Re: Re: Motorcycles At DML BBQ 07

From: Ray Irons (rayirons@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2006 - 11:44:36 EST


--- jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:

> I can't seem to find anything with the mileage
> when
> I bought it, unfortunately.

Sometime the title will have the transfer mileage on
it. I got mine off the sales sheet from the dealer
invoice I kept.

>Based on the inspection
>
> sticker, it looks like I put about 400mi on it this
> year.
> That seems low, but it might be right, I dunno.

That's WAY low bud. I put 400 miles on mine in a
weekend more than once this past summer. But then
again, we did have a pretty dry summer and northern
California has some of the nicest roads for riding
I've ever been on.

> I've spent
> too much time trying to figure it out already so I'm
> not going
> to worry about it. :-) Clearly, I don't ride as
> much as
> some people, but I don't bother going out unless the
> weather is
> great and since I hate the cold, I don't bother
> riding unless
> its pretty warm out. I used to ride in all sorts of
> weather;
> had my wallet chain rust up due to rain and have had
> to ride
> down the road physically holding the exhaust pipe in
> my
> gloved hand to keep my fingers from going stiff from
> the
> cold, but at some point I must have realized that
> doing stuff
> like that isn't actually fun, so what's the point?
> :-)

Been there done that got the tee shirt. I remember a
long time ago when my sister lived about 50 miles
north of me in Delaware, I decided to ride to see her
on a fairly warm January day. By the time I left her
house, it was dark and the temps dropped into the low
30's. At that time I didn't have any special riding
gear, just long johns, fleece lined jeans jacket and
leather workmans gloves. By the time I got back to the
base, I was colder then I've ever been in my life,
including the years I spent in North Dakota. One of my
friends in the dorm saw me and told me I looked like a
Smurf cause I was blue!

>I've
> got other vehicles that need exercise too, so
> nowadays if
> the weather isn't perfect, the bike stays in the
> garage.
>

I understand that. I've only got the Dak and my bike.
My GF has her Jeep and I got her a bike too so we can
ride together. Problem is finding time when we can
both go. If we go anyplace as a family, we have to
take her Jeep and one other vehicle. The Jeep sits 5
and we have 4 kids in the house.

Ray
 

Some risk is necessary in life. Without risk, the new world wouldn't have been discovered, man wouldn't have landed on the moon and we wouldn't ride motorcycles.



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