Artmageddon

What's up, there are a few of us shadow guys on the board. Let's see the pics.

I'm a little sad, I liked the Vulcan. Another cruiser down.

I must be pretty lucky, 32, I have all my hair and no grey. My mom is 56, no grey, my dad is 59, just started going grey and has all of his hair. Both of my grandfathers had a full head of hair into their 70's. Life is good, you old fucks. (Don't take me too seriously, my other problems far outweigh having good hair.)

I noticed that too. Pricks.

Weird, usually my bill is around $100 per month, got mine today and it was $15. WTF? I think they screwed up somewhere, but I'm not complaining.

Condolences to all the families that lost a rider this year. This is only my second year riding, and I don't seem to remember hearing about all of these accidents last year. Are there more than usual or is just that I am more involved in the motorcycle community and I'm hearing about them more? Anyway that it is, everyone needs to ride safe, be vigilante, and keep an eye on your fellow motorcyclists, even if you don't know them. I know that everyone doesn't want to hear about another rider down.

Gotcha, cool of of you to help a friend.

Good to see another cruiser, but I haven't I seen you bash HD's a few times? What made you change your mind, or are you joking?

MY name is Art and I am the harbinger of the apocalypse.

The riding is not what bothers me, it would be standing outside in the rain for two hours. It usually gets too crowded inside.

Welcome. My advice is get your permit and then take the MSF safety course before you do anything else. You'll get you're license when you take it as well. It will really help. If you can't get in the cheap state run ones, there are a few dealers that run them(especially Harley dealers) that do at a premium(around $300, but still worth it).

Nice find. Looks pretty sharp.

They are Cobra Drags, no baffles. They were on the bike when I bought it. Played a part in my decision making process.

Like Jagr, if my vag isn't going to get wet, I'll be there.

Yep, damn near every day, so all the sport bike stunters better watch out, the Shadow is creeping up behind you.

The few I have seen have all been ridden by older guys. My guess is that they rode for years, but are now physically unable to ride. They don't want to give up a bike, so they move to a trike that they are able to handle. Just my opinion.

I've had some shaking issues with my bike since I pulled it out of stoarge a few weeks ago and finally broke down and decided to take it to a shop. I called a few Honda dealers, every one was backed up for a weeks, so f that. I called Yamaha of Cols, they said they could look at it even though it's a Honda, and got me in that day. That's awesome. I worked with Dave in service and thought he was really helpful and trustworthy. He rode my bike, and surmised that the front wheel was out of true. They fixed it up for at a good price, and overall I was pretty happy with using them, I'll use them again if the need arises. One problem though, and I'm not sure if it's their fault, it may have been pre-existing, but if not it probably should have been caught. After I got the bike back, I noticed some break noise. The chirping kept getting worse, I called Dave to see it it had something to do with the truing. We guessed that it have just been some debris, so I went to clean and noticed that the bolts that hold the caliper on were about 2 threads away from wobbling out. The noise was caused by the caliper shaking. Just glad I caught it before the whole caliper wobbled free. Seems to be fine now.

Welcome and thanks!

Welcome! Good group of folks here, you'll enjoy it. Have fun and ride safe.

Nice. Now you just need a green OR decal.

There was an episode of Sons of Anarchy where a guy was sitting on one of the gang's bike getting his picture taken by his girlfriend. The bike owner walked up and said "here, I'll take your picture", did, told him "before" as the guy looked at him, puzzled. The owner then proceeded to smack him across the face with his helmet a few times, kicked him while he was down, and took his picture again. "After". He then rode off with the dude's girlfriend. That is how you respond to someone sitting on your bike.

In regards to what dorifto said it was similar in my neighborhood. Everyone of my friends parents had free reign to reprimand us(I would never say beat, but yell and tell us we were doing wrong), and every kid too that as the same as if it were coming from their own parent. Kids today are very soft. I don't have any myself, but I have a nephew and 2 nieces in high school, and my wife teaches freshmen English so I am around high school kids often. A lot expect everything to be handed to them, and very few seem to want to work for anything. I know when I was in high school, I went to school, played 3 sports year round, and had a part time job, and I never had a car to get around but still found a way to do all that. If I wanted something, I had to work for it. My nephew is a sweet and smart kid, but lazy and expects that everyone else will support and bail him out as he needs it. He needs to wake up and find out out that is not the case. I come from a small poor town in eastern Ohio, with a great sports tradition. We were in contention in nearly every sport, and I think half of it was because the kids older than us beat the shit out of us on the fields and made us good and tough, and learn if we want to win, we better start hitting back hard. Nowadays the sports teams there are poor, because none of the kids want to to work for it, and sit inside and play games and live a virtual life. This is just asamll exmaple of this. I'm so sick of people whining about the they deserve this and that, and being concerned with being PC. It is making us weak. It is amazing a small portion of these whiners are taking over and changing laws to make kids pussies. If kids in my neighborhood were told to play tag with shadows and no dodgeball, we would have shouted "SMEAR THE QUEER" and tackled the jackass that said it.

IP has some nice leather coats that are a bit plainer and may be better suited to the nightster. Try the First Classics line, They have nice jackets. I have the Euro Cruiser, I think it was like $230 and I'm pretty happy with it. There are some other styles that are nice too. But don't but the envy glasses and the coat, we show up to an event together and we might look like douches.

I'm a dumb ass sometimes, I should really proofread my posts better with all you fuckers that have cock on your mind at all times.

What blind spot? They are pretty good, I don't notice blind spots very much, but I keep my head on a swivel at all times to try to avoid that kind of stuff anyway. I always use the strap when I'm on the highway, it keeps the glasses pretty tight to your face and helps takes way any blockage of peripheral vision.