26 Apr
2018
26 Apr
'18
3:48 p.m.
> I had to choose between buying not skimping on
groceries V a Mini-Cooper-S
> (needed a little work) V Honda 600 V TRS80. Did I make the right choice?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Liam Proven wrote:
I'd go for a bike over a car any day. Well, when I
was young, anyway. Now,
I'm getting kinda stiff and creaky... Because of all the bike crashes and
the scar tissue.
The Honda 600 was NOT a bike. Well, mostly not. After demise of the mid
1960s Honda S600/S800 ("poor-man's-Ferrari" design exercise that got out
of hand and went into production), Honda engineers took a 360CC parallel
twin, detuned it and upped it to 600cc, added a differential, and a
reverse (tacked on to the outside of the case), and put it in a car body
that resembled the Mini. AN600 was the first Hondas officially imported
into USA (1970). A later Z600 had a "sportier" body, and one was cut in
half in the down-under movie "Malcolm"
Later, I
bought a used Yamaha MSX (from Mitchell Waite) for him.
I never got into MSX. They
ended up very impressive by the MSX2+ era. Then he bought
a Mindset.
Mindset?