tmidgett wrote:

Yngwie Einstein wrote:

tmidgett wrote:I probably would have gotten an SV650 if I hadn't lucked into the Monster.

Birds of a feather. I was eyeing an SV650 until I came across a 2002 Monster 620 with low miles on Craigslist. I haven't quite started talking to it with a fake Italian accent, though.

Yeah, SV650 is a really nice bike. The Ducati is marginally nicer looking and has slightly better build quality, but that is about it.

I haven't started talking to mine in fake Italian, either, but I might.

I think I"m not getting new pipes. I was going to do the whole upgraded ECU/pipes/airbox jazz, but shit, it's plenty fast. I can't come up w/a good reason to do it that doesn't involve getting myself in trouble.

I overcame this by purchasing a slightly (200km) used one that had all the upgrades already done to it. Also, I do suppose not being married helped. I don't know how you got past that one.

Well that's not totally true. I did put an open cover on the dry clutch. This clutch, she sounds to be broken. These sounds, she confuse the not too smart biker.

Braden wrote:I overcame this by purchasing a slightly (200km) used one that had all the upgrades already done to it. Also, I do suppose not being married helped. I don't know how you got past that one.

Oh, she just gave up. I don't know why she did. I think a few years of scooter riding on my part wore her down.

Well that's not totally true. I did put an open cover on the dry clutch. This clutch, she sounds to be broken. These sounds, she confuse the not too smart biker.

Andy has a 749 race bike with an open clutch. Sounds like a damaged chainsaw.

I got in a pseudo drag race with some guy on a turboed ZX-14 with an extended swingarm on Cross Bay Blvd. approaching Broad Channel today.

I got totally dusted. No chance.

vockins wrote:I got in a pseudo drag race with some guy on a turboed ZX-14 with an extended swingarm on Cross Bay Blvd. approaching Broad Channel today.

I got totally dusted. No chance.

I got in a pseudo drag race with a Toyota Supra the other day.

He was being an idiot and trying to edge me off the road or something.

He got dusted, but I felt I had to dust him to get the hell away.

Guy! You are driving a car! A relatively modest motorbike will smoke any car on the road! Much less yours!

Chris Manfrin--who rides an R1, races bikes, and has approx 1,000,000 times more credibility on this subject than I do--has a good drag racing method.

Guy pulls up next to him, vroom vroom let's drag race. He goes vroom vroom back.

Light changes.

He pulls away very, very slowly and watches the guy burn up his tires for half a block.

I like doing this much more that taking the bait. It helps if you wave a little wave at him when he looks in his rear view mirror.

tmidgett wrote:Chris Manfrin--who rides an R1, races bikes, and has approx 1,000,000 times more credibility on this subject than I do--has a good drag racing method.

I've only done that once, but my variation involved a unmarked police car.