You might want to check with another Progressive agent. When I started looking for bikes in Feb '08, I was intitially quoted $2500 per year for a Gixxer 750. I was 45-years-old with no tickets and I told them I thought they must be smoking crack. I almost put my dreams of getting a bike on hold...
I'm almost 48 on my license but forever 22 in my head. The FZ is the first bike I have ever had that was actually mine, as opposed to borrowing dad's. 17,000 miles in just over a year and one-half. I have made some inexpensive mods and have others planned as finances permit.
I have had excellent luck with White Lithium with Teflon. My bike sits outside in North Texas, where temps can range from 10*-110* F. over the course of the year. It fixed my sticky ignition cylinder, seat lock and more. I use it to lube hood latch mechanisms on the Jag, as I have a...
First off, awesome project. I have always wondered how I could get rid of my my ugly stock handlebar setup. Second, you guys inadvertantly taught me something about trig. I never had to take trig in college, but I am now studying for the certification test to be able to teach 4-8 math. There are...
How does hitting a 10-pound bird sound? I had the experience, in my second week as a rider after having been off bikes for more than 25 years, of doing just that.
While coaching in Jacksboro, I had a 25 mile ride each way on mostly two-lane country highway. I had just started to attain...
Re 45 psi.: I seem to remember reading somewhere (the manual?) about 45 psi if riding at high speeds. If I can plug the tire I can keep the speed down for 6 weeks until I can afford a new tire. I am an unemployed school teacher who is currently waiting tables and will be able to supplement the...
OK, so today was good and bad.
Good because I got to ride on my twisty, hilly two-lane country road on the way to my way below my education and skill set job.
Bad because I was doing about 85 in a 60 when I came up on a Texas state trooper coming the other way and while I have an M...
I bought my bike in Feb '09 with 3,300 miles. I had wanted a bike for years but couldn't justify the cost of such a luxury/toy. I did the math and figured out a bike would pay for itself in what I would save in gas with a 50 mile round-trip commute everyday.
At 8,500 miles, after replacing...
Sorry about the double post; I had some bad punctuation there. As a teacher with a journalism degree, I would have to kill myself if I let it stand. How do you delete posts once you put them up?
That's a pretty kewl idea. I am curious though; do they stand out from the headlights at night? Being white and all, I wonder if they are blending in. would be a great mod for my bike if I hadn't already painted my windscreen.
I have just hit 10,000 miles on a set of Michelin Power Pilot 2TCs and love these tires. I bought my bike in Feb '09 with 3300 miles and plenty of tread on the stock tires. Since I had not ridden in 25+ years, I was not hard on the tires, as I was kind of a wuss on the bike. By July, right at...
I had the same issues at slow speed from a stop. I wondered if my transmission or engine were coming apart but the sound when away when my speed increased. Lubing the chain made it all better.
I can't even imagine. I rode 400 miles Saturday to visit a friend in Oklahoma and my butt was so sore I could hardly stand it. 200 miles up, visited for 5 hours and them 200 back, at speed. My butt and the backs of my knees were so sore I actually had to stop three miles from home and walk...
Indeed, we all do stupid stuff. I remember, years ago, getting my Mustang back from the body shop after T-boning a red light runner. Immediately after getting it back fixed and freshly painted I set about lowering the car. I jacked it up, installed the rear lowering blocks and then went about...