Motorcycle.com

Administrator · 08-31-2007, 10:26 AM

Original Article:
Go East Part 1

Please discuss the Motorcycle.com article Go East Part 1 in our Motorcycle Forums below. Use the reply button to let others know your comments or feedback on the article. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, along with your thoughts and personal opinions on the bikes and products we have tested.

longride · 08-31-2007, 06:19 PM

Nice writeup man. Love to read about trippin on a bike. Keep up the good work. Looking foreward to part 2.

mscuddy · 09-01-2007, 11:29 AM

Great read, Joe, I have always wanted to mingle with the DKW's MZ's and other Eastern European stuff, that puts you in a time machine. Did you see any Trabants rattling around? Or ZIL's? Wonder is there's a place where you go, after you die, where everyone ridea a Perak and drives a Tatra...?

yossef · 09-02-2007, 02:16 AM

Though not that many of them are still around. They all are 20+ years old by now and you have to wonder how they pass tech inspection anyway. Most dudes driving them seem to be art school types....

The_AirHawk · 09-02-2007, 07:56 AM

Well, cardboard does have this tendency to disintegrate when left out in the rain.........

mscuddy · 09-02-2007, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_AirHawk

Well, cardboard does have this tendency to disintegrate when left out in the rain.........

But resin impregnated cloth, quazi fiberglass that was also toxic, so you can't bury a trabbi in a landfill. East Germany had these things poisoning the groundwater.

But it was the excess polution of the smoky two-stroke engine, that really makes one want to own a Trabbi. Ideling Trabants where known to gag people stuck in traffic, and made pedestrians back away. Wafting toxic clouds of rancid Trabant exhaust became enfused in everything, the clothes, the hair, the food, And they weren't burning the best two stroke oil either, just anything they could find. Crisco at 10.1. Christ, with trabbis around it must have been like living in a diesel submarine.

The_AirHawk · 09-02-2007, 04:18 PM

Well, they had to dispose of all that excess Dioxin somehow - might as well make use of it an' put it in the oil an' car-body resin.........

(I was told they made 'em out of about anything they could press-into the molds, old clothes, old feed sacks, asorted trash, an' ESPECIALLY cardboard/paper waste 'cuz it was cheap an' easy to come by, an' very strong when "resin'd-up".)

ccmun · 09-04-2007, 11:17 AM

Great write up....1 comment, and 1 question.

You mentioned nothing else on the planet can easily do 160 mph fully loaded....Not according to C-14 forums. It seems like the big beemer has some competition....I have seen a couple of posts that claims the new Connie does a rock solid 150.

Also you mentioned "September" nights...I assume you meant to write August nites...unless you did this ride last year!

08-31-2007, 10:26 AM	#1
Administrator Administrator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: On My Bike Posts: 0	Go East Part 1 Original Article: Go East Part 1 Please discuss the Motorcycle.com article Go East Part 1 in our Motorcycle Forums below. Use the reply button to let others know your comments or feedback on the article. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, along with your thoughts and personal opinions on the bikes and products we have tested.

08-31-2007, 06:19 PM	#2
longride Super Duper Mod Man Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere they let me Posts: 10,484	Nice writeup man. Love to read about trippin on a bike. Keep up the good work. Looking foreward to part 2. __________________ I'm a knucklehead

09-01-2007, 11:29 AM	#3
mscuddy MODERATOR X Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Next to my still checkin the temp. Posts: 5,447	Great read, Joe, I have always wanted to mingle with the DKW's MZ's and other Eastern European stuff, that puts you in a time machine. Did you see any Trabants rattling around? Or ZIL's? Wonder is there's a place where you go, after you die, where everyone ridea a Perak and drives a Tatra...? __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.

09-02-2007, 02:16 AM	#4
yossef Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 95	Trabants alive and kicking Though not that many of them are still around. They all are 20+ years old by now and you have to wonder how they pass tech inspection anyway. Most dudes driving them seem to be art school types....

09-02-2007, 07:56 AM	#5
The_AirHawk Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Leanin' Tower O' P-P-P-P-POWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Posts: 11,469	Well, cardboard does have this tendency to disintegrate when left out in the rain......... __________________ *Parfois, on fait pas semblant* Sometimes, it's not pretend Oderint Dum Metuant Let them hate so long as they fear политики предпочитают безоружных крестьян Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants Nothing to see here, Citizen. Move along now...

Sponsored Links	Remove Advertisements
Motorcycle Forum Advertisement

09-02-2007, 04:18 PM	#7
The_AirHawk Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Leanin' Tower O' P-P-P-P-POWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Posts: 11,469	Well, they had to dispose of all that excess Dioxin somehow - might as well make use of it an' put it in the oil an' car-body resin......... (I was told they made 'em out of about anything they could press-into the molds, old clothes, old feed sacks, asorted trash, an' ESPECIALLY cardboard/paper waste 'cuz it was cheap an' easy to come by, an' very strong when "resin'd-up".) __________________ *Parfois, on fait pas semblant* Sometimes, it's not pretend Oderint Dum Metuant Let them hate so long as they fear политики предпочитают безоружных крестьян Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants Nothing to see here, Citizen. Move along now...

09-04-2007, 11:17 AM	#8
ccmun Founding Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 68	Great write up....1 comment, and 1 question. You mentioned nothing else on the planet can easily do 160 mph fully loaded....Not according to C-14 forums. It seems like the big beemer has some competition....I have seen a couple of posts that claims the new Connie does a rock solid 150. Also you mentioned "September" nights...I assume you meant to write August nites...unless you did this ride last year!