Bubba

Yup. You bigtime riders from C-bus are obviously W-A-Y out of our league--y'all are Major League players. S'matter of fact, all us riders from Cinti are mega-pussies. And if ya pick on us anymore, we're gonna get our vaginas in a snit. 300 miles of twisties is a no-brainer. And 33 MPH is about the top speed we pussies can ride, unless we ask our Mommies permission first. And we never--repeat, NEVER--go over the posted limits, 'cause it's against the law, eh? I promise you, this ride won't be any fun at all. Gonna be a bunch of f'n hill-billy assholes talkin' shit about how fast they ride. Yeah, right! Dice really meant to only send a PM to Big Ern, Magley and Ringo, but he hit the "Reply To All" button accidentally. If you do come south, we'll only feel inadequate next to you racer boyz in yer skin-tight leathers (altho I might get a wee bit turned on...). And to top it all off, the roads are gonna flat-out suck ballz. Nothin' but straight lines connecting the potholes in a backwoods state that has marijuana as it's main cash crop. I mean c'mon....Rabbit Hash has a DOG as their mayor, fer cripes sake. Definitely NOT WORTH THE DRIVE. Y'all should stay home and log into OR for the weekend. Nothing to see here....move along.

Welcome to Cinti. There's a ton of good roads around on both the east, west and south side (KY) of the city. The bulk of OR peeps live central and north, but there are a few local SW riders around. I would urge you to also join the LocalRiders forum, and check out the AssfaultJunkies forum as well. LR is definitely a smaller site with fewer members, but we put together a number of great routes throughout the summer. AFJ is a much larger forum and many more active members, albeit perhaps....hmmm, how shall I say this....younger and seemingly afflicted with the "drama virus". They are, however, quite active with many good riders and a fairly active track crowd. They have a regularly scheduled ride on Sat morning that leaves from the Rt8/AA hwy Speedway station a mile off I-275 in NKY. Bike night every Tuesday at the Comet in Northside is a must once the weather turns--GREAT burritos. The Sat morning 8-12 meet up at Fuel Coffee on Riverside Drive is an eclectic mix of bikes, scooters and sports cars. Always something to look at. Euro Bike night is the last Thursday of every month during the good weather months across the street from Latitudes in Milford. Lastly, there is the squid/pirate/doo-rag crowd that takes over the Quaker Steak and Lube in Milford on Tuesdays and in Colerain on Thursdays. See ya around! Ciao--Bubba http://cincinnati.metromix.com/bars-and-clubs/article/bike-nights-show-off/2050049/content

Sold! Thanks to all OR members who posted interest.

Sold! Thanks for looking.

Last bump. I've had quite a few out-of-state "buyers" from other forums that stated "I must have your bike!" .... and then never showed. Sheesh, if I'd known that, I would just gone ahead and put it on CraigsList. This will be sold in the next week to someone.

I did a quick check and you'll see a B-I-G difference between the sizes you are talking. Your current tire has a tread width of 8.2" and diameter of 27.3" giving 766 revolutions/mile. A Bridgestone Dueler Revo 2--which is what I'd recommend based on how they performed on my Izuzu 4x4 Xcab--has a tread width of 8.2" and a diameter of 31.5" giving 660 revs/mi, which is 14% change in circumference. That's huge!!! You'll definitely need to check your speedo calibration using a GPS if you go with your desired size. And another big reco for the BS Revos!!! A great all-around tire for compact trucks. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Bridgestone&tireModel=Dueler+A%2FT+Revo+2&partnum=665TR8REVO2OWL&vehicleSearch=false&fromCompare1=yes ADD/EDIT: BTW, the OEM tire fitment listed for your vehicle is 225/75-15 (optional 265/75-15). http://www.cars.com/isuzu/i-370/2008/standard-equipment/

I would suggest hitting up the Tire Rack website (http://www.tirerack.com/tires/index.jsp) to do some research on what size of tires fit your vehicle. Lot depends on the rim width and off-set (altho I presume you are running OEM wheels) as to what fits and what doesn't. You will certainly see a change in your speedo between a 235/50 and a 265/70, but I'd be a bit skeptical as to whether the 50 series you're running now are OEM fitment. You'll get far better longevity and see an improvement in the vehicle ride quality going with the taller sidewalls, and very little loss of handling....hey, your Colorado isn't a 'Vette.

MT: Nope. It's the S-model. 21"/18" F/R.

Bump. Apologies for the two week hiatus...still for sale. Hit me up!

Bump. Back with the living. Apologies for the two week hiatus...still for sale. Hit me up!

Not to belabor a point, but you're talkin' a shit load more than 4000#. Figger the trailer alone--big enough to haul a car--is gonna be an 16'-22' tandem axle flatbed that's gonna weigh a minimum of 1500-2000#. Add a vehicle that, depending on size, weighs 3000-5000# + and we're talkin' a minimum of 3 tons. More likely, you're looking at 4+ tons. Be safe out there.

Bump. See comment in first post.

Bump. See comment in first post.

Well S-H-I-T!!! It's back on track now....

Boy howdy! I must be one of those "rich" folk because I get 100% of my income from investment dividends and have since I retired in 2006. Yup, that's right. I don't have a defined, guaranteed monthly pension, don't collect SS, SSDI, welfare, food stamps or any other US or state government money. I worked my ass off, traded 40 years of my life for a weekly income, raised two kids and put 'em thru college, bought fixer-up houses and put sweat equity into 'em and resold 'em to move into something bigger. I made do with used cars and never owned anything new until I turned 50. There were months in my early career when I paid mortgage and bills and ate Mac&Cheese and balanced my checkbook down to less than $1.00, and still I thought I was King-Shit having the time of my life! BTW, for those of you who may think I don't pay taxes on my investment income now, I just finished calculating how much I owe and it's plenty! Whenever one of these threads pops up, it never fails to devolve into an argument about either politics, haves-v-havenots, us-v-them, or sometimes even into religion (Christian-v-nonChristian-v-atheist). Fact of the matter is the human animal is inherently self-serving and greedy--that's how we managed to survive for millions of years (or thousands of years, if you're a fundamentalist) before things like society, nationalism and government came into the picture. With the wisdom of 60+ years of putting up with bullshit--or maybe it's simply the Alzheimer's--I see that there are two crucial questions that need to be asked for our continued existence on planet earth: 1) Is it moral? and 2) Is it sustainable? If the answer to either or both of those questions is "NO"....then we are ultimately doomed. I compare it to the US defense policy our government espoused toward Russia when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s of "mutually assured nuclear destruction"....I mean, WTF?!? Moral? Sustainable? Does that sound like a win-win situation? So, where does that leave us? Well, the only way out of the reality of what we ALL face in the next 100 years or so, assuming we make it that long, is that we need to suck it up and shoulder an increasing burden and increasingly painful load to help mitigate the excesses and abuses of the last 50 years. Yup, I'm part of the problem, and you are too. We've got to stop postponing the inevitable--kicking the can down the road, so to speak--and start FIXING SHIT NOW. And there's a ton of ways we can fix this. One is to keep relying on the same system we've been using lately--and that our Washington "policy spinners" have been calling Capitalism--and believe we can "grow our way out" of this situation. Out of necessity, this would eventually have to include the entire world's population. How many of the Third-World nations' poor will it take buying Cadillac Escalades and 60" HD TVs to grow our economy? Sound sustainable? Or we could allow our "free market economic system"--there's that "Washington spin" again--to further stratify the world's wealth and ensure that only the poorest and the weakest shoulder the bulk of the pain. Afterall, there's way more of "them" to spread the pain around to, and the ultra-rich deserve another couple of billion apiece for 'creating' corporations and jobs, right? Sound moral? Or we could come to the realization that we're all stuck here on this stupid rock, with no way of getting off and no other place to live no matter who you are and how much money you have.... and agree that allowing one man's over-zealous accumulation of the world's finite resources at the expense of another man's suffering, is NEITHER MORAL NOR SUSTAINABLE. I'm not trying to pose a solution, nor am I attempting to lay blame. Merely my personal opinion. Consider the discussion started.

Nice post. And kudos to your Mom and your family for working thru hard times. Something is definitely wrong with "the system" but not any easy answers as to how to fix it. Pretty sure that neither socialism nor our modern version of capitalism are the answer, tho. I worked for nearly 40 years for a large "Blue Chip-Fortune 500" company and made what is considered a middle-class 5-figure salary. I'm pretty OK with where I was and where I am now, and am grateful for many things. Yet my total pot of accumulated wealth over the entire 40 years is WAY LESS than what Joe Flacco just signed for as pay for one game! And he ain't even part of the 1% rich in the overall picture. (And please, let's not get into a semantic discussion of the relative worth/merit of being an elite athlete, OK...I was simply using a topical comparison.) I was always a "blue bird of happiness on your shoulder" kind of guy, but I admit that I'm afraid of what may happen just 5-10 years in the future, and even more fearful for my kids and grandkids future. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, 'cause when the SHTF sometime down the road, it ain't gonna be pretty.

Truth is that the S model is sprung pretty lightly. Makes for a nice ride at sane pace on single track but not what is needed for gonzo balls-out riding and big whoops. That, plus us old guys are so close to the grave that we don't like getting too far away from the earth. Hell, I don't even ride whoolies anymore unless I'm drunk....

Thanks for the interest, and good luck with your rehab! BTW, I've got an orange '09 DL650, too. Great bikes!

I was figgering this was a pretty good deal, but only if there was $45 in the wallet.

Awrighty. If you'se guys is gonna insist on doin' the club thing, yer gonna need this: Harley Davidson Wallet - Riding Goggles and Do Rag - $40 (West Chester) http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/mcy/3646594822.html

I'm with ya on the whole "Let's form a club" thing, but damn.... You dudes are pretty harsh on a new guy, considering that 50% of the daily BS that goes on in OR is about guns. Perhaps a simple admonishment and some gentle guidance on OR forum protocol would have sufficed. Then again, it is winter... EDIT: BTW, WTF is a 91-20 boy?

So....which one was it again?

Sheit! Beat me to it....I was gonna say: "Do these shoes make my ass look big?"

Even lowering a sport bike 1-2", she's gonna still have way more clearance for aggressive riding than she's got on the Magna. And when she gets more familiar with her new bike, it's completely reversible for zero dollars!!! Win-win. [OfcourseIsecretlythinksheshouldstayinthekitchenandmakemeasammich]

C'mon guys. She's currently riding a 120 HP old school bike that weighs 520 lbs with a seat height of 30"! I don't think she's gonna be intimidated by a modern sub-450 lb sport bike. Seat height is the issue here, and that's why they sell lowering links.