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Come on now , don’t knock the River Roads… I got a pair..perfect for moderate to hot temp days. But since we dropped into the 40’s here i had to upgrade:
http://www.cyclegear.com/spgm.cfm?L1=3&L2=15&L3=&L4=&item=PAR_3310-0007_G&tier2=24
Not used to spending alot of money on something so small, but I ride with no fairings and I am 36 miles a 75+ mph one way to work. Here in NC you need the Water proof along with the wind resistant and the insulation. Mind you though..these bad boys are a bit thick and took a ride or two to get used to . Face mask is definitely in near future.

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registration , docking, set up , accessories if any added at purchase…. ummmm……

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Go for it. I am a cruiser type myself. I have the Vulcan 500 which for my comparatively short self. Its perfect. The V-star I have never sat on but if it gives you leg room, Awesome. Check into the available accessories to see if forward control options are available. I know Places like Scootworks.com and many other sites offer customizing options to give you more leg room.

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As a fellow ( rehabilitating) Jeep-er I am guessing Versys would be better for you. Unless you have a mall crawler… then your back to square one, lol. The Versys from what I seen will let you transition from highway to trail if you get that sudden “Dude you have got to bang a U-ey and look at what (enter name) did this time”.

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I thought Yens were currency…. You-ins……now thats another ball of wax.

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http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/3/11/94/69/ITEM/Vega-Touring-Boots.aspx
Is what I wear. Not over the $100 mark and comfortable as slippers…. They’ve actually kinda replaced my normal everyday wear even when I am not on the bike.
They are rain tested ( I hate not riding to work, gets me in a bad mood) and 90% waterproof. the 10% is really only if you have no rain gear and the water leaks down your now soaked pants INTO the boot. Can we say Lesson learned?
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As I posted above about comedians. I love comedy but I don’t always seems to like all of em. Mel Brooks at times seems a little to eccentric and… well un-intelligent to my taste ( yes I know …passing judgement, lol) I don’t really like alot of movies where the humor is forced, I stay away from Adam Sadler , and Jim Carey. Forced humor doesn’t do it for me. Sarcasm and intelligent back and forth rants where a joke is slipped in leaving one scratching their head wondering if they just heard it, thats more my taste. Or styles like that of Carlin, Gallagher, Robin Williams and Whoopie Goldberg.I can even laugh at new ones like Gabriel Iglesias, George Lopez, Jeff Foxworthy…heck I even like Jeff Dunham the ventriloquist. Guess I am weird and in little company with that.
South Park irritates me to no end.
I grew up and got overloaded and movies like Airplane and Spaceballs and the likes… guess its just gotten old and predictable. But hey …never know when I may come across it and say “what the hell, why not”

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What! Seattle is just starting to get in the 50’s…. what wrong with this picture… lol… I am in the SE and we are seeing 40 degree mornings. Which made me go buy a leather jacket and now today I need to go get more of a gauntlet style gloves, and chaps. My hands are good in summer gloves to about 50 degrees. I am a mechanic so alot of temperature sensitivity is gone. 40 degrees and 75+ mph windchill breaks that limit though, that and my leather jacket is not tight at the wrist , giving enough room for a brisk wind to go straight up my arm…burrr.

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Hate to hear that. Hopefully bad things are like good things… you usually get one a day…. hopefully thats the worse that happens in your biking life.

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Think I rambled and got off topic…. again.
Splitting hairs…. calling something said stupid and ignorant requires passing judgement on the others knowledge and personal standards. Which in the very same instance you are excersizing the very thing that is making you upset and offended.

Ok…I THINK I am done…… stay tuned….

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For the most part, yes , you are right we agree. One thing, which I could be wrong about, is why most shy from this topic. Splitting hairs.
Things you that you may deem stupid may not be to someone else.
Lets go back to the redneck stereotype. I can almost guarantee you that when read, everyone from different locales have their own perspective of what a redneck is. Some see the old school “racist” gun toting, wife beater 3 sizes to small wearing, tobacco juice in his beard having, belligerent drunk. Some see rednecks as Government hating anarchists that have ties to every militia group in the country and listen to shortwave radios exclusively to avoid main stream media slants and corruption. In my neck of the woods we are a group of people very strong in beliefs of having fun and knowing that what we have is what we worked for and being proud of it. We don’t want the Lexus, we understand that its a Camry with the fiberglass package, not all but some of us don’t feel the need to have the status symbol. We already have our friends and family and we know we can count on them day or night.
People could be very much trying to insult me by using those terms and definitions above. I don’t care one way or another. The only value any words have are the ones that you give them. George Carlin did a wonderful spot in his stand up about it. Its not the words, its the tone and context. If you make fun of the context you therefore disarm the implications and disallow it to hurt you. I know …oh great he is referring to comics… Most comedians have more insight then most people give them respect for, they are mostly just philosophical humorists that have to observe the world around them and spin it. Gallagher all be it a tad over the top did great things with it to.

I will say this… I like the quote you added on the bottom of your post. I teach my daughters all the time near the very same thing, ” I don’t care what you believe, as long as you believe in something and it doesn’t hurt anyone”.

Best movie line: “What if someone called your mom a whore?”
response: ” Is she? “
If it’s not the truth it doesn’t matter…. if it is… it still doesn’t matter. You wanna call Sarah Palin “Trailer Trash Barbie” ( sorry got a giggle outta that) then go for it. Should she get mad about it. No. She SHOULD know herself and her lifestyle and know that a moments grace is infinitely more commanding then a moment of justification. Ofcourse that is also touching to close to politics in which I severely hate.
“I consider myself a dazzling urbanite” ROFL….I am gonna have to steal that from you… sorry to damn funny.
Oh yea… one example though from personal experience : Had a customer come in, upset cause she thought her tires didn’t get rotated. She commenced to throwing all kinds of verbal abuse around and looked straight at me and said “All of us Yankees are moving down here to show you backwoods hillbillies the right way to live.” …thought that was funny, I responded by simply smiling and asking “Interesting, I thought our hookers and politicians were already readily available I guess we were lacking in the pusher/mob department, and besides I will remind you that the difference between hillbillies and rednecks ( I look at my work boots) are that rednecks wear shoes”. It took her all of about 5 secs to bust out laughing realizing that everyone falls into a stereotype and that even though she was trying to be insulting I very easily deflected it turned it into something more humorous. After that she also realized we rotate tires…. not wheel covers.

BTW,,,, I love debating with people…its how I learn, had you presented the “argument” from a different PoV I would likely had jumped on that to :^) its how I work and my woman hates it. I hate it sometimes cause I get to good at playing devils advocate.

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commend you both on being very reasonable and responsible. Not that you need any approval but you have it incase you wanted it.
I just talked to a guy today at the gas station on a shiny new “Busa”. Asked him how fast he had it so far and his reply was 162… he kinda turned red (not mad red but embarrassed)and looked away when I told him that if he passed me I would just have to wave at him cause no way would I ever touch that even if my bike had the capability. After that I told him shiny side up and not to let me read about him in the paper.
Keep your heads on your current thought patterns and you give yourselves the best chances to enjoy your motorcycle for a very long time.

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must be overdone I was thinking Disney ( yea I got kids) with a Goofey episode.

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I will touch the subject. PC is a crock and relatively useless. You can immediately catch those who refer to it and know they have more issues generally then the person they are going after. What does it matter if it was to set the scene or really an underlying stereotypical remark? Did it effect the way the sun rose for you the next morning…. or how about wether or not you got the paper? If you got nothing more in your day then to worry about someone broad stroking society with stereo types or wether someones feelings got inconveniently stepped on then I would say to you that you are likely not concentrating enough on your own happiness. Let the offended speak up for their personal feelings. Unless they are mute its not your responsibility.
Stereotypes suck, I agree, hell I fit some of them. Do I care… no. Why because I have a redneck exterior and I have fun blowing peoples minds when I give them food for thought and can hold a conversation at the dinner table on a level they would never in a million years picture me doing. If people would however quit living the stereotypes, there would not be any.
However I can almost agree, to a point, on sensitivity…or better put ….. tact. Freedom to speak your mind does not mean that you have to refer to the handicapped by their given affliction or even the fact that they are handicapped at all. Talking to people at most time requires some tact, however does not ean you have to be PC….
I work in a town known as Cary, warmly and proven to be fubbed: Central Area of Relocated Yankees.
Rude… maybe to some…. but the town itself has now adopted the idea and almost are proud of it. Doesn’t mean when I walk out to the waiting area I will ask for the “Yankee that owns the B-mer please come to the service area” . However if chance lends itself to conversation I am not gonna sidestep any remarks about the nickname.
Personally GOOD people learn to make light of what they get dubbed with…. heck some make millions from it.
Jeff Foxworthy made millions off making fun of his previous lifestyle as a redneck
Alot of Rappers make millions off of being “gangsta”
If you take the possibility of hurtful things to the future offender you therefore have effectively disarm them.
I have lost my front teeth by being headbutted by a horse. At the moment I don’t have the money to get it fixed. However when I talk to new people I can immediately see their eyes go straight to my grill…. and I know the first usual though ” God this guy must be a heroin addict”….lol….. I would probably think the same also. I take control of the situation and first thing I tell them and with a totthless smile like that of a 7 yr old….. “No I don’t do drugs, yea I am a redneck, no I didn’t fight your brother. My womans horse headbutted me after she thought she saw a snake” . At which point alot of questions ensue and the ice has been broken.

Doh…I gots plenty more I can type but hell even I am getting tired of reading. One more point though…. I am not implementing you personally above, “you” is another broad stroke of those with that train of thought.

Oh yea….isn’t libertarian another stereotyping title, how about democrat or republican, oh wait …we dismiss that as a “party” ( even which neither have ribbons and balloons) so that’s different. Sorry…..ok ….stopping now……..

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