vizhip
12-23-2009, 11:03 PM
I have a very bad habit of procrastinating anything that is not work, which includes riding and checking out the forums I am a member of... Others call me a work-a-holic, but they just haven't figured out the procrastination angle yet...
I first rode a Yamaha back in 1976... and while I enjoyed it, I never made it a priority...
This year one of my co-workers talked me into taking a safety course... and of course, I crashed the course bike on the 2nd day, but managed to pass the test given an hour later... go figure...
From there, it was a matter of finding a bike that I liked... and the rep of the BMW bikes lured me into sitting on a few... and the local dealership had a salesman (Jon) that was great in working with my lack of experience... Needless to say, I became the proud owner of a used BMW, but one that I found I enjoyed...
I need to take the time to ride it more often as I found out that riding it 10 minutes a night runs down the battery REAL quick... but rides of 2+ hours have it humming beautifully... The bike has more endurance than I do currently, but maybe in the spring I will rectify that... if my procrastination doesn't catch up with me again...
Since the bike purchase, I have managed to put off joining the BMWMOA until I got a letter reminding me that I hadn't joined yet... thus... I took the easy way out and joined online...
Fortunately the 2000 R1100RT does not have the canbus system on it, so I can begin looking around for some WARM gear to plug into the electrical system... that is, if my co-worker convinces me that the chill factor wont turn me into a popsicle like walking across the parking lot at work has been doing of late... My co-worker rides his bike on any day that it isn't raining... How ??? I have no idea... he must not have any feeling in his extremeties...
One thing I am NOT looking forward to is pulling the faring off... It seems the previous owner left me with a bunch of wires that terminate near the handlebars where he had a GPS installed and possibly a comm system as well as some driving lights... also a radio that was designed for a JEEP rather than a bike... so one of these days I will have to trace everything down and remove all the extra junk so I can run my OWN farkles...
Of course, that means I have to remember to stop working and stop procrastinating about life outside of work and do something fun... after obtaining the proper tools... or maybe I will ride the bike over to my co-workers and make HIM take it all apart... except I would be afraid he would make me put it back together, which means time to learn a bit about the mechanics of the bike...
As you can see, I have a lot to learn about the bike as well as learning how to ride it... and my co-worker needs to learn the difference between stretching my comfort zone and shattering it completely in the routes he takes when we go out riding... After a couple of "Oops, didn't mean to go that way!" I am beginning to think he is DEVIOUS in trying to get me more familiar with the way the bike handles...
and before I return to building yet another Siebel Enterprise on the latest set of servers given to me for that purpose, I better wish everyone Happy Holidays...
Regards -
-Bob
I first rode a Yamaha back in 1976... and while I enjoyed it, I never made it a priority...
This year one of my co-workers talked me into taking a safety course... and of course, I crashed the course bike on the 2nd day, but managed to pass the test given an hour later... go figure...
From there, it was a matter of finding a bike that I liked... and the rep of the BMW bikes lured me into sitting on a few... and the local dealership had a salesman (Jon) that was great in working with my lack of experience... Needless to say, I became the proud owner of a used BMW, but one that I found I enjoyed...
I need to take the time to ride it more often as I found out that riding it 10 minutes a night runs down the battery REAL quick... but rides of 2+ hours have it humming beautifully... The bike has more endurance than I do currently, but maybe in the spring I will rectify that... if my procrastination doesn't catch up with me again...
Since the bike purchase, I have managed to put off joining the BMWMOA until I got a letter reminding me that I hadn't joined yet... thus... I took the easy way out and joined online...
Fortunately the 2000 R1100RT does not have the canbus system on it, so I can begin looking around for some WARM gear to plug into the electrical system... that is, if my co-worker convinces me that the chill factor wont turn me into a popsicle like walking across the parking lot at work has been doing of late... My co-worker rides his bike on any day that it isn't raining... How ??? I have no idea... he must not have any feeling in his extremeties...
One thing I am NOT looking forward to is pulling the faring off... It seems the previous owner left me with a bunch of wires that terminate near the handlebars where he had a GPS installed and possibly a comm system as well as some driving lights... also a radio that was designed for a JEEP rather than a bike... so one of these days I will have to trace everything down and remove all the extra junk so I can run my OWN farkles...
Of course, that means I have to remember to stop working and stop procrastinating about life outside of work and do something fun... after obtaining the proper tools... or maybe I will ride the bike over to my co-workers and make HIM take it all apart... except I would be afraid he would make me put it back together, which means time to learn a bit about the mechanics of the bike...
As you can see, I have a lot to learn about the bike as well as learning how to ride it... and my co-worker needs to learn the difference between stretching my comfort zone and shattering it completely in the routes he takes when we go out riding... After a couple of "Oops, didn't mean to go that way!" I am beginning to think he is DEVIOUS in trying to get me more familiar with the way the bike handles...
and before I return to building yet another Siebel Enterprise on the latest set of servers given to me for that purpose, I better wish everyone Happy Holidays...
Regards -
-Bob