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What did you do to your bike today?
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I know, right. I can't afford to upgrade right now and just enjoying the fact that I can finally ride (since my surgeries in the off season). Gixxer is on top of my list along with ninja zx6r 636. One day I'll go to a cruiser but not yet. I'm not that old or injured. Both bikes score high for low/mid range power right from roll on and comfort. I'll probably add other bikes to those in my search, but they're on top. Love the weight and balance of gixxers. Comfy for SS too.
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Yay or Nay?
Made a longer CF back plate to keep the water off the rear seat. What do you guys think? I cut the bottom off my friend said Nay!
Made a longer CF back plate to keep the water off the rear seat. What do you guys think? I cut the bottom off my friend said Nay!
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Booyah Mr. T!!What did I do to my bike today?
RODE IT!
Been a while cause of surgery. It was awesome!
I took her up to my favorite twisties a couple days ago, in Rockingham, NC. It's been months and months. It was glorious!
I realized exactly what that ride was, in a nutshell, on the way back: Basically I ride two hours to Troy, NC, get a cup of coffee and ride two hours back home.
The thirty minutes between Rockingham and Troy are AWESOME! Then the thirty minutes back to Rockingham are just as good. The rest of the ride is mind-numbingly boring, but I go up there every time I get a chance.
Yamaha, what have you done to me??!!
I realized exactly what that ride was, in a nutshell, on the way back: Basically I ride two hours to Troy, NC, get a cup of coffee and ride two hours back home.
The thirty minutes between Rockingham and Troy are AWESOME! Then the thirty minutes back to Rockingham are just as good. The rest of the ride is mind-numbingly boring, but I go up there every time I get a chance.
Yamaha, what have you done to me??!!
I've made posts like this before, but the experience still pleases me to no end:
After being unable to ride for so long, I recently rode to work one day (stopped because I work second shift and there are tons of drunks on rode when I ride home during the holiday weekend).
Then I rode to Rockingham, to my twisties. Today I simply rode to a neighboring town to pick up some microwave pork rinds and stuff.
Each day, in all those separate locations, somebody walked by me during the short time I was sitting on my bike in a parking lot and said something like "Damn good looking bike!"
There's a guy at work who rides a Ninja. From what I've been able to glean through conversation, he doesn't get that remark. All the Harleys that proliferate the roads around here?
Dime a dozen. I may be just a little bit shallow, but darn if it doesn't feel good getting compliments everywhere I go. Gotta love the 6R.
After being unable to ride for so long, I recently rode to work one day (stopped because I work second shift and there are tons of drunks on rode when I ride home during the holiday weekend).
Then I rode to Rockingham, to my twisties. Today I simply rode to a neighboring town to pick up some microwave pork rinds and stuff.
Each day, in all those separate locations, somebody walked by me during the short time I was sitting on my bike in a parking lot and said something like "Damn good looking bike!"
There's a guy at work who rides a Ninja. From what I've been able to glean through conversation, he doesn't get that remark. All the Harleys that proliferate the roads around here?
Dime a dozen. I may be just a little bit shallow, but darn if it doesn't feel good getting compliments everywhere I go. Gotta love the 6R.
It's taken me more years than I care to mention to get used to shifting at 8k! It's now hard to get out of fourth or fifth gear on my commute to work and back.
I'll admit, she seems to be much more comfortable with the higher revs I'm now pulling. More comfortable than I. I'm not used to hearing her whine. I'm used to hearing her purrrrr.
That being said, the increase in power and responsiveness we are experiencing can not be denied.
What's the benefit of going to 10k? I've never been there except in WOT, which is very seldom. If I wanted a high-winding true-sport, I'd buy one. I don't want to rag her out, I intend to keep this bike for a very long time.
Oh yeah! Them's some good ridin' roads! Seriously, that sounds like an awesome weekend. Only five hundred miles in three days, though What gives?Today I loaded it up into a trailer and pulled it 1300kms home after riding the Smokey Mountains. Put on 800kms (500 miles) in 3 days of riding the area roads. It was a great weekend!!
NMdesertracer
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installed trex frame sliders today. Also ordered a speedoDRD my speedometer is off by 3mph.
Bert-Aus
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I can see your bits hanging out
Tuck your vent tubes back into their holder!
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Idiosynocracy
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I had to leave her alone for a good week due to being sick and I come back to start her up and she has several webs on her! Super angry (I have a personal vendetta against spiders; especially black widows... bite me when I'm 10 years old and you all shall die by my hand!) so I gave her a much needed bath and removed about 3 young black widows from her front wheel, shifter and left fairing. They dare tread upon my baby and they all paid dearly! Poor baby. *sniff sniff*
I had to leave her alone for a good week due to being sick and I come back to start her up and she has several webs on her! Super angry (I have a personal vendetta against spiders; especially black widows... bite me when I'm 10 years old and you all shall die by my hand!) so I gave her a much needed bath and removed about 3 young black widows from her front wheel, shifter and left fairing. They dare tread upon my baby and they all paid dearly! Poor baby. *sniff sniff*
Hahaha I love that. I HATE spiders too. I've been bit by black widows twice now. House is full of them and scorpions if we don't keep the house sprayed every 6 months. I always say if it has more than 4 legs it needs to die!!
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I had to leave her alone for a good week due to being sick and I come back to start her up and she has several webs on her! Super angry (I have a personal vendetta against spiders; especially black widows... bite me when I'm 10 years old and you all shall die by my hand!) so I gave her a much needed bath and removed about 3 young black widows from her front wheel, shifter and left fairing. They dare tread upon my baby and they all paid dearly! Poor baby. *sniff sniff*
Funny but when i saw the black widow thing i said to myself, they must live around here, i get those bastards in the garage like they own the place. I have been bug bombing it about every 6 months and that seems to help but i hate those nastly little bastards. Keep worrying about one deciding to turn my helmet into an apartment!
Around here in SC we get the Brown Recluse and maybe a dozen other spider varieties. Fat bodies with little legs to Big Azz Spiders that are larger than I can probably describe without being disbelieved.
Here's the however: Black Widows? Yeah, we get them. When I find one I kill it on sight. Multiple Black Widows? Oh, Hell No! A flamethrower is what I'm thinking. Napalm maybe. Fire. Lots of fire.
Here's the however: Black Widows? Yeah, we get them. When I find one I kill it on sight. Multiple Black Widows? Oh, Hell No! A flamethrower is what I'm thinking. Napalm maybe. Fire. Lots of fire.
Idiosynocracy
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Yep where I live we get black widows, brown recluses, scorpions, wolf spiders, sun spiders, we're even being taken over by the brown widow... They're everywhere. Before I lived in the house I do now, I would go around the house at night with bug spray and kill anything I saw that would be a problem to anyone. I don't have arachnaphobia, I just have a personal vendetta against them. While I approve of the fire method, I wasn't about to douse my baby in gasoline and set her ablaze! lol
I had to leave her alone for a good week due to being sick and I come back to start her up and she has several webs on her! Super angry (I have a personal vendetta against spiders; especially black widows... bite me when I'm 10 years old and you all shall die by my hand!) so I gave her a much needed bath and removed about 3 young black widows from her front wheel, shifter and left fairing. They dare tread upon my baby and they all paid dearly! Poor baby. *sniff sniff*
... I have some daddy long legs in my vegetable garden that eat all the stupid bugs trying to eat the veggies....
I like them alot...
I prefer my spidies to yours!! (or Opiliones, which is apparently the proper name)
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Received my 30L Kriega tail bag today. Getting ready for our big trip in October, riding down to Pennsylvania for a wedding and then to the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina!!! Dragon here we come!! (plus all the other AWESOME roads they have down there)
Thank you, by the way, goes to iaminsider's post for the purchase:
http://www.600cc.org/forum/f87/carrying-sh1t-duffle-bags-narrow-seat-31593/
I'll have to pack very carefully to get everything I need into the tail bag and my side cases, but I our accommodations have 24 hour laundry. I'll be using that a lot, I think.
Also replaced my front tire (~3000 miles after the rear tire was replaced) recently, so now Gracie is sporting excellent Pilot Road 3's. Ready for some curves! It's amazing how bad an even only slightly cupped front tire can make it feel.. She's rock solid around the corners again!
Thank you, by the way, goes to iaminsider's post for the purchase:
in this thread:Here are the Kriega bags in use the night before we left for our trip.
http://www.600cc.org/forum/f87/carrying-sh1t-duffle-bags-narrow-seat-31593/
I'll have to pack very carefully to get everything I need into the tail bag and my side cases, but I our accommodations have 24 hour laundry. I'll be using that a lot, I think.
Also replaced my front tire (~3000 miles after the rear tire was replaced) recently, so now Gracie is sporting excellent Pilot Road 3's. Ready for some curves! It's amazing how bad an even only slightly cupped front tire can make it feel.. She's rock solid around the corners again!