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Better late than never....

Congrats, nice bike! A friend traded his RK in on an Ultra. Water cooled, man its a nice bike. Too quiet tho....lol....can hardly hear it running.

Which people?

thanks ScubaCinci, great info. From lots I have read here it sounds like the Apple products are a bit restrictive for customizing, but pretty reliable. Based on what we have seen we are leaning toward one of the androids, maybe a Sangsung, the Galaxy S4, but I think we'll jump on the bikes and run to the Verizon store to check them out. But all the info here is very valuable. Thanks for responding

LOL, probably, but we grew up in different times. I was talking about back in the days of sit up plain ol bikes. Single speed, brakes controlled by the pedals..........

My wife found out she can get a smartphone, free because of her employers agreement with Verizon. Shocked me her coming home talking about this , after me reading all your posts about the different things to consider. Since so many of you know the ins and outs of these things, which do you recommend? We are new at this all but figure if we get one for free, why not, (monthly costs are the same as we pay now). Right now all we can say is it will be used as a phone, for texting, and probably for some apps....feeling pretty stupid because this all is like a foreign language to us....lol...and we'll probably end up get online with it . Here are the choices- LG G2 Apple I Phone 5c Apple I phone 4s Enact by LG Samsung Galaxy S4 (certified preowned) Lucid3 by LG How many gigs of data should we consider for talk, text and data. Seems like most come with 2 gb.

Sitting on a Rebel is more like riding a bicycle imho. Curling up while laying on your stomach to ride a Ninja type bike, to me, is an unnatural stance, something I cannot do. Tried it, felt enormous pressure on my wrists and my ankles trying to get them on the pegs. Now I have seen some other sport bikes where you don't lay forward so much but the Ninja, or a Catana, just seem awkward to me.

Seems most everything is media driven anymore. The media being the puppetmaster........

This brings back the memories of my wife falling a few times on her old Rebel....but it was at such a low speed and in the grass she never as much as got a bruise. A couple were almost like that old guy on Laugh-In who was riding that little tricycle, slowly falling over.

Oh, on some car sites the Chrysler issue is a hot potato with bitching galore.

A great starter bike is a 250. The wife did the state riders class and they had little 250's, all different kinds. I bought her a 250 Rebel to ride around the house to help her get a handle on dealing with the controls while keeping it up on the rubber, stopping, turning, all that. As soon as she got her bike license I sold the 250 and got her the V Star she has now. It was an easy transition from a light weight bike to the heavier Star. She is 4'10 so I lowered it about 3 inches so she could reach properly. Smaller women normally need a lighter weight bike, lower to ground so they can reach at stops without being on their tiptoes. I'd sure consider that when getting your wife started.

My wife, who is a bit shorter, rides to ride her Yamaha 650 Classic V Star. Great little bike, she has ridden some long trips on it and always wants to ride more. Plus they are very reasonably priced.

It was a joke son.....

I saw a pic floating around the IE showing a black man, supposedly in Ferguson, wearing a black T shirt which said he would rather be held by ISIS instead of the Ferguson PD, or something to that effect. Whatta joke...so maybe they should accommodate him.

Thanks for your service, and here's hopes for a safe journey and a short year overseas.

I'd love to but am financing my daughter in her battle with an abusive husband. Got no extra moolah.....still tho, its tempting. Had to cancel my one ride planned for this summer. Haven't been on any kind of long distance ride this summer. First time in many years. In fact, haven't really ridden all that much.

I heard about that. Sad

Joe (my bud in D.C.) said they continually shut down local traffic cams during the event, so not surprised some think there was such a low turnout. He provided a film clip of a local newsman who went out into the throngs and admitted on air there were far more bikers there than the media was telling the public about. He also went into how much nicer these bikers were, nicer than he had ever imagined. I watched a few clips of long lines of bikes riding into D.C. on the interstates and while the majority were HD's, I was very surprised at how many Cruisers and Sportbikes were intermingled in the groups. Was was the most impressive was how well everyone seemed to be getting along. Not the typical 'you ride that???' crap. It seemed to be a day where bikers were bikers all there for one cause. I thought that was pretty cool.......

Sounds like positive progress......good to hear Was it conventional surgery or laser ? .

This may have been 'the way' in the past, the world has changed too much to go back to that kind of system, imho. Now maybe it we could just hit a reset button somewhere, a 'do over' type of thing, but we cannot. I also do not believe this is a political party problem but is a creation of both. Legally allowing corporations, now, to simply move their headquarters out-of-country to avoid taxes, is a recipe for disaster. We will never see the type of taxation reform that will support this type of movement either. I would be in favor of a straight tax, one at 20% or more for business and 15% for personal income. Close all the stupid loopholes that allow circumventing paying your fair share. Stop giving back (refunding) income tax monies to people who never paid that amount in in the first place. Ie., a person who only pays in $1k in income tax getting $5k back in the form of a refund simply because they have so many deductions. I know people doing that year after year. And unions? The blame for unions going far beyond their usefulness has to be shared by the other side of the contracts being signed, because it takes two sides to agree on -any- union contract. Especially these days when most unions have been neutered. Corps. like BK and TH, in today's world, if allowed to move their headquarters out of country to avoid taxes, should then be considered 'foreign', and their products sold here should be taxed/tariffed as such. Make the playing field level with those corps. staying in the US. Okay, 'allowed' is not a good word, but I think you get the gist of my statement.

Exactly.

Since their tax rate is going to drop, think they will also drop prices?

Perhaps all large corporations should move their headquarters outside of the US, then the entire tax burden of running this country can be born 100% by its citizenry.