What have you done for your bike today????

[adidasguy]

Phenix met this on his way back home from the Ferry terminal to the Bike Cave. Got to say hello to its owner. He just had it all repainted and fixed up.

[knowles]

Looks almost identical to mine before the newer tank.

[adidasguy]

Put on chuck's cover. Unfortunately none of the tank/plastics/etc. colors are the same as the engine color. I have to locate the engine paint color.

Anyone know the engine paint color? It is not a part of the charts on the WIKI.

Still, it looks good.

[Zwerski]

Stripes!

[jmill]

Did you take the topbox off for the Summit snaps?

Nice front screen thingy. Nice color too. Don't see too many white ones. 

I checked the oil and gave it a dust down.

Michael

Yes I did. It's kind of sunbleached, and the white pops a lot more without it. I was wondering if anyone would notice haha.

I'm glad someone else appreciates the white. I was worried about the contrast having a silver frame AND silver engine, but it turned out pretty freaking well in my humble opinion 

[jmill]

Got my new firstgear mesh jacket. Summer here we come!

[afx500]

Phenix met this on his way back home from the Ferry terminal to the Bike Cave. Got to say hello to its owner. He just had it all repainted and fixed up.

I would like to ask you what windscreen is that on there? I've been searching for one that would look good on mine that looks somewhat like the one in that picture, but I don't want to have to do much modification or bracket making. Thanks

Well I feel pretty dumb, but glad at the same time. Went for a ride to the store and on the way back almost home it sputters and dies. Checked the tank and "thought" I had enough gas. Finally managed to get it home after pushing it up a nice big hill, luckily not too far away. Thinking it could be 100 different things wrong with the bike that I'll have to fix. Come to find out I was out of gas...Filled it up the next day, started it and rode with no problems. Now I know..

Though I did clean and lube the chain up today.

[adidasguy]

AFX:

Not my bike. I spotted it in West Seattle. I might be able to find it again and see what it is or get a better picture.

[adidasguy]

Suzi got carbon fiber fender mud flap (in place of the OEM one she had.). The mud flap goes well with the carbon fiber rear hugger airbrush made.

She also got a black painted SS chain guard, clean up, lube and oil change. (Yes, you can change the oil without removing the  muffler - at least with the stock pipes.)

Then took her to Vashon Island (yea, I do go there a lot  ) to be sure all was OK for a day ride around Mt. Rainer tomorrow.

Chain may need replacing. It is making some funny sounds. It has always been maintained and lubed. 

[Phil B]

Suzi got carbon fiber fender mud flap (in place of the OEM one she had.). The mud flap goes well with the carbon fiber rear hugger airbrush made.
....
Chain may need replacing. It is making some funny sounds. It has always been maintained and lubed. 

Woo, fancy!

...clearly, you must now replace the chain with a light blue one to match the strip on the rear hugger

[Tombstones81]

BAD Day for me ><

Cleaned and polished up the old slip-on to an almost brand new shine yesterday.

Painted the exhaust pipe with black VHT high temp paint and high temp clear.

Went to swap out my 145 main jets to 150s that I finally got.
Broke the plug where the fuel line from the petcock attaches to the carbs.
Glued the 2 small broken pieces back on, then put glue on the outside and put the hose back on to be glued to it for extra hold until my replacement comes from Bomb.

Placed my tank in a bad position not realizing how full of gas it was.
Quite alot of gas leaked out straight down the back of the tank, eating everything away down to the bare metal pretty much.
halfway hidden with the seat.
Already ordered new Clear that I can only buy online.
Will repaint it even better as soon as it arrives.

Put my exhaust back on, which was a real pain in the butt!
No leaks and heated and cooled it a few times to cure the paint.
Lookin Sweet! but no pics yet.

Took my headlight cowl off as I had to tighten my speedo cable at the speedometer.
Broke the one bolt for the gauges housing.
About to ride to Lowes and replace it.

hmm anything else go wrong?
not sure!

NOT a good day!!

[adidasguy]

Took Suzi for a ride on Mt Rainer. Some spots still pretty cold. Roads were great. SUPER scenic twisties in Mt Rainer National Forest. Hit part of Mt Baker on the way home.

My longest ride ever. 10 hours from leaving home until I got back. Nearly 300 miles.

Did not get to see the top of the mountain., It was shrouded in clouds today. Overall a very sunny and thoroughly fantastic ride.

Suzi enjoyed it! And she enjoyed all the attention and complements from the other riders with an SV, huge BMW and a huge Yamaha.

(Additional photos on my photobucket page.)

The obligatory picture of  bike next to really deep snow:


At the highest point you can ride: Paradise Point. Almost 7000 feet high. Yes - that is really deep snow in the background.

[knowles]

Took Suzi for a ride on Mt Rainer. Some spots still pretty cold. Roads were great. SUPER scenic twisties in Mt Rainer National Forest. Hit part of Mt Baker on the way home.

My longest ride ever. 10 hours from leaving home until I got back. Nearly 300 miles.

Did not get to see the top of the mountain., It was shrouded in clouds today. Overall a very sunny and thoroughly fantastic ride.

Suzi enjoyed it! And she enjoyed all the attention and complements from the other riders with an SV, huge BMW and a huge Yamaha.

(Additional photos on my photobucket page.)

The obligatory picture of  bike next to really deep snow:


At the highest point you can ride: Paradise Point. Almost 7000 feet high. Yes - that is really deep snow in the background.

Nice, looks like a nice ride. Its been raining here for the past few days. tomorrow i might get to ride the bike to work.

[adidasguy]

Nice, looks like a nice ride. Its been raining here for the past few days. tomorrow i might get to ride the bike to work.

"Nice" is an understatement. this ride is reason enough to have a bike. Freaking exhilarating!

The scary part is much of the twisties in the mountains were literally hugging the mountain. A sheer drop off of the edge of the road. One wrong turn and you don't go in a ditch: you fall off a thousand foot cliff. But all that made the ride so awesome! "Look where you're going". We know that. You go where you look - so if you look off the road, you can drop down the side of a mountain. Sorry safety fanatics - most of the road had no guard rails or barrier of any kind. Talk about living on the edge!

PS: One of the riders shot video. I'll post a link when she gets it posted.

PSPS: The cool  thing here is we ride with anyone and no one cares what you ride. Pretty cool that Suzi gets lots of complements! the GS really loves the twisties. As I improve my riding skills, it is cool how the GS flips back and forth with the winding roads. Fun! FUN! Far more nimble than the bigger bikes. I was the sweep rider. I really like that because I can see what the road ahead is by watching the riders in front of me. It also helps improve my riding because I can fixate on the riders in front of me - keeping my head up, not looking down (a bad habit from city riding). By seeing the riders ahead of me, I can know what lies ahead and better anticipate the turns.

[Formori]

I nearly turned into a person-popsicle on my 30 min commute this morning in -2 degree weather!

That's 28 deg Fahrenheit for you 'merican's 

[comradeiggy]

Nice, looks like a nice ride. Its been raining here for the past few days. tomorrow i might get to ride the bike to work.

"Nice" is an understatement. this ride is reason enough to have a bike. Freaking exhilarating!

The scary part is much of the twisties in the mountains were literally hugging the mountain. A sheer drop off of the edge of the road. One wrong turn and you don't go in a ditch: you fall off a thousand foot cliff. But all that made the ride so awesome! "Look where you're going". We know that. You go where you look - so if you look off the road, you can drop down the side of a mountain. Sorry safety fanatics - most of the road had no guard rails or barrier of any kind. Talk about living on the edge!

PS: One of the riders shot video. I'll post a link when she gets it posted.

PSPS: The cool  thing here is we ride with anyone and no one cares what you ride. Pretty cool that Suzi gets lots of complements! the GS really loves the twisties. As I improve my riding skills, it is cool how the GS flips back and forth with the winding roads. Fun! FUN! Far more nimble than the bigger bikes. I was the sweep rider. I really like that because I can see what the road ahead is by watching the riders in front of me. It also helps improve my riding because I can fixate on the riders in front of me - keeping my head up, not looking down (a bad habit from city riding). By seeing the riders ahead of me, I can know what lies ahead and better anticipate the turns.

Yeah those mountain roads can be scary. I've ridden up to a ski area near Mt. Rainier and those roads caused a bit of... puckering. Those roads don't have anything on some of the roads through the Rockies in Montana/Wyoming, though.

[comradeiggy]

Went on a 150 mile ride today down to Appalachicola. I started out around 2:30 and I was meeting some friends around 6 so I didn't get to go as far as I wanted but it was still a fun ride. I really really really wish I had a dualsport.

I went to B on this map but next weekend I'm going to try to get out to C. The only problem is that according to google maps it looks like once you get past that red line the road is about 7 miles of sand.
Anyways, here's a few pics from where I stopped.

The entrance. I considered taking my bike down there but decided it wasn't worth the effort.

Turned out to be a good call since the path turned to sand.

And here's a crappy camera panorama of the beach. There were only 2 other people there.

[shonole]

Went on a 150 mile ride today down to Appalachicola. I started out around 2:30 and I was meeting some friends around 6 so I didn't get to go as far as I wanted but it was still a fun ride. I really really really wish I had a dualsport.

I went to B on this map but next weekend I'm going to try to get out to C. The only problem is that according to google maps it looks like once you get past that red line the road is about 7 miles of sand.
Anyways, here's a few pics from where I stopped.

The entrance. I considered taking my bike down there but decided it wasn't worth the effort.

Turned out to be a good call since the path turned to sand.

And here's a crappy camera panorama of the beach. There were only 2 other people there.

That's a ride I will be making one weekend soon!  Where are you located?

[comradeiggy]

Freeport, about halfway between Destin and Panama City Beach.

[shonole]

Freeport, about halfway between Destin and Panama City Beach.

Gotcha, I know right where you are.  Used to have family in Fort Walton Beach.  I'm in Thomasville, GA, about 30 minutes north of Tally.  Nice to know there's some more members relatively close!