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san antonio, tx | Well, the salvage yard picked up my 2004 55000+ mile Kingpin a couple of days ago. Very sad day. I crashed it merging on to the I10 just north of San Antonio. A Septic Tank vacuum truck had spilled its load just in front of me on the on ramp. That sh*t was slippery! Bike was trashed, I got that stuff all over me, but it did keep me from getting much road rash! I went through it just like an old Slip & Slide my kids used to have!
I loved that Kingpin, but have been eyeballing either the X-Country or the Vision for some time now. Just couldn't make up my mind, and really had no reason to rush the decision.
Well, it looks like I'll now be picking up my new 2011 Silver and Black Vision in a couple of weeks and riding it from the Denver dealership back home to San Antonio. I have to be there on business anyway, and they are giving me a pretty good deal.
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East TN | Congrats on the new Vision...Just a crappy way to get it though!!! |
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2 mi from Jim Beam n KY | Ain't that some $hit!!
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Lumber Bridge, NC United States | Sorry about what happened to you and your KP, but now you will go more miles with smiles. |
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san antonio, tx | Well, this board has helped to seal the deal. I think for immediate upgrades for the ride back, I'll have them put on the lowers and drivers backrest. I already have a GPS and mount that I like. Any other really important suggestions? |
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New Bohemia, Va | Sorry to hear you took a dump and left skid marks. But it sounds like you wiped the deal clean. Congrats on your new throne! |
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Georgia, west of Atlanta | Have alot of fun !!!!! |
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Troy, NY | We are lucky to be riding a machine that doesn't need much upgrading to run great, look great or ride great. I would do either the Stage 1 Level 1 exhaust upgrade or reverse. Other upgrades you can do later and yourself. Congrats on your purchase.! |
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| If you go with the lowers, make sure you do not ride the bike for at least 48 hours after installation...They will not adhere properly and you run the risk of them falling off along the road as many on the board have said..In Michigan we do not get that many hot days for me to spend the money...I do not personally like the looks of them and will probably not buy....But, those that have them seem to be happy with the air flow options...
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East Tennessee | cchristo - 2011-07-04 8:00 PM
Well, this board has helped to seal the deal. I think for immediate upgrades for the ride back, I'll have them put on the lowers and drivers backrest. I already have a GPS and mount that I like. Any other really important suggestions?
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New York State | We all have to track through shit but with a Vision to get on at the end it almost seems to easy
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san antonio, tx | Cap'n Nemo - 2011-07-04 7:16 PM
Sorry to hear you took a dump and left skid marks. But it sounds like you wiped the deal clean. Congrats on your new throne!
Nice! One of the best I've heard yet, and I've heard a lot! |
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san antonio, tx | Thanks, that's good advice. I'll make sure they have them on at least a couple of days before I pick it up. Those things are sort of spendy for what they consist of. I'd be pretty mad if they just blew off.
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san antonio, tx | I'm sure I'll do the stage one at some point in the near future. The reverse is something that I might seriously consider after they have them out for a year or so. |
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san antonio, tx | I'm not really sure, but I know it's too much! I'm getting a really good deal, much better than I can get anywhere around where I live. I just told them what I wanted, and they gave me their best "out the door" price. I haven't seen the itemized list. It's just much better than anyone else I've been able to find.
I looked at a few different makes and I just decided to go with the factory for simplicity sake. I'm picking it up in Denver and leaving for San Antonio the same day so I don't want to screw around with aftermarket stuff that I've not been able to put my hands on. |
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Dallas, Texas | Enjoy your new Vision, but for goodness sakes, avoid Septic Tank Vacuum Trucks...just curious, did they take the accident report from a distance from you? |
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San Antonio, TX | cchristo,
What a bummer about the Kingpin. Thank goodness you are OK.
In a month or two I am going to make a run up to Three Sisters and back to SA. Let me know if you want to go along.
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Carrollton, TX | Glad you got the Vision and sorry you had to go through Shit to get it. LOL Accessories to get: Backrest and lowers for sure like you are doing and then iPod connector, highway foot pegs, XM radio, CB Radio an BeadRider.com ultimate beads for the seat. Saddle bag liners and storage nets are great also. If yoou want to ride some great roads on your way home give me a call on my cell 469-878-5193 and I will help you work in some great pones depending on the time you have. I just got back from riding a lot of the best roads in CO a week ago. I live in Dallas. |
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san antonio, tx | iluvink - 2011-07-05 4:57 PM
Enjoy your new Vision, but for goodness sakes, avoid Septic Tank Vacuum Trucks...just curious, did they take the accident report from a distance from you?
Stupidly, I didn't call the police. I was pretty much OK, and would did not know the logo or anything about the vacuum truck. After we bent a bunch of stuff back to a somewhat useable condition, I was able to nurse it back home.
And yes, I've developed a whole new level of respect for those trucks. I always see the signs on the backs of those trucks saying "not responsible for windshield damage" when they haul rocks and stuff. I don't remember ever seeing a similar sign on one of those vacuum trucks though! |
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san antonio, tx | radioteacher - 2011-07-05 5:04 PM
cchristo,
What a bummer about the Kingpin. Thank goodness you are OK.
In a month or two I am going to make a run up to Three Sisters and back to SA. Let me know if you want to go along.
Ride Safe
Hey Radio teacher, I ride it once or twice a year, and always thought it would be nice on a Vision. Let me know when. If I'm not out of town, I'll probably be up for it! |
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san antonio, tx | Spock - 2011-07-05 5:11 PM
Glad you got the Vision and sorry you had to go through Shit to get it. LOL Accessories to get: Backrest and lowers for sure like you are doing and then iPod connector, highway foot pegs, XM radio, CB Radio an BeadRider.com ultimate beads for the seat. Saddle bag liners and storage nets are great also. If yoou want to ride some great roads on your way home give me a call on my cell 469-878-5193 and I will help you work in some great pones depending on the time you have. I just got back from riding a lot of the best roads in CO a week ago. I live in Dallas.
I'm getting the IPod connector, probably wait on the pegs, put them on myself later. I had a beaded seat in my truck for a while, but my bony butt just never really liked it. I'm thinking maybe a sheepskin.
Here's my tentative route but I'm wide open for suggestions. Pretty much staying off the major roads until I hit Eastern New Mexico. A lot is going to depend on if I am by myself or two up. I'll probably leave around noon on a Friday and need to be back to work by Tuesday morning.
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san antonio, tx | I'm getting excited now! Put the deposit down today. Maroon 2011, IPod cord, Backrest, and Lowers. Pick it up in Denver and ride it back to San Antonio in a couple of weeks. Yeah Baby! |
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San Antonio, TX | cchristo - 2011-07-07 8:19 PM
I'm getting excited now! Put the deposit down today. Maroon 2011, IPod cord, Backrest, and Lowers. Pick it up in Denver and ride it back to San Antonio in a couple of weeks. Yeah Baby!
Let me know when you get it home. Looking forward to meetiing you.
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san antonio, tx | radioteacher - 2011-07-07 10:20 PM
cchristo - 2011-07-07 8:19 PM
I'm getting excited now! Put the deposit down today. Maroon 2011, IPod cord, Backrest, and Lowers. Pick it up in Denver and ride it back to San Antonio in a couple of weeks. Yeah Baby!
Let me know when you get it home. Looking forward to meetiing you.
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san antonio, tx | radioteacher - 2011-07-07 10:20 PM
cchristo - 2011-07-07 8:19 PM
I'm getting excited now! Put the deposit down today. Maroon 2011, IPod cord, Backrest, and Lowers. Pick it up in Denver and ride it back to San Antonio in a couple of weeks. Yeah Baby!
Let me know when you get it home. Looking forward to meetiing you.
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Indianapolis, IN | Sounds like your $h*t sliding crash was just the enema you needed to get "things" moving. Kind of a $h*t or get off the pot style of making a decision to get the new bike of your choice. You won't be disappointed. Congratulations and safe, stench free riding from here on! |
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Green Bay, WI United States | Was the dealer in Littleton or Lakewood ? Hope you have many miles and smiles on the new Vision.
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san antonio, tx | hoosiervic - 2011-07-08 6:34 AM
Sounds like your $h*t sliding crash was just the enema you needed to get "things" moving. Kind of a $h*t or get off the pot style of making a decision to get the new bike of your choice. You won't be disappointed. Congratulations and safe, stench free riding from here on!
Gawd, I love the humor in all of this. It started the second everyone (including myself) realized that I was OK and hasn't stopped yet.
The enema that got things moving!
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san antonio, tx | 8-ball - 2011-07-14 3:07 PM
Was the dealer in Littleton or Lakewood ? Hope you have many miles and smiles on the new Vision.
Ride hard, ride fast, but above all ride safe and free....
8/ball/Wildman
G-Force in Lakewood. So far, they've been great. I'm going to have a really hard time making it through my conference before I hit the road and bring it back to San Antonio.
Three days to get to Laredo, then just blast down the I10 to home. It's the only part of the ride I wish was not included. I hate that stretch. At least it has a decent speed limit. |
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san antonio, tx | cchristo - 2011-07-14 7:31 PM
8-ball - 2011-07-14 3:07 PM
Was the dealer in Littleton or Lakewood ? Hope you have many miles and smiles on the new Vision.
Ride hard, ride fast, but above all ride safe and free....
8/ball/Wildman
G-Force in Lakewood. So far, they've been great. I'm going to have a really hard time making it through my conference before I hit the road and bring it back to San Antonio.
Three days to get to Laredo, then just blast down the I10 to home. It's the only part of the ride I wish was not included. I hate that stretch. At least it has a decent speed limit.
Ooops, I meant El PASO, not Laredo. |
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Green Bay, WI United States | I bought my Vision from G-Force and had it shipped to Milwaukee. Very good people to work with, I would buy from them again. Do you have a meeting in El Paso? If not I would head out for Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene and home. I hate that part of I-10 also. The El Paso route is 1269 miles and the Texas route is 968 miles. Have a safe trip...
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san antonio, tx | 8-ball - 2011-07-15 11:10 AM
I bought my Vision from G-Force and had it shipped to Milwaukee. Very good people to work with, I would buy from them again. Do you have a meeting in El Paso? If not I would head out for Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene and home. I hate that part of I-10 also. The El Paso route is 1269 miles and the Texas route is 968 miles. Have a safe trip...
Ride hard, ride fast, but above all ride safe and free...
8-ball/Wildman
Yeah, so far I've been very happy with their service. Of course, I havent been there yet............ It's good to hear
it from another rider.
I haven't decided for sure which route I'm going to take once I get to the Taos area. The weather forecast in the Colorado mountains isn't looking as good as I had hoped for and if I have to ride in the rain, I might bypass some of the little twisty roads I really want to ride.
Rain will have the odd effect of actually causing me to make better time, screwing up my plan of using all 4.5 days I've budgeted to mosey my way back to San Antonio. |
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san antonio, tx | RedRider - 2011-07-15 11:59 AM
$hitty way to get your wife to agree to getting a Vision. O.o
Just cause they hang a sign on a truck doesn't mean do-do, they are responsible for their loads.
See what I mean? There is a virtually limitless supply of jokes and wisecracks with this accident!
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Green Bay, WI United States | So which direction did you do Brother.....??? No shitty comments yet!
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| There is some one up there that watches out for us.
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san antonio, tx | 8-ball - 2011-07-22 1:53 PM
So which direction did you do Brother.....??? No shitty comments yet!
Had a fantastic ride. Headed west out of Denver on 70 then: Leadville - Aspen - and spend the 1st night in Carbondale. (I did a lot of side road riding that day. don't know all the roads)
Day 2: Carbondale to Hotchkiss - took Hwy 52 across the dam, then headed to Montrose. Took the Million Dollar Hwy throught Silverton and Durango and stopped in Pagosa Springs.
Day 3: Pagosa Springs - Chama (very cool railroad museum)- Antonito - Taos (bought my sheepskin seatcover)- Eagle Nest - Cimarron - and took I85 into Las Vegas, NM for the night.
Day 4: from Las Vegas took Hwy 84 to Hwy 54 to Hwy 380 in to Ruidoso, then took 244 in to Cloudcroft. From there it was on to Carlsbad using Hwy 82 and Hwy 285 and spent the night there.
Day 5: Headed home. Took Hwy 285 to the I10, hit cruise control and that was that.
I took a lot of little side trips, stopped at anything I found remotely interesting, and basically took my own sweet time. When I was done, I wanted to turn around in the driveway and do it again in the other direction!
I tried to upload a few pics, but I can't for some reason or another.
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Ruidoso, then took 244 in to Cloudcroft.... I have only done that in December about 15 years ago. Beautiful area. Love Cloudcroft. That must be nice on the Vision.
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Lansing, MI | Damn. You turned a shiiiitttttyyy situation into a good one. Aint that some sh_t? Did your wife give you a lot of Sh_t about buying a new bike?
Where's the pics of the poo-slip-N-slid?
How about the crashed KP?
Waiting for pics of new Vision....
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Lansing, MI | I just thought of something else that's a benefit to crashing in a pile of poo. You could crap your pants and nobody would know... I fairly sure you could piss your pants too...
Seriously, that's just.... Man, I fell bad for you.
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san antonio, tx | cook06vegas - 2011-08-23 1:42 PM
Damn. You turned a shiiiitttttyyy situation into a good one. Aint that some sh_t? Did your wife give you a lot of Sh_t about buying a new bike?
Where's the pics of the poo-slip-N-slid?
How about the crashed KP?
Waiting for pics of new Vision....
Trying to post pictures again.
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san antonio, tx | OK, tried to make some pictures smaller...lets see if this works. hmmm, it'll only let me put up on picture.
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San Antonio, TX | As long as she is happy....everyones happy!
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Lansing, MI | LOVE that color combo, NICE! She looks happy in that pic, that's cool.
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san antonio, tx | cook06vegas - 2011-08-24 8:11 AM
LOVE that color combo, NICE! She looks happy in that pic, that's cool.
How does she like riding on it?
Honestly, after riding it a bit, she doesn't really like it. Very disappointing for me as the biggest reason I got it was to get her riding with me more often. That darn lip on the back of the passenger seat is really stupid. The design is totally function AFTER form. She says the old Kingpin was much more comfortable.
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san antonio, tx | Ahhhh, I just figured out that I have to compress the pictures. Well, here's some.
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Lansing, MI | Sweet pics! I have a solution for ya. I'll trade you my passenger backrest and luggage rack. It's a great deal for you since Vic doesn't make them anymore they're worth something like a gazillion dollars.... No, really.
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san antonio, tx | cook06vegas - 2011-08-24 2:02 PM
For your tour pack, I ment...
Thanks for the offer but.... Naw, I need the tour pack. Even if I got rid of it, I'd still have the same problem with that lip on the back of the seat.
I'm just going to modify it. Since I'm going to have to cut the upholstery up to do what I want, I might just recover it in leather if I can find a decent price on some.
After studying the seat and pan, it's not as simple as just slicing off the lip. The pan rises up to meet it as well. I'm going to have to cut the back of the pan and fabricate some sort of extension.
Then I noticed that there are some little wings that stick up from the body panel that the seat pan rides up and over. My first instinct was to just cut them down, but I'm not going to, in case I or the next owner decide to go back to a stock seat. I'll figure something out.
I'll photograph and document the project. Probably start this weekend.
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san antonio, tx | swmckinley54 - 2011-08-24 10:01 PM
I was raised in San Antonio.......its a sh!!ty town. I moved to Austin as quick as I could. LOL
Awww, SA ain't so sh!!ty! It actually happened near Boerne. Course, it was after I left the HD dealership when it happened. Not saying that had anything to do with it of course! |
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san antonio, tx | radioteacher - 2011-08-24 4:33 PM
My wife has the same issue with the seat. That roll in the back scoots her forward.
Well RT, once I'm finished with the modifications, you and her will have to check it out. |
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San Antonio, TX | Keep San Antonio Lame!
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Lansing, MI | Three years ago I was driving a '79 F-350 Crew Cab 4x4 with a 4" lift and 35" tires (big azz truck) I had bought in Laredo through S. A. I was in the far right lane of I-35 on the north side when the left front tire decided to depart from this world. The truck vered left across all four lanes of traffic and I manged to get it under control just before I smashed into a cement wall. I looked in the mirrors and saw cars scattered all across I-35 and clouds of tire smoke everywhere. How I didn't run over a few I'll never know... Yeah, that was wild. I thought S.A. looked like a decent place, for a big city. I'm red neck country boy and tend to stay away from cities. I never understoood why anyone would want to live like that but at the same time I'm glad they do because I like my country side with low population.
That's my one and only story or knowledge of S.A.
BTW, if you think S.A. is bad come on up to Detroit or Flint. SH!T HOLES! Hmmm, wonder why???
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