What is your Ryker's name ?

[PnJRyker]

Raven is her full name, "Rae" for short

 

[shakin_jake]

Let me guess... was it a Yamaha XS650 Twin?? :dontknow: . Or was that just me??

My Pearl White 2013 RT Ltd Spyder gets called Cody by the Grandkids, apparently cos it looks like Cody, the Robo-Sapien! :shocked: (you'd hafta search, I did... 2 hours of my life down the gurgler! )

But the 'medium-term Ryker Rally demo bike' that I got to spend some quality time with was called 'Jiminy Picket' by my Grandkids, then everyone when it caught on.... including the Can-Am sales-bods - obviously because it looked very much like a cross between a Pitbull & a Cricket that'd caught up at high velocity with a parked car..... :shocked:

~~~hey Peter!, are you still subscribed to this post?!? I was looking at old posts i made in the Ryker forum and saw where you commented on the venerable<LOL> Yamaha XS650. I bought one new in 1976. My first new bike in fact. I recall having trouble with the electrical system, and once when I rode it from Detroit down to Bristol Virginia, lost the charging. Mine wAs plagued with electrical shorts in the main wiring harness right behind the steer stem bearings

The neighborhood wrench who was also a biker, whom i looked up to back in the day, when i told him I wanted to buy/ride a Triumph twin he told me “no you don’t, i had 13 Triumphs, stay away from them”. That’s when i bought a new 76’ XS 650, which had a slew of its own electrical problems


Best,


Jake
Reddick Fla.

 

[SportsterDoc]

If you name a bike (I never have), will it come to you when you call?opcorn: