Alisobob's Steelie

[AlisoBob]

Here's my '97. Never did much in the way of overhauling it .... Just one facelift, and normal maintenance.


Here she is , all cleaned up..


The day before her first "Dune" ride


After her "Facelift"


Here we are at Kennedy Meadows. We went Off road, Desert, Forrest, Duneing, everywhere together...... NEVER let me down, or was pushed back to the truck.....




We all had steelies back then.... Seems like a long time ago....


I think this is the last known photo of her.... But she lives on.

The motor is in my CR500AF/X

The Lewis clan has allot of her, spread across all their bikes.

Bruce has a little bit of her.

I think Zorak does too.......

She was a real good bike....

[lewisclan]

that was a sweet bike

[97af]

Yea Bob,
Your steely was one of the good ones.I always looked at it twice...

[dahondaboy]

what the hell is that bottle on your number plate? looks like a red liquid in it? wine?

[jEsTer]

what the hell is that bottle on your number plate? looks like a red liquid in it? wine?

Coolant overflow I believe, right Bob?

So what, nobody is using baby bottles anymore?

[AlisoBob]

Its full of Jays "Mai-Tai's" if you want to know the truth!

[dahondaboy]

is that a california thing that you have to have a catch can and spark arrestor or something? here you only have to have a arrestor but i like the idea of not puking antifreeze all over the dunes

[AlisoBob]

One year during the AZ ride, the temps hit 112, someting like that.

I lost all my coolant, and had to "improvise"...

I said to myself, never again...

Its a old ,freezable, "Istant Ice" bottle..... $1

It worked great, but we never rode when it was that hot again anyways....

[JBaze]

I like the Mai Tai story better!

[Mad Dog]

I thought the Palmolive bottle was classier.

[AlisoBob]

Every year it was something different

[dannygraves]

yup, my gen-1 has a baby bottle behind the # plate for the same reason. My bike puked its guts out at AZ, almost as bad as big D when he puked up all that beer and gatorade at the top of that hill

[AlisoBob]

Man, I wish that was on video!!!

[MojoScojo]

I really don't want to remember that, tyvm.

[dannygraves]

well, I missed the actual puking because I was trying to get my bike up the hill while that was going on!

[Wheelie-Gene]

That has to be the prettiest site I've ever seen.

Sweet bike man, too bad she ended up being an organ donor.

[lewisclan]

IT WAS GREAT FOE THE CLAN

[Hammer]

yup, my gen-1 has a baby bottle behind the # plate for the same reason. My bike puked its guts out at AZ, almost as bad as big D when he puked up all that beer and gatorade at the top of that hill

I dont mean to Hyjack the thread, but this Az ride is sounding, better and better.
Hammer.

[dannygraves]

the az ride sepparates the boys from the men!

[weldpro]

Bob,
Do you miss anything about the steelie as opposed to your AF? Just curious.
Richard

[Exnav]

Yup, I wanna hear this too.

[AlisoBob]

Bob,
Do you miss anything about the steelie as opposed to your AF? Just curious.
Richard

Ya know, I do....

Imagine trading your highschool sweetheart for a supermodel

Imagine the new dog that replaced the one who just died.

Imagine moving into a new bigger house, because the smaller house where you grew up burned down.

Every situation listed is a "upgrade".... but you still long for the past. Its what makes us human.

I still own the frame.

If I build a new motor for the A/F, that motor is going back into the steelie, and we will be together agian.

Other than memories, the A/F beats the steelie in every way.