[Ducati] Boerni...Italian style? and Hill Country ride

[Peter Bonner]

Boerne may be neat, but little is applying less and less :-(  As you say,
GROWING!!!!

Starting back in very early 60s, rode pretty much all limey bikes until 64
when I bought my first Ducati. Still have some limey stuff left including
some Rickman frames with running gear, no motor. For compleat bikes, I
really have just two, and they need work to get back to order. One is the
fabled Griumph (altho I guess it could have been a Treeves), which consists
of a 64 Greeves Challenger frame, compleat with rubber bushing torsion
earles front forks with the first year of the 500cc unit motor, a T100A no
less. I built that bike around 1968-70. The other bike is a BSA 500MX, the
John Banks replica thing. Had a 58 Catalina Goldie but sold it off about 15
years ago. Had a string of triumph and beezers, singles and twins, but one
of my favourites was my 49 AJS, altho it was pretty much 56 matchless and
later for motor parts.

Hill country riding, for sure. And if we work it right, we can get Staton
Shed, John Whiting, and some of the usual suspects to come along too. Kind
of surprised old Staton hasn't gotten restless and itching for a weekend up
here, but maybe just waiting on the good weather, well its about here. Maybe
we ought to start agitating a bit and see if anybody bites.  The ride you
mention, part of which is what folks call the 100 mile loop is sure lots of
fun. And John and Staton can vouch for some supermotard kinda roads that I
like to do as well. And of course there is always a visit to Luckenbach TX,
where everybody is somebody.

Have been so cooped up with work (joys of the self employed) I have about
forgotten what a motorcycle is, but now is a good time for a
reintroduction.....


Peter



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HOPPER ELDRIDGE" <hoppereldridge at sbcglobal.net>
To: <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: [Ducati] Boerni...Italian style?


> Boerne is a neat l'il town but like everything else in west
Texas...GROWING! Use to stay at an inn there that was an old "town house"
for some rancher. Neat historic palce.
>
>   What Brit bikes do you have? Me..mostly Commandos, Bonnies and TriBSA
triples. I do have Ray Pickerrel's Rob North BSA Rocket III  and my Norman
White prepped Norton 750 Commando did some good in the early BOTT races in
England. Tony Rutter (of Duc fame and the several times Formula II Champion
back then) want to race the bike at the IOM in '84 when it was supposed to
have a Classic pre-'72 production race. That was cancelled but he was still
interested. Oh well...so close yet so far! Depending on the race, we had
three exhaust systems, two carb set-ups, two fairings and it had the Norris
quick change cam set up with three different cams. Norm and I were doing the
mental aspect of an even hotter set up (well Norm was the brains and the
majic fingers!) but the oil patch went way south and I came back to a very
depressed economy. Again...so close yet so far!
>
>   We do need to do some Hill Country riding
Medina-Vanderpool-Leakey-right at Camp Wood-right at the Barksdale? split
then follow the river road (at least the olde river crossing is improved
now. Used to be slicker than sn*t on a door knob!) up onto the platueau,
turn around and repeat!
>    Later!  Hopper
>
>