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Title: spring has sprung Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 11:49:53 spring has rung in the new year, so who did what, and where did you ride. i made a 75 mile ride along the columbia river here in washinton state. it was nice. here's how thumper looked with new tail light and pillon seat. ok it's just a piece of leather covering the holes. but the fender would support a 98lb biker babe ::) http://predator.bikepics.com/pics/suzuki-savage-04-bikepics-313871.jpg |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by sunny on 03/21/05 at 14:18:14 i finally got the bike back together, and in spite of a flakey ground wire connection, i rode around the lake yesterday. |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by Susan on 04/05/05 at 07:50:28 Went for the first ride of the season last week. It was easy as pie getting back on the horse so to speak. I wasn't sure since this is just my second season of riding my own. The night before, I put the bike back together after having her in pieces over the winter. It was satisfying to clean, polish and put everything back into place. Felt like I was bringing something to life. Once my baby was back together, I turned the pet-c-o-c-k to prime, pulled the choke, turned the key and vrooom she started right up. Ran her a few minutes and then said goodbye for the night. Hard to sleep that night anticipating RIDING. The next day, I wanted to go for a ride immediately but duty called and I had to take care of some things first. Got out about 3 pm. Was a little nervous at first -- would I be awkward or would everything come back. Oh boy, everything came back! Took it easy for the first 30 miles or so -- had to run a few towns over to return some tile we'd borrowed anyway (re-doing our bathroom at the moment). Hardest thing in the first part of the ride was finding a safe way to park the bike in the tile store's parking lot! Small lot on a steep hill... Had another errand to run. Stopped by the local repair shop and got my bike inspected (required annually in PA and mine was expired). All was in order and I was soon on my way. From there headed out on one of my favorite short back country twisty runs. Hilly, wooded, twisty. Part of it runs alongside a stream. With all the rain I wanted to see how the stream was faring. I easily fell into the joy and rhythm of riding. Remembered all the important stuff. Watched the road for gravel and sand. There was plenty from all the rain. The stream had doubled in size from the rain and was beautiful. Grass was starting to turn green. Crocuses were out. Stopped by the grocery store on the way home to pick up a few things and had a woman ask me about the bike. She said it was beautiful and she would love to try riding but is too scared. Told her about the MSF course (its free in PA) and encouraged her to just take the course. Great way to see if you like riding or not. Felt good to be an ambassador. All in all it was an amazing ride. Rode for over two hours. I went a little over 100 miles and was able to put lovely fresh gas in my tank for just over $3. Life is good! 8) |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by dssaak on 04/05/05 at 08:01:12 I am not sure Spring has truly sprung here in upstate NY. I did ride to work this morning though - 30 F . Man was it cold. It is supposed to be sunny and 57 this afternoon. For here, that is too good to pass up this time of year. When you have the bug, you gotta ride! |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by RadarORiley on 04/05/05 at 08:17:21 Saturday was 70+ degrees here so I'm not sure it was a Spring ride or not. My Daughter, Stevie, & I rode to Fort Walters in Mineral Wells, (Texas) lots of twisty roads between my place and the Fort. The Fort is closed and now an industrial park so we almost had the road to ourselves. Rode inside there for over two hours then back out 180 East towards home. Turned off at Garner, Texas to get back on the twistys, and home, rode for about 4 1/2 hours. Tired but happy. Stevie then rode home, another 30 minutes of country roads. We had a great outing. Yesterday, I talked my hubby into installing my new saddlebags so am in business with a place for my "Stuff". I went back in archives for tips on installing and want to say thanks to everyone who shared tips. He installed them & the brackets in less than an hour and didn't even mumble about that "darned" motorcycle. Without your help it could have been a disaster. Since then the wind has been gusting 35-40 miles an hour, which doesn't make for a fun ride so am waiting for it to settle before going out again. |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by WD on 04/05/05 at 08:40:38 Not sure it counts, but, I did fire off the Savage and the Intruder in the past couple days. Savage nees a new battery, Intruder battery is fine. Both had to be fired off via the 835 amp battery in my truck, using fullsized jumper cables. Savage ran great, Intruder front cylinder was smoking. >:( Too wet to ride, the neighborhood osprey is staking out the pond that used to be my parking spot. Have had ospreys, golden eagles and bald eagles perching in the side yard cottonwood trees. Not bad for 30 miles outside of Seattle (which technically is 4 miles away, my town is a suburb of a suburb, I'm 4 miles from town). I wonder if I can get in a couple more short rides on plates that expired in August 2001? Haven't been caught yet, but, haven't gone more than 2 or 3 miles of backroads at a time either. Okay rain, enough is enough, time to ride... ;D -WD |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by LondonThing on 04/05/05 at 13:48:57 It seems most people on here are seasoned riders?? am I right? I dont have a car licence, so for the past 6-7 years have been riding 'all weather'. which isnt too great in the UK. somtimes it rains so hard I cant see out my visor (on my ZXR,750). Wet arse all the time from rain, wet feet, wet and sore/frozen hands (even in good gloves) I think most people here are all weather riders, we only get a few weeks on sunshine really in the summer so would be a bit of a waste for us. I guess that all you people in the states (sorry US) get good long summers? I would love to ride in the US somtime in the future, My dad when he was 19 or 20 rode from Mexico to Canada on a triumph 350 (cant remember the model name) that was a two stroke!!! He did have at least three new pistons and ring sets but hey... I can dream about the day I have the money to do as he did (much bigger bike tho :-) ) Sorry again this habbit of bableing on, My question was are you all summer/seasoned riders only? |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by Savage_Rob on 04/05/05 at 14:01:57 There was a time when all I had was my bike and I rode year-round out of necessity. These days I ride when the weather isn't too nasty. So far as seasons go though, they definitely vary greatly depending what part of the US you're in. Here in the Dallas, Texas area we get the opportunity to ride year round. We do get our share of rain and even a bit of ice/sleet/snow but not like the folks further north. I should point out that we also often get a couple of months of 100+ F temperatures in the summer. Oh, and until I read your post fully it was a bit misleading. I don't know about the UK but here a "seasoned" rider means an "experienced" rider. |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by Red_Wine on 04/05/05 at 14:49:24 Hey Brit dude, at least in Chile, we get only 2 months of winter weather, June and July, >:( when it usually rains a lot, you can still get showers from late April to early September, :o but it's mostly dry except in the 2 months above. 8) So we Chileans ride an average of 320-340 days per year, 8) not bad, eh? ;D Take care, RW |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by LondonThing on 04/05/05 at 14:59:09 Luck peoplt you... and sorry for the missleading 'seasoned' bit, I didnt know that meant that where u are.. I did mean rides in season (ie Summer). :-X Embarrased, lol |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by LondonThing on 04/05/05 at 15:01:19 Sorry keyboard a bit rubbish... Sluggo (sorry to ask this in a different subject than to this thread) but where did u stick the rectifier when u did ur solo seat conversion? Im having trouble finding somwhere :-) cheers! |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by Kropatchek on 04/05/05 at 15:45:33 Places to stick you rectifier, taken from the German, Dutch and Finnish forums: 1) Inside the airbox 2) Inside the toolbox 3) On the rearfender if you have removed the airbox 4) Up your a&^%, just joking 5) on the muffler bracket Have fun Greetz Kropatchek ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by Paladin on 04/05/05 at 18:21:16 LondonThing wrote:
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by LondonThing on 04/06/05 at 01:48:42 HeHe, Thats the year I was born.... (1983)... Well I dont usually bother with all that but living in london, Its EXTREAMLY hard to get away with it for long... |
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Title: Re: spring has sprung Post by gitarzan on 04/06/05 at 09:13:52 Mine's finally almost ready to roll. No more pix until it's done... Last night I finally crafted a bracket to mount the rear turn signals to the license plate mount. I need to bolt that on tonight and snake the wiring back in. I also sanded down the battery case and primed it. One more sanding and priming, a few coats of black lacquer and it goes on this week end, I hope. My GTS seat mounting is done and just needs a couple nuts to finsh that off. I did a variation of Odin's method. After that, a real good washing and waxing, and a ride over to The Rice Paddy to have the Metzeler ME880s mounted and balanced. Future hacks over the summer may include removing the belt guards and painting or covering the rear belt wheel. I saw one guy's site where he painted the black paint over the spoke on the back gear with metallic aluminum paint and it looked real sharp. Also the handlebars are a little taller than expected, if back issues, carpal tunnel issues or handling issues arise, they might get the axe. |
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