Banffmagnetfish

Born and raised in the Canadian Air Force until I left home for college in Edmonton. Then I had a 20 year career driving Tour Busses in the Canadian Rockies. I got my bike license in high school on a 76 Yamaha XT500 in grade 10 and ungraded to the CB750F in Grade 12. Went to College in Edmonton and the bike came with me and then on to the Rocky Mountains. I kept that bike until 1999 when I demoed a VTR1000. I had ridden and been toying with the idea of picking up a mid 90s VFR750 for a while but then I rode a Litre V-Twin and nearly shot myself with joy! What power! What Brakes! I nearly wheelied it over backwards on the gas and then went over the bars on the brakes! Orders of magnitude better than my vintage (by now) bike. Sold the old CB823 to a guy down the road and bought the VTR!
Had that bike for 6 years of hilarious fun, culminating in a high speed chase with a Viper and a Twin Turbo Stealth down the Coquihalla highway where I ran out of fuel in top gear at redline! Pulled in the clutch and coasted for several miles downhill all the way into the town of Hope BC right up to the fuel station. That was my last fast ride, that got it out of my system. Then I started a family so sold the VTR to a friend. Couple years later, we bought a house with a garage and I’d been driving past this 86 Vmax, sitting in a yard, surrounded by uncut grass, for several summers, bike never moved. So I start knocking on all the doors of every house and apartment around until I track down the owner. This guys uncle gave the bike to him and he’d never ridden anything bigger than a Suzuki 100 dirt bike. He took it for one ride, hit V-boost in second gear and launched the bike through a red light intersection before he even knew what was happening. He parked the bike and never touched it again. I bought it for $500, it was dead, seized. I removed the spark plugs, filled each cylinder with diesel fuel and let it sit for a couple of weeks, meanwhile I took the wheels off had new rubber installed and a new battery. Drained the diesel out of the cylinders, put the bike in 5th and worked the back wheel by hand back and forth until the cylinders all worked their way loose. Then I changed the oil, put in new spark plugs and battery, fired it up and rode it for 3 years and 3 back tires. That bike was designed for rolling burnouts! So, that got that silliness out of my system and now I’m returning to my roots so to speak, mid size, mid powered classic Honda with that sweet Quicksilver fairing. Just gotta run a 12V accessory line into it for GPS or dash cam and she’s good to putt around for years with none of that aforementioned foolishness. Just a 5 gallon bucket with 100 feet of rope and chunky neodymium magnet in it to chuck into random bodies of water to see what we can find.