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-13.8k miles and going up. I've done a lot of commuting on this, and it runs great.

-Bought it with 11.1k miles on it in November, and have put 3k on it since despite the riding weather

-Two brothers carbon fiber exhaust

-Missing a bar end (previous owner)

-Frame sliders

-Rear tire in the last 1k or so

-Garaged. Oil changed before winter storage and before riding in the Spring

-Typical cosmetic aging from usage. Bike isn't perfect. There's small, light, ugly marks from the previous owner.

-Runs good, sounds good.

-Previous owner installed some LED lighting system. I disabled it, but the hardware is still there.

-Selling it because I'm going to replace it with a sport touring bike.

Bike has been well cared for and it's a Honda, so it'll last forever.

Big photo: https://picasaweb.google.com/102319318542923796147/BikeForSale#5613861940770471810

$5100.

SOLD SOLD SOLD

Has anyone who has faceshaved in the shower gone back to sinkshaving?

It's going up for sale soon.

Welcome

lol.

It looks like he's gotten it to work before, judging by the existing ring.

Ohio needs a left-lane-for-passing-only law.

What do you think someone driving without a license and insurance would do if they hit you while on the bike?

There is no comparison to getting hit on the bike and having your car bumper "tapped".

Since you decided to respond to my post without responding to the question, I'll answer it for you. A driver without a license and insurance is more likely to hit and run.

Why bother?? I'd just blown that off' date=' seems silly to report such a minor incident, unless the person looked intoxicated or something.

It will probably end up being more hassle than it was worth to just let it go.[/quote']

What do you think someone driving without a license and insurance would do if they hit you while on the bike?

This needs to be highly publicized to all the shitbags of Ohio.

Front plates are a luxury for LE and Ohio has a multi-billion dollar budget gap.

Front plates need to go.

I need to get an ST bike...

F up of the weekend was leaving Colorado to come back to Dayton.

If the wheelchair doesn't belong to the police and isn't being used for police work, then I say yes.

Doesn't have to be on the road. It's "within this state", which includes privately owned property.

But I do agree with you.

From the Ohio State laws: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4511

(A) “Vehicles” means everything on wheels or runners, including motorized bicycles, but does not mean electric personal assistive mobility devices, vehicles that are operated exclusively on rails or tracks or from overhead electric trolley wires, and vehicles that belong to any police department, municipal fire department, or volunteer fire department, or that are used by such a department in the discharge of its functions.

(B) “Motor vehicle” means any vehicle, including mobile homes and recreational vehicles, that is propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires. “Motor vehicle” does not include utility vehicles as defined in division (VV) of this section, motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, and trailers that are designed and used exclusively to transport a boat between a place of storage and a marina, or in and around a marina, when drawn or towed on a public road or highway for a distance of no more than ten miles and at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less.

Police vehicles aren't vehicles. Really. It says it. Plain as day. Anything on wheels is a vehicle, unless it belongs to the police.

FACT: Police cars aren't vehicles

FACT: All motor vehicles are vehicles

THUS: Police cars aren't motor vehicles.

This means the "Any motor vehicle used by a member of the [police]... shall be marked in some distinctive manner or color... and etc." bit from 4549.13 doesn't apply to police cars ("vehicles that belong to the police"), because the law instead applies to only motor vehicles, which cannot be belong to a police department. But, if the police rented a car and used it for primarily traffic enforcement, they'd have to mark it.

Example of vehicles in the state of Ohio: office chairs, refrigerators, travel luggage, datacenter computer racks, matchbox cars, shopping carts, dresser drawers and sliding glass doors (they're on runners). But only when they're on wheels. So a things like a motorcycle with its wheels off, upside-down shopping cart, and a car on a lift isn't a vehicle.

Note that if any of those above vehicles belong to the police and are being used for police work, it's not a vehicle.

(A)(1) No person shall operate any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley within this state, if, at the time of the operation, any of the following apply:

(a) The person is under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse, or a combination of them.

(b) The person has a concentration of eight-hundredths of one per cent or more but less than seventeen-hundredths of one per cent by weight per unit volume of alcohol in the person’s whole blood.

© The person has a concentration of ninety-six-thousandths of one per cent or more but less than two hundred four-thousandths of one per cent by weight per unit volume of alcohol in the person’s blood serum or plasma.

(d) ... the person is drunk.

So they can hit you with an OVI (DUI) for adjusting a chair on wheels or opening a sliding door while drunk.

WHO THE FUCK WRITES THIS SHIT?

I think we've all been on a ride with that guy. Sometimes, he'll surprise you and not screw up!

Where ever you go -- there's that guy.

Lady Ada wins at winning.

If there's technical / EE / Computer Engineer / Computer Science people out here who have a soul and haven't landed on her site before, you need to visit and indulge. She is superhuman genius, but makes it simple enough that a lowlife like me can understand.

Riding pants suck. They're too hard to wear.

Sometimes I do things like use my motorcycle for transportation in the place of a car. I know it sounds crazy, but it works. Donning a helmet is duh - five seconds on, three seconds off. Perf'd leather jacket, a moment to put it on, and less than a moment to take it off. Full gauntlet gloves - same. Alpinestars SMX5's are the shit. I can't go back to wearing non-MC boots because of the awesomeness of that light shank in the sole of them that makes putting your entire bodyweight on two pegs the width of your thumb seem notretarded. I need to find a pair of boots that provides good enough protection but much better aesthetics someday. And I toss the back protector on when I don't have to worry about wrinkling my shirt. Putting on a pair of overpants takes more time than equipping helmet, boots, back protector, jacket, gloves. I'm expected to not look like a dumbass at work, so it's not acceptable to walk into my building wearing leather pants.

Riding pants suck. They're too hard to wear.

Being on the same roads as the public is bad enough. Forget shooting ranges.

Thieves are some stupid motherfuckers, but I doubt they'd try the same mark twice. They know after the failed first attempt the mark goes on high alert.

A large portion of the human population sucks at risk identification, analysis, and mitigation. Suzuki is well aware of this. GSXRs shortcircuit some people's brains from "I know this is made for racing, racing means wickedretardfast capabilities, wickedretardfast capabilities combined with my youngguy tendencies could cause unnecessary touchdowns" to "I'm going to buy one and wear plaid shorts, a baby-tee for men, and these sunglasses while riding it." Pass, pass, fail: squids know what their bikes are capable of - they're just too stupid to handle it. For less than three grand you can go faster than a Ferrari in a straight line. I'm not curious what Darwin would have to say about these people.

And by riding nekkid they make responsible people wearing a jacket, full face helmet, and boots in 90* weather seem like dicks. OK - I'm probably a dick anyway. You explain to curious coworkers and other questioners that you wear what you do so you don't get hurt, because you can't control high-speed-two-ton-texters and camo-gravel, and they cite the other riders they see without seatbelt/airbag equivalent gear. I'm not for legislating people to make minor inconveniences like wearing a jacket, 3/4+ helmet, or boots. But wearing a seatbelt is required by law, despite being surrounded by airbags and a crumplezones and the minimal effort required to click-it, and that doesn't clue-in the GSXR and cruiser toughguys who can't be bothered to even wear proper boots. They don't even have laces. Zip, velcro, zip, velcro...

In an alternate universe motorcyclists must be pushed out of a car going 55mph on a country rode to obtain his or her motorcycle endorsement. This same universe has a tenth of the motorcyclist fatalities that we do.

A snub-nose revolver (J-frame, etc.) is a lot easier to conceal. The curvy shape, especially with the handle, and varying thickness breaks up the outline much more. The average thickness is less, and the weight is distributed more evenly. It's easy to pocket. You'll end up carrying this a lot more, and that's the important part.

Carrying 10 rounds of .40 compared to 11 rounds of 9mm makes an easy decision on paper. But if you have to ask about a gun's shot recovery characteristics, you'll be better off with a 9. I know exactly what they are and I prefer 9mm in any form factor, because I've measured that I shoot it better. You'd be even better off with a J-frame for light days, and a G19 or commander-sized 1911 for heavier days.

Don't be one of those tough guys who carries a larger-than-9mm gun who can't run it.

You should consider spending less and replacing the system in three to five years. After five years the machine is going to suck, whether it was $700 or $1400.

After owning multiple examples of what the Germans are supposed to be good at - guns and cars - I've decided to KISS it goodbye.

Sell your HK. I've owned 3 (P2000, HK MK23, P2000SK) and a 3-series BMW. Their designs look great on paper, feel great on the honeymoon, and I have a soft spot in my heart for what they pour their little souls into, but they don't compete well against more sensible options. The more you shoot, the more you will see how superior Glocks and M&Ps are to HKs. Everybody does, and that's why you see no one successfully compete with HKs. It can't be done. Even the magical integrally suppressed MP5 is a "clickity-clickity-click-click-clat" "hold on - we need a time out to change mags" POS that favors the paper engineering of a roller-locked operating mechanism over the way that anybody else does it.

The money you just saved from this endeavor bought you a pair of nice MC gloves or boots, which are a lot more likely to protect you when the going gets tough.

If you insist on wielding a laser, I suggest that you attach it something usefully compact, like a J-frame. I rock the two-finger CTs on my 642, and there is nothing demonstrably better in its class.

BANG,

Only Shoei helmets fit me worth a damn. If I knew that I'd have to wear Shoei helmets to be comfortable, my first bike might have been out of budget.

My previous helmet, a Scorpion EXO700 with the stock visor and dark smoke visor didn't fog. Ever. Loved it.

The stock clear and Shoei light smoke visor with my new setup fogs terribly. Breathing heavy on a cold Ohio May morning causes fogging. I applied Cat Crap anti-fog, and it doesn't help much. It's harder to fog the visor, but when it does fog, it takes longer for the fog to go away. This sucks - I want something better. The dumb pin-lock system is a hack, I want something that performs equal to or better than the Scorpion visors that I'm coming from.

Anti-fog suggestions?