Had to go there...
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but srsly. We got a big happy warm state.. And we ignore each other like the red headed step child... So maybe when it warms up, and you all know its kinda chilly right now :D we should either ride together somewhere, or meet up somewhere. Bring your kids, wife, dog. Who ever rides with you. And get Slurpees! < I am a huge slurpee fan.. but in all seriousness.. We should.
I agree! a fleet of gs's would be quite a sight to see!
I'm in Ocala, where you at?
I'm located in Orlando/Kissimmee area, right on the boarder. Funderb lives close to you ojstindson if I recall correctly. But I am still in riding distance of ocala.
If I ever win a lottery I am moving to Cape Coral and buying another GS500. You can join me on rides to watch AMA Superbike racing at Daytona and World Superbike/MotoGP in Texas. Plus the obligatory quasi-annual ride to the Blue Ridge Parkway / Deals Gap / Cherohala Skyway and the rest of the Smoky Mountains :)
In the meantime I hope you remember what a bunch of lucky lucky bastards you are ~ it's going to be -33 Farenheit here tomorrow.
I'm moderately close, I'm from jax, but am regularly in tally. I've seen a few gs500s here in tally, but i dont know that any of them are familiar with this site.
Quote from: SAFE-T on January 15, 2012, 11:28:25 AM
If I ever win a lottery I am moving to Cape Coral and buying another GS500. You can join me on rides to watch AMA Superbike racing at Daytona and World Superbike/MotoGP in Texas. Plus the obligatory quasi-annual ride to the Blue Ridge Parkway / Deals Gap / Cherohala Skyway and the rest of the Smoky Mountains :)
In the meantime I hope you remember what a bunch of lucky lucky bastards you are ~ it's going to be -33 Farenheit here tomorrow.
I plan on winning the lottery soon, Yeah on my birthday! GOT the numbers all played out. You can come live in my house.. Gonna have like OVER 9000!! rooms.. :D and like 500 GS500's :D gonna have millions of dollars even before I'm legal to drink! LETS GIVE ME ALL THE LUCK!
Quote from: J_Walker on January 15, 2012, 11:14:08 AM
I'm located in Orlando/Kissimmee area, right on the boarder. Funderb lives close to you ojstindson if I recall correctly. But I am still in riding distance of ocala.
toogoofy is near you. You two should get together and wrench.
She's got the special 'Cursed' edition of the GS. It seems like it's working fine one day, then it totally craps out. Not to be confused with the standard model, which only craps out when you want to ride. :technical: :icon_lol:
Tampa here.
Thats the problem, lots of people on here from florida, just different corners of it.
Its a big state...
Quote from: Funderb on January 15, 2012, 12:54:56 PM
I'm moderately close, I'm from jax, but am regularly in tally. I've seen a few gs500s here in tally, but i dont know that any of them are familiar with this site.
numus is in Tally. But he's got a Katana now. I'm in Thomasville, GA, with his old GS500. If I can ever get it running right, I'll happily come ride with y'all!
I am way down here in Fort Lauderdale. I always wanted to do a Florida Keys run, but when and where would you have in mind???
Well Florida is one of those places. where either way, someone with the most time is gonna be needed, cause depending on who wants to ride. Florida is really a long state, so travel time is needed. to get from My area, in Kissimmee to Dade is like 4 hours. but I HATE driving in dade, so I wouldn't wanna go threw the city at lease. Maybe @ghostrider_23 I could ask my aunt if I could stay with her for a night in Miami, - would require me going THREW Miami tho. I'd really like to ride to the keys with the girlfriend tho, Maybe around valentine's day if it isn't to cold we could work something out. she's never been to the keys before. I have tho. and I think it would be a nice thing to do. Its crunch time for me to get my bike 100% working without no problems.. :/ Its somewhat fine with me by myself. but when my girlfriend rides sometimes it likes to act up, just doesn't like the extra weight and together we weigh like 260 pounds..
OK so who else is in besides me & J_Walker :icon_question:
xunedeinx-Tampa
Dizzledan-Unknown
Funderb-Ocala
ojstinson-Ocala
toogoofy-Orlando
Come on all what's your input???
Bump.
Also Ghost, are we going all the way south, the end of the keys basically? or are we gonna stop and turn around, if your not sure, lemme write up a map on good maps or something. and PM it to you. cause I would like to stop somewhere and swim a little bit with the girlfriend if that's okay with you. lots of beaches in the keys where no one is around. its up to you mostly you live down there. :D I just need to know how much $$ i need for the trip.
nix on the rides pour moi, I'm trying to finally finish school here in tally before I expire. Unless you guys are driving through here or Jacksonville, I'm not a person with much time on their hands.
Afterwards though, I'm planning on spending a lot of time in the south of Florida and Caribbean, but itll be on a boat! I just need to find a place to fit the GS on board so I don't get lonely.
Quote from: Funderb on January 16, 2012, 05:42:27 PM
nix on the rides pour moi, I'm trying to finally finish school here in tally before I expire. Unless you guys are driving through here or Jacksonville, I'm not a person with much time on their hands.
Afterwards though, I'm planning on spending a lot of time in the south of Florida and Caribbean, but itll be on a boat! I just need to find a place to fit the GS on board so I don't get lonely.
Maybe when I head up to GA we could ride a small bit. If your already not floating around the Caribbean. Good god how much money do you have? to own a boat I know its expensive to pay for fuel..
hahahahaha, I drive a GS that I wrench on myself, not rich.
And the wind is free, brother.
I'm looking forward to riding more than in town, so if you drive through pm me, I could ride for a while with ya. I'm replacing the petcock system on mine with a tee and a yamaha 750 something valve that may fit right on the frame, maybe them i'll trust the fuel system to take me places above 55.
Quote from: ghostrider_23 on January 16, 2012, 07:22:05 AM
OK so who else is in besides me & J_Walker :icon_question:
xunedeinx-Tampa
Dizzledan-Unknown
Funderb-Ocala
ojstinson-Ocala
toogoofy-Orlando
Well, I'm pretty much in the middle of the state and not close to anyone. Anyone going from one end to the other can always feel free to stop by for a break and refreshments---I'm just a couple of miles off I-75.
I usually only take short day trips of 100 miles or less these days.
Quote from: ojstinson on January 16, 2012, 05:58:13 PM
Quote from: ghostrider_23 on January 16, 2012, 07:22:05 AM
OK so who else is in besides me & J_Walker :icon_question:
xunedeinx-Tampa
Dizzledan-Unknown
Funderb-Ocala
ojstinson-Ocala
toogoofy-Orlando
Well, I'm pretty much in the middle of the state and not close to anyone. Anyone going from one end to the other can always feel free to stop by for a break and refreshments---I'm just a couple of miles off I-75.
I usually only take short day trips of 100 miles or less these days.
Cool, Thanks. I'll remember that ^_^ < No beer tho, I can't drink legally, And wouldn't ever drink anyway, the smell of liquor repels me.
Well since it seems to be only you and I we could do what ever you want. I would think of cruising down on a Friday all the way to mile marker "0" stay the night get up and hang out stay the night again Saturday and come back Sunday. We could share a room with 2 queen beds, one for you & your girl and one for me & my wife. (GSer's don't even think or type it) lol
J_Walker,
so what is the verdict as I have to plan too???
But, but, but, but, FL is america's wang ...
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: ghostrider_23 on January 18, 2012, 05:46:38 AM
J_Walker,
so what is the verdict as I have to plan too???
Well I still have to work on my bike so it'd actually make the full trip and back w/o problems. But I'd say lets try on the 10th of feb, if its to rainy/bad weather we can try for the 17th. Lemme know how much our split cost will be for the room. [ I have a pay check this Saturday coming in of $400-$750 depends if he's paying me back the full amount.] Gotta find a kitten sitter now, girlfriends cat just had babies :D pictures after she's done giving birth. but most likely the 10th seems fine. your gonna have to let me know on the weather, I don't live down there but here in CFL it normally rains when it starts to warm up around 2-4 in the afternoon. or all night. I let my GF know that we'll be leaving around 10AM or so - gonna take like 4 in a half hours to get to miami-dade depending how many fuel stops I have to make.
Well,
Sorry I missed all the fun! I think I will have Flick back up and going this weekend! :woohoo: Just don't think Feb is good for me though I'm full time school. I'm flying up to Boston from Feb 29- Mach 6. The 7-12 I still have Spring break might be able to do a Keys run then.
BTW Walker what part of Kissimmee? I live off Pleasant Hill but spend a good amount of time around the attractions area!
Another Idea for us might be to wonder over to Bike Week! There is a cool road around the Daytona area. Well, wasnt for me I ended up in an orange grove thanks to another inconsiderate rider who also happened to ride a gs500F. He's not on the board thank God. A 22 year old child! That and now he has a brand new ZX-1000 that mommy and daddy bought!
I also love heading out to St. Augustine! Spend the night there catch a ghost tour see Castillo de San Marco. Cool town.
Mary
Quote from: Toogoofy317 on January 20, 2012, 09:53:30 AM
Well,
Sorry I missed all the fun! I think I will have Flick back up and going this weekend! :woohoo: Just don't think Feb is good for me though I'm full time school. I'm flying up to Boston from Feb 29- Mach 6. The 7-12 I still have Spring break might be able to do a Keys run then.
BTW Walker what part of Kissimmee? I live off Pleasant Hill but spend a good amount of time around the attractions area!
Another Idea for us might be to wonder over to Bike Week! There is a cool road around the Daytona area. Well, wasnt for me I ended up in an orange grove thanks to another inconsiderate rider who also happened to ride a gs500F. He's not on the board thank God. A 22 year old child! That and now he has a brand new ZX-1000 that mommy and daddy bought!
I also love heading out to St. Augustine! Spend the night there catch a ghost tour see Castillo de San Marco. Cool town.
Mary
Well, I use to go to celebration highschool < Google maps it. So I live around that area. Not in it, but around it. I'm not no rich kid.. Oh god no. How do I wish tho! Well if ghost want's to wait, some time. And wait for your spring break, We should do that. if he hasn't already made plans, would give me time to fix my one legged midget.. :D
I know this is an older thread, but I am from Jax. I just took the time to start working on my GS500 that I traded my Glock .40 for 2 years ago ><. So far it is running pretty good. Need to get the old coating in the tank out, but after that I would love to take a road trip.
Hey, I'm in Talla-haaaa-seee. Lurker for some time now, until recently. Once my bike is in order, I'd be down.
:cool: O0