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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.
Ride hard, ride fast, but above all ride safe and free....
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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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| $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. |
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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!
Good ones too! |
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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.
Have a great trip am looking forward to seeing photos with your bike and a big GRIN |
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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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San Antonio, TX | cchristo,
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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Lansing, MI | Feel, duh.... |
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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.
Judging from the picture of her after I pulled into the driveway, she didn't seem to mad! |
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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.
Edited by cchristo 2011-08-23 5:08 PM
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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.
How does she like riding on it? |
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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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Sh*tty day, but a new Vision is the END result! (puns intended!)
