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OK folks, Update from the Weather Man in Seattle !!! The Rain is comeing !!! Starting this afternoon. 20 Inches !!!!! Bye the time that gets to Idaho, and beyond, Its going to be SNOW !!!! Get out there and Sharpen Up your Snow Shovels ----
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It's that time again, so here we go..... Lets call it from now until September...oh 15th, I'm taking $5 off of the H/D Muffler brackets. http://www.venturerider.org/classifieds/showproduct.php/product/1370/cat/1 They are normally $40 shipped to your door, so now let's call them $35 shipped in the continental USA and $40 into Canada (sorry guys, mail is eating me alive shipping to you) If you have been procrastinating and waiting to see if they will go on sale, here's the chance. I have about 10 sets ready to go. So come on now and buy them up, I need some more chrome for the '08
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Checking out the 09 VStar 1300 against 07 and in the specs they have a small error..........the bike has gotten quite a bit taller it seems........ 2009 VStar 1300 ....................... 2007 VStar 1300 http://www.starmotorcycles.com/assets/common/line.gifHeight 43.9 in...................................... 59.8 in http://www.starmotorcycles.com/star/products/modelspeccompare/527/1542/0/compare.aspx
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So..... it looks like the only "realy" US made touring bike is moving to Japan by 2009. (Yes, yes... I know ... Harley, Victory etc... Sorry , but look at the Keihin carbs and many other Delco, Bosh etc. parts I would hardly call those US made - perhaps US assembled would be more correct - and it shows by the trail of pars left on the road...) Wonder what that's going to do to the price.... Oh well, at least the quality will probably get better. I wonder if the design will change when they start to consider global, rather than just US sales. Smaller engine? Less plastic? Less comfort? Narrower profile able to handle European perpetual road-jams? Will it start looking like a bavarian donkey with a broken back (BMW) ?
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Maybe this is bad timing or poor taste at the moment, but this happened to me yesterday. I pulled onto a four lane highway and headed into town. The next vehicle down was a garbage truck. (He was a ways down there. I had plenty of room.) It was still a bit dim and with a light mist in the air. Plenty of visibility, but it's extremely humid and my helmet visor wouldn't stay clear. I pulled off onto a side street where I took the visor off of the helmet, and put it in a sidebag so I could see. I put the helmet back on and get back on the highway. A few miles up the road I see there is an accident just after a crossroad. I hear sirens as police and an ambulance are just arriving. As I go by I see a minivan in the ditch, and the garbage truck is on the side of the road, looking like it's totally untouched. I'm guessing that the minivan driver didn't see the garbage truck and pulled out right in front of it. If someone didn't see a garbage truck, the person sure wouldn't have seen me. Sorry it was him, but glad it wasn't me. I would have been the one in the ditch rather than the minivan. The guy in the garbage truck probably wasn't hurt at all. If I hadn't pulled off the road to remove my visor, I would have still been in front of the garbage truck. :yikes:
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