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Cruiser
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Florida | I just added a new installment to the blog. I'll warn you upfront, it's long...5,200 words. I added some side commentary you might find interesting, or boring. You be the judge!
To save you having to scroll to find the new post, here's a link that should jump you directly to it: http://gadgetguru.com/Victory%20Vision%20Blog.htm#Day%2013
As always, please post any comments on this site.
Happy reading and riding,
Andy | |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 721
| Great reading and a nicely laid out website! I especially enjoy the way you are continuing the Vision blog on a day to day basis. Keep up the good work, I've bookmarked the website and plan on checking in daily! | |
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Cruiser
Posts: 256
Florida | Thanks Travelin' Man. It's a labor of love.
When I first learned of the Vision in January 07, there was little if any info on the bike. Now that it's available, there are a number of reviews available, but I've always been weary of reviews in advertising supported magazines. So, I decided to create my own, ongoing review on my personal website.
While boards such as this one provide an excellent method of providing info on the Vision, I set out to do something different and provide potential purchasers a unique form of a product review from a new owner.
I'll continue to update it on a regular basis. As others have learned, I can be long-winded...but I'm a story teller and the Vision is a great story. It's great not to have space limitations. | |
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Cruiser
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Las Vegas, Nevada USA baby! | Andy-PBR
You rascal, great "tease"! I've been racking up the rides here in the old west, desert riding, extreme elevation changes, temperature changes, and 60 mile/hour winds this weekend. I've been plenty comfortable! Looking forward to your well written perspective however!
BTW, I ordered a Vision service manual, and a trunk/rear fender plate so I can remove my trunk and reinstall it for long trips. What are the "special steps" that your tech-mech gave you to make it safe and simple, can you succinctly share that with us?
Before I was in radio, I was an aircraft mech, so I'll be able to figure it out. However, I am smart enough to know that tips and tricks from someone who has done something before me is a valuable bit of knowledge!
EdRadio | |
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Cruiser
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Florida | Hi Ed. I'm probably not the best person to describe the steps. The next time I do a removal/install, I'll make sure I take photos for a step-by-step procedure. I'm sure some others can describe the process better than me as I was with the dealer when we did the removal. I figure it will take a couple of times before I'm used to it.
Can you tell me how it rides with the trunk in 60mph winds? Does it get squirrelly? How about the changes in altitude, any comments? | |
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Tourer
Posts: 496
Scottsdale AZ | PBR - I am in total awe of your talent as your Blog continues. This post of 5,200 words would have taken me two tours, maybe three or four, around the world to accumulate the descriptive sentences and paragraphs you have so eloquently put together. Good job!!! Keep it up!! What a nice diversion from this Pollopooooooot and Buknkd yakity yak yak. As the song goes- I must have got "my discount knowledge from the junior college".
Again, great job. How long did it take to put this last one together? | |
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Cruiser
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Florida | Thanks DesertJim. I was a writer by trade so it's not that difficult for me. Your kind words are appreciated. I ignore the other guys! I'd guess that last installment took around two hours or so.
When the mood hits, I'll put together the Orlando trip report. I do most of my writing either early in the morning or late at night...whenever the mood hits me. It's nice not having to write on deadline! | |
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Visionary
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Brighton, TN | You know in all honesty the Buckeye and pollolittle exchanges along with the DesertJim interludes, are there for a reason, you can go back and see there are quite a few folks that read them very few actually respond. They are there for the light hearted interchange of quirks and babble needed just BECAUSE! Now just because ours are not decidely journalistic qualities to be published in a Who's Who of people, I admire the banter for what it is.
As for your ability "to ignore the other guys", I for one have read your entire dialogue of blogging. While, it may be a realistic dramatic interlude into your experience with the Vision, there is very little humor. While, that may seem to go across to the TV masses who are looking for a very descriptive write up about your item, it doesn't do much for me. That's just me, a.k.a. pollolittle.
I have not chosen to ignore you or your writings, instead have read with applomb and enjoyment at the shear thought that you have taken the time to write it down. Also, to see what a fellow rider has incurred and what journeys it has taken him on. Kudos to ya!
It appears you have done well for yourself and are at a point where you are either retired or have ample opportunity to do things you didn't once have the opportunity for. Looks like you can travel for days or have your house cleaned for you. Either way, I am not at a point to be able to enjoy those certain luxuries in life, instead, I go to my 40 hour work week and count down the hours to go home and get to play with my small younguns and occassionally take a joy ride with my wife. This is sorta therapy for being on the clock. Could it be different, maybe, but I ain't speedin' time up for nobody. I get to ride back and forth to work on my Vision, I don't veer to far from my commute. I'm just glad I got a bike.
I would be glad to meet you or anyone else on here. I have met two gents on this board and I thought they both seemed like good folk. Yea, I'm a little younger and maybe a little more fiesty on this board than most, but hey It's my world too.
I wonder did I go a little overboard on this? | |
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Cruiser
Posts: 256
Florida | Well said Po. I don't just write, I also read the posts and some of the guys here are funny! I'm not ignoring you and have enjoyed your posts. I don't take things personally and enjoy the blog atmosphere. Yes, I am now retired and I used to work to live. To say I was a workaholic would be an understatement. In my old business, it wasn't unusual to have 14 - 16 hour days and work six to seven days per week. I'd spend at least 200 days per year traveling and rarely if ever took vacations...I don't miss those days but am enjoying the fruits of my labors now.
Back then, I was based in Middle Tennessee and used bikes as a quick escape. I was usually limited to short jaunts on the back roads. As you know, Tennessee has some great roads and I was just a few miles from the entrance of the Natchez Trace Parkway...my favorite bike road in the country. When I did happen to have a Saturday or Sunday off, I had a great bunch of guys I would ride with. Usually a dozen or so would show up at the meeting point. One factor that attracted me to this world is that when you're riding, everyone is equal. it didn't matter how much money was in the bank or the size of someone's house. When you stop for lunch the conversation was about something we all enjoyed - Bikes. Sometimes Women, but mainly Bikes.
In today's world Blogs are the place for people with similar interests to join up and share. Not all of us share the same way. Some use humor, some ask questions, some offer advice. Some crazies like me take pleasure in documenting my experiences. I chose to put them on a personal website as I know me...I can be detailed and long winded and I enjoy writing. It's a way to keep my brain from going to mush! Riding and Writing. I didn't feel it was appropriate to post my ramblings here, but have made some new riding friends due to posting my experiences and opinions online.
And no, you didn't go overboard. Keep the posts coming.
While I'm rambling (again), I have to say that the atmosphere on this site is much more fun that what I've found on V-Twin or H-D oriented sites. Those guys seem to have been brainwashed and don't realize that bikes other than H-D's are Real Bikes. I still find it funny when I see those guys on the highway riding without a windshield or helmet. They are getting beaten to death and don't realize that riding is supposed to be fun and comfortable. Go figure? I saw a number of them when I was headed back from Orlando. More on that when I get back to blog writing.
Edited by PalmBeachRider 2008-03-03 2:33 PM
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Iron Butt
Posts: 904
29 Palms California | nah, not overboard, but way to serious! Your mastery of the queens english is well put. The Desertcamel jockey and the roseypalmbeachrider seemed to have formed an intellectual and emmotional bond. Purhaps they are entirely to hauty for our comical banter? I would much rather read your stylish wittisisms than the drole trappings of bordum put out by either of them. I'm not a Fruedian, but in most cicles, they would call their correspondance "stroking" each other. I'm not a gynocologist, but I do know one when I see it. Now, if that don't make you chuckle, your not alive! | |
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Cruiser
Posts: 256
Florida | I'm laughing...so I'm alive! | |
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Visionary
Posts: 2027
Brighton, TN | BuckNaKD, toss a line, man overboard, pull him in, "Dutifully readjust said sailor", realign appropriate attitude! Much better, starting to steer left and right again.
Breathe, breathe, must be the sickness has made me to acutely aware of all the "stroking" going on! El Presidente, I would like a motion to enter why I was not invited to the stroking party, End Motion! All he had to say was he was ignoring me and I got SUCKED IN! Dammit Jim, I'm a physician not a magician! (Spock, should understand this), (The rest of ya, no tellin' ! 10 lashes with a cat of nine tails for all ya'll! (That's southern for all of you)! Hey PartyN8kd, you still got room on that wagon, I seem to have fallen and can't get up (old funny TV commercial)! | |
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