Re: For Sale ‘96 GPZ 1100

[Charles Scappaticci]

I admit to also having thought about letting the old Geeper go to someone
else who would ride it more than I do.  I'm just not riding it much these
days, actually, not riding much at all since I bought my Corvette.  That
said, I took it out not long ago so I could move things around in my "not
big enough" garage.  Having three bikes, toolboxes, trash cans, and a car
in a one car garage is a bit tight, but we make it work.

Since it's not being ridden much, I've had thoughts about making that
garage a bit more usable, so I took it out to get to my Ducati.  It didn't
take much of a ride to bring the old feelings back about this bike.  At
73,000 miles, 27+ years of ownership and numerous rides and adventures, it
still feels tight, comfortable and fun to ride.  It's also one I can
comfortably flat foot at a traffic light as I wasn't blessed with long legs
at birth.  Mine also has a salvage title, courtesy of a purple 70 Dodge
Dart Swinger back about 20 years ago, so the selling value is far less than
what it's worth to me.  I won't mention the basement full of spare parts I
have in the basement, nearly enough to build another, sans engine and
frame.  I also have a lifelong friend who has lusted after it for a long
time and I'd probably give it to him rather than get insulted at its value,
like Ralph did.

So, it will likely stay in the garage with my old Vulcan 1600 and I'll end
up letting my Ducati Multistrada go.  It's a wonderful, fast and fun bike
to ride, but a little too tall and not one I would ever trust to ride to
Alaska as I did more than once on the GPZ.  When I retire in three more
years (no thanks to my ex) I want to ride to Alaska again, except from
North Carolina instead of Denver, I'll look at a smaller touring bike for
that trip.  When I'm too old to comfortably ride, I'll go get a CanAm or
just enjoy having the top off of my Corvette, I hope that day never comes,
but it probably will.  Meanwhile, I am planning to ride the GPZ to Daytona
for bike week next spring, which would add three more states to my 24
visited so far.  Time to ride!

Ride safe!

Charles S.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 6:18 PM Christopher Bowen <c_p_bowen at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Appropriate response, Ralph!
> -Chris
>
> > On Jun 28, 2024, at 11:29 AM, dominatr37 <dominatr37 at optonline.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I told the guy 'Don't insult me.' that was on Facebook marketplace. I
> rode it last night and it's still great. I've been riding it the last few
> weeks again. Ralph L Angelo JrAuthor of Cool Stuff
> Http://tinyurl.com/ralphsamazon2
>
>