Goldy, Other than the option of always riding with the center stand down, tire wear is a necessary evil. Get the most out of your tires by keeping them...
... Look, I know the secret handshake and I know I'm supposed to wink and keep a perfectly straight face and all, but let me speak the unspeakable here: The...
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It was written: "Look, I know the secret handshake and I know I'm supposed to wink and keep a perfectly straight face and all, but let me speak the unspeakable...
You wrote: Some people get up to 12-14,000 miles. It depends on your riding habits. The rubber in motorcycle tires is softer and wears more. My answer: I...
... Also dependant upon the bottom of the bike tire being round, rather than flat like cage tires. 99% of the wear is confined to the relatively small...
I get together with a close group of friends. When I started riding again, about three years ago, they gave me all kinds of hell about how any motorcycle was a...
On the other hand (there's always another hand, isn't there?), something else could have distracted you and you would have been in a pickle on the SWing. No...
That is until you've got around 10,000 miles on your rear tire - and then you've got a fairly good size contact patch. Unless, of course, you've spent the...
Yeah but Mike, you must be just free-wheeling them with the scoot suspended from pulleys <g>. R ... -- Reinaldo in San Rafael, Calif. (Near San Francisco) ...
... I usually wind up on the one hand,. . . on the other hand, . . .on the third hand. . .<g> ... Yeah. The cops wouldn't believe I hadn't been drinking, at...
Reinaldo, Sorry to hear of your misfortune. That is really too bad. But I hope you don't mind that I am laughing hysterically as I write this. It is really...
Hey y'all, Check out this link: http://onewheeldrive.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=599&Itemid=126 Found this on the Burgie site and epitomizes our...
Jake - Before the Honda Silver Wings rightly moderator cuts off this off topic discussion --- These are titled in CA under a section of our code that is a ...
... ~~~~We have a remedy here, to put in place, to skirt the off topic conversations, in the event some find them objectionable. Place OT in the subject line,...
Boy this is new news to everyone in the specially constructed vehicle world - I have to question the accuracy on this as we have not heard anything about this...
... ~~~Forewarned is forearmed. Let's just say I know someone <wink> that wanted to title a gray market vehicle and was going to go this route (homebuilt...
In the motorcycle world a lot of riders wave at others. For some reason people who ride certain brands wont wave back useless you are riding a certain brand....
... Yes, you pretty much did insult them all. But it is funny; I like it! Around here, we refer to sportbikes as "zip-splats". Before the S'Wing, I rode a...
I installed the motormate backrest extension on my SW. It`s made a good improvement in riding comfort I`m very satisfied. Have any of you that installed this...
Cut a piece of black cloth large enough to cover the bolts and plate. Turn the edges of the cloth under, not unlike a hem, and glue the cloth over the bolts...
While we're on the subject of waving, here's a story I wrote along the same lines a couple of years ago - jackie Here's Waving At You Kid Have you ever...
'Here's Waving At You Kid' is a beautifully written mantra, Jackie. You have summed it up and presented it in a classy way. Thank you for expressing in writing...
Nicely written, Jackie. I have the problem of once in a great while getting busy watching traffic and don't notice a rider in the opposite lanes waving at me...
Reinaldo- I echo relief that you are fine- One more reason to ride the S'wing year round- well, not right now. We have ice and snow both- But I think I'll...
Thanks Bob and Alan. I've got 38 years in the saddle. Not nearly as long as both of you, but then I'm a woman and there were very few of us tearing up the...
yes, motorcycle brand stereotypes are interesting, and to some extent riders fit the stereotypes. many of us fit across different stereotypes. I do hope we'll...
You are 100% correct Frank -- many people are "cross" riders, owning bikes of different marques. I love your stats on the IB folks with HDs more numerous than...
... I've been on that road. Nice riding! Even on my Elite 250. I must have seen 50 bikes or more before Dahlonega. :D ... Around here, we seem to have a...