As some are aware, I smashed up my FJR a couple of months ago.
The damage was considerable.
Wwwwwell, I ordered the necessary pieces from Yamaha, and went to work on it.
And finally, after many hours of wrenching and over $300 in parts, she's back in one piece and good as new!
What? Okay. Joking. That's not the truth.
It took closer to $500 in parts.
Okay. That's not true either.
The reality.
Eleven weeks after my unfortunate off-road adventure, dear Sean and I travelled
down the state to lovely Tustin, a neglected suburb of Los Angeles, and I purchased
a beautiful, new-to-me, near perfect beautiful blue 2006 FJR.
Buying a shiny motorcycle is just about the funnest thing there is!
The bike I bought is the one italiagene (Eugene, bigdolma's father-in-law) had
advertised here on the forum a few weeks ago.
Sean and I drove down very early Saturday morning, and we were in Tustin by 11.
Eugene and I had worked out the deal beforehand, and the transaction took only
about 10 minutes. The bike was as advertised of course, with only about 2000 miles on it!
Eugene and the proud new owner.
I had not been on a bike since my helicopter ride, and I was pretty apprehensive
about jumping on it and wading immediately into SoCal freeway traffic. I suck.
I decided to have Sean ride it for me to a truck stop just north of L.A.
There, I geared up and very nervously "got back on that horse." A lot of things
go through one's mind. It was a bit difficult. I've concluded that some of my injuries
are going to continue to annoy me for quite awhile. That's okay though.
I rode it the rest of the way home - just over 300 miles. I couldn't help stopping
to take a couple of pictures of it. Can't help myself.
(at a rest stop on the friggin' freeway - nice, huh?
)
This morning - sore and tired, but smiling. I even considered jumping back on it,
and heading north in search of Bluestreek's Norcal group coming home from their 3 day adventure.
Instead, I just medicated myself and took a nap.
For those considering it, I highly recommend motorcycle ownership. :lol:
(I understand you can acce$$orize these things? )
The damage was considerable.
Wwwwwell, I ordered the necessary pieces from Yamaha, and went to work on it.
And finally, after many hours of wrenching and over $300 in parts, she's back in one piece and good as new!
What? Okay. Joking. That's not the truth.
It took closer to $500 in parts.
Okay. That's not true either.
The reality.
Eleven weeks after my unfortunate off-road adventure, dear Sean and I travelled
down the state to lovely Tustin, a neglected suburb of Los Angeles, and I purchased
a beautiful, new-to-me, near perfect beautiful blue 2006 FJR.
Buying a shiny motorcycle is just about the funnest thing there is!
The bike I bought is the one italiagene (Eugene, bigdolma's father-in-law) had
advertised here on the forum a few weeks ago.
Sean and I drove down very early Saturday morning, and we were in Tustin by 11.
Eugene and I had worked out the deal beforehand, and the transaction took only
about 10 minutes. The bike was as advertised of course, with only about 2000 miles on it!
Eugene and the proud new owner.
I had not been on a bike since my helicopter ride, and I was pretty apprehensive
about jumping on it and wading immediately into SoCal freeway traffic. I suck.
I decided to have Sean ride it for me to a truck stop just north of L.A.
There, I geared up and very nervously "got back on that horse." A lot of things
go through one's mind. It was a bit difficult. I've concluded that some of my injuries
are going to continue to annoy me for quite awhile. That's okay though.
I rode it the rest of the way home - just over 300 miles. I couldn't help stopping
to take a couple of pictures of it. Can't help myself.
(at a rest stop on the friggin' freeway - nice, huh?
)
This morning - sore and tired, but smiling. I even considered jumping back on it,
and heading north in search of Bluestreek's Norcal group coming home from their 3 day adventure.
Instead, I just medicated myself and took a nap.
For those considering it, I highly recommend motorcycle ownership. :lol:
(I understand you can acce$$orize these things?
)
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