Congo Rats!
That is short for Congragulations (which I dont think I can spell right). Enjoy your new toy!!
Tomorrow
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CentralOzzy
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Welcome to the real ride...... nothing against cruisers.... but it's a whole other experiance now, ain't it? 
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CentralOzzy
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ronboskz650sr
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Way to go! I know the feeling about the flu and no sleep. Today , um yesterday, I had to ride to the doctor, and it was almost not fun...almost! Hope you feel better, and congratulations!
Ride safe...God bless!
-Ron
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-Ron
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Sev
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So it's 5 am the day after... I've been up since 4 and thinking about riding. I cannot even begin to do justice to the differences between a 599 and a ls650 but I shall do my best.
So, like I said before I had been up all night literally. I found myself completely incapable of sleep as a result of excitement, apprehension, and a couple of personal issues. Regardless to say, I was dragging my "O Ring" for all 12 hours of work. It was a really, REALLY long day. The weighscale kept screwing around with me. Telling me to load 30 tons of steel onto a truck, but not telling me how much one bar weighed. Telling me to load 30 tons when there was only 16 availible, then sending the truck back for more... with out telling me what I should be putting on there. Needless to say it was a LOT of extra work and I was feeling realy frustrated and remarkably annoyed by the end of the day.
I spent the WHOLE day watching the sky, and it was blue blue blue blue. Until about 6 PM. At which point this:
Thunderclouds
But we managed to dodge most of the wetness on the way out there.
Upon arriving at Honda Extreme I was shown my new bike, I almost got drool marks all over it. After going over it with me, and giving the requisit extremem warning about the dangers of new tires and wet roads we were good to go. Immediately I notice how easily it fires up. The Savage took about 5 seconds of grinding to kick over, but the Honda just lit up, I didn't even hear it start. Beautiful! Out of the parking lot down the street. Pull over and adjust the mirrors. Silly boy. Jeeze this thing is loud! I'm still trying to get used to how high revving the engine sounds compared to my old one-thumper.
I pull into the gas station where I both make a fool of myself (trying to put the kickstand down onto the one of the elevated caps in the lot that are used to refill the underground storage, AND get hit on by the gas station attendant. Which would have been a lot more fun if my Dad wasn't standing there watching.
Full tank, relatively clear skies, and a 30 km run to the house. I slowly pull out into heavy traffic and make my way towards home. The first thing that I notice is how much slower it seems like I'm going. Before when I was doing anything over 60 km/h I started to feel stressed by the wind, it was an effort to keep myself upright. But I accidently found myself doing 90 and feeling like there was less wind pushing against me. I am very much enjoying the upright seating position.
The vibration was a little annoying, present more in the left peg then the right, but I found a simple upshift took care of that. I am to used to the long gearing on the Savage I guess. But once I started to get used to that I began to notice other things.
Apparently I've always been making subtle little inputs to the handlebars that wouldn't amount to anything on the old bike. But on this one I found myself accidently weaving a little. Arm movements that would have done nothing before had me moving 4 to 6 inches left to right. It took some real getting used to. Howver I was able to smooth that out very quickly.
I'm still amazed at how light it feels. A little over 400lbs and once I get moving... AT ALL it feels like I weigh as much as a pedal bike.
Down the "highway" and towards the house, the speed limit never gets above 80km/h but I cheat a little and hit 90. It barely felt like I was moving. It's still a full naked, and I've yet to hit true highway speed. But I cannot help that think this is going to be a LOT easier to travel on.
The thing pops around like a dream. Turning is so easy I cannot believe I was able to get around on the old one already. Going to have to scrub my tires soon so I can see what it can really do. Acceleration is quick and precise, and I still have lots of low speed power. I don't need to feather the clutch at parking lot speeds like I used to. I'm loving this already.
I made it home safely and snapped a couple of quick shots. Here's my Honda with my Dad and his Honda in the background.
Yellow 599
Upon arriving home my Mom came out to inspect the new ride. "Ohh.... it looks... fast!" She doesn't like it, at all, it looks to much like the ones she sees wrapped around lightposts. I can literally see her chewing her tounge. Dad however seems more excited then I am.
Fighting exhaustion, and the Flu I headed inside, made my lunch took a shower and passed out. I wasn't expecting to be awake this early, but figured since I am I'd fill you guys in. More pictures to follow, but I gotta get ready for work now.
So, like I said before I had been up all night literally. I found myself completely incapable of sleep as a result of excitement, apprehension, and a couple of personal issues. Regardless to say, I was dragging my "O Ring" for all 12 hours of work. It was a really, REALLY long day. The weighscale kept screwing around with me. Telling me to load 30 tons of steel onto a truck, but not telling me how much one bar weighed. Telling me to load 30 tons when there was only 16 availible, then sending the truck back for more... with out telling me what I should be putting on there. Needless to say it was a LOT of extra work and I was feeling realy frustrated and remarkably annoyed by the end of the day.
I spent the WHOLE day watching the sky, and it was blue blue blue blue. Until about 6 PM. At which point this:
Thunderclouds
But we managed to dodge most of the wetness on the way out there.
Upon arriving at Honda Extreme I was shown my new bike, I almost got drool marks all over it. After going over it with me, and giving the requisit extremem warning about the dangers of new tires and wet roads we were good to go. Immediately I notice how easily it fires up. The Savage took about 5 seconds of grinding to kick over, but the Honda just lit up, I didn't even hear it start. Beautiful! Out of the parking lot down the street. Pull over and adjust the mirrors. Silly boy. Jeeze this thing is loud! I'm still trying to get used to how high revving the engine sounds compared to my old one-thumper.
I pull into the gas station where I both make a fool of myself (trying to put the kickstand down onto the one of the elevated caps in the lot that are used to refill the underground storage, AND get hit on by the gas station attendant. Which would have been a lot more fun if my Dad wasn't standing there watching.
Full tank, relatively clear skies, and a 30 km run to the house. I slowly pull out into heavy traffic and make my way towards home. The first thing that I notice is how much slower it seems like I'm going. Before when I was doing anything over 60 km/h I started to feel stressed by the wind, it was an effort to keep myself upright. But I accidently found myself doing 90 and feeling like there was less wind pushing against me. I am very much enjoying the upright seating position.
The vibration was a little annoying, present more in the left peg then the right, but I found a simple upshift took care of that. I am to used to the long gearing on the Savage I guess. But once I started to get used to that I began to notice other things.
Apparently I've always been making subtle little inputs to the handlebars that wouldn't amount to anything on the old bike. But on this one I found myself accidently weaving a little. Arm movements that would have done nothing before had me moving 4 to 6 inches left to right. It took some real getting used to. Howver I was able to smooth that out very quickly.
I'm still amazed at how light it feels. A little over 400lbs and once I get moving... AT ALL it feels like I weigh as much as a pedal bike.
Down the "highway" and towards the house, the speed limit never gets above 80km/h but I cheat a little and hit 90. It barely felt like I was moving. It's still a full naked, and I've yet to hit true highway speed. But I cannot help that think this is going to be a LOT easier to travel on.
The thing pops around like a dream. Turning is so easy I cannot believe I was able to get around on the old one already. Going to have to scrub my tires soon so I can see what it can really do. Acceleration is quick and precise, and I still have lots of low speed power. I don't need to feather the clutch at parking lot speeds like I used to. I'm loving this already.
I made it home safely and snapped a couple of quick shots. Here's my Honda with my Dad and his Honda in the background.
Yellow 599
Upon arriving home my Mom came out to inspect the new ride. "Ohh.... it looks... fast!" She doesn't like it, at all, it looks to much like the ones she sees wrapped around lightposts. I can literally see her chewing her tounge. Dad however seems more excited then I am.
Fighting exhaustion, and the Flu I headed inside, made my lunch took a shower and passed out. I wasn't expecting to be awake this early, but figured since I am I'd fill you guys in. More pictures to follow, but I gotta get ready for work now.
Last edited by Sev on Fri May 27, 2005 7:01 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Of course I'm generalizing from a single example here, but everyone does that. At least I do.
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