10/05/2006
Motorcycle Madness
Alot has happened since the last update. We got our sheepskin seat covers in, and I installed them on my bike and Maru's bike (you can see photos at http://www.vn750.com and http://www.sporttwin.com). They definitely make for a more comfortable ride, I ordered them from Colorado Sheepskin and they custom made them for our bikes. We sent in Maru's Buell XB Touring seat and they had a pattern for the Vulcan 750.

I also took some pictures of Maru riding in a curve, and created an animated GIF of some of the burst mode photos from our camera.

I rode to Natchez Trace, and spent the night in my tent recently. It was supposed to be part of a longer journey that Maru had planned, but I didn't feel like going 2500 miles on highways to the East Coast after a night in the tent with thunderstorms and lightning all night long. So I turned around and went back home. I did about 650 miles in two days with that... The sheepskin seat really helped. People looked at me like I was crazy, but I saw quite a few motorcyclists on the interstate. Below is a picture of my VN750 and my campsite. The bike was parked at the Arkansas visitors center in the picture above, right outside of West Memphis on the way back. Three Goldwings pulling trailers pulled in just as I was leaving.

Maru met another Buell rider (Aaron, hope I spelled your name right man. :-), we have seen so many in the area recently while riding. Once on our trip to Hot Springs recently we saw a BUNCH of Buell's (Maru was a passenger on the Vulcan that day). Anyway, he has an XB12R which he has customized, and he does alot of his own work including stretching and mounting his own tires, and TPS resets, you name it (cool, we needed to know someone who had alot of these tools to do the work as taking it to the dealer can get expensive sometimes for small stuff like a TPS reset).

I'm going to be replacing the decals on the Blast soon, I got the XB12X stainless steel and black decals in that will replace the blue flat stickers that came on the bike. I'm just doing research first to find out what the best way to remove the decals and put the new ones on is. I'll post pictures when I get it done.

Vulcan 750 Discontinued? Apparently Kawasaki has discontinued the Vulcan 750. 2006 will be the last year model for the VN750 according to sources on the VN750.com forum. Kawasaki has already made the announcement, and they're going to have 3 models of Vulcan 900. I hadn't cared for the Vulcan 900, until I saw one today at Sunrise Honda in Searcy. They had a plain black Vulcan 900, belt drive, floorboards, with a backrest roll, and Leatherlyke bags on it and I liked it. The wheels were black, the bike had retro fenders... I think I would like one of those, but I don't want to sell the 750 as I've had it only a year and enjoy riding it. Give it a couple of years, and maybe I'll be in the market for one... I've got too many accessories on mine at the moment, and I doubt Maru would want the bike for herself.