A good thing ..A bad thing ..Part ll..

[sloper10]

He is the man...my favorite just after Juan Manuel Fangio, my all time favorite...I got to see him(MS) race at Indy the first year....it's a pretty neat helmet...they could have placed some rubber bumper pads in the secondary visior recess...rings like a bell until you learn to move the slide lever slowly
...if you are considering one, I recommend going up one size....XL Shoei, XXL Schuberth (pronounced Shu-bert, I believe)....thanks, Manny...

[Swamp Rat]

I thought I fixed that...oh well...here's to the future  

[sloper10]

...is ok 20003...I wouldn't change it..... ....I think that I will go watch "Southern Comfort"...again.....I like that movie...

[Red01]

on the new Pergrine Falcon!  

[sloper10]

I understand that Peregrines are a rare breed...there were a few at Crater Lake some years ago. just a bit south of you.....I sat there all one day just because it was so damn great a place to be.....thanks, it's a different bird to ride too.....

[Red01]

It's black and silver by the way..the fast colors...

Uh oh, here we go again on the color wars.  

On the Hayabusa, I haven't seen any of them that are as fast as the ones that are primarily green - accents may be in tan or gray... the ones in these color scemes seem to be more aerodynamic - and some may argue, better looking.  





 

[sloper10]

I don't know how well those radial engines would work on a bike...maybe Suzuki has a Rad-King in the works.......I'll ask my uncle if he ever saw any of those Hayabusas in the Pacific....after he had smoked their ass back into slag....

[Red01]

Your uncle may not remember them as Hayabusa's, but may remember them by their Allied code name, "Oscar." (There's a possibilty for a personalized plate for your bike )
Their light weight construction and lack of much armor made their return to slag relatively easy. At ~320 mph, they weren't the fastest thing in the sky in those days either. . . OTOH, most of the Japanese Army aces flew these, so they couldn't have been too bad.

[sloper10]

I spoke with my uncle last evening.  To quote, "We most times just called them targets".  He remembered "Oscar and Zero and Betty and a few others" but had never heard the word "Hayabusa" used in any context, but he does want to go for a ride.