Look What Was Delivered To My Door Today

[Charlie Hoss]

Congrats on your new baby! I hope to run in to you (not literally) somewhere on these NE roads.

 

[ionbeam]

Wellalrightynow!!! Congratulations on the new bike. Great delivery room pictures too. When you go to the Gaspe Peninsula this summer I'll be looking for some pictures from Lands End

too bad it's blue

The bike may be blue, but Skip is not (anymore). :lol:

 

[Clark Kent]

I have been trying to sell my '06 FZ-1 since last August after taking a trip to the Canadian maritimes where I realized I should be on an FJR. I needed more creature comforts and storage capacity if I'm going to do a week or more long tours.No takers on the FZ-1 until a guy in Colorado who owned an '06 FJR saw my ad on this forum and wanted an FZ-1. Could this be a match made on an internet forum? OK, so we send pictures and descriptions and basically try to feel each other out as to can we trust each other? After much discussion we decided to cast fate to the wind and say let's do it. A shipping company was hired to pick up each of our bikes, money was exchanged on my end, titles, bills of sales, and keys and manuals mailed to each other. Now the wait. When will the bikes arrive? Will we both be in the middle of a snowstorm when the truck arrives?

He received his FZ-1 first, was in the middle of a semi break from winter, slapped on a plate and took off on an 85 mile ride to see what his new bike is like. He loves it and is in the middle of doing the farkle thing.

I finally get the call yesterday that the truck will be at my house today. The ramp door opens and my FJR must be up front as I can't see it. All I can see is a Repsol Honda 1000 with it's single underseat muffler peeking back at me. Next thing I see are the svelt lines and side cases that only the FJR has as he backs it out onto the lift gate. He get's it on the ground and we push it up the driveway (just sanded) and into the garage where it will remain until the snow and ice melts. That leaves time to order all the accessories I plan to add for summer riding which at this point is (only)? two months away. I'm already in the planning stages of a tour to the Gaspe Peninsula in July. Now I know I will enjoy this summers tour as I have the right bike.

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE RAN THOSE PHOTOS BACKWARDS!

or :angry:

Who was the shipping company and what was the charge?

CK ((Just kidding about running those photos backwards.)

"Once the FJR is out of the truck, you can't put it back in!"

 

[bluejag]

Smokey and the bandit stike again!! now off to maine to git sum clam chowda!!!

 

[Clark Kent]

Hey, I've seen that same truck before, in front of my house!

Now I am an honest man! However, if I ever hijack a tuck, this will be the one!

CK

 

[slick001]

congrats on the new ride.

now you will get all excited every time you see a big blue and white semi coming down the road!

 

[throttlejockeyTJ]

Surprise two people find each other that wants what the other guy's got.

 

[Nice Rumble]

You gotta love the power of the internet. Without it we'd each by trying to sell our respective bikes and then having to buy what we wanted.

 

[Silver Penguin]

Now that's an impressive arrival!

Jill

 

[Mighty Joe]

Nice snowy/cold day! I'm betting you rode 'er anyway!

Enjoy,

MJ

 

[War Machine]

Nice snowy/cold day! I'm betting you rode 'er anyway!
Enjoy,

MJ

+1 on the snow thing. I would have run it up & down my driveway if I had to!

Many safe miles may you both travel.

 

[Bunker]

I used Daily Direct for a Ducati I bought in early December of '02. I live in a semi-rural area and as luck would have it, we were having a big early-winter snowstorm. The DD driver flagged down a plow truck to confirm directions and it turned out the plow truck driver was a neighbor of mine so he gave DD an escort to my house. As they turned onto my road, the DD driver called me on his cellphone and immediately started singing to the tune of 'Let it Snow':

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful, as I deliver your motorcycle...".

That guy was the best PR a company could ask for!

 

[Cdogman]

God we are a funny group of people.

We treat the delivery of a bike like the birthing of a child. I am sooo proud

Congrats

 

[JETSET]

Congrats I wll be picking up my 07 next friday.

 

[cota95]

Cool...I'll be stopping by to check her out when the weather breaks.