->  > Suzuki GS-550CN inline four.
->  > Second a Yamaha XS-1100 Special inline four.
->  > That was one wicked bike with 120 H.P. at the rear wheel.

-> Sweet.. sounds like a couple of nice bikes, 
   
Yeah, bought the 550 used for $800 U.S. with under 6,000 miles on it and
had it for over nine years with no trouble at all.
The 550 redlined at 113MPH but over 2k over redline it would hit
135 as the valve springs stopped working and valve float limited     
compression.                                                         
Never holed a piston or bent a valve either despite the occassional
extreme abuse on the RPM.

The Yamaha I never fully opened up but it was wickedly fast,
that I bought for $1600 used in perfect shape.

-> my self, I had a few different
-> dirt bikes, the one that was wild, was a IT 465 Yamaha, it would do 100+ mph in
-> fifth gear, that's flying on a dirt bike.

I took several of my street bikes offroad on occassion but it was
limited what one could do with them and they were way heavy for the
task.

-> My street bike was a Suzuki 1100ED, with many many aftermarket parts, 35mm
-> muniku  carbs, header, fork braces, oil cooler.. etc.. very
fast bike.

Yeah, pretty much any 1100 inline 4 is *fast*, Orlando cops run
1100 Kawasakis and I saw one whiz by my work van in a flash as he
pursued a speeder.

->  > I was in the process of detuning it at the time the 16 year
->  > old hit me.

-> Did you sue him/her? 

She was 16, in H.S. with no job, both parents were on disability
and so they too were untouchable.
Nothing to sue _for_ :-(

->  > I had 21 years total including riding after the first spinal
->  > break because a bike was all I could afford while attending
->  > Voc Rehab funded computer programming job retraining on
->  > SSDI.

-> Any regrets?         

Yeah, I never bought a sailboat.
The only thing I liked better than biking was sailing.

->  > Not so bad but you're self conscious walking the dog
->  > bleeding down your face. The thick mustache saved the top
->  > lip and teeth though it felt like it'd been torn up. Like a
->  > wire brush pulled hard across.

-> Hahahaha... thats funny.  More time it's just my pride that hurts.

Yeah at a former 6'6" and in prime shape to what I am now it's a bit
depressing when I often can't walk without falling.

OTOH after too many years to think of I've a break from the majority of
the pain for some unexplained reason this last week.

If it holds another week I'm going to try to walk a bit farther
to get some opf my stamina back.

Well getting close to time to walk my companion dog, a Pit Bull
with the sweetest temperment I've seen in any dog :-)
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