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It's a great bike, but the stock gearing fucking BLOWS. Hard. That motor wants to live in the 5krpm range and up, and dropping a tooth in the front and going up a couple in the back will make it seem like an entirely new (and better bike). I run 16/43, some guys like just the 16/41 combo, but definitely lose that airplane gear up front...you'll thank me later. If you do a lot of interstate, might wanna stick to the 41 in back, but the 16/43 will make it come alive and the 6th gear be downright fun instead of useless. I love mine, it's been the best motorcycle I've ever owned and proved to be incredibly tough because I ride it like an imbecile. Another thing I'd suggest is after you break it in and are doing your first batch of maintenance, balance the secondaries when you do your throttle body sync (and extensions on the vacuum ports for further ease of access to the carbs). I've done my secondaries and two friends and they were all out from the factory. It doesn't make a monster difference, but it smoothed the motor out. I can help ya do all that when the time comes, just up the road from ya. Congrats tho, I'm jealous I'd love to have a new one.

Depends on what kind of fishing you want to do. The Licking River is full of good spots, and it's full of small mouth, catfish, saugeye, crappies. I fish it quite a lot, from Utica out to Dillon Dam.

Yup, all the cool kids have one.

Formation riding. This is why it sucks balls. I haven't looked at the article, but I'd bet my paycheck it was a big group of cruisers. Even if they were dead stopped in a group, being too clustered is a recipe for disaster. If you're sitting there and at the last second see the impending wrecking ball coming, and you're in a big nest of bikes, you've left yourself no out, no escape route. Why some riders want to get all over each other like this baffles me. It's just poor riding.

Dear Penthouse forum, I never thought these stories were true but the other day while riding our motorcycles... :takeit:

My asshole is still in my throat from that.

Yup. I was telling you this story recently, but I hit a washout in New Mexico last year that was knee-deep, and about 50' wide head on at about 50mph and sliced right through it keeping my tires on the ground. It shook the front end violently, but it went through it no problem.

Do you keep a lighter, electricity, a stove or water in your home? All of those kill more young children in accidents every year than guns. You know they make safes, right? Good lord.

I've done 3 cycles of P90X, then did Plus and the 1 on 1 workouts, now I'm on P90X2. I don't religiously follow the nutrition, and mix a lot of other stuff in (mountain bikes, swimming, etc.) but it's a wonderful program and has changed my life. I cut 30 lbs, and have been in great shape for over a year.

I teach my kids to touch guns, a lot. She knew at 3 they were off limits, btw.

Fixed.

Congrats on quitting! Even better getting in shape and riding! I suffer some shortness of breath that makes the century mark nearly impossible, but I've still been riding and training as if someday I'll do it. I mostly ride mountain bikes, but someday I hope to do the pelo!

You missed my sarcasm...and big Lebowski reference.

That's usually the MO...go after the vacationers blasting down I77/71/70, etc. They make a lot on trucks this weekend too.

There's a reason laws exist that protect children - parents like that. The child can't choose for himself a reasonable amount of protection or even to not get on the bike - and dad is proving by that photo he's too fucking stupid to get the job done. If that little kid grew up to be Trayvon, maybe you'd give two shits about his welfare.

Yeah, well that's like your opinion man. Ever get the feeling you're playing handball against the drapes? You keep hitting it, but nothing comes back.

His protest hoodie obscures his vision.

Again, we're talking about what we have to go on, not hypotheticals. When you WANT the other possibility to be true to fit your narrative of the racist profiler, you're doing exactly, precisely what I said people are doing which is politicizing this.

Ok, then I retract my earlier silver lining statement. I should have known dad wasn't around.

676 is a good road when the pavement isn't in poor shape. It was repaved I think a year ago but I haven't been on it since then. There are a few tricky turns so don't blast through unless you can see the exit. Cops like to patrol the section where it slows down going into Marietta, so watch for that. Got plans, so I can't make it but have fun!

Good gun, I really like mine.

Agreed. You almost have to be delusional at this point to see this case as anything but a political ram-job, meant to satisfy the mob.

On Memorial Day weekend a lot of the back roads are heavier traffic than normal - remember a lot of those roads have cabins and getaways on them too. I've made that mistake once.