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Definitely all worked out on this end, and was a real pleasure to meet the gentleman that is @hymnz . I know what a relief it is to get that full M under your belt. Next thread will be about sorting that Yamaha clutch and belt system, it's way more complex than the Burgman's centrifugal...

Ticks all the boxes @Evoex mentions. Let me know, could meet you at the test centre if that works...

Have you already cancelled? I have a Burgman 400 you could borrow for the test...

Probably the right decision for the time. I did this one in late August, and spots in California and Oregon were quite toasty. I only dipped into California, too, just the top third and turned around before it got really nuts in San Francisco. You got lots of highlights for the PNW still...

Small potatoes compared to some here, but this is my longest tour AND the furthest from home I've gotten on a bike. Some pretty insane roads in NorCal and eastern Oregon, though...

More derail! Apologies all... While I admire the thought, the reality is that keeping something liveable for a couple and two dogs and is also towable under 5000 lbs just doesn't line up with construction trailers. They're much more solidly built, but definitely not cheaper, and definitely...

That would be us. When I was pricing it out, outdoor storage on a 25' trailer could be had for as little as $50/mo unsecured and $100-150/mo secured. Assuming secured, works out to $1400-2000/yr. Add $4-600/yr insurance, and just possessing the thing costs $2500/yr. Maintenance is never ending...

To be honest, I have never looked particularly deeply into how financing works on RV's. The thought of buying a massively depreciating asset (value plummets so fast they make German luxury cars look like a good investment) that way seems like such a bad idea that I've never done much but laugh...

Much as I'd love to have a good old-fashioned HD gloat, I don't see anything here that looks too catastrophic for HD in particular. Rather numbers that reflect trends across all industries selling expensive recreational toys. The only number that's really dropped in a meaningful way YOY is Q3...

Are those segments, "I like orange/Austria," "I like yellow/Sweden," and, "I like red/Spain"? Heck, they even do it with their MotoGP bikes. Same bike, different logo. Speaking of which, rumours are that KTM is only second to Ducati in money spent in the series, wonder if that will dry up...

Maybe they're all that counts in product design, but Toyota is the world's largest car manufacturer (by volume) largely on the back of their reputation for value, quality and reliability, and the same can be said for Honda in the motorcycle world. Perceived quality does matter for sales, and...

Agreed, though the question seems to be whether the street side has gotten so big that it could drag the dirt side down with it. A huge percentage of their growth over the last decade has been on the street side, after all. Maybe MV Agusta is cursed! Not sure how HD's struggles and subsequent...

Fair enough. I mostly stopped paying attention when I lived in BC, as it might as well have been BSB for how local it was. I can also see why Calabogie is off the calendar, as it's a trackday track, not an event track. Would still love GB to repair their grandstand, though, as it's good enough...

That's the one I got, only because it was on sale. There's a cheaper blue one that appears to be largely identical, and as long as you don't have a massive dresser, is fine. The front wheel chock on both is garbage, but you can get a much higher quality one from PA for not a lot more that works...

Have a look on Facebook. I deleted my Facebook profile ages ago, but ended up making a fake name one both for access to the RC51 owners groups and classifieds. I found most smaller model-specific forums have migrated there, sadly. Edit: looks like there's three Facebook groups, two private. One...

You're right in that the deepest I got was down to a bare frame and engine, everything else except the triple tree was stripped. But even dropping a motor requires tearing a lot of the bike off, I would still want the lift for all that and especially for reassembly. Not to mention, if you're...

Others here will have a LOT more experience than me on the specifics of your rebuild, but I can share some lessons I learned taking a beat up street RC51 and converting it to a track bike. I never got as far as splitting cases or removing heads, but I did get pretty deep, including swapping...

Whoa. Only five rounds? Just as many in Alberta as Ontario? No Grand Bend or Calabogie? No Shannonville closer? Season over in early August? I've complained in the past about it being the Ontario SBK championship, but this is unexpected...

Everything you say about debt to buy brands, pricing and multiple models with different colour plastic is very true, but I think you're underestimating the huge impact that perceived quality has on buyers, especially when you're trying to market yourself as a prestige European brand. Bikes...

BoC comes down 0.5% today. Pretty much as expected.