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Benefits of owning multiple bikes

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matt365 said:
Off my 2014 str.

Pretty basic nut and bolt. I wouldnt be riding back to GP Bikes for this...

Tried to upload another pic. Tapatalk said it was an "adult image".

Looked like a rad guard and a bracket to me. Bike porn?
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yeah, thats what the dealer told me as well, I'll be picking up the hardware locally soon
 
Having different bikes for different types of riding is great. If I want to hit the track, take the race bikes; woods, take the dirt bikes; frozen lake? Studded mini bike! Need my ice cream fix in a town far away, the street bike!

Only problem is storing the 9 bikes in a one car garage
 
Amazon said:
Having different bikes for different types of riding is great. If I want to hit the track, take the race bikes; woods, take the dirt bikes; frozen lake? Studded mini bike! Need my ice cream fix in a town far away, the street bike!

Only problem is storing the 9 bikes in a one car garage
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Please tell me you're not silly enough to store a car in that garage.
 
Amazon said:
Having different bikes for different types of riding is great. If I want to hit the track, take the race bikes; woods, take the dirt bikes; frozen lake? Studded mini bike! Need my ice cream fix in a town far away, the street bike!
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That right there is the real benefit to owning multiple bikes.

When you get Two-Wheeled Fever in a bad way, you realize motorcycling is not just track, or sumo, or dirt, or street, or touring, or trials, or etc. etc. etc. and it is *so* much nicer having specialized machinery for whatever discipline you're undertaking at the time.

Although I may have taken a heavy-weight adventure bike on single track, toured on a dirt bike and taken a sport-touring motorcycle on the track...

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Amazon said:
Having different bikes for different types of riding is great. If I want to hit the track, take the race bikes; woods, take the dirt bikes; frozen lake? Studded mini bike! Need my ice cream fix in a town far away, the street bike!

Only problem is storing the 9 bikes in a one car garage
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If you organize them correctly, you can pack 12 in a single bay.
 
Mad Mike said:
If you organize them correctly, you can pack 12 in a single bay.
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We have a large work bench, tool box and drill press in there too. There's barely enough room to work on a bike, so usually one or two have to hang outside for the day.
 
bigpoppa said:
yeah, thats what the dealer told me as well, I'll be picking up the hardware locally soon
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Grab some Loctite Blue, any time a bolt shimmies itself loose it's a candidate.

Loctite Blue also protects against Loctite Orange.
 
I have a couple loose bolts (in my head).
I'm going to go by a second bike. Maybe a VStrom 800DE🤪
 
oioioi said:
I have a couple loose bolts (in my head).
I'm going to go by a second bike. Maybe a VStrom 800DE🤪
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Since my old bikes don't have rev limiters I tell people the rev limiter is in my head and it's broken.
 
timtune said:
Since my old bikes don't have rev limiters I tell people the rev limiter is in my head and it's broken.
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I miss old school rev limit by valve float. That was a much more visceral experience than banging into an electronic ceiling.
 
I had an old KZ650 (78?). It redlined around 9000 but it would pull strongly to over 11,000. I tried not to test that too often....
 
gsxr guy said:
I do live in motorcycle fantasy land, where the roads are only straight for 2 gears.
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I prefer having the excuse to go back to Thailand over and over. 🙂
 
It is done, got the hardware for free (Thanks brafasco)
 
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