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jstark47 · Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:52 am

goodies wrote:Getting ready to go shopping with my BF for a new Triumph for him. He just completed the MSF last weekend.

What model is he getting?

Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:53 pm

I rode up the coast to visit my mpm for a few hours and then road home.....it felt like a monsoon had hit the coast...

My so called waterproof boot are not.....I may as well have been wearing canvas....

goodies · Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:31 am

jstark47 wrote:
goodies wrote:Getting ready to go shopping with my BF for a new Triumph for him. He just completed the MSF last weekend.

What model is he getting?

He wants the Bonneville, all black. They only had 1 Bonneville a TC100 in inventory. They have a black one coming in, but doesn't know when it will get here. He sells them as fast as he get them.

jstark47 · Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:46 am

goodies wrote:
jstark47 wrote:
goodies wrote:Getting ready to go shopping with my BF for a new Triumph for him. He just completed the MSF last weekend.

What model is he getting?
He wants the Bonneville, all black. They only had 1 Bonneville a TC100 in inventory. They have a black one coming in, but doesn't know when it will get here. He sells them as fast as he get them.

I've had a Bonneville for three years, they're good bikes. Let me know if he has any questions. Also, there's a lot of good info in the TwinTalk section of Triumphrat.net, if you can get past all the ads and blatant commercialism that's infected that website.

Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:05 pm

I went to my doctor....who concurred with the rehab consultant (no not the o ring physio guy).....I now have 2 doctor notes that state I should not go back to my old job....
The insurance provider is hopping mad.....we spoke on the phone today..

Next step...see if my company can find me a different job.

The insurance provider has just one thing on her agenda and it does not involve my health and safety.

Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:44 am

Today, I plan on poking at the admin on a car forum until he either snaps, bans me, or makes me a moderator

Yesterday I had a honda salesman tell me the CRF230L for $4,500 was a great deal. Yeah. Right.

JC Viper · Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:55 am

well, my mechanic suggested I get new tires before I go for an inspection otherwise I'd fail since the front is looking a little bald. Nuts... I now spent $160 on Continental Milestone tires. Here's hoping that they are a good tire company and that the tires are as good as advertised.

Since I did the ordering through them I get the service price knocked down a bit since they are going to do other work on it as well.

And the bike now shorts out here and there preventing me from starting it up so now I have to do the electrical work before I send it in for a tire job. Maybe I should invest in a lift so I could do my own tire work, problem is do I really trust myself with the only two pieces of rubber connecting me to the road...

ceemes · #1138 Unread post by **ceemes** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:30 pm

Rode to work today and damn near froze to death even with all my heavy leather gear on, first real chill day we've had since the summer ended. On the ride home I threw on my rain jacket, much better and toastie warm.

Also stopped off at Future Shop to buy a new camcorder. They had a nice little model that seemed ideal for the bike, compact, light weight with all the features, problem was you have to buy the memory card, and an extra battery since the one it came with was only good for an hour at best, all told, it would of boot the price over C$500 and for that I could of picked up a better model with a built in 30 gig hard drive. But the girl serving me said its a nice camera but the batteries are crap. Luckily they had nice JVC model that had been discontinued, with all the features plus a 60 gig HD and a 3 hour battery......marked down from C$650 to C$550 and let it go for C$500 throwing in a two year warranty. Given that I will mainly use it to record rides, I figure if I get two years out of it, I will be ahead of the game.

ofblong · Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:43 pm

JC Viper wrote:well, my mechanic suggested I get new tires before I go for an inspection otherwise I'd fail since the front is looking a little bald. Nuts... I now spent $160 on Continental Milestone tires. Here's hoping that they are a good tire company and that the tires are as good as advertised.

Since I did the ordering through them I get the service price knocked down a bit since they are going to do other work on it as well.

And the bike now shorts out here and there preventing me from starting it up so now I have to do the electrical work before I send it in for a tire job. Maybe I should invest in a lift so I could do my own tire work, problem is do I really trust myself with the only two pieces of rubber connecting me to the road...

I got my bike jack for $30 after rebate from pep boys. Thing is AWESOME and I use it in the winter to lift my bike off the floor

. Has locks to keep it from coming down so it works ALL winter long.

ofblong · Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:45 pm

ceemes wrote:Rode to work today and damn near froze to death even with all my heavy leather gear on, first real chill day we've had since the summer ended. On the ride home I threw on my rain jacket, much better and toastie warm.

Also stopped off at Future Shop to buy a new camcorder. They had a nice little model that seemed ideal for the bike, compact, light weight with all the features, problem was you have to buy the memory card, and an extra battery since the one it came with was only good for an hour at best, all told, it would of boot the price over C$500 and for that I could of picked up a better model with a built in 30 gig hard drive. But the girl serving me said its a nice camera but the batteries are "crumb". Luckily they had nice JVC model that had been discontinued, with all the features plus a 60 gig HD and a 3 hour battery......marked down from C$650 to C$550 and let it go for C$500 throwing in a two year warranty. Given that I will mainly use it to record rides, I figure if I get two years out of it, I will be ahead of the game.

I actually had to use my heated gloves (plug them in I mean) last week when it got down to 38F. around 42 is when I start plugging them in because thats the temp when using the gloves without plugging them in becomes inefective and my fingers start getting cold. Course its supposed to get down to 40 again tonight and I gotta figure out why I have to "fiddle" with the connections to get the gloves to start heating. I got power to the on/off switch so its gotta be somewhere else (unless the power im getting to the switch just isnt enought to do more than the switch lol). after fiddling with the connections they begin to work so thats a good thing. prob got some corrision in one so im gonna spray some contact cleaner in em and see if I get any "crap" out.