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Yea, I killed my bike starting it in second more than once while I was learning. Don't feel bad. :thumbup: Eventually you reach a point where even if you do accidentally start in second, you instinctively hear the engine lugging and give it more gas (and less clutch) before you even think...

Nice ride! How you like the Madstad windscreen? Here's my bike as of today, fresh from Hattiesburg MI. I can't ever seem to get the pics to load, so here are the direct links: touring mode - screwed up ring touring mode - screwed up ring

I wish more people were like that guy. I wonder if most car drivers just look at motorcyclists like some kind of rapidly moving animal that will dent their car door more than a deer.

LOL! Good news is, she appears to be holding her fuel. I'll tell you this, I'd much rather ride my motorcycle to Texas and have it leak than not ride it at all. Easy to say in retrospect, I guess. :rolleyes:

We'll find out after I leave and get a chance to walk through the parking lot, but I topped it up yesterday and it seemed to be holding. :thumbup: It sort of looks to me like it was pinched somehow, which makes me think (like you said) that it was installed incorrectly... But who knows. If...

So the parking lot surgery is complete and the fresh O-ring is in. Bike appears to be holding fuel just fine, but I left a bloody pool of spilt fuel on the ground as sign of the surgery performed. :thumbup: Big thanks go out to Scott (Townsendsfjr). Without your help I'd be in trouble! He...

Welcome aboard! Ride safely and let me second the Basic Riding Course. That's how I got my license, the skills are invaluable.

Awesome, thanks a bunch! As much as I don't want to have to switch out my gas tank in the parking lot, that is a fine specimen. I find it kind of funny that tank didn't meet your exacting standards. :thumbup: So is the fuel tank lid the kind of thing I unscrew from my bike and plop right on?

Mama always said I was special. So there actually is a bit of rust inside the lip of the tank, and I peeled back some of the bubbled up paint under the tank at the leak and there were rust spots. There is a very real possibility that the tank has a hole due to rust. (Now I know why you're...

To be honest the underside was sufficiently damp and dripping that it was hard to tell exactly what the source was, but the paint all around part #9 was peeled up indicating it was coming from there. I can check the hose you speak of tomorrow, but the hose fittings all seemed more or less tight...

Thanks for the review! Very informative for those of us not sure what the best way to deal with the wind is.

Cool, thanks. I ended up just trolling down to the Johnson space center and touring NASA.

So as the title states when I returned to my bike today I noticed a small pool of fluids next to the kick-stand. At first I thought somehow oil was leaking from the drain plug but I noticed the bike was damp above that...tracing the leak up, I flipped up the tank and sure enough the thing...

Gotta spit game when you can. I'm still trying to figure out how I can turn my scraped up fizzer in a game-improver. :D

Man those things are nice...Consider yourself to have arrived when you can afford your dream bike and have the skills to ride it.

Awesome write up! One question: Does that laminar lip work well? I've been doing bookoo freeway riding and the bike is pretty comfortable now with the exception of the wind in my face. My neck tends to wear out before everything else.

Look on the bright side, if a chick notices you can tell her you went down but that just made the trill of riding more intense. :thumbup: Blah

My helmet looked exactly like that a few days ago. Rode ~860 miles from Georgia to Texas. Helmets become ~50% bugs by weight around Mississippi at night.

I'll be in Houston for this weekend through the 22nd. I was just curious if there are any groups that ride in the area. I'm not sure how things will play out over the weekend but if time permits, a group ride could be fun. So, who's riding in Houston?

I've heard this before, but I'm not so sure it's the way to go. If someone breaks into the house, IMO the first warning they get should be the sound of a 28" 12 gauge loading buck shot, and the second warning shouldn't be a warning at all. Maybe I need to buy a shorter barrel for the...