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[SeaJayInSC]

Kym's never ridden a bike either... But oddly, she's suddenly interested and looking. Apparently she found out that the Marine Base where she works offers the MSF course for free, and suddenly... She wants to try it out.

Knowing her personality, she'll get involved and forever be a sportbike fanatic.

We all need to get together with our tools of choice and go play on the roads... I'm feelin' it bad...

 

[tgreene]

For me it's all about timing...

Once Cathy takes the MSF class and gets her license, then I'll be losing regular access to the GS500F and suddenly I'll also only have 1 bike again (the Boulevard). Once this happens within the next couple of weeks, I'll go into a deep depression to the point that I'll just mope around the house with little to no interest in going out riding with her since she'll have a "sport bike" and I won't... IT SIMPLY WON'T BE FAIR!

I'll continue dropping hints about the Gixxer, and one day she'll go into the garage to get her bike out and will discover that it's being blocked in by a beautiful pearl white bike that she has only ever before seen in pictures that I have plastered as wall paper on our computers. On this very day, she'll scream at me and threaten to kill me for buying it, at which time I'll jump on it and ride down the street faster than her... Then I'll let her catch up and pass me, then I'll pass her, and we'll play this out for a good hour or so until we get tired and head back home where she'll begin bragging that she was able to catch up with me (umm, yea![/u]) and then she'll immediately hit me in the back of the head with a frying pan because I bought the Gixxer after she repeatedly said NO!

-Tim

 

[Variansyn]

Kawa's are good bikes. Sure they have some reliability issues, but the ZX14 is a beast that in ways is unsurpassed. In this day and age, you're better off with a Kawa than a Honda... in retrospect to the 2008-2010 lines.

It's easy to get your lady to ride. Mine may not ever want to OWN one, but she;s definitely interested on the ride aspect. Besides, in California - I wouldn't trust the other riders, drivers or highways with her on one.

When's the next round of pic updates ?

 

[SeaJayInSC]

For me it's all about timing...

Once Cathy takes the MSF class and gets her license, then I'll be losing regular access to the GS500F and suddenly I'll also only have 1 bike again (the Boulevard). Once this happens within the next couple of weeks, I'll go into a deep depression to the point that I'll just mope around the house with little to no interest in going out riding with her since she'll have a "sport bike" and I won't... IT SIMPLY WON'T BE FAIR!

I'll continue dropping hints about the Gixxer, and one day she'll go into the garage to get her bike out and will discover that it's being blocked in by a beautiful pearl white bike that she has only ever before seen in pictures that I have plastered as wall paper on our computers. On this very day, she'll scream at me and threaten to kill me for buying it, at which time I'll jump on it and ride down the street faster than her... Then I'll let her catch up and pass me, then I'll pass her, and we'll play this out for a good hour or so until we get tired and head back home where she'll begin bragging that she was able to catch up with me (umm, yea![/u]) and then she'll immediately hit me in the back of the head with a frying pan because I bought the Gixxer after she repeatedly said NO!

-Tim

Hahahahahaaaaa... Not that you've thought about this any... :sarcasm:

Kawa's are good bikes. Sure they have some reliability issues, but the ZX14 is a beast that in ways is unsurpassed. In this day and age, you're better off with a Kawa than a Honda... in retrospect to the 2008-2010 lines.

Convince me. I would like nothing better than to fall in love again the way I fell in love with my XX. Her name was EXXodus. (After the biblical chapter where Moses gets the f--- outta Dodge... It even happened in the desert...)

It's easy to get your lady to ride. Mine may not ever want to OWN one, but she;s definitely interested on the ride aspect. Besides, in California - I wouldn't trust the other riders, drivers or highways with her on one.

Same here in SC. The differences between riding AZ and SC can be shocking. Even the famed "Deals Gap" had not a thing over countless smooth, positve-camber, dry, bug-free and sunny mountain roads... With tons of visibility, even around the corners. None of that happens here - aside from the rediculous traffic issues, even in small towns.

Then there were the destinations... Route 66, Painted Desert, Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, Montezuma's Castle, Kingman, Vegas, Devil's Highway, Show Low, Alpine, Joshua Forest, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Lake Havasu, Lake Rosevelt, Hoover Dam, White Sands, Bonneville, Black Rock, Southern California, the Pacific Coast Highway, countless incredible mountains, vast deserts, Tombstone, Sierra Vista, Arivaca, Baja... So many places to ride! I'm not even going to bother to mention the bazillions of "ghost towns" that are the coolest to visit and walk the dusty streets and listen for phantoms.

What have we here on the East Coast? One stretch of road that's 11 miles long? Okay, there's Blue Ridge and a ton of places near Tim... Random places... And I suppose that it's always cool to hit Daytona Beach during bike week (even though Harley guys are rediculous - but it's fun to laugh)... But even in those places, you'd be lucky to get a big bike out of 4th gear... And your chances of getting away with it are pretty slim (not so in the middle of nowhere, AZ).

I can't complain, though... If I'd stayed in AZ, I'd have never become a commercial diver... I'd still be a computer guy. I love what I do, and it was made possible by SC, not AZ. Every time I get to feelin' sorry for myself about the AZ/bike thing, all I've got to do is step into my garage and see the $30,000 compressor/fill station, all of my gear, and... My scooters. Combined with scuba gear and a north Florida cave system, they're more fun than any one person should ever be allowed to have. They should be illegal or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FX8CmeErg

I've decided I need homes in both Beaufort, SC and Tucson, AZ.

When's the next round of pic updates ?

Shhhhhh... I think he said that his contractor was out for the moment, so he's probably sitting on pins and needles.

Tim, you do any riding today? Sure was a gorgeous day out... I planned to be in the boat all day, but I ended up cleaning up my pool for the season instead. Tomorrow, for sure!

 

[tgreene]

Shhhhhh... I think he said that his contractor was out for the moment, so he's probably sitting on pins and needles.

My contractor just called a few minutes ago to say that he's on his way over to get some more work done today. I think he's planning to drop in a electrical junction box and re-connect several runs that he tore out a couple of weeks ago... I'm hoping anyway.

Tim, you do any riding today? Sure was a gorgeous day out... I planned to be in the boat all day, but I ended up cleaning up my pool for the season instead.

Nope, I woke up w/ a Migraine and fought it all morning while doing a ton of programming for a client, then I modified and installed a remote garage door opener on the GS500F that is activated by a small soft-feel momentary switch that's mounted on the top edge of the fairing. I then re-programmed the controller that I built into my Boulevard 2 years ago, so it works here at the new house.

For anyone that's interested in the procedure, here's a thread I wrote up with a lot of pics on a motorcycle forum that I hang out at: http://www.volusiariders.com/viewtopic.php?t=75955

-Tim

 

[SeaJayInSC]

Wow... Surprised that you did all of that. I always used one of these, stuck via velcro, on the top of the front brake slave cylinder (right side of handlebars):

Optionally, there's about 500 other kinds of miniature remotes:

http://images.google.com/images?q=m...rtPage=1&rlz=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

I don't know how weatherproof they really are, but mine never died. I still have it, even though I don't have a bike to put it on.

Your installation looks a lot better, of course, but was it worth it to permenantly alter your bike?

 

[tgreene]

The alterations are vrey minimal, especially when you stop to consider that most of us routinely -VOID- motorcycle warranties the first day we ride them home. Between using angle grinders to remove parts, rebar and sledge hammers to punch through other parts, and then replacing stock parts with modified parts from entirely different models of bikes, I'm not going to stress over having drilled a 1/2" hole to mount a soft feel switch that can harldy be seen by anyone.

-Tim

 

[Tek]

R1 is the only way to go.

 

[SeaJayInSC]

The alterations are vrey minimal, especially when you stop to consider that most of us routinely -VOID- motorcycle warranties the first day we ride them home. Between using angle grinders to remove parts, rebar and sledge hammers to punch through other parts, and then replacing stock parts with modified parts from entirely different models of bikes, I'm not going to stress over having drilled a 1/2" hole to mount a soft feel switch that can harldy be seen by anyone.

-Tim

Yeah, that's true... I don't think I've ever owned a bike that I didn't Dremel the fender off the back... And most of them I've "tucked" the blinkers (or changed them out altogether) and changed the pipes (better sound and lighter weight).

I think your mod looks pretty doggone hot.

R1 is the only way to go.

I like R1's too - for the same reasons that I like the other three open classers (1000cc pure sportbikes). That said, while I've ridden many of them, I've never owned one - I like my GT bikes too much for street riding and top end performance. They also have the uncanny abilty to cruise at insane speeds for hours at a shot. Try that on an open classer!

I would think that that would attract you, too, living in Oklahoma. No?

 

[tgreene]

I think your mod looks pretty doggone hot.

It's functional without looking out of place, which was the entire point in doing it. I've seen the mini remotes taped or wired here and there and in every case it was obvious that it was just put there because there was no other place for it.

To be honest, I don't know why the bike manufacturers don't just build them into the bikes and provide a button in the switch housing for us to use. The GS500F actually has a blank spot on the housing that is designed for a switch of some sort, but I didn't even notice it untilo after I ha dalready installed the remote in the fairing. I"ll probably need that open port for when I install NOS though, so it's all good.

-Tim

 

[SeaJayInSC]

You're not really going to NOS a GS500, are you?

Why not just buy a bigger/faster bike?

 

[tgreene]

You're not really going to NOS a GS500, are you?

Why not just buy a bigger/faster bike?

Hey, it's cheaper than a solid rocket booster... :hmm4:

I was joking about the NOS, though there are actually guys that do put it on these bikes since they race these so much over in Europe.

In regards to the solid rocket booster, I know a guy that had one on a R1... He never had the balls to fire the squib though, because once you do there is no changing your mind! :eek2:

-Tim

 

[SeaJayInSC]

Hahahahahaaaa... Yeah, a REALLY bad idea...

 

[tgreene]

"Here, hold my beer and watch this!"

 

[tgreene]

No new progress to report other than having insulation, drywall and FRP board delivered this afternoon...

 

[cpl40475]

OK thats it.Im going to the motorcycle forums to find out about your tank lmao.
I have it worse than you do right now. I have the land to buiild on just cant decide on what the house should look like. have went from a 2story with basement. a 2 story no basement. a single story with basement. 30 sheets if graph paper later we still havent deicided on hat to do. Only thing we do know for a fact is In wall aquarium 220 to 250 display and fish room
Tracy

 

[tgreene]

The tank is enroute as of this afternoon, and a ton of work has progressed over the past couple of days which includes knocking the hole into the wall about an hour ago... My buddy has the drywall up on the inside garage wall that the tank will be secured to. Tomorrow and Saturday he'll be finishing securing the supports for the stand and installing FRP board along the interior walls just enough to where we can get the tank into position and begin work on it early next week.

-Tim

 

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