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Re: CanAm 560

Post by Roadracer_Al » Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:22 pm

I went out to look at it yesterday. It's a *beast*. It's a bit bigger/wider than an XR650L, and a whole lot bigger than a DRZ. That Rotax mill is really large and burly. I have to fix the leak in the crankcase first thing - it was sitting in a small pond of oil. Good news, the owner has factory manuals for the bike and for the Rotax motor.

Turns out that only one of the three frames were registered as an "off-road-only" green-sticker bike, and that's actually not the frame that the bike is built on at the moment, so technically, I could try dual-sporting it or street-tracker-ing it as MW suggests. That would be cool, too. Might also be a good project to build my first ground-up frame, and register as home built.

TAT, hell yeah - that's a 'lifetime goal', along with riding to Alaska, & riding across the Australian Outback.

I'm **digging** those Mitchell or Performance Machine wheels in the first pic -- I haven't seen those in ages. I remember AOD ran those on their first FZR400 bike.

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Re: CanAm 560

Post by Rut Row » Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:34 pm

Roadracer_Al wrote:TAT, hell yeah - that's a 'lifetime goal', along with riding to Alaska, & riding across the Australian Outback
:brows: IN! - might have to get a divorce first tho :huh:
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Re: CanAm 560

Post by Roadracer_Al » Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:29 pm

Maybe we could convince the wives to be room-mates for a while as we go romping around on our adventures.

Think they'd buy that? :dirtdog: I'm thinking maybe not.

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Re: CanAm 560

Post by Rut Row » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:59 pm

Roadracer_Al wrote:Maybe we could convince the wives to be room-mates for a while as we go romping around on our adventures.

Think they'd buy that? :dirtdog: I'm thinking maybe not.
I think you are psychic :lol2:
Ken
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Re: CanAm 560

Post by Roadracer_Al » Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:09 am

Looks like the beast is coming home - temporary or permanent remains to be seen - on Tuesday!

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Re: CanAm 560

Post by Roadracer_Al » Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:53 pm

Arrival is rescheduled to next week sometime.

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