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Congrats!The Griso is a special bike, and you will love it. Some Knight lowering pegs work perfectly depending on what you need. I needed 2" drop. There are other options as well obviously. Few motorcycles are as engaging and addicting as the Griso, and of all the bikes I have owned and enjoyed I have connected with very few the way I have the Griso. Be sure to take the time to head over to Griso Ghetto (if you havent yet) and to also set up the suspension properly. A Griso can be a pig if not set up right or running proper tire pressures.As for the stickers, the tried and true soak with WD40 and scrape/pull slowly with fingernail will work, but takes time. I find the older and harder they are the longer it takes. One thing I do is spray WD40 on a rag or paper towel and wipe it on the sticker liberally 2-3X a day for a couple days to soften the sticker, and wipe the excess off the paint. Then use my wifes blow dryer to go over the sticker to warm it.
Thanks folks! Same color as Mr. Swanson's.....tried to buy the silver at Hamlin Cycle but it got bought out from under me cuz I waited a day too late. I will try your suggestions on the stickers. Adding a DART flyscreen.Next question, is it good to remove the evap canister? Did wonders for the V7III....but this setup looks more complicated with the dual throttle bodies.
Those pain meds are throwing you for a wallop...
thank goodness this thing is a 20hr round trip away!
Why is the 10 hr distance between you and the bike, a consideration ?
Because thats two full days driving? and hauling an empty trailer all the way there... Traveling into a - land hotspot (FLA Panhandle). So I would have to take at least one day off work on short notice and that's highly inconvenient. I hate driving anyway, so even a 10hr drive plus a hotel for the night and 10hrs back over the weekend without taking a day off work sounds terrible. Esp since I get up at 4am on weekday mornings. And a '10hr drive' is really a 11-12hr drive since you'd need to stop for gas several times, eat, etc when covering that distance. Not to mention the time it takes to make the transaction, deal with the title, load up, etc....So it sounds like to me I would get up at 3am on a saturday, leave by 4am and drive 11hrs, barely make it in time to get somewhere that's open and notarizes titles on a Saturday, load the bike, get food, check into a hotel, boredly watch TV until I can sleep, get up sunday at 5am and drive home, arrive around 6pm, unload the bike, resist the urge to take it for a ride, then get ready for bed at 8pm so I can get up 4am on monday and go to work. On what planet would that not be a consideration???I like the bike and fantasize about a new MG, or any griso in general. I dont need a new bike. I dont need to spend the money.... If it was convenient and closer, I would have a much tougher time saying no. But since it would be highly inconvenient to make the trip, it's a lot easier to resist.
All weak excuses............ ..
The money thing is a reasonable comment.I guess I couldn’t understand what you meant when I recounted leaving here and driving up to Roper’s place (8 hrs) to collect my CT110 Honda, having a coffee, then driving back..As for the trailer thing..How about getting a bus, train, plane, or something and riding it home ? Sounds like a fun venture to me...
Yep..Just bloody do it..!
Maybe get someone with a camper van, sedate yourself in the back so as to sleep on the outward trip, then you wouldn’t have to endure the spectre of being excited about a new Griso, get Swami to do as much of the paperwork as he can so that’ll be ready and you won’t have to do much writing, eat like a starving hyena before you leave so as to not need to force feed yourself en route, you may have to walk from the camper to the bike...(sorry..)Then do the ride home...
That's even worse! No amount of money or any bike on earth would be worth riding 10 straight hours on the interstate! As much as I hate driving, riding a naked bike on the interstate is worse!
But a 5th bike when I already have a CARC Guzzi I love, plus the trouble of going after it, nah I'll pass this time.
Haul bikes could ship it for you, probably $500...paperwork easy enough within the WG community should be a cinch.Mighty has been used mostly in reference to the Scura...I think the Griso is just too gutsy for an additional adjective!
Hmmm...
Yeah fair enough I guess.But it strikes me as strange, that these Griso things are lauded by all and sundry as a fabulous piece of kit, (which I still don’t understand..) and when the prospect of going for a ride on one crops up, all the mealy mouthed excuses in the world suddenly materialise as to why it can’t be done.So if riding a new Griso home for the first time is not within it’s design brief, what the bloody hell is..?They drink like a Top Fuel dragster, rough as guts, stupid wide handlebars, a bloody great toaster hanging off one side, a muffler that looks like something George Lucas dreamed up and a 10 hr ride leaves you in need of an orthopaedic surgeon it’s seems.Another solution might be, to have riders stationed along the route pony express style, so when one guy is lifted from the bike at the absolute limits of physical endurance semi comatose from the effects of 2 hours in the saddle, the next poor sod could be shoe horned aboard to continue the odyssey.Jeez that Itchy Shoes sheila must be as tough as nails...!Where does the “mighty” term fit in with the “mighty Griso” description that I see trotted out ad nauseum ?Notwithstanding the foregoing though.All the excuses sound like an unadulterated load of BS...
'ey......don't be shy. Tell us what you really think!
