76: Cleveland IMS Recap with Zyon

We are joined again this week we a special guest.  This time its one of our own Riders of Loud Pipes! First Five member Zyon, who took a trip to the IMS show in Cleveland.  Zyon joins us to give his recap of what he saw at the show and a few other topics.

Little background on Zyon

• A First Five member in the Riders of Loud Pipes
• Several bikes in garage
  • 2013 Harley Davidson Deluxe
  • 1998 Kawasaki KLR (Rich's old bike) using as a winter bike this year
  • Custom Kawasaki 440 hardtail - for sale if anyone is looking

Cleveland IMS Show

• Harley Davidson was demonstrating how to pick up a bike from a dropped position
• Honda was pushing the new Rebel
• No Moto Guzzi, so Zyon could not check out the Flying Fortress
• Victory was there, but they were pushed into the Polaris tent with Slingshots
• Don't expect much from Victory to make it to Indian save for may the engine from the Octane
• Don't expect to see a Victory bike with an Indian badge
• BMW bikes caught Zyon's eye and sat on a few
• R6 is a beautifully bike and the front looks angry.  Zyon is not a street bike person, but this one he liked
• Talked to Rinehart and off-record said parts would still be coming out and will be legal in 49 states.
• There was custom sport bike that was streched.  It has a box with a scorpion living in it.
• Zero electric bikes was at show, but no one in area looking at bikes.  Feel that electric bikes are more the California

U-Turn:

• Excelsior-Henderson vintage bike brand coming back to life?
• Harley Davidson tilting Reverse Trike.  This was talked about on Motorcycle Men Podcast a few months ago.

Garage:

• Rich and Bryce installed the swingarm bag on the Deuce
• Mike Sawyer sent in feedback to Rico recommending that he looks at love-jugs for the Roadmaster

EVENTS:

• American Flat Track Race - Charlotte, NC April 1, 2017
• Moto Vlogger Spring Mountain Ride - April 7, 2017 - Going to be staying in Pigeon Forge, TN.
• Barber Vintage Festival - October 6th-8th, 2017 - Leeds, Alabama

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Running time:  1 hour 08 minutes

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