Re: It's Saturday and I survived the week.

[Walter Oliver <wso@xxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

I live in Glen Ridge, NJ and I spend most of my riding time on the
country 
roads of Bergen, Passaic and Sussex counties with an occasional run over
the Delaware River into PA.  Where did you get your bike?  Were you/are
you
happy with the dealer?  Do they have a demonstrator available?

Steve Lawler wrote:
> 
> Went to pick up my 2000 Blue Sprint today. :-)
> 
> They had a blue Trophy on the floor. I pointed it out to my wife, Liz.
> "See that blue. It's better than that." Once we found it over by the
> Hondas ("EEEEK") Liz took one look at it. "It's purple." "No. It's
> blue." "It's purple." Then the kid cleaning it said "It's blue."
> Somebody said "That's yours?"  "Yeah." :-)  "Great color."  "Yeah." :-)
> 
> As I was hanging out in the show room watching it get its finishing
> touches I met a few more envious people.  I must have been grinning ear
> to ear. :-)
> 
> Once it was outside I started to get very nervous. Actually,
> "incredibly" is a better adjective for describing my jitters. After
> meeting the service staff I was left alone in the parking lot. I put on
> my jacket, my helmet, my backpack (the panniers are on order) and
> gloves. I sat on it, took a deep breath and just sat there for a second.
> All I could think was "Wow!" I started it up. "Oooooo. That's sweet."
> Put it in gear, started to let out the clutch and it stalled.
> "NOOOOOOOOOOOO. I KILLED IT. Please let it live again and I will treat
> it wonderfully." It started right up. "Whew." I pulled away and swore
> that I was on my little Honda. No actually it was me that was shaking.
> Not 50 feet from the dealers driveway some knothead went to take a left
> turn in front of me. A quick squeeze of the front brake and I stopped.
> "Nice brakes." The knothead saw me at the last second and stopped too. I
> continued on my way. :-)
> 
> After a few miles I calmed down and was really getting a feel for it.
> "Okay! Bring on the twistees and the screaming straights!." "Nope,
> you'll have to wait." 3500 rpm seems like such a cruel limit. I already
> hit 58 miles and this afternoon I'll conquer the remaining  42. :-)
> 
> I wanted to avoid highways for my ride home so that I could get a lot of
> variety in speed and gears. The country roads on the journey home were
> fun but as I approached Newark it became a real pain in the aaaaaah
> wrists. After I get a few miles under my seat I might consider risers
> but until then I will see how I acclimate to the new position. Anyway,
> once in Newark I decided to get on 280 to alleviate some of the wrist
> pain. The pain was mostly in my left wrist; so I attribute that to
> constant clutching on the city streets. Once on 280 I had a tough time
> staying below 3500 rpm. Every car passed me by. "Do not worry my sweet.
> Soon we will be able to take our revenge on them all. MWAH-HAH-HAH."
> (Evil laugh). :-)
> 
> After I pulled into the driveway, Liz came out. "You finally made it."
> "Yeah." :-)
> 
> Two of my sons, Colin and Thomas, ran out with two of their friends.
> "Awesome!" "Cool!" "Awesome!" "Cool!" "Awesome!" "Cool!" "Awesome!"
> "Cool!" Thomas asked what took so long to get home. I explained 3500
> rpm, blah, blah, blah. "Cool. How long before you can go 180?" My god, I
> created a monster. :-)
> 
> Whoa. Liz just got back from the store. Time to go rack up some miles!
> :-)
> 
> I'm still grinning.  :-) :-) :-)
> 
> Steve Lawler
> Somewhere on the roads in New Jersey
> 
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