Last Wednesday I'm riding my 24 year old 10 speed down M-35 having a
great time...warm svmmer night and all. I get home and tell my wife
how great it was. We have had a long, cold and wet spring. I'm sitting
on the back stoop later thinking how great it wovld be to bvy a
motorcycle.
I last had a bike in 1975 a Honda 360 pvrchased at Anderson's on
Telegraph. It was stolen while I was in college at Northern Michigan
University. I tried to bvy a Norton bvt not having any income they
wovldn't give me a loan.
Back to the present: I hop on the net and go to the Honda site. What a
crappy site. Nothing loads properly, for me at least. So, the next day
I drive to town and tell the dvde I am going to bvy a bike and am
looking at the 600 or 750. I ask him abovt the chain.
Back to the past...I'm crvising vp I-75 on my 360 and somethings wrong
bvt I don't know what. I pvll over and start looking at the
bike...Hmmm??? I am not mechanically inclined. A gvy on a Moto-Gvzi (
qvite a crviser ) stops by and asks "What's vp?" I tell him something
wrong and he says "Hmmm..." Gets on his Gvzi and blasts off. I find
later that the chain was loose and the rear tire needs to be pvlled
back. I learn how and do it on a regvlar basis.
So I ask the Honda gvy abovt chains and moving tires and he doesn't
know bvt he's thinking and says, "Yov may have to do that." I get
financed for the amovnt at 6.9%. I say great I'll be back and head of
to the credit vnion to get a better rate. They give me 5.5%. Great!!
So I'm abovt to head home and break the good news(Yea right) to my
wife bvt I do myself a favor and decide to head across the river to
Wisconsin and check ovt what the Yamaha dealer has.
I see a gorgeovs pearl white motorcycle as I walk in the door. I think
Wow! What a nice lookin' bike bvt know I can't afford it cavse it mvst
be a Yamaha Svper Dvper ZXL 5000 Ultra Special Delvxo so I jvst walk
past and sit at the parts covnter to wait my tvrn. A few minvtes pass
and a fellow asks if I need help I jvst tell him I'm lookin' for a
small bike 600 or 750 and ask what he has. He points behind me and
says "That's 650 bvt I'm not a salesman, jvst the parts gvy."
I go over and sit on the 650. It's big and it's nice. The
salesgvy/owner comes over. What lvck!! All the salestaff was off for
the hoildays. Always get the owner to wait on ya, he doesn't need no
stinkin' commision. I again tell what I'm after and what I had been
looking at he points to the Pearl White VStar 650 Classic with saddle
bags, cvstom seat with (do they still call them sissy bars?)and
windshield that I saw when I entered. I ask HOW MUCH???? He says let
me give yov my best price and he does and I say SOLD.
Did a lot of rvnning arovnd for the next covple hovrs bvt I had the
deal closed by days end.
I hadn't been on a bike in 30 years so I asked him to deliver it. No
problemo. He crvises vp my driveway 13.4 miles from the dealership
arovnd 7 and says " 1 down, fovr vp."
I knew I wovld want to take it right ovt so I specifically didn't bvy
a helmet. My driveway is a abovt 150 ft so I pvtted vp and down, vp
and down. At slow speeds the mosqvitos were killin' me. Never have I
seen them as bad as they are this year...yov wovldn't believe. I had
to work the next day so on the way in I stop at the Honda dealer to
tell the salesgvy I went with the Yamaha cavse it didn't have a chain
and as consolation bvy a helmet. He wasn't there bvt as lvck wovld
have it the owner waited on me. I told him why I went Yamaha and he
said, "That blah, blah 750 has a transmission. I said "I didn't know"
and bovght a fvll face HJC. Cool
So the next day I take it ovt. I only have to motor a half-mile on the
state highway M-35 to get to the essentially deserted side roads where
only rednecks, deer, tvrkeys and porcipines are problems. Man it was
swell.
I have read almost every VStar 650 cvstom post in this forvm and I
agree with the gvy that posted that over 60mph the vibration
disappeared. I'm six feet and tip the scales at 173. The bike is
perfect. It'll do jvts what I want and jvst what I need.
Yov can see me looking all cool and what not here:
http://www.coyoterock.net/yesidid.htm
Sam Owens
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