstones. It is a weekly get together, no formality, no dues, no club status, just an excuse to shoot the breeze, and tinker with old bikes, or new ones for that matter. It's a great networking tool around here, because the sheer number of different people who have passed through these doors over the years, is quite large. Our annual garage Christmas get together had no less than 89 people attending.
It was great. It's just an oversize double garage, but it attracts a lot of folks.
I will take some pics at this Wed. meet, and get Janice to post some if I can.
Thanks for the interest. The whole thing started many years ago, when my friend who used to own my '72 Duc, and I needed an excuse to get re-aquainted. Him playing with his Duc, and me with a 72 Buffalo. Bikes are a hell of a magnet for drawing people together. Three members on this board are regular visitors. Hopefully more in the future. Cheers.
Fred

Chel_in_IL · Post by **Chel_in_IL** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:28 am

Hmm.... only 1,507 miles to Calgary. Hahah...

Buffalo-guy · Post by **Buffalo-guy** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:18 am

Chel_in_IL wrote:Hmm.... only 1,507 miles to Calgary. Hahah...

Michelle.
The doors are always open. Hell, 1500 mi is just a walk in the park for the Iron Butt people. Couple of hours ought to do it. Cheers.
Fred (Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos)

TLRam1 · Post by **TLRam1** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:32 am

That would be great to do that Fred and if I ever make it up that way I'll have to stop by.

h2okettle · Post by **h2okettle** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:26 pm

Its only 4K miles from my house in Florida (lots of detours, and on the scenic route).. I made it to see H2Rick, but unfortunately did get over to Freds house..

I just got home again from another 4967 mile ride. I went camping to the Grand Canyon and went back up Pikes Peak again.. Thats the third time since June.. But, I did ride my Triumph Bonneville as the guy I rode with asked me not to take the GT cuz it is an old bike..

Guess what we stopped three times for him to work on his Harley !!

Allen..... Sitting in the smoking section !!

rngdng · Post by **rngdng** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:39 am

I guess HE should have ridden a reliable bike.......

Lane

H2RICK · Post by **H2RICK** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:27 am

I did ride my Triumph Bonneville as the guy I rode with asked me not to take the GT cuz it is an old bike.. Shocked Guess what we stopped three times for him to work on his Harley !!

Now THAT'S funny, Allen !!! I'm sure you just watched him and made sympathetic noises (Tsk, tsk......Oh, my......etc etc) while he worked on his overpriced chrome plated two-wheeled irrigation pump......