Fly N Ride Guzzi Purchase

[Chuck in Indiana]

That was one of the best ride stories I've read in a bit. Thank you!

For lane position on the cesspool, formerly carpool lane. I like riding right next to the RH line. It allows you too see many cars ahead. You just never know what some idiot way up ahead is about to do to mess up the cars in front of you. When I see a bike behind me, I move to the left of the lane to let them through. Splitting lanes is the norm nowadays. Had a CHP flip me a siren once while splitting in stopped traffic, I don't check my mirrors in stopped traffic. Ticket time, crap. Wrong, he wanted to get through, I was going too slow

Thanks again for the story!
Tom

I split the HOV lane, too. I can see the guy coming up behind in the mirrors with my peripheral vision, and move to the left the let them by.
I had a motor officer pull up beside me on the 5, check out the Mighty Scura, thought "uh oh," gave me a wave and went on. 

[Huzo]

The heated grip switch is in front of the left switch block on mine.
Is yours a GTL ?

[Huzo]

Darn nice shot mate..
'Says it all..

[Huzo]

Given the "sportier" stance of your bike.
Have you considered shortening the 'bars ? Mine are 40 mm shorter each side and rotated backwards at the junction of the handgrip tube and the casting. Puts your hands inside the protective zone of the fairing more.

[catneck]

The heated grip switch is in front of the left switch block on mine.
Is yours a GTL ?

Thats where it is, just failed to notice before I needed them.
I am not familiar with GTL moniker.

[catneck]

Given the "sportier" stance of your bike.
Have you considered shortening the 'bars ? Mine are 40 mm shorter each side and rotated backwards at the junction of the handgrip tube and the casting. Puts your hands inside the protective zone of the fairing more.

A good idea, I will consider it, thanks!

[wheaties]

Given the "sportier" stance of your bike.
Have you considered shortening the 'bars ? Mine are 40 mm shorter each side and rotated backwards at the junction of the handgrip tube and the casting. Puts your hands inside the protective zone of the fairing more.

If it's wind deflection you want, an alternative might be to obtain a pair of the hand brush guards for a Stelvio, and put them on your Norge.  Jim Hamlin did that for my bike's previous owner.  My eyes were so dilated when I bought the bike, I didn't even notice.  When I did notice, I thought I'd take them off if I didn't like them.  Now the weather is cooler, I think they're there to stay.

BTW, I have enjoyed this thread immensely!

Matt

[Tom]

Before the brush guards or Hippo Hands were made commercially, one of the tips was to make them out of plastic gallon jugs.

[TimmyTheHog]

Awesome trip man!

really appreciate it!

Lane splitting...altho illegal here, I still do as I don't truck the semi-trucks here...which are all over the streets...one tiny oops, then I am a squash bug!

[Huzo]

Thats where it is, just failed to notice before I needed them.
I am not familiar with GTL moniker.

Heated grips, electric screen, GPS standard.

[Huzo]

A good idea, I will consider it, thanks!

If you're interested I'll take a better shot when I get my bike back from UK.
Meanwhile, here's a shot that I have, total 80 mm shorter 'bars and screen switch on fairing panel.

[Lannis]

Enjoyable read; only a rider would be giving us a description like that!

Isn't it nice that motels these days are so bike-friendly?    It's been a long time since I've been to one that didn't let me park under the portico (if they have one) or under the office window or on the sidewalk right outside my room in a courtyard type.

And these days, about half of them will offer you a worn-out hotel towel to wipe down your bike, and the ones that don't offer will give you one if you ask.   They've got hundreds of them; the housekeepers use them for cleaning rooms but they have more than they need ....

Not like the 70s and early 80s when some motels would actually discourage you from staying, or just tell you they had no rooms, and then give themselves away answering the phone a few minutes later telling a caller they have "several" .... !   A place where the "good old days" were not so very good ...

Lannis

[Tom]

Or......how about being at a rest stop and being told by the state police that you can't be sleeping there.  You can only rest there while being awake. 

[TimmyTheHog]

Or......how about being at a rest stop and being told by the state police that you can't be sleeping there.  You can only rest there while being awake. 

Oh I got woken up once by a cop once cus of that...LOL...

If I could made it to the next stop AWAKE and SAFELY I would have already done so...

[Huzo]

The Norge is back in Australia from UK.
I did mention that, with the sportier stance of your Norge, you may wish to consider shortening the 'bars.
I did mine years ago and pivoted the grips to give a straight line down the forearm and thru' the wrist,  removing the need to turn your wrist in an attempt to have the grip sitting evenly across your palm.
Anyway..
This is what it looks like.
The 'bars are 40 mm shorter each side, since I dispensed with the childish up/down arrangement of the electric screen switch.
I'll explain how I did it in a PM or open forum if you like.