This ride is about Tyson following my son who rides a Honda ST1300 sport touring bike. This bike is similar to the Kawasaki Concours shown a few days ago. This Honda has a 1300cc engine, 7.7 gallon tank, is fuel injected and weighs about 700 pounds. Tyson is very fast and proficient riding this heavy bike with other riders on light liter sportbikes. He 'knee drags' with the best of them. Watch him at 1:41 in the following video where he touches the centerline while leaned over.
You may have seen the Honda ST1300 before only in black and white as it is used by many police departments, state police and highway patrols. They have luggage bags on both sides for equipment and weapon racks for AR-15 and shotguns. I like the all black one like Tyson's 2006 Honda ST1300 as shown here.
Tyson put many miles on his ST and wore out a u-joint in his shaft drive. My son and I did the replacement at my house. The hardest part was to fabricate a castellated nut tool from a 36mm impact socket which took a couple of days grinding with a dremel tool. We hadn't the time to order and purchase Honda's special tool to do the job. We don't just ride these bikes, we fix them too.
Tyson's wife owned and rode a Kawasaki ninja 500 that we fixed too. Tyson took the 500 to CVR Chuckwalla Raceway trackday weekend with my son. Well he rode it too hard and blew the engine at the track. 😂 So back at my house, the engine was pulled, new rings and head gasket and reassembled same day. She never knew he blew her bike up by riding it too hard at the track. 😂 Thanks for watching and reading and enjoy your ride!