Recent content by coachestabrook

That is the sickest FZ I have ever seen in my life. I bow down to your awesomeness.

You might want to check with another Progressive agent. When I started looking for bikes in Feb '08, I was intitially quoted $2500 per year for a Gixxer 750. I was 45-years-old with no tickets and I told them I thought they must be smoking crack. I almost put my dreams of getting a bike on hold...

Congratulations and welcome to the family. You are going to love that ride.

I'm almost 48 on my license but forever 22 in my head. The FZ is the first bike I have ever had that was actually mine, as opposed to borrowing dad's. 17,000 miles in just over a year and one-half. I have made some inexpensive mods and have others planned as finances permit.

I have had excellent luck with White Lithium with Teflon. My bike sits outside in North Texas, where temps can range from 10*-110* F. over the course of the year. It fixed my sticky ignition cylinder, seat lock and more. I use it to lube hood latch mechanisms on the Jag, as I have a...

First off, awesome project. I have always wondered how I could get rid of my my ugly stock handlebar setup. Second, you guys inadvertantly taught me something about trig. I never had to take trig in college, but I am now studying for the certification test to be able to teach 4-8 math. There are...

How does hitting a 10-pound bird sound? I had the experience, in my second week as a rider after having been off bikes for more than 25 years, of doing just that. While coaching in Jacksboro, I had a 25 mile ride each way on mostly two-lane country highway. I had just started to attain...

Re 45 psi.: I seem to remember reading somewhere (the manual?) about 45 psi if riding at high speeds. If I can plug the tire I can keep the speed down for 6 weeks until I can afford a new tire. I am an unemployed school teacher who is currently waiting tables and will be able to supplement the...

OK, so today was good and bad. Good because I got to ride on my twisty, hilly two-lane country road on the way to my way below my education and skill set job. Bad because I was doing about 85 in a 60 when I came up on a Texas state trooper coming the other way and while I have an M...

I wonder how long before the gubmint does that with our real dollars? Anyways, a good thing for newbies like me?

I bought my bike in Feb '09 with 3,300 miles. I had wanted a bike for years but couldn't justify the cost of such a luxury/toy. I did the math and figured out a bike would pay for itself in what I would save in gas with a 50 mile round-trip commute everyday. At 8,500 miles, after replacing...

Sorry about the double post; I had some bad punctuation there. As a teacher with a journalism degree, I would have to kill myself if I let it stand. How do you delete posts once you put them up?

That's a pretty kewl idea. I am curious though; do they stand out from the headlights at night? Being white and all, I wonder if they are blending in. would be a great mod for my bike if I hadn't already painted my windscreen.

Sweet. And that's all I got to say 'bout that.

I have just hit 10,000 miles on a set of Michelin Power Pilot 2TCs and love these tires. I bought my bike in Feb '09 with 3300 miles and plenty of tread on the stock tires. Since I had not ridden in 25+ years, I was not hard on the tires, as I was kind of a wuss on the bike. By July, right at...