Glad to hear you survived 1) Kansas, 2) buying spousal gifts, 3) loading the bike. Now, of the three I'd have ranked Kansas as the most dangrous, but experience seems to suggest otherwise.

I think lots of dings, dents and damaged body parts have occured loading & unloading a motorbike into/out of a pickup bed.

jh

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