Just found out that the usual setup fee for this one is $1000.
I had my 1985 600R delivered to my driveway in Alaska from the motorcycle dealer in Federal Way, Washington.
They come 90% assembled in a wooden crate.
Usually the motorcycle dealer finishes assembly and then also does a QA inspection to make sure everything is as it's supposed to be.
Anyways, this one must come with more parts needing attached, because $1000 setup fee seems 3 times more than what I'd expect, having assembled my 600R from a crate in the past.
And
@ghb : my super sport days are long behind me
Aside from a short break during marriage, I have ridden motorcycles since I was 4 years old (didn't learn how to ride a bicycle until I was 8 years old).
And I've learned restraint when riding on the roads.
The wife had no idea what kind of can of worms she opened up by letting me get that scooter...
I told you guys after I got the scooter that it'd be 1-3 years before upgrading to a Ninja.
So it's now almost exactly 18-mos since then.
My next goal is also in 1 to 3 years: a Ninja 650R, which is nowhere near as radical as the Ninja ZX-6R.
It's more of a sport tour bike that happens to be able to keep up with the Ninja 636 and ZX-6R when in the right hands, but won't break your back or wrists or cramp your legs on long rides.
With a bad back & radial tunnel & carpal tunnel, I need the more upright seating so I can ride for more than 15 minutes at a time.
Anyways (damn these sativas), I really appreciate the well wishes to be safe
Shit can happen at any time when on two wheels, so I keep my head on a swivel & wired to my ass.
I expect everyone to not see me, and don't hotdog or drive too much like a squid, so that rases the safety odds a bit.
And I'm an "All the gear, all the time." kind of rider.
Gotta live before we die, so I'm grabbing the bull by the balls and playing patty cakes with his baby maker sack!
Time to wake & bake.
Paperwork gets filled out today and submitted, then driving out to Bend to visit the wife's ant & uncle-in-law so we'll be stopping in to the motorcycle dealership to get some face time with them, and so I can check out the bike.
Once things are finalized, I take my 42mph scooter on a 20-mile road trip out of town on a 65mph highway that everyone does 80mph on (OR Highway 22E), to do the trade-in, and get the keys to my new bike.
The highway drive on the scooter will be...
... interesting.
If things work out, it should be early to mid-week next week.
And the plants are budding up nicely in the back yard!
Will have some new pics a bit later today when the sun hits them.
Wake & bake!!!
(finishing the second half of the joint I started last night)