08-31-2013, 03:15 AM
billb wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
It depends on the bike. Is this a 750 Widowmaker? Why do people pay so much for a 1965 G.T. 350 Mustang?
I owned one of the 1973 MachIII "widowmakers"
Fortunately I learned to respect the sheer acceleration capacities of the triples with a 500 before trading it in on a 750 or I'd be dead.
That 500 pulled me feet dragging all the way across a shopping mall parking lot learning to do wheelies more than once.
Cops couldn't catch ya though. :-)
Oh yes, the Mach III models... One of my friends in high school had another friend who had a 500 in '73 and took him for a ride. They ran into a bad merge situation at a "Y" with a little old lady driver and ended up laying the bike down instead of being able to ride out of it. His leg got caught under the bike, he lost half the calf muscle among other injuries and was out the rest of the year. Anyways, they deserved the nickname, more than a few riders found themselves quickly out of the stable envelope.