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Day 1 ..mainly stuck to my regualr dailey roads to get used to the clutch, brakes, controls, ect. Only did about 50 miles. Day 2...I got a little adventurous, decided to hit a few local twisties, then I decided to hit a couple gravel/dirt roads, then I found a nice cow field with some uneven ground to strech out the suspention. Plus I threw the hard bags on to see if it would change the handleing at all. Maybe another 50 miles. Thoughts so far, I love the hydro clutch it feels sooo nice(I've always had cables), the seat is super comfey(like riding a recliner..lol), at night I keep turning on the hazzzards when I reach for the dimmer switch(ill get used to that). Riding possition is about perfect for me, but I'm not a fan of the pegs, they are too soft(ill give them more time). The windscreen has to go, way too much turbulance right at my head, already ordered a v-stream from Nate(thanks for the deal nate)supposed to be one of the better ones out there by reviews and its quite a bit taller,hopfully it gets here by Friday. In the twisties I was impressed I was a little quicker into the corrner vs the TL but coming out I'm a little nervous that it would stick, only time will tell. The dirt road was a blast, even when I took her a little too far just getting off the throttle brings her right back in line. Through the field it was suprising, shes no dirt bike but handled the terain nicley. Put the hard bags on before work tonight and I honestly can say I can't tell they were even there, except when I'm climing on, I'm going to have a couple nice bruises on my shins tommorow:nono:. I've got a 250 mile ride planned with freinds Saturday up to the lake can't wait to see how I feel after a full day of riding.

what if your using it as a tool for protection?

Retaliation post just burn my ass, essecially when they had a couple of days to think about what thet are going to say, and i was "bitching"( if you will) jonny on the spot. You are right i should also prob do what momma preached too "if you got nothing good to say, dont" i often have trouble with that one. But yea you r right i think im done, this post can get buried, i will not post in it again. Sorry if i offended and pissed in any cherios but i was very pissed off at that time, no grudges here......DONE

My goal in life is to be just like my father. He is the most trust worthy, honest, most respected man i know. So; full honesty, full disclosure, no blowing smoke is the way i try to live my life. Some times people dont like what i say or how i say it but there is going to be no BS involved. So one of my flaws is i expect other people to be that way too, and somtimes i get burnt. There was a couple times this weekend i thought about backing out of buying the Vee off of Ben, but i didnt because i had made a agreement to buy it(now im sooo glad i did) and im a man of my word. Same thing with Sam i sent him a PM last week that said if i sold the TL i would give him first crack at it, so i put a(what i thought)was a sure offer on hold to keep that promise. So when someone makes a offer to buy somthing and i agree to that, i expect them to carry through...Dont know how may people have read my sig line but, thats some good food for thought, and its been on there for awhile not something i just added.

There was no pressure, i was trying to go out of my way to accomidate him, but you cant do that if there is no comunication which i was trying to establish. Ofcoarse his story is going to make me look like the bad guy. Ive told eveything just as it happend on my end.

Its a forum of friends and info i wasnt going to share at first who it was but my fiends ask me to disclose so i did. No different than telling of your bad day on FB. The only one that was made to make a quick decision this weekend was Greg and he knew the reason for that before he got there , noone else was pressured.

Nice way to twist the story, you were ready to move saturday, i wanted to give sam first crack at it(as i promised him). I did ask if you would keep the offer on the table till Wednesday which you agreed, to be able to give Sam the time to come up with the money. Once Sam bowed out, i called you and ask if you still wanted it and your word not mine was "absolutley", I didnt have time to work out the detials at that time so i said id give you a call. Sunday i call you several times (no answer)(i hate leaving voice mails)the final time i call i do leave a VM saying somthing on the lines of let me know what is good for you and i believe i told you what i had in mind. I was asumming monday was going to be good for you, but i remember you telling me about having to go to the bank(so im thinking after bank hours). I was also trying to work out my work scedule, kids scedule, i still needed to pick up the Vee from Ben and i had a dentist appointment, so yea i kinda wanted to get in touch to work things out. And the only thing i remember about "Wednesday" being part of the conversation was for the duration of your offer, at no point do i remember you saying do the deal on Wednesday. And im not saying you didnt say that im just saying i dont recall, it was a very busy day for me i was going 100mph everywhere and maybe missed somthing. Hell ask greg he knows how flustered i was. And yes i sent you text at 10:12pm saying "Get back to me as soon as you can i need to plan my next couple of days" and that was for the reason mentioned above. All that text needed was a resonse that said "lets do it wednesday" and accually i would have been relieved because monday and tuesday were so busy for me, but i though i was going out of my way to be curdious to you and not make you wait. Im sorry you little feelings got hurt and you thought i was invading your privacy, but intentions were to work with you and your scedule and change mine to help you out, but no you got over paranoid and assume i was pushy Maybe you should lighten up and be more open and quit assuming you know peoples intentions and quit assuming people know yours. And yes i share my real world exsperiences on here, i have nothing to hide, im not ashamed of anything i do, and most these folks are my friends that also share stuff with me. So in the the end, (I THOUGHT) it was a done deal, i wanted to work around your scedule to get it done, was waiting on a reply from you, the next thing i get is that you were out. And i do aprecitate you calling Greg about the Shadow but i dont owe you my first born or anything. I do little favors for people every day like that and i dont expect any kind of special treatment or respect, in my mind thats part of being a good human being.

Yes:D

how many miles?

done playing for now, i need to get to bed

one for me and one for the wife..haha

im mainly just want to be sure this is my wifes bike and if she is ever bye herself she would not know what to if it got worse or just wouldnt start, so i want to weed out anything that may go wrong.

the TL is no more..it went bye bye last night..i already had 97 TL on it, witch is now on the vstrom

i would seriously get LBTS if it werent a $50 plate, trying to get a $25 inital plate

i cant believe eric dont have this...

just because........................................

funny but car tags are too easy, to many digits, bike tags are trickier

hey ben...

i love em..lol

another one..im haveing too much fun..

i was playing around checkin gon personal plate availabilty and this one worked..im so tempted just for laughs

tinkered with it today and adjusted the TPS, think it did help but i have it adjusted as far as it will go to be in spec., but it is stil stuggleing a little bit. Call the place we bought it from, he said he is going to ask around to some of his tech buddies and see if there is something else to look into. So the search continues.

Years ago things in my hood were starting to get really ruff.....when that mad cow thing was going around, them were some mean heifers but we fought back and reclaimed out grazing lands.