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Again, I've always said these Americas and Speedmasters are just sports bikes in cruiser bodies - intended to be rode fast and hard. Makes you want and appreciate the wild side of the sport, doesn't it?
to a certain extent; absolutely. my body is so accustom to cutting hard turns and really leaning the america to the scraping point. the bike takes the punishment so well.
i look forward to the day when i have that same comfort level with the yamaha. i have five years of trial and error under my belt and boots on the triumph. i don't think it will take too much time to get the true feel for the yamaha though.
i have the triumph out with me tonight, such a great feeling to get back into the corbin and feel so tucked in.
man, i love this sport.
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Wow, lil'm that is a very nice bike. Also, not a bad job of rationalization. If I can convince Nina that that one followed you home, I could maybe get a T100 or Bonnie black to follow me home. Hmmmmm!
Thom
I might be wrong, I sometimes am.
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You may want to check if the new cans will lower low end torque. Most performance boost is in the top rpms when changing out the cans and doing a remap. That's why I'm keeping my tiger stock in that regard.The best option I put on the bike was heated grips.
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psssst...triple digits...
too smooth. so smooth.
sweet and smooth.
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Heh Heh! 
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However a couple of scary-close encounters on my way to work yesterday have changed the time line on that.
I owned one of these back in 05, was a fun little bike. There are several options for the exhaust, Laser Deep tone has two options, one a 2 can, one a 4 can setup, I had the 4 can, was very happy with looks and sound, burbled like a small V-8 at idle and screamed like an F-1 race car at redline. Is pricy (I got mine for free) but cool looking seeing the 4 chrome pipes under the seat. Of course Two Brothers and Demon has systems too, may be more now. BIG plus is the tube to eliminate the CC. There is a pretty tight FZ-6 community on sportbikes.com I think.
Bike was too small for me, not enough power, but a great overall inexpensive standard. Sold it in 6 months, but did US129 and Cherahola Skyway twice on it, lots of fun. Wait till you can spend the day in the 8-13,000 rev range.......... Thats when you will like it more ;-)
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and, 76 miles into a 145 mile, early morning run.
frankie finally reached the 1K mark.
we did triple digits -- again -- in 5th gear
this time. no where near red line yet.
did my first scrapies too.
wanted to get the miles in before the
weather got too funky to enjoy.
gonna park myself near the AC for a few
hours and watch Long Way Round.
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