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No, now I am back into smaller lighter and faster bikes. Wife has no desire to get on the back anymore. Yeah I hear ya. This thing does its intended job perfectly but I don’t know that I feel like I’m on a bike. Still glad to do it though. Not every day you can ride one for this many miles.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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At the start of my KLR period, on long trips I actually used to carry a C clamp (to break the bead), a pair of them 10” tire irons, and a tube. Filled up half a saddlebag just with that.
Then one day I actually had a flat, and there I was with my tools, c-clamp, tire irons and tube, standing by the side of the road looking at a 450lb motorcycle with no centerstand......
Had a flat many years ago and every idea we could come up with to break the bead failed miserably even with the wheel/tire in my big bench vice. Finally succeeded by heating the rim with a torch. Looked like the mfg. had used a glue/sealant all the way around the 40 spoke rim. Why ? Good question.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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You would have liked it. '76 FXE painted orange/black like a 750 flat tracker. Alll polished, 98 inches, ported polished heads w.thin stem sodium filled valves, Hairy Sifton cam, back bored S&S B, dual plugged. Built by Mike Magaro aka "Shovelhead Mike" from Magaros racing engines.
Mid 10s 1/4 mile.
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Clark,
How are the 'burbs treating you?
Have you found any good Polock food yet?
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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I don't think Deflave's gone no damn where. He lies like a fuggin' rug.
He's been settin' home eatin cheetos with one hand and scratchin' his ass with the other the whole damn time.
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I don't think Deflave's gone no damn where. He lies like a fuggin' rug.
He's been settin' home eatin cheetos with one hand and scratchin' his ass with the other the whole damn time. More like his nutz
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Interesting bike. I've never ridden a K bike but have ridden a 1200 RT, which seemed like a great machine. I thought the on-the-fly adjustable screen was cool. I once did 700 or so with several hours in 110-degree heat on a SV650. That cured me of long, single-day rides and just about cured me of motorcycles. My primary bike these days is a 1200 GS. It is perfectly comfortable for 300 or 400 or 500 miles, then it seems more fun to stop and do something else.
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I don't think Deflave's gone no damn where. He lies like a fuggin' rug.
He's been settin' home eatin cheetos with one hand and scratchin' his ass with the other the whole damn time. Wrong.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Interesting bike. I've never ridden a K bike but have ridden a 1200 RT, which seemed like a great machine. I thought the on-the-fly adjustable screen was cool. I once did 700 or so with several hours in 110-degree heat on a SV650. That cured me of long, single-day rides and just about cured me of motorcycles. My primary bike these days is a 1200 GS. It is perfectly comfortable for 300 or 400 or 500 miles, then it seems more fun to stop and do something else. Yeah I don’t really see the appeal. Lmao. But he needed back and we got it done. Helluva machine but I don’t know that I’d ever buy an 800lb bike.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I don't think Deflave's gone no damn where. He lies like a fuggin' rug.
He's been settin' home eatin cheetos with one hand and scratchin' his ass with the other the whole damn time. Wrong. Bristoe and Birdkuhnt are flat AMAZED whenever they discover somebody has the equilibrium to stay upright. TFF.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I think Birdwatchers has got some actual motorbike experience. Years ago on this forum he mentioned coming over the hill on some bike at Duluth Mn and seeing Superior and how he could almost see the curvature of the earth. He thought it was one of the great sights anybody could ever see. It's true, one of the great sights and I believe him.
I don't know why it stuck with me, but it did.
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Birdwatcher types a lot of things.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Birdwatcher types a lot of things.
😂
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Person: I’m riding a motorcycle from here to there.
Birdwatcher: I have ridden further. You will dump it and I’ve been to Africa.
Person: Uhhhh, what?
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Clark,
How are the 'burbs treating you?
Have you found any good Polock food yet? The Madman and I made ribs last night on his BGE. And I got pizza coming out of my ears. Oh and he bought two kegs of Jai Alai. Which was a super great decision...
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I made that trip twice. Both in one day. Left Bolingbrook Illinois around 6 PM and got to Crystal River, Florida around 3 PM the next day. Only used 4 tanks of gas, two packs of cigs, and two quarts of coffee. I55 to 294 to 57 to I 75 Only bad part was that damn mountain pass in Tenn. Of course,,,,,,,,,,,,, I was in a 97 Sedan De Ville with the northstar engine!
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Great memory, and damn we’ve been on here a long time.
To the best of my knowledge that trip was in 2003, but we did it in a car, (and Deflave AKA Captain Search Engine, search on “2017 miles in search of a Connecticut Warbler”).
You can indeed see the shape of Lake Superior, just like on a map, from the rest area overlooking Duluth. That was a great trip;up the northwest shore of Superior, west through Ely, up along the Rainy River through International Falls, Warroad and Lake of the Woods, south through the Red Lakes, west again through North Dakota, up the Yellowstone to Crow Agency, and then across via Devil’s Tower and the Black Hills before heading back south.
Never threw a leg over a motorcycle until age 27, but then never got off one until age 35 when I met my Ex. First car in my name didn’t happen ‘till age 40. Did about 250,000 miles on two wheels, most before I met my Ex.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Birdwatcher types a lot of things.
Indeed, many things All true.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Birdwatcher types a lot of things.
Indeed, many things All true. Unless they’re not.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Clark,
How are the 'burbs treating you?
Have you found any good Polock food yet? The Madman and I made ribs last night on his BGE. And I got pizza coming out of my ears. Oh and he bought two kegs of Jai Alai. Which was a super great decision... I'm thinking he was glad you came up.. or he missed his bike. Kidding aside, sounds like he was glad to see you. I would have totally blown my diet with the pizza there. You gotta get some good Polock food while you're up there, though.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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