Bud Kash
New member
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2025
- Messages
- 4
- Reaction score
- 1
- Location
- Colton, Oregon
- My Bike Models
- 1999 Valkyrie Standard, modified... but aren't they all?
On a horse with a bad name... through the back door. And I say this because my first posting was a reply... and intro, but maybe I can brush that under the rug for now... I'm Bud to my good friends, many other things and names to other than good friends, but I digress.
My current ride is a '99 Valk, which I saw referred to somewhere in here as "not yet a classic", however I beg to differ. I saw this bike as a classic when it first hit the market in '97, which is why I dove deep into research on every detail and vowed to buy my own about 20 years ago. The longest I've had a bike, and I've had dozens, including a '77 GL1000 that I bought wrecked and perfected, a '77 KZ1000LTD, '86 ZX900, '80 CB750C, '82 CB650C Nighthawk, '66 CL77 305 Scrambler (built w/ a Rocky 337 hi-perf kit), '72 BSA 650 Lightning, several CB350's to include a 350-4... anyway, it's a long story. I've been a member of VRCC for many years, ridden with Goldwing clubs and Patriot Guard Riders, and have known and ridden with other club members who's names and affiliations shall remain unspoken to protect the innocent and not so innocent.
So Greetings to All in Classic Goldwing Country, we share a sacred bond with one of the best designed and built machines ever to be born in America (to Japanese parents). And I pray for the day that it's born again here, after being chased out of Ohio by an unscrupulous scheister, only to skip the 2011 edition then sprout into a weird anime version later in Japan. Hi.
My current ride is a '99 Valk, which I saw referred to somewhere in here as "not yet a classic", however I beg to differ. I saw this bike as a classic when it first hit the market in '97, which is why I dove deep into research on every detail and vowed to buy my own about 20 years ago. The longest I've had a bike, and I've had dozens, including a '77 GL1000 that I bought wrecked and perfected, a '77 KZ1000LTD, '86 ZX900, '80 CB750C, '82 CB650C Nighthawk, '66 CL77 305 Scrambler (built w/ a Rocky 337 hi-perf kit), '72 BSA 650 Lightning, several CB350's to include a 350-4... anyway, it's a long story. I've been a member of VRCC for many years, ridden with Goldwing clubs and Patriot Guard Riders, and have known and ridden with other club members who's names and affiliations shall remain unspoken to protect the innocent and not so innocent.
So Greetings to All in Classic Goldwing Country, we share a sacred bond with one of the best designed and built machines ever to be born in America (to Japanese parents). And I pray for the day that it's born again here, after being chased out of Ohio by an unscrupulous scheister, only to skip the 2011 edition then sprout into a weird anime version later in Japan. Hi.
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