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[ST] 475 mile day...



Took Vixen out for a stroll yesterday...planned on a 510 mile ride routed
by my late friend Tony, the walking route guide. He called it the 1% ride,
since of the 500+ miles (from his home in the San Fernando Valley), less
than 5 miles were on the highway. (route sheet available on request)

So seven of us took it in his memory (and to wipe our memory banks clean of
the last week or so)...

...many grins, no crashing, decent Mexican food, sore butts...

Vixen ran flawlessly...a few comments:

1) Repeat "I will go get the front end RaceTeched" 100 times. Until you go
do this, repeat every morning until your significant other or pets tell you
to go just ahead and do it, dammit and stop whining about it ... it's like
riding a different (and better) bike.

2) BT010's are pretty cool. They don't feel as planted at tire-shredding
speeds as the Pirelli's; there's just a tiny bit of moving around that I
feel. But I felt amazingly confident on them, and they seemed to give ride
quality that's a whole lot better (may be mixing results with 1) , above).
I didn't get the little band of mold flashing off the edge, but every other
part of the back tire has that nice, slightly balled-up look.

3) I kind of like the quietness of the bike with the stock can. Be
interesting when the new can comes in.

Managed to get Donovan, a newish rider on an SV650 over Caliente-Bodfish
and Breckenridge without incident. Stopped on Breckenridge and looked at
the site of Grace's crash. Scratched my head and wondered how she did it.
Our friend Russ did the ride on a new (rented) Goldwing. Swore that with
more ground clearance no one could have kept up with him. Asked him to
wheelie it, pointed out the common mantra, "F* it, it's a rental." He
refused...

Ohlins shock is en route from Europe, which means maybe weeks. Meanwhile,
Jeremy at So Cal Triumph can't come up with the $$ to buy the used 595
Penske I bought on Yahoo auctions...so I'll have a shock to sell.

Penske wants ~$250 to reconfigure the shock for an ST...all offers are
welcome.

Or maybe I'll just sell the Ohlins once I get it.


MarcD


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