Cleveland Moto

Friend of the podcast Joe Casola visits us and shares his experiences supporting 100 year old motorcycles on the cannonball and operating a motorcycle co-op. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We talk about doing things better, loading bikes safer and how we're changing things around here at the shop. Chris is selling his vintage Honda Superhawk for only $2500. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Everything you ever wanted to know about the PC800, We eat, sausages, cheese, drink bourbon, eat pickles, drink beer and talk about life in General. Johnny Chrome trades his custom built XR600 for a PC800...no we're not kidding...he did it. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Chuck Schram is in town doing a Zero Demo Day and hangs around for the podcast. Chaos ensues. The butthurt is strong in the millennial chopper community. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We are joined by ClevelandMoto mechanic Luke "Sparky" Croston. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

PikeNuts! Curt Edwards from Kentucky stopped in and brings us two bottles of bourbon. We give you the Adam Constantine update. We talk about Curt's collection, the Kentucky Kickdown and the scene in KY. Our DGR Report. We talk about the AIM export. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

Our friend Adam is in town as a refugee from Key West and Hurricane Irma, He's a Mini-Motorcycle guy and a VW guy who's had a real bad week, but he's dealing with it in style. We love Adam and we think you will too.  Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We have fun goofing around on the latest playbike from Kymco the Spade 150. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We talk about going elbows deep in the mud. Fermented Fish. Etc. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We welcome listener and new vintage BMW R50 owner Joe Gabra. Putting a new motor in your biike. Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ClevelandMotoPodcast/2017+Podcasts/ClevelandMoto+Podcast+161.mp3 Well, i wouldn't want to race anything, and I don't think I will be taking on anything resembling REAL off-road. But it's better than I thought,   $4200 to the owners door....what else can you get for that money?  2011 V-strom 650 $3999  https://cleveland.craigslist.org/mcy/6109681309.html It&a...

Tonight we are in the service department working on a free motorcycle...let's see how deep we're getting screwed... This is how she showed up...2003 Yamaha TTR125L  Not running, no title, the owner can't tell me when it ran last, but "someone had the top-end off, and said the motor was shot".  This is a spark plug gauge - these things are awesome for diagnosing a weak spar...

Rachel buys a Vespa.... and it's already broken.  The Mount Pleasant Wheelie Boys?  http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/01/a_divided_cleveland_city_counc.html Whatcha gonna do.... This guy looks like he can take care of himself.... And that Zero MMX can go anywhere, so you're only shot is to go faster than he can.... But, then he'll just call in this guy.  Support the show...

 Chris Smith takes on the Bourbon Trail on a rented BMW  -  Dustin buys moonshine . SUSPENSION CLINIC: Buy stuff from Race-Tech, we love these guys. http://www.racetech.com/page/id/141 These guys have done a great job of putting the whole shootin' match on one singe website.... Yay! TouraTech to the rescue - Buy stuff from these guys too.... http://blog.touratech-usa.com/2013/08/06/how-to-set...

Robots: We got Robots.... My Tundra was Violated from the rear..... Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We meet people on the road, and sometimes they track us down...3 years later, to be on our podcast. Matt is a great guy who's got vintage motorcycle things going on in his town now! And he brought us Iowa Bourbon.  Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We spend some quality time with Kevin Moore - Painter, Builder, Rock n' Roller and Pin-Striper extraordinaire. We talk Vans, old motorcycles and a rotten prank he pulled on a couple of his buddies.  Kevin, Hadley and Shelby and the Green Fuzz  the Yamahauler Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

We sold our 1975 Honda CB400F  We were kinda sad to see it go.  CB400F Walk Around Mark McDermott (RIP) having a go on the CB400F Would you buy this bike?  MZ Baghira Black Panther 660cc Yamaha Power and  :  2001 ~ 2007  Because I want to hook an entire trailer to the rain gutters on a VW Beetle?  Volkswagen and International Travel Trailer Inc. RV THE 2 BIKE GARAGE....Can you do it?  Pete Hempfli...

Dustin Johnny Chrome Chris Smith Steve Hoffert Johnny Mac Hoffert gets a new Helix (and rides it to the podcast)  and he admits that he might be ok with Ducati's afterall. Now he's gotta have a Ducati 950 MultiStrada Ok, so after about 22 minutes of "Squirrel!~?" we finally get to our topic....SCRAMBLERS!  Everybody's got a damned scrambler...it's gotten out of contro...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ClevelandMotoPodcast/2017+Podcasts/ClevelandMoto+Podcast+152.mp3 What is Pro-Street? So I guess if you're into that sort of thing....you think this is Pro-Street: This is what we think Pro-Street is; What happened with the Kawasaki GPZ's and why did they get so expensive>?  Mannequin - A HD Marketing Classic?  Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Ta...

We talk follow up on the Motorcycle Show:  Suzuki, How long are you going to trot out the LS650 Savage? This bike has been the SAME since 1986 - That's a 30 year old model. 31 HP and a Carb. No Fuel Injection?!?! The freakin' URAL has Fuel Injection....what is going on over at Suzuki?  I'm blowing out ALL of our in-stock Moto Guzzi V7's  There are only a handful left.  http://c...

LIVE FROM THE CLEVELAND IMS MOTORCYCLE SHOW!!!! Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

20 years - Sorry man, it was cool while it lasted.  Support the show Remember folks...Ride Fast and Take Chances! check out our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ClevelandMoto

JUST THE TIPS - Shop tips to keep your project from getting out of control.  Your motorcycle is NOT put together with Philips Head Fasteners...so don't use a Philips Head screwdriver to work on it...Your bike is put together with JIS Fasteners and yes, there is a difference. We recommend getting at least a #2 Impacta  JIS and at least a set of JIS bits or basic screwdrivers.  Always Be Knolli...

What is YOUR bike of the year?  Well, if you read any of these 34 publications  http://www.bonniercorp.com/brands/ You're probably noticing a trend...and $omebody is definitely telling you what motorcycle to buy. CLEVELANDMOTO BIKES OF 2016 Here's our completely unqualified opinion on what each of us thought was our bike of the year:  John McElfresh ; The Yamaha XSR900 and he was right,...