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I attended last weekend's Surviving the Streets in Cayuga and I think it's a good way to get familiar with your bike on a reasonable budget over a single day, especially if the 2 day courses would involve needing overnight accommodation. It started out slowly with a casual classroom session...

Pretty much this. Not that women have to look a certain way to please anybody else, and at least they love to ride, but I have met a few veteran riders in their 40's and 50's and the skin on their faces is noticeably damaged by the elements and they've always been beanie wearing cruiser gals...

It's all nice up there. Enjoy. My season is not complete without a few loops summer and fall. FWIW, #38, 25 km north of Port Severn that gets you from Hwy 400 over to Bala is in very good shape and I rarely see much traffic. It was maybe 2 to 3 years ago that it was re-paved. The popular...

That tree had it coming, being all showy with those nice branches and growing out in the open like that. Same here with the 4:30 time line, west of Orangeville. The power bounced back and forth about half a dozen times, but not even long enough each time for the desktop fan to come to a stop...

Feels great, doesn't it? :) I got it down to where I could walk maybe 10 minutes to the store, but I'd take an hour on the way home because I stopped in to see the other merchants on the street. Then I could walk the dogs, take out the canoe, make some dinner, mow the lawn and still have 'me'...

I choose the lane closest to the softest landing. I don't care if it's the left or the right, but that's often the outside lane with no guardrail preventing me from going for the grass median if **** goes south with a multi car pile up and I'm going to part of the steel sammich. (never happened...

Like the guy needs another free opinion, but none has addressed compression braking. As an inline 4 rider and before that a triple, I would offer that the SV is a better choice for now. I rode an SV650 for a few hours coming straight off my 1100 cc I-4. The twin's response is more "in the...

L means that when the battery terminals are closest to you, the Positive terminal is on your right. (Makes sense to use the letter L to mean something is on the right, doesn't it?) The L orientation seems to be a little harder to find for that size battery, same one I use. In the battery you...

They didn't want to pass me, they wanted to fly in formation with me at the front. They had plenty of opportunities to pass. Lemmings.

I bought one of those jacks against the advice of a friend who had at least one kicking around under a bench. That's where mine ended up, all bright and shiny next to his dusty ones. Two issues: For a bike where the exhaust is lower than the frame, it would need some kind of alterations to catch...

I took the air horns out of my car at one point. Fine for other vehicles to hear you but if a pedestrian walked into my path, they just froze, terrified, instead of getting out of the way. It's too much for them, LOL.

Using an RK 530XS0Z1 on my FJ1100 going into my 4th season with it. From canadasmotorcycle.com For DIY installation I bought the beefier tool that can be found at Royal. It was a pleasure to use. The one as sold under the Motion Pro name among others is a PITA to use on 530 chains. I wouldn't...

Good call. One thing DIY'ers can look for is called 4 way stretch material. If you are not that experienced at manipulating traditional vinyl or cutting your own panels to fit, this stuff will overlook some shortcomings because it stretches in every direction. Common practice is to cut the side...

How about turning the tables and picture yourself riding alone in a busy Muskoka town, slowed down to a crawl and doing a mild weave to keep upright instead of hanging a foot only to find a hardley has inched up beside you, uninvited, cutting off your space to maneuver? I figured he just wanted...

Yamaha MSRP $15499 (from OPs link) Aprilia Tuono $18095 http://www.aprilia-canada.ca/motorcycles/tuono-v4-1100-factory-abs.html

lol.

I'm surprised at how many replies are mentioning "glass". Most of these cheap mirrors are acrylic or something instead of glass. Generally you can tell by the weight, or tap it with your fingernail. And the image is generally inferior with plastic but that would depend on the quality, clarity...

I had an instant deflation on a car as I was getting on to the 409 from the 401 at the exit to Belfield Rd. You're coming in to traffic on the left most lane so you have to keep on the gas and the merge is curved all the way. The car hopped sideways across two lanes to the right before I knew...

NO. The "car in front" could have changed three times over by the time that car has to leave. He has no influence on how close those cars back up to him when parallel parking. And now there is a motorcycle squeezed in that took what ever cushion he may have originally tried to leave behind him...

Well this forum didn't disappoint me one bit. I figured if the cops needed a clue who they are dealing with, come to GTAM....etc. as I now have, and read all the statements defending the actions of the rider. I figure he is on here somewhere soon trolling for sage legal advice, now that he's...