Ten years daily driving a 59 Bugeye 1275 and only a couple of throw out
bearing issues . . due to my bad adjustment no doubt and one from Moss that
fell apart in chunks very quickly. The current TB (an original I found via
eBay) has been fine for the last few years. Not much to complain about.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Rick Fisk <refisk@chartermi.net> wrote:
> And the Trans-Canada highway was a little more "rustic" back then. :-)
>
> Bought my first Bugeye in 1968. Mine was reliable, I lived in SoCal so
> winter
> was a joke, and I loved it as my daily driver. I still have it today!
>
> Another Rick
>
> Sent from my keyboard
>
> > On Jul 3, 2014, at 7:24 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I bought my first Bugeye in 1967 and sold it in 1968, because, as much
> as I
> > loved it, it was unreliable, cold in the winter, and just sucked as a
> daily
> > driver. I sold it to two guys that had just come back from a trip from
> > Massachusetts to Alaska on the Trans-Canada highway on a Norton Commando
> > and a Royal Enfield. The Bugeye looked like a Rolls Royce to them,
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Peter Caldwell <peter@nosimport.com>
> wrote:
> >> 6
> >> John floated through here Tuesday night enroute to Alaska with 2
> >> KL(R?)650s on an undersized bike trailer with 8 inch wheels!
> >>
> >> Pray for him and his cousin as the make their way to Calgary to drop off
> >> the trailer and continue on 2 wheels.
> >>
> >> If anyone's in Calgary, buy him a new trailer for his return trip.
> >>
> >> They were planning on being at Mt. Rushmore for the 4th. (Personally I
> >> prefer my dead presidents on paper in my wallet)
> >>
> >> I'm sure he'll post something somewhere.
> >>
> >> Wish them well.
> >>
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