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Now that I've had some time...

Watch the wheels of vehicles that are either
a) preparing to turn left from an oncoming lane
b) turning right into your lane/traffic direction
In both cases, weaving slightly left-to-right will assist a vehicle driver in seeing you. A study out of Britain deduced that ...

I dunno how you've done it, but I can't block the pupups and popunders.

I find it grossly offensive, and frankly, am at the point that I simply may not bother coming back here.

Only advice I can give you is don't buy fron Jafrum, they will suck you in with their pricing and warranty promises and will deliver sub-par merchandise and if you return it per their instructions you will never hear from them again..Bye bye money ..Buy elsewhere..

You too, ey? I got suckered in ...

Interesting thread.
And I'm going to dive in quickly, because my young daughter is one of the reasons I got the bike in the first place. I've gone bicycle riding with her on a trail-a-bike since she was five. Our first "dad and daughter" vacation was by bicycle.
So I wanted to preserve and ...

I chose "electronics." The one downside on the wee v-strom is its lack of alternator output. I have only 100w to play with, which isn't much when you start thinking about electric vests and aux lighting.

Everything else, I love. The thing gets 50mpg, tours like a dream, has a range of 400km (here's ...

Do you have a backrest or sissy bar on your bike?

+1 there. Before I bought my v-strom, I had the little one (10) get on a show model, with me, and give me a sense of what she felt. She immediately decreed that she wanted something as a backrest to counter fears of leaning back. Enter a Kappa 48L ...

blues2cruise wrote:I am a shut-in with mucho time on my hands for a couple of weeks.

And to think I almost dropped you a PM to see if you wanted to do a ride when I was in Vancouver Friday...

Kawasaki KLR650 - TONS of aftermarket IIRC (Gadjet would be the one to ask :wink: ) Performs well on road and makes a good tourer if you're so inclined, thanks to the heavier weight (more stability at speed) and larger gas tank (longer range). However, those two things make it a little rougher ...

darsek wrote:Yeah...sexy.
I'm sure it'll be too much bike for me as a second bike though, I'm sure it has a little more zip than the Ex500.

It looks like someone took their design cues from a hornet that had impaled itself ass-first into a radiator.

\The thing with a motorcycle is in order to keep price down, I'll probably go with minimum insurance coverage and safety gear.

If you're not ready to buy the gear FIRST, then you don't have the maturity to ride in a safe manner.

Risky, I know.

No, you don't know. Or you'd buy gear first.

So ...