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Boss Hoss drops em in this way
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They seem to sell a bunch of them too
 

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I’d like to see somebody do a panic stop on one, brakes locked up, standing on the pegs, wheels crossed up going full slideways.

I’ve been crossed up on the Nomad before, going 45, right on the main boulevard, and that bike is over 800 pounds wet.

I used to play Harry Hotshoe around town on a custom Kawasaki 900 that was 600 pounds.

But I can’t imagine doing that on the Boss Hoss. The bare engines gotta be 600 pounds. I just don’t think I am big enough to pull it off.
 

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I remember going to the dragstrips and watching those Kawasaki 900s waste highly modified drag cars. I'm talking 2 four barrel tunnel ram induction, big cams, and this black guy on a 900 would look over his shoulder to see if he needed to stay in the throttle.
 

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My buddy had an rz500 two stroke. Red light racer, he'd let the car gain a bit of space, then really twist it, and pass them on his back wheel. I would/could never ride like he did, he would also split lanes while doing wheelies!
 

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My buddy had an rz500 two stroke. Red light racer, he'd let the car gain a bit of space, then really twist it, and pass them on his back wheel. I would/could never ride like he did, he would also split lanes while doing wheelies!
One of my favorites

I raced an RZ350 for a couple years and that was fun in a tiny package
 
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Here’s real power ! I just picked this one up this past weekend. I plan on doing a full, total restore someday, but I have a couple of bike builds to finish up first.
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Very cool machine!

I would love to build something like this someday:

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7 Cylinders?
Found it on this webpage:
*Click here* for radial engine cycles

Or something smaller which is still cool.

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If you are going to build something like any of the bikes here, then you have to get focussed.

And chuck away all those other projects...

;)
 

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I am constantly reminded, when I look at such machines, of a quote from the hokeyass message board (HAMB)

“Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.”

I have a picture which exemplifies this philosophy, in the most impressive possible terms, and I will have to go dig it up and post it on this site.
 

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For the life of me, I cannot find the photograph in question. I probably lost it in the great photo bucket debacle.

The bike was a white glittery pearl Harley Davidson custom with blue flames in the paint, and it had an open primary drive.

Mounted on the clutch hub was an exposed cross cut saw blade that had been chrome plated. I never saw the bike run but I assume that that blade had to spin when the bike was running.
 

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