Recent content by dakotadog

Checked today. - 48.8 mpg, putzing around town, little highway driving....87 octane. 2006 (the faster red one).

Hello, Joe here. I'm from nowhere exotic, Northeast Ohio along the Lake Erie shoreline. I'm 54 years old, first streetbike. A late bloomer, I guess. The much faster red 2006. Stole it off Craigslist from an eager seller. Did have a flareup with the kill switch, but found a thread on here on...

+1 on moving both brake and shifter down. Made a big difference for me........

1978-ish. Not me, but my uncle, on my dad's Triumph 650 Bonneville, 2up. T-boned at highway speed by an 8 point buck. Killed the deer. My uncle and his rider were in the hospital for three days, as I recall. That Truimph was wrecked at least three times by either my uncles or my dad, nearly...