Cleveland Moto

What do you want for Xmas? How about a cool ClevelandMoto T-shirt, scarf or beanie hat?ClevelandMoto Vintage Racer T-Shirt - Medium https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132420633888Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Friend of the podcast Joe Casola visits us and shares his experiences supporting 100 year old motorcycles on the cannonball and operating a motorcycle co-op. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We talk about doing things better, loading bikes safer and how we're changing things around here at the shop. Chris is selling his vintage Honda Superhawk for only $2500. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Everything you ever wanted to know about the PC800, We eat, sausages, cheese, drink bourbon, eat pickles, drink beer and talk about life in General. Johnny Chrome trades his custom built XR600 for a PC800...no we're not kidding...he did it. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Chuck Schram is in town doing a Zero Demo Day and hangs around for the podcast. Chaos ensues. The butthurt is strong in the millennial chopper community. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We are joined by ClevelandMoto mechanic Luke "Sparky" Croston. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

PikeNuts! Curt Edwards from Kentucky stopped in and brings us two bottles of bourbon. We give you the Adam Constantine update. We talk about Curt's collection, the Kentucky Kickdown and the scene in KY. Our DGR Report. We talk about the AIM export. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Our friend Adam is in town as a refugee from Key West and Hurricane Irma, He's a Mini-Motorcycle guy and a VW guy who's had a real bad week, but he's dealing with it in style. We love Adam and we think you will too. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We have fun goofing around on the latest playbike from Kymco the Spade 150. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We talk about going elbows deep in the mud. Fermented Fish. Etc. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We welcome listener and new vintage BMW R50 owner Joe Gabra. Putting a new motor in your biike. Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ClevelandMotoPodcast/2017+Podcasts/ClevelandMoto+Podcast+161.mp3 Well, i wouldn't want to race anything, and I don't think I will be taking on anything resembling REAL off-road. But it's better than I thought,   $4200 to the owners door....what else can you get for that money?  2011 V-strom 650 $3999  https://cleveland.craigslist.org/mcy/6109681309.html It's worth more now, and it will be worth more in 4 years.  BRAKE CLINIC - Our suspension clinic was so popular we decided to set you up with a bunch of information on brakes  Here's a good website that covers everything we talk about in this podcast.  http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/maintenance/brakes.htm Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Tonight we are in the service department working on a free motorcycle...let's see how deep we're getting screwed... This is how she showed up...2003 Yamaha TTR125L  Not running, no title, the owner can't tell me when it ran last, but "someone had the top-end off, and said the motor was shot".  This is a spark plug gauge - these things are awesome for diagnosing a weak spark.  Here's the crew with Tegan (the young guy in the back). Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Rachel buys a Vespa.... and it's already broken.  The Mount Pleasant Wheelie Boys?  http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/01/a_divided_cleveland_city_counc.html Whatcha gonna do.... This guy looks like he can take care of himself.... And that Zero MMX can go anywhere, so you're only shot is to go faster than he can.... But, then he'll just call in this guy.  Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

 Chris Smith takes on the Bourbon Trail on a rented BMW  -  Dustin buys moonshine . SUSPENSION CLINIC: Buy stuff from Race-Tech, we love these guys. http://www.racetech.com/page/id/141 These guys have done a great job of putting the whole shootin' match on one singe website.... Yay! TouraTech to the rescue - Buy stuff from these guys too.... http://blog.touratech-usa.com/2013/08/06/how-to-setting-suspension-sag/ Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Robots: We got Robots.... My Tundra was Violated from the rear..... Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We meet people on the road, and sometimes they track us down...3 years later, to be on our podcast. Matt is a great guy who's got vintage motorcycle things going on in his town now! And he brought us Iowa Bourbon.  Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We spend some quality time with Kevin Moore - Painter, Builder, Rock n' Roller and Pin-Striper extraordinaire. We talk Vans, old motorcycles and a rotten prank he pulled on a couple of his buddies.  Kevin, Hadley and Shelby and the Green Fuzz  the Yamahauler Support the showRemember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We sold our 1975 Honda CB400F  We were kinda sad to see it go.  CB400F Walk Around Mark McDermott (RIP) having a go on the CB400F Would you buy this bike?  MZ Baghira Black Panther 660cc Yamaha Power and  :  2001 ~ 2007  Because I want to hook an entire trailer to the rain gutters on a VW Beetle?  Volkswagen and International Travel Trailer Inc. RV THE 2 BIKE GARAGE....Can you do it?  Pete Hempfling says his BMW GS and anything else. Gotta love his commitment.   John McElfresh says Interceptor/ST and a DRZ400  Steve Hoffert retains his Zero FXS and his BMW 1150RT  Dustin is Keeping his DRZ and Maybe wants the vt750c2b Honda Shadow Phantom This is a Honda Shadow 750 Phantom...in case you were wondering.  Johnny Chrome wants a Moto Guzzi Stelvio (woot!) - and a Honda XR650L  Chris Smith would keep his 1980 Suzuki GS450E (no surprise) and he's also keeping his Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Drifter Phil is going to go for the...new BMW R1200RT and the Zero FX - Because WHEELIES!!!! Support the showRemember folks...Rid

Dustin Johnny Chrome Chris Smith Steve Hoffert Johnny Mac Hoffert gets a new Helix (and rides it to the podcast)  and he admits that he might be ok with Ducati's afterall. Now he's gotta have a Ducati 950 MultiStrada Ok, so after about 22 minutes of "Squirrel!~?" we finally get to our topic....SCRAMBLERS!  Everybody's got a damned scrambler...it's gotten out of control and apparently I've been exposed to it long enough that I'm starting to want one... The Guzzi Stornello - Normal Msrp $11,190 but you're getting $2000 off if you can find one still in stock, only 500 were released into America. You're gonna spend $9190 - But, It's an $8990 Stone with over $3500 worth of goodies on it, 2 year warranty and it's under 400 lbs wet, and it comes with Brembo's, Italian top-quality dual sport tires, arrow stainless pipe and legit ground clearance. 47 HP/ 45 Torques and a 6 gallon gas tank. Runs happily on 89 octane. 6 speed transmission and shaft drive.