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Another vote for battery failure. I would pull it and have it tested. -
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I am glad you feel better after you slept on it. I hope you can put the purchase behind you and end up loving the bike anyway. I had a hankerin for a Honda GL500 Silverwing a couple years ago. I saw an ad for one about four hours away and called. We talked quite awhile and they assured me it was as described. When I got there he lived 2 miles down a dirt road. You can imagine what I found. The man and his wife were enthusiastic about bikes and had recently bought their dream bike, an old BMW R100. He had recently been diagnosed with a condition that would end not only his riding but quite possibly his life. As I ran through what he had told me on the phone, I realized everything he said was true, my interpretation of that description painted a different picture in my head, and the couple polaroids he had shown in his ad looked nicer than it was, pictures tend to do that. When I got there I was disappointed, even a little angry. After talking to him and his wife, and clearing my image while looking at the bike, I realized I had heard his description in my context, not his. I told him it wasn't what I wanted at that time because it would require a complete teardown and rebuild to be what I wanted, he replied "you came all this way with a trailer, can you do the work and make it what you want? If so, make me an offer, I won't be offended". We made the deal with one stipulation, he wanted some photos of the restoration and when it was completed. A real gearhead type guy like me. On the way home my wife asked if I really wanted another project, and I replied "I do now"! That turned out to be one of the most fondly remembered bikes, and best projects, I ever owned, I think due to the effort it took and the friendship it sparked. I sent pics to them via email throughout the process and also when it was done, I thought someday I will ride up and show it to him. About a year after I finished the bike I got word from his wife that he had passed. She sent a nice email saying that he had enjoyed reading my emails and seeing me do what he used to do with bikes, I didn't know his health had deteriorated so quickly. Had I decided at the time I got there that he had lied to me on the phone I would have never made an offer, but I truly believe I was just hearing what I wanted to. Long story, but sometimes the sweetest lemonade can come from the sourest lemons if you work with them enough.
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Iron Butt Completed! it was anything but boring...
Oldodge replied to Barrycuda's topic in Watering Hole
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I have a full array of helmets I use, 1/2 helmet w/visor, 3/4 helmet w/visor, full face helmet that needed replaced and a new modular helmet to replace the full face. My favorite is by far the 3/4 helmet w/visor. I wear it in temps of 50 to 80F and find it the most comfortable of the lot. In colder temps I opted for the full face, which will now be replaced by the purchased, but untried, modular helmet. In really hot weather I will use my 1/2 helmet w/visor and it is comfortable but I feel it compromises safety to a degree. I believe staying a bit cooler keeps me sharper mentally and offsets the increased risk of the shorter helmet. Nothing scientific, just me justifying things to myself. I ride a 2nd Gen. with the large BaggerShield. It is wider than stock and gives me the option of taller or shorter windshield whenever I want, and I do use both. It is the single best mod I have made, at least tied wit my rider backrest. A comfortable helmet is a must to enjoy the ride. My wife always wore a full face exclusively until last year when we got the RSV. She now also has a 1/2 helmet w/visor and loves it. Mainly because riding is strictly a warm/hot weather activity for her. If I am going to have only one available, as on my trip to NC last year when I left home at 35 deg. F and arrived in Chapel Hill that afternoon at near 80 deg.F the 3/4 helmet with visor and a flat, 5-snap shield, that I could remove when it got warm, wrap in a t-shirt and stuff in a saddlebag, is always my choice. Now that you made me think about it I really only need one, the 3/4 with the optional shield and a balaclava handles the cold just fine and if it was a well ventilated one, would handle the hot just fine without the shield. One, all purpose helmet, nah, that there is just crazy talk.
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Congratulations! My wife is five months older than me. We've been married 35 years and I never let her forget she is the "older woman" and she robbed the cradle to get me!
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