the_silverfox

Would like to try one. Its light as heck and pumps out more CCA than a standard Yuasa. Perhaps I'll give one a shot when my current Yuasa dies. I just wish Odyssey made a battery for the FJR.

Ohio cagers never cease to amaze me.

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Well said. Now stop scaring the newbie off.

Tried eHarmony, hated the fact that nobody knew how to write or carry on a conversation. And the ones that could write were stuck-up engineers with a lack of social skills. I think most of them on that site were looking to marry for citizenship. Met Flying Brick on Craigslist of all things, and that was just because I posted an ad looking for someone to ride motorcycles with in my area. Regardless of which way you go with the online thing, I really believe in lots of conversation time either via chat/e-mail or face to face. We traded over 80 e-mails before we actually met face-to-face. Who knew I'd get a husband out of it?

That bike is a mile monger and the perfect bike to use on a track day. My beast is a boat compared to that thing! You can't go wrong with CA-1 Pacific Coast Highway whichever way you go. I would ride it from the South Bay/LA area and take it 13 hours straight North all the way to San Francisco, passing Santa Barbara, Monterey Bay, Cambria, and Santa Cruz among other places. More local rides included CA-2 Angeles Crest Highway to Wrightwood, Big Tujunga and Little Tujunga passes, and CA-39 in the San Gabriel Valley. For my lunch ride, I always enjoyed seeing the ocean via Palos Verdes Drive East on the roads in the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Other favorite routes included CA-78 and CA-79, backroads in Kern County, Palomar Mountain, Anza-Borrego State Park, and Yosemite. And that's just getting started. Riding through South Dakota, I enjoyed the Badlands and Wall and eventually, the ride to Devil's Tower. To get to Yellowstone, I took US-16 but learned the hard way that it should be done during the day! Stupid deer. I've done some riding through SE Ohio, the standard roads like 555, 676, etc. There's something about the scenery and beauty of those CA roads that Ohio roads will never touch, but that's my opinion. If I get a chance to return to the Northeast states again, I want to ride through the Finger Lakes, upstate New York, and revisit Vermont. I still haven't done Blue Ridge Parkway and Natchez Trace yet but those will get crossed off eventually, when I can find an excuse to cross off Southeast states off my list.

Cinematography? Excellent. The tunnel in the last part of the commercial is the 2nd street tunnel in Los Angeles, not very far from where I used to work. I got a kick out of the edited-in voice-overs though.

Pistons the size of garbage cans? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzgSsioAGHs

I've seen more things than I've been able to photograph and write about. Here's how I got to the first 10,000 miles on this thing (it was cleaner back then): http://thesilverfox.pbworks.com/w/page/22151199/Christine%27s+21st+Annual+Women+on+Wheels+International+Ride-In+BLOG. Thanks! I'm making sure this FJR is sticking around for many years to come. So far, so good! No loss of power, no clutch slippage, no engine noises or issues. Yamaha did a great job with this bike. You know, that sounds like a nice idea. I've had more time lately and I've already written quite a bit about many of our adventures through the United States. I'll keep puddling through some of my drafts and see what I can do. Yeah, had to do the Iron Butt...couldn't let Flying Brick be the only one with an "official" ride from IBA! I had to make up for the unofficial one I did in 2009 from Roswell, NM back to LAX, except that one ended with a trip to In-N-Out burger at midnight. There are days when I look at that odometer and amaze myself. The numbers just add up after a while but I had tons of fun while doing it.

Me = my only bike until 2008 and all that damn CA traffic to boot You = quite a few bikes to spread the love! (I wish I had that kind of selection!) Believe me, there are tons of '05 FJRs that don't even have that many miles. I'm just weird.

Thanks everyone! And no, that's not Photoshop for the time/miles sync. Just got it in time for that photo last night. I thought about the dude with the F4i, and props to him for hitting those milestones on that (that posture and position is something I could never do). It would be fun to catch up with him (and my odometer would actually show it rather than flip to 00000). The biggest advantage I had to getting this many miles that quickly was having a 120-mile daily commute to work and back in CA and quite a few long, half-state weekend rides for almost 2.5 years. That's quite a bit more difficult here because my commute to work is short and since better job prospects are still crap, having the money to go out on weekend rides is not really in the picture. So to make up for that I just have "that one ridiculous big trip" to at least put a dent in my yearly totals now that I'm in Ohio. And despite my horrible wage situation, I still managed to get about 22k on it in 2010. Doing some even more math on that, taking 1394 days to reach 100k averages me just under 72 miles a day. That's basically Columbus to Dayton one-way. I'm so glad I've had that Corbin seat for 98,800 of those miles. Yikes. My car, a 2003 Subaru Outback (that I bought with exactly 18k on the odo in October 2004) reached 100k in late November 2010 so it took six years to hit that. That puts me averaging about 13.6k a year with the car, and that's only because I loaned the thing to a few of my friends because it wasn't being used. CA + cager = prisoner to the freeways.

Alrighty, it's official! Hit the 100k mark on the FJR's odometer tonight at Easton. It was a very clear night to ride and I'm hoping this weather keeps up for a while. I wanted to hit the six-digits by the end of 2010, but ice and snow (grr Ohio) put me 600 miles short of that. That's what a couple dry, thawed-out days in January and warming trend in February is for! Next order of business for the bike is an oil change and a bath...perhaps some new tires too. It's still running just fine with standard maintenance! The fun stats: Mile 1: Los Angeles, CA (April 26, 2007) - she was delivered to me at work and I rode her right out of the parking lot Mile 10000: Minneapolis, MN (July 13, 2007) Mile 20000: San Francisco, CA (December 25, 2007) Mile 33333: La Habra, CA (June 3, 2008) Mile 54321: Irvine, CA (February, 15, 2009) Mile 85000: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada (May 31, 2010) Mile 90000: Westerville, OH (August 8, 2010) Mile 100000: Columbus, OH (February 18, 2010) It took 1394 days (3 years, 9 months, 23 days) to hit the big 100k mark. Looking forward for many more to go! Here's some other milestones to add. States crossed: 39 (still missing WA, OR, MT, WI, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA) Countries visited: 2 Longest Round-trip Ride: 6200 miles (LA/Columbus/Kerville, TX/Roswell, NM/LAX) Longest Single-day Ride: 1098 miles (August 2010 - Columbus, OH to Spartanburg, SC and back - Iron Butt SaddleSore 1000)

I'd like to buy a vowel?