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Will be an interesting season this year, especially if Zarco can manage to not crash and keep up the pace.

parked the triumph in it's new comfy home. still convinced I have enough room for both bikes + the car in the garage. trailer will be living in the garage during the summer though... no place to park it outside. also not done to bike but bike-related: trailer hitch installed on the new (as @TimTheAzn calls it) toaster. now I just need to get the new upstream o2 sensor installed and I should be golden for all trailering needs this summer.

Safe riding John, I'll be in Orlando for this one.

Smart people everywhere.

Good idea. I'll be looking into it this spring. Supposedly my health insurance covers 100% of everything after my $3,000 deductable but who knows. I don't trust anything insurance companies say.

I made that leap last year. Online dating is the worst thing ever and I don't really know anybody except co-workers and people on here I ride with in Columbus so I just gave up. /shrug More time and money for riding the motorcycles. On a separate note, lease to the new place signed this morning. It has a garage!

that's a beaut. look forward to seeing it this year.

lol... schools spending money on teachers and students. funny guy.

Maybe this is what Tonik needs... Touring bike that is a track toy as well.

Talking about addons, was watching some Youtubez here at work (shhhhhhh) and happened to find a guy who's pretty fast on his S1000XR. He suggests the crash bars... They do seem to have saved the bike pretty well. The follow-up video reminded me of @Isaac's Papa's operation desert storm last spring at DG. Followup:

If Harley wants the young market segment, they need to release a street legal xg750r. One of these things would be fun as hell in the twisties and you could dirt-road it too... not to mention the styling fits with the retro look that's popular now.

More expensive than Mid-O and same price as PIRC if motorcycles days happen and are the same price point as the cars... oof.

uhh... "Posted May 10, 2010"

New Mastodon album out on the 31st. The pre-release songs didn't get me at first but they've grown on me, kinda like their last 2 albums.

Imagine how many rubber trees would have to die for you to do that on Connie.

Admittedly I do think Metallica was better up until the black album, but I don't think the black album was bad. Master of Puppets is still their best work. Speaking of 80's metal, I find it sad Savatage never really made it big. Super underrated band.

Because no matter the issue, republicans and democrats can by no means work together to fix a problem.

What fuel line are people using for bikes that run 100+ octane? Need to replace the line on the Ducati before the season starts.

That's how the commies will win! Also, no response at all from any of the 'every' representative that I contacted for my area. Seeing how I expected a response about as much as I expect to win the next powerball megabillions, I'd say I'm doing about as well as I could have thought possible.

I hardly ever get out of 3rd on the Triumph if I'm honest. Hell, 2nd redlines at like 90mph. I'll hit 4th sometimes on roads with long sweepers but generally on the tighter twisties I'm in 2nd between 7k and 10k rpm and the faster roads I'll stay around the same in 3rd.

Next year. Going to pick up the new trailer hauler tomorrow morning in Pittsburgh. (not the actual car, but the exact model/color)

Also, holy god the crossplane R1 engine sounds good... It's bad when I turn off my music and just turn on these videos to listen to the engine noises while I work, isn't it? :|

There's a pretty good age range where I work, from early/mid 20's up to 50 or so. Most of the men are 30-40 and married and most of the women are 23-29 and engaged. There are a few that are dating each other though.

I do not. Though that scenario would be better than if I worked on a farm I suppose.