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anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

Boriqua said:
That bike looks so nice .. right up until I look at that thinly padded seat! I had the 1200 roadster in ORANGE which was basically a 1200 sporty with flater bars and the foot controls were under your feet and not out ahead of you. Believe I bought it in 2003. It was actually a blast to ride and make noise with although it was still incredibly top heavy. Of the Harley's I have had I would take that one back in a heartbeat.

If I knew that my wife would let me out on the bike alone .. yea yours would be at the top of the list. Looks fun!
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It's a unique bread, 1200 with a one off crank and heads. The pegs are like a FZ or a Bandit, perfect. I'm looking at upgrading the seat down the line however I have done a +300 mile day with it and was completely comfortable. Highway pegs help big time. This is the seat I'm looking at:
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I'm not into the huge V-twins or cruisers so I actively avoided Harley for the longest time. They got me hooked with the Street-Rod... Now I'm on a XR Sporty... I was intending to keep the Street-Rod for a while but severe hip issues developed from riding it (Ride a Street-Rod and you'll know why). Bummer because I LOVED the motor... The Sporty though is more fun, louder and just a brasher. Great bike to rack and ride on.
 
" When the snow flies ".? Um, the snow has already flew. My snow blower is officially parked in front of the bikes in the shed. Enjoy yourselves.
 
Doubt there is going to be any riding today. It's black sky, raining and about 50 deg.
 
Got out for a few miles after dinner to run some old meds to the hospital's drop box and then made my way home via an indirect direct route. Threw some stabil in and parked it in the garage but am hoping I'll be able to get out some between now and full riding season again
 
Steve said:
It will be back up around 50 this weekend, I might get the last few miles needed to roll over 30,000 on the odometer.
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Well, I got in the required miles today, but it's going to be warm enough this weekend, I'll probably ride to church. :encouragement:

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Yes, I rode today and with the wind out of the northwest gusting to over 35mph , there were times when I thought I might scrape the pegs just to keep the bike upright in a straight ahead motion.

My Honda does not usually get the non-ethanol gas and sta-bil during the winter as I can usually take it out at least once per month during this frozen time. When I do take it out, I usually can get between 100 and 200 miles to really clean things up.

My GS on the other hand is almost put away for the winter since I need to do some top end work and repainting. I would like to get just 200 more miles on it to end the year at 7K. Not too bad for trailering it to some crooked roads on 4 different occasions.
 
It was a bit cloudy yesterday but it stayed nice and dry, had a few extras for our usual Saturday morning Katana ride. Yep, that's 7 Katanas out being ridden, and the glorious part of that is it's not that unusual to see a good number of Kats out together around here. Can never have enough :D

We also had a bit of a switch around with one swapping his Kat for another's 1100G outfit so he could bring his daughter along, and I got to swap the 450 for the popup Kat that's front and centre in the second pic.

I'm still grinning :D

Untitled by starpoint73, on Flickr


Untitled by starpoint73, on Flickr
 
Brisk one today in the Mountains!
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I wasn't the only one out riding... Sugarbush is in full operations, the looks i got from the flatland tourists was priceless!!!
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I passed a Floridian today when it was snowing doing a 35 in a 50. He was nervous when i flew by him in his AWD Subaru on my 1WD MC!

It was a nice little blast, 110ish miles.
 
So cool, Justin. I hate getting stuck behind tourists. Those Subarus go just as slow here when it's 80 (like today).
 
Steve said:
............................ going to be warm enough this weekend, I'll probably ride to church. :encouragement:
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What response you get when you ride to someplace and meet people you know somewhat that don't ride....?

Let me guess, from my experience:
- comments about Evel Kenevil
- hold up both arms and mimic operating the throttle with both hands
- comments about it being too cold (if less than, say, 60 degF)
 
I flew over the mountain with google satellite and picked a few forest roads to ride this afternoon, told my wife where I planned to ride then proceeded to get the bike ready. As I set out the KLR ran great, knobby tires doing just fine on the pavement and temps in the 60's. After 25 miles a stream of coolant came down on the left side of the bike. Aw crap! Don't have that problem with the GS, haha. Back to the house to investigate, and I pulled the crash bars, side panels, seat and tank to have a look. Nothing obvious so I thought maybe a hose split or the cap seal went bad. Turns out after pulling the hoses to inspect them it was the cap. The rubber seal had crud built up under it I guess. I cleaned it up, tightened up the hoses, drained the remaining old coolant and filled it with fresh stuff. Now then, still daylight enough so I reassembled the bike and headed to the desert instead. Sun sets earlier on the East side of the mountains so I figured I'd have more of a ride.

Here's a couple of pics from the ride. No fuel gauge on this bike and I had to switch to reserve after 138 miles. Being who knows how many miles from civilization I was a bit uneasy! Made it to town on reserve but now see it has a huge reserve. I added only 2.63 gallons and had 156 miles on the trip odometer. Sheesh, I could have ridden a long ways farther. Still getting used to this bike but lovin it so far.

I ran through some really deep sand and was amazed how well it handles it. Still puckered up pretty tight till I made it through though.




 
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