Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Good issue. March 2017
Enjoyable as always.
In Athena Chronicles Ben Schenk laments the fading availability of Kill Switches. Simply Hodaka has/had a pushbutton kill switch that I intend to get some day.
I have lukewarm opinion of most aftermarket motorcycle switches I've seen. However I have used one brand of switch for about ten years and have found it be very well-made and reliable. I have problems pasting links from my smartphone, but Google "eastern beaver switch" and it should come up. The switch I use is at the top of the page. I'll work up a short article here and put something in the Resonator to supplement Ben's article.
Enjoyable as always.
In Athena Chronicles Ben Schenk laments the fading availability of Kill Switches. Simply Hodaka has/had a pushbutton kill switch that I intend to get some day.
I have lukewarm opinion of most aftermarket motorcycle switches I've seen. However I have used one brand of switch for about ten years and have found it be very well-made and reliable. I have problems pasting links from my smartphone, but Google "eastern beaver switch" and it should come up. The switch I use is at the top of the page. I'll work up a short article here and put something in the Resonator to supplement Ben's article.
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Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
I checked out the Eastern Beaver's site and it has lots of good quality wiring supplys. I'm working on a RoadSquirt and will be needing good quality connections. I'll be trying some of theirs!! Good comment.
LBM
LBM
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Ive been getting mine here! Easy to use, all brass connectors & great shields/insulators too! Very reasonably priced in a good starter packet and all of the styles the Hodakas use! Victor
http://www.cycleterminal.com/bullet-terminals.html
http://www.cycleterminal.com/bullet-terminals.html
1978 175SL
1976 03 Wombat
1975 99 Road Toad (2)
1973 96 Dirt Squirt (2)
1973 “Wombat Combat”
1973 Combat Wombat
1972 94 Wombat (2)
1972 Super Squirt
1971 92B+ Ace
1970 92B Ace 100B (2)
1968 92 Ace 100
1966 Ace 90
; D Victor
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Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Wait, are we talking about an old Resonator or is the new one out and I didn't receive a copy?
Rick Mott
In order to be old and wise, you must survive young and stupid!
In order to be old and wise, you must survive young and stupid!
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
The brand-new March 2017 current issue.
Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
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Richard, Gregg Floren emailed the new Resonator to all club members on the 10th. If you didn't get yours just login to the club website and download the latest issue.
http://www.hodakaclub.org
http://www.hodakaclub.org
Bill Chapman, Monument, CO
Raced and Modified Hodakas in Statesville NC back in the day.
Raced and Modified Hodakas in Statesville NC back in the day.
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Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Thanks Bill, got it.
On another note, here is a good source for MC electrical stuff mentioned earlier.
http://www.flandersco.com/Images/PDF/El ... atalog.pdf
On another note, here is a good source for MC electrical stuff mentioned earlier.
http://www.flandersco.com/Images/PDF/El ... atalog.pdf
Rick Mott
In order to be old and wise, you must survive young and stupid!
In order to be old and wise, you must survive young and stupid!
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Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Got mine! Always enjoyable to read. Thank you to everyone who contributes.
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Got my email of the Resonator today. But I already finished reading it! LOL! Victor
1978 175SL
1976 03 Wombat
1975 99 Road Toad (2)
1973 96 Dirt Squirt (2)
1973 “Wombat Combat”
1973 Combat Wombat
1972 94 Wombat (2)
1972 Super Squirt
1971 92B+ Ace
1970 92B Ace 100B (2)
1968 92 Ace 100
1966 Ace 90
; D Victor
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Comments on the kill switches. I think the 73 and 74 Elsinore 125 and 250 used an almost identical kill switch. Wire length may be the only difference. I believe this is what's driving the cost and availability of these switches to exceed $200 if you can find one.
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Read about switches so I opened an old box and found 2, I have to look them up to see what they fit but they do work.
MTRob
MTRob
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Since everybody has gone to integrated switch/control perch combos, individual switches, and OEM single switches have gotten very dear.
The Eastern Beaver is the best quality switch I've found. Here are a couple of photos of that switch in a Hodie Kill Switch application:
The Eastern Beaver is the best quality switch I've found. Here are a couple of photos of that switch in a Hodie Kill Switch application:
Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
For those who read my article "The Chasing of the Hare" in the latest Resonator, there's even more to the story by way of a chance happening tonight in a strange sort of way. Kinda long story, but my wife and I entered a photographic/art competition and the judging was tonight. I friend's (who I see only every few years) wife also entered the art competition. My friend Sam was an old motorcycle racer from long ago and I asked him tonight if he participated in that Hare and Hound race. Not only did he participate but was following the Honda rider that crashed on the bridge behind me in the story. He stayed with the downed rider and went to the hospital with him and didn't finish the race (or get arrested!) He did stop at the highway crossing he said! Just a strange addition to the story and we laughed and related tonight about the adventure from over 50 years ago. Stories persist for long periods of time and tonight they crossed yet another time. Wow.
Max
Max
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And that, my friends, is exactly why this "thing" we do is so totally cool!
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Exactly, Matt. Last year I decided to take up "trail biking", "dirt biking" again and wanted to get the vintage motorcycle that I lusted after in my youth. I'm already a year-round rider of a '73 BMW, so this choice of offfoad bike not a big change in thinking. Back in the day the Hot Hodie was the new Ace 100 fitted with Ceriani forks, and top-end mods to make it a tad zippier. Which, from a 1967 perspective, describes a '70's DirtSquirt or Wombat (more or less). Just getting into offroading again, it probably would have better sense to get a Big Four small-bore of a more recent vintage. But I wouldn't have had the "Hodie of my Dreams".
But enough of this prattle. Warmish dry weather this weekend. Lets go ride.
But enough of this prattle. Warmish dry weather this weekend. Lets go ride.
Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
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Never heard the word prattle except from my old grandpa Jessie a good Missourian. He used to say to grandma Rosie, prittal prattle goes your tongue on a pivot it is hung. ---------Clarence
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Me pop was from Missouri. Must have picked it up from him.
Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
While we are still in this Resonator subject there is a question I have been wondering about for at least 2 years. This may be a question for Bob or Gregg. What caused the jump from Version 1 to Version 2 in June of 2011? There were 13 Version 1's and we are up to 23 Versions 2's.
Am I the only one that has wondered this? Must be my inquiring mind.
Am I the only one that has wondered this? Must be my inquiring mind.
Bill Chapman, Monument, CO
Raced and Modified Hodakas in Statesville NC back in the day.
Raced and Modified Hodakas in Statesville NC back in the day.
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Do you mean V1 V2 and V3 as in Volume 1, 2, or 3? I was wondering the same thing. Seems that we should have gone from V2 to V3 in 2017.
Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Yes, V1 V2 and V3 as in Volume 1, 2, or 3. V2 started in the middle of 2011 so it don't seem to have anything to do with the year.
Bill Chapman, Monument, CO
Raced and Modified Hodakas in Statesville NC back in the day.
Raced and Modified Hodakas in Statesville NC back in the day.
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
I never have a complaint with the Resonator but I do have a couple of observations. On the list of past and present issues, the type is in blue on a gray background which is really hard to read at least on my computer. How minor is that? Next, someone has added an E to my name of Good making making me Goode in the credits. Goods hate this as it looks to be Goode as in Goody two-shoes. Just sayin'.
Ok, I'm running out of things to write today and I'm off to accomplish much more important things.
Maxie Good
Ok, I'm running out of things to write today and I'm off to accomplish much more important things.
Maxie Good
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Running out of things to write. You just brought up the Goody two shoes now the rest of the story. Karen Goody was born in Durland Kansas in about 1927 and the economy was bad. Mr goody was not wealthy but neither was he poor. The Hilners just down the road, an immigrant family from Austria were very poor, they could not afford shoes for all their five kids. The eldest girl Betty May did get new shoes, the others got one shoe and had to hop to school. But Karen Goody always had new fancy shoes and therefore became known as Goody two shoes, Again hats off to Kansas. Another day of history that is all bull. -----Clarence
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Who's run out of things to write? Funny Clarence. I've somehow been typing all morning and should and hopefully will go and accomplish something useful today. Good story, no, Great story, the Goods will like this one!
Off to do things,
Max
Off to do things,
Max
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Bill--
Then it is a mystery. I've always assumed that "volume" went by year.
Max--
On my 'puters the issue index is black text on a white background. Your colors may be due to how your reader is configured or how your 'puter is set up.
Then it is a mystery. I've always assumed that "volume" went by year.
Max--
On my 'puters the issue index is black text on a white background. Your colors may be due to how your reader is configured or how your 'puter is set up.
Keepin' the Shiny Side up
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
on a '72 Wombat 94
--Bill
Re: Resonator Volume 2 Issue 23 comments
Great story Clarence!
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