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Once I get the Kawasaur on the road we will have to meet for a ride somewhere. Looks like early April after some shop time.
Do you still repair motorcycles?
Greg are you asking me? If so i work on bikes for hire right here where I live. What kind of a kawii? Getting parts these days is a bad deal unless you can figure out what you need before hand. These dealers don't carry parts in stock.
Year make and model help as does some sort of shop manual. I prefer either or both oem and clymers.
I am on my 2nd Nomad the first was stolen, and have a 81 850 yammi, which you probablly know. The yammi I traded a new process tranfercase for to a local junk yard where I found the bike laying in a heap of scrap metal. I used to have Brit bikes before...
I have a bike lift, access to air if any is needed.. Plenty of mm tools.
I applogize if you were asking someone else. mac
Right now I got a mud and rutts sale going on, but when it dries out if need me I have a van with a enclosed trailer too. My Nomad is in there just now for winter ain't gone yet here. I made maple yesterday though and found BUGS
Yeah, the question was directed at you. I have taken the bike to Hudson Cycles for a 50,000 mile check up and to replace a few things. I will post more about this bike when I start riding it.
FWIW - 1980 Kawasaki KZ1300 with the in line 6 cylinder engine.
I live in Nebraska. Our State legislature is thinking about repealing the mandatory helmet law for riders over 21. The subject of insurance has came up. I am wondering how much MORE motorcycle insurance costs in a State that does NOT have a helmet law versus a state like Nebraska that does have one.
My 2006 Vulcan 900 with the 500,000/500,000 liability, $50,000 Medical and a $500 deductible on collision and comprehensive plus uninsured and under insured costs me $232 annually. I am a 63 year old Male with no accidents or tickets in over 30 years plus a MSF class in the past two years for a ten % discount.
How does that $232.00 annually compare to say Iowa? Any other states with no helmet law?
GL2
Here's more info regarding current US motorcycle (and bicycle) helmet laws.
Someone already answered for Florida about the helmet law.
It's rare that our group goes without.
We have lots of insurance and it runs around $500 per year. It's higher because we have uninsured motorists on it too.
Hubby was hit two years ago and the driver at fault had crappy insurance and we ended up close to $6k out of pocket....that's why we have the unisured now.
A good friend of mine has a brother up in NH. He hit head on with a moose. He wasn't wearing a helmet. The outcome wasn't good. I guess the moose problem up there is pretty bad? Here, I am always having to contend with deer. We have a helmet law, but even if we didn't, I would still wear one.
I missed hitting a deer at dusk on a farm-to-market road a couple of years ago by a foot or less. Scared the %#$@ out of me. I stopped shaking about twenty slow miles later. I was wearing a helmet, but I didn't want to test it.
So far a ruined ft fender is as close as I have been, but there have been several other moose close calls on bikes and in cars.. all put my heart in my mouth.
I was nearly stopped... measured the patch I put down the next day too, 81.5 feet. I asked an engineer buddy about that and he came up with I need 111 feet, but with varriables. I think I needed 3 to 6 more feet.
My wife was with me, and we didn't come off the bike, nor lay it down, but that was more because i couldn't. The fender was wedged to the point most of the damaged was done by me and 5 other guys lifting the jeep and pulling the bike.
I was sorry for the moose.... I wear lids as I see fit. That night none. As I see it there is a speed passing the point of direct impact no lid is going to be much more than a bucket to keep brains in. A lid is best at a sliding rider, where there is nothing to stop the rider before the slide runs out.
I was in a bad crash with a full face lid and it damaged my neck, broke a little wing bone there, not severed my spinal cord.. As of late that old injury has been ailing... Oh well.
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