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During my Dorsadoro test yesterday the salesman came along with me onboard a RSV4 RR. On the way back we swapped bikes so here's my impressions of this V4 sporter. summed up in 3 words.... OWWWW MY WRISTS!! I don't ride sport bikes. Last one I rode was a Ninja 1100 back in the 80's and never...

My HS suffered this disco lights failure back in October. She's been sitting in the garage ever since due to being out of work and no money for the repair. To add insult to injury my local Ducati dealership went out of business so now I have no place to take her nearby. Next closest dealerships...

I just test rode the Dursoduro 900 yesterday. Here's some impressions from the 60 mile ride I took. She feels about 89% the same as the hyperstrada. Same girth, width and balance though she seemed a tiny bit less top heavy. Handling is very close but I felt she tips in a bit faster and isn't...

I can’t report any wobbly behavior on mine. There’s times like my trip to Maryland this week where the wind coming from a right angle to my direction of travel gave a bit of shake but it’s likely the tall windscreen causing it. I frequently ride for extended periods around 90 mph on crappy...

Here's what it looks like. Needs some cleaning up.

There's also this sinking feeling that I might be the one catching up at intersections. Given her greater riding experience and a review for the scooter i read written by the owner of a Monster saying he couldn't shake the thing off his tail in the twisties. :eek:

Thanks man!

I want one of those 24” front wheels the chopper crowd is running these days!

So we got the scooter. Got a good neighbor discount too, the seller knocked $450 off his price for us. I haven’t tried riding the beastie yet but it’s been a real pleasure watching my ball & chain have fun on it. Though now it’s occurring to me that with her tagging along on my rides I’ll have...

It will be a good solution if she can actually ride the thing with her bad ankle. And we can finally go riding together as we planned long ago. She's eating her heart out each time I go out for a joy ride and text her nice pictures of the places I go.

I'm going to play around with different TC settings for the sake of comparison. I'll watch how much it comes on during hard acceleration for each change. I doubt it has any sort of adaptive algorithm and however it works it's a static operation. So the factors that can change in regards to it...

I keep coming back to the tires. The TKC80s wear down fast. The rear one does anyway. At some point they seem to start wearing faster and faster and I have the suspicion that this fakes out the TC. Or confuses it. I noticed that when the tire is new the TC light comes on alot and almost...

So we drove 2 hours to look at the Scarabeo and it was not a pretty specimen. And it wasn’t inspected. Plus the guy wouldn’t let her test ride it. So we bailed and drove home. Upon getting home I found an ad for a Yamaha Majesty 400 right up our street. I called and then we walked over to see...

How did you like the Givi rack thingy? I’m seeing alot of mixed reviews on it... Oh and put me down for the tools please.

There’s a road near me with alot of whoopydoo hills and if take it at 65-70 I come up in a wheelie cresting the tops but I haven’t noticed the hard take off wheelies before. I guess it can be the road surface too. Come to think of it it might be that each time I’ve experienced this is over in...

Anyone have this happen. With bike in Sport mode under hard acceleration the front wheel lifts off the ground up to 4th gear. isn't TC supposed to prevent this? Is it because I run the TKC80s?

After some soul searching she’s decided that maybe a larger scooter might be best for her. With her ankle the way it is the floorboards of a scooter would be the least amount of strain. While poking around on CL I found an Aprilia Scarabeo 500 for a reasonable price so I’m going to make an...

I told him to take a hike. He’s the same guy that sold me my HS and it’s really disappointing that as a return customer he couldn’t manage to give a better deal than the insult he gave us. When it’s my turn to get a new bike again I’ll be sure to go elsewhere. The CL ad is posted and since we...

Wow this joker of a salesman had the nerve to email me again today with the same astounding deal he gave in person. Seriously? Did it not occur to him that our walking away in disgust the other day meant we aren't interested in his robbery? People these days....

My old lady is selling her V-Star. It's a Midnight Edition which are few and far between. The bike has been babied and doesn't have a scratch on it. It looks like new and has only 14K miles on the clock. This bike turns heads everywhere it goes. And people will hear it coming with the Vance &...