Nice looking XO-1 Jason. Well done on your tinkering. VW fan here too. owned a '75 Beetle, "87 Golf (finally retired 3 yrs. ago), current Jetta owner.
Best, Rich in ATL On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 11:41:08 PM UTC-5, Jason Fuller wrote: > > So, I've been into bikes for three full decades now but I also spent more > than a decade being really into older Volkswagens. I definitely gravitated > towards the historically significant models: I had a 1992 Jetta GTX 16V, a > 1984 Rabbit Pickup diesel, and perhaps most notably a 1975 Golf swallowtail > with carbureted 1.5L. > > My 1992 XO-1 reminds me of that '75 Golf in a lot of ways. It's > historically significant, really exciting to a very select few people. It's > fun to operate, raw and agile, but the vast majority of people would not > understand the attraction. It's geekery at its purest. > > I've tinkered with the build, trying to balance doing it justice while > also keeping the investment reasonable as my Hillborne is the "nice bike" > of the fleet. I'm happy with where it's at. The only planned update is Rene > Herse Elk Pass tires to replace the touring Pasela's. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ddcf25e1-1b3b-4ada-a22e-c8ea318b44c6%40googlegroups.com.
