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Old 05-09-2008, 03:26 AM
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Deej,

Your'e goin to need a pilots license for that thing. By the time you figure out what all of the widgets do, you will be too old to ride. It almost looks like a spacecraft!
One thing about it, if you hit a deer, you will probably just run over it and keep on going. I think it's big enough for a cow catcher like the old steam engines, or woud that be a deer deflector in modern terms.
Maybe if you get that thing you can ride east to see us!
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 04:14 AM
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Wow that thing has more buttons then my PC keyboard.
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 05:17 AM
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Deej,

Your'e goin to need a pilots license for that thing. By the time you figure out what all of the widgets do, you will be too old to ride. It almost looks like a spacecraft!
One thing about it, if you hit a deer, you will probably just run over it and keep on going. I think it's big enough for a cow catcher like the old steam engines, or woud that be a deer deflector in modern terms.
Maybe if you get that thing you can ride east to see us!
I have my license and I cant figure it out, lol. Looks like a sweet ride tho
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 05:26 AM
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2x Goldwings carving and scraping at the dragon At about 58 seconds you see just one of many switchbacks that is as quick as a sportbike in direction change

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kFleFrJx7nw
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 06:22 AM
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A GW would seem impractical for daily city riding, but on the highway, that bike would be KING!
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 08:54 AM
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do it deej!!!!
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 01:42 PM
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A GW would seem impractical for daily city riding
Why do you say that? Highly manueverable, easy to park, better mileage than a Smart Car and certainly a lot easier on the eyes. There are 3 GWs in my parking garage almost any day it isn't raining (and on some that it is, like today). Side note - at 40+mph - only the corners of your shoulders and the very top of your helmet gets wet if it is raining. This is by design.
 
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Old 05-09-2008, 02:25 PM
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Old 05-09-2008, 02:27 PM
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I don't know......for some reason I like the older bikes.......I wonder why that could be?

$1500.00 Man this thingis sweet.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/mcy/672893853.html

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Old 05-09-2008, 02:28 PM
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what the hell do all those buttons do? it looks like a control panel from the original battlestar galactica show
 

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