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As Rodehard said no need. I replaced my F4I without one and never noticed any difference and doubt you will.

I’m in for July 2nd as long as the weather is good. The wife is going to be out of time so no complaints if I’m not home.

Wow, good deal. Thanks for the follow up.

I got an extra $100 in my most recent paycheck due to tax breaks. Thanks Mr. Trump. ?

Every time I read about what you’re going through with your daughter I don’t know what to say. I feel for you man. I have prayed for you and your family and will continue to do so. Having 13 and 15 year old daughters myself, I can’t even imagine what you’re going through.

Nice work B-Mac

I rode with Jerry like 3-4 times. He was always so welcoming and kind. Great guy who will definitely be missed. I will be praying for his family and friends.

My first Gap trip was on 600rr as well. I took 2 days to get down there on back roads and slabbed it home. That year I rode the Dragon twice and the Skyway only. I had a blast as well. This is true for me as well. I even struggle to sleep at night, but wake up ready to go. Had the same feeling last year when I took my daughter. Maybe even more excited because I got to share the experience with her.

I second what Tim is saying here. I personally started my longer trips by increasing mileage, time, and intensity bit by bit. I started with a 5 hr round trip and quickly discovered I needed to do something about the brick I had for a seat on the CBR(padded bicycle shorts were the cure and continue to be). Then I started taking multiple 8 hr round trips to SEO and into WV. Once I set my sights on a trip to the Gap and mapped out at least a 10hr ride to get there, I put together a 10hr round trip that included rt555(I didn’t know of better roads at the time). Around that time I started lurking on this website and found better roads from posts and just kept riding more and more. Then to truly prepare myself, I rode 2 near 500 mile days back to back. The following year I made my solo trip and loved every second of it. I will admit this is probably a reflection of my personality. I’m a planner and a bit of a loaner. I personally have never done the OR thing at Deals, but I have participated in some Epic rides and other group rides. Every time I have participated in an OR ride it has been good times and I have met great people. @flashesbuck my guess is there will be a spring Epic ride again this year. My suggestion would be show up for that and use that as a basis for your decision.

This pretty much sums up what I wear. I have a pair of padded bicycle shorts that are a must for the cbr seat. My socks just cover my calf, not to my knees. I tried wearing the leather suit I have for an all day trip once. It was not terrible, but not as comfortable as the textile coat and pants. The other benefit of my textile jacket is that it has 3 different layers- zip out liner, mesh interior jacket, and a zip on textile outer layer. With adjusting my base layer I have worn it in 40-90 degree weather.

I’d say that it’s charging fine at 14.44. The fact that it didn’t change with throttle would not alarm me either since things can be different based on the setup of the charging system I’d guess. Hopefully one of the guys who know bikes better mechanically than I will chime in with an idea.

I had a cbr929 I picked up as a project once. It had a charging issue. I replaced the stator because it was fried. Bike still would only charge like 12.5 volts, so I replaced the RR. Still only charged at 12.5. I decided screw it and took the bike out for a 150 mile ride and it started to charge near 14 volts as it should. I did a lot of searching and found some people were discovering the magnets in the flywheels were weak or not working at all. They ended up replacing the flywheel along with the stator and RR to completely cure their problem. I suspect that was the issue with the bike I sold. Guy I sold it to contacted me and said he was having issues after he bought it. I responded and told him what I had done and informed him to check to see what the bike was charging at. He never got back to me. If I were in your shoes I’d start by checking what the battery is charging at. At idle I’d think it should be around 13 volts at least then increase as you increase throttle.

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I could not agree with you more. I know if I was in your shoes and felt healthy enough to ride I’d be doing it.

@ricer1 awesome that you’re back in the saddle. Thanks for the report on the FZ10.

Pitt is so much closer for me. 1.5 hrs away vs like 6hrs to Putnam. I think Mid-O is already like 2.5hrs.

I bought 1 certificate for Mid O and I want to try Pitt once this year. I have a lot of days free just not necessarily liquid cash for track days. I hope to coordinate my day at Mid-O with you this time. Probably won’t be quite as fun as our street ride last year since we won’t be in the same class. I’m sure fun will still be had though.

I’m a school teacher. Lots of days free for track days. ?

From my daughter this morning

^^^ I second this. I had a buddy buy a vehicle from NY and got screwed. Do your homework. My buddy said he thought he was good, but in the end he was missing something and never could get the vehicle titled.

Late night, early morning job. Or do it right in the middle of the day and act like there is nothing wrong with what you’re doing. Worse thing that could happen is someone could tell you “you can’t do that”.

The whole apartment is on 4th floor? Got an elevator? Will it fit?

Won’t fit in the apartment door?

I have buddy that used to race quite a bit at Nelson Ledges back in the day and he seems to have some interest. I’ll talk to him again.

Not all kids. I teach plenty of good kids. I would venture to say majority of the kids I teach are good kids. I’d guess there are 5-10% of the student population at my school that I’d rather not deal with.