When I bought my bike a friend from work offered my a set of pipes. He drove to my house and helped me install them too. Cost: Lunch About a month and a half later, same friend gave me a pair of saddlebags and support brackets in great condition (which I then promptly mounted too low and burnt the bottom). Cost: Cheap trailer light from AutoZone for him to use for 2 days while his taillight was in the mail. 1 Day after purchasing my bike I went for a VERY short ride (<5 miles) and hit some gravel in a sharp turn and broke the rear end out. Went down, not hard at all, but enough to stop traffic at an 8 point intersection. Volunteer firefighter came screaming into the intersection with lights on and stopped anyone from killing me. He was there before I could even stand up. Went to walk over to me as I dead lifted the bike off the ground (adrenaline much!?). Asked me about 10 times if I was ok (G-d bless training, he knew I was in shock more than anything). Looked me up and down, saw only my pride and arm were hurt. Bike was fine, luckily my leg prevented any damage to Scarlet's side. Day I bought it (without wife's consent) broke the key off in the document lock... damn Karma sucks. Locksmith came out on Memorial day and fixed it... and didn't charge me anything other than the key and normal service call (no emergency, weekend,, holiday fees). Really nice guy, said he loved doing something other than "shoot, I locked myself out of the car" Different friend I work with, just had a baby. Coincidently he also does custom pinstriping and paint work. Did custom pink flames on my wife's new helmet. Great work, and charged me very little. Cost: I'll post his website, http://www.pinstripingbymenke.com/main.html he does great great work, and he's a really professional guy. Seriously, I feel very fortunate!