MonsterBiker

I already have pants that perform well, they are just hard to get into. At $400 ($200 for me, $200 for my wife) I will find something a little more reasonable at some point. For now the ones I have work.

Those are nice, but that $200 price tag makes it a no-go for me.

My 17 year old is desperately wanting a motorcycle but she is still working on her driver's license. I told her that once she gets that and gets more experience driving a car we can discuss a motorcycle. My wife keeps talking about getting her own motorcycle but her brain processing speed is too slow. Anytime she has to make a split-second decision she locks up, then almost always makes the wrong decision. That's dangerous enough when driving a car. On a motorcycle it could have much deadlier consequences. So, it looks like for now I am stuck playing chauffeur...... poor me. 😁

My wife and I took an 11 year hiatus for much the same reason, selling our '06 Vulcan 2000 Classic LT in '08 because our kids needed parents. By the time our youngest turned 16 in 2019 we could wait no longer and purchased the '08 RSV we have now. My life now is rough - my wife, my 22 year old daughter and my 17 year old daughter fight over who gets to ride with me. We live about a 45 min ride from Daytona so I have to make a minimum of three trips to Bike Week and Biketoberfest each year so that all three can attend.......poor me. 😁 This was my wife and I on a bike trip to North Carolina from Florida in '07 on the Vulcan.

Here is the rain jacket I have and am very pleased with. The hood is designed to fit under a motorcycle helmet. Tour Master Sentinel LE Rain Jacket Have not found the perfect pair of rain pants yet.....

I know it has already been mentioned several times, but I am going to go ahead and beat the dead horse. Rain gear......not just any rain gear, good rain gear.

Notice the gas can strapped to the trailer tongue in the pic I posted above. I brought it as insurance......and actually did have to use it once on the trip. We took back roads on the way down and gas stations got a little sparse.

3" Actually not hard with the right holster and an un-tucked shirt. I have a custom kydex holster made by a friend of mine that keeps it tucked up nice and close.

Back in November my wife and I took a 4 day trip to the FL Keys. We actually fit everything in the saddlebags, trunk and extra bag on the luggage rack. The trailer was full of fishing gear. I was impressed that fully loaded, two up and pulling a trailer the RSV was able to cruise down the Turnpike at 80+ mph like the trailer wasn't even there.

My youngest on her first motorcycle ride......Ok, it was about 2 blocks to daycare, but it counts! She is now 17 and wanting her own motorcycle. To this day she still remembers her first ride.

Most days I carry my M&P Shield in 9mm......but occasionally I feel like changing it up and strap on my Smith & Wesson 686 Plus .357 Magnum.

I am in my 29th year in the HVAC trade. But I am employed by a manufacturer now so I don't have to work for a living anymore. 😆

I am guessing it was a slow day at the shop and he was bored. 😆

Everything is cheaper in Florida than California. That price was a stable, everyday price until the craziness started.....then it was too late to stock up.

At nearly $1 a round that "sale" price is high and the supposed regular price is up in gouging territory. Pre ammo panic buying .223 and 5.56x45 was readily available off the shelf around $0.20 a round. But......that's how supply and demand works.

You are lucky to find any at all these days, much less at a reasonable price......

That's good to hear. I have zero desire to split the fairing yet again......I have done that too many times over the past year for various upgrades.

Nice! My wife would kill for that passenger backrest.

Ok, here is some video taken about mid-morning in the Keys, headed West towards Key West. It is not as visible as I would like due to the video quality not transferring over the YouTube platform all that well. If you watch the road signs you can see them pulsate as the high beam hits them. It is much more noticeable in person than on this video.

Yup, sure does! Functions exactly like the OEM bulb. The high beam is quite powerful as well. I have a Kisan headlight modulator that continuously flashes the high beam during daylight hours. The high beam is powerful enough to make road signs pulsate even in bright sunlight. I recorded our entire trip to the Keys with a GoPro, I will see about uploading a video clip in the daylight so you can see that as well.

We were sitting in a restaurant eating lunch in Key West watching the Weather Channel reporting on the weather up North.....and congratulating ourselves on our choice of where to live. 😄

Saturday my wife and I packed up the RSV and loaded the trailer with fishing gear, then headed South from the Orlando area via US 441. Weather was rainy until we got about halfway around Lake Okeechobee. Once we got on US 27 the sun came out for the rest of our ride to Key Largo. The next day we just hung out and fished behind the hotel with some not so shrimpy live shrimp for bait. Caught nothing, I suspect because the bait was bigger than the fish. 😒 But my wife did make a new friend. 🤣 After a "hard" day fishing, we went out to the Islamorada Fish Company for dinner and caught the sunset. The next day was a ride to Key West, the Shipwreck Museum, lunch, the Aquarium and the Southernmost Point before heading back to the hotel in Key Largo. Weather was nice, if a bit windy crossing the bridges on a bike. Tuesday we packed up and headed home via a quicker route: The Turnpike and I-95. This was the first trip we had taken with the trailer that we bought off Craigslist earlier this year. I was very impressed with the way the RSV handled two-up, loaded down and pulling a trailer. Even at 80 mph the only way I could tell I was towing a trailer was by looking in the mirror. The bike didn't handle any different whatsoever. All in all it was a nice long weekend getaway.

I just might for anybody looking to convert headlights and passing/driving lamps to LED without a lot of expense or effort. I have this replacement LED headlight bulb: https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/motorcycle-high-beam-and-low-beam-headlight-bulb/motorcycle-h4-led-fanless-headlight-conversion-kit-with-compact-heat-sink-2000-lumens/3930/8566/?make=105&model=3743&scc_id=1940&year=2008 It is literally plug and play, no modifications needed and I am very impressed with the performance. I also have these 4.5 inch replacement LED passing/driving lamps with equally impressive performance. Also a quick and easy installation (assuming your bike already has 4.5 inch passing/driving lights. My RSV had them when I bought it, but not sure they are OEM). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HR7EUB8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Here is video I shot a few days ago during a night time ride through Islamorada, FL.

Ok, time for an update. The rear sensor has been working fine ever since I put a new battery in it. The front sensor has been eating a battery about once a week. @VentureFar put me in touch with the engineers at FOBO and they shipped me a replacement set. I just changed them out and the originals are headed back to FOBO for evaluation. I will continue to update on how the replacements perform. So far my only gripe has been the battery issue with one of the original sensors. Other than that, they have performed as advertised.