Thanks for the warm welcome!
I haven't done a whole lot of riding on the 45, mainly a couple of trips from home to work and back. She handles very smoothly on the highway, shifting is a bit clunky, but I think that's normal. I THINK I'm keeping her around 60-65 mph, hard telling, the speedo is in Kmph. I've got another RAM mount for the Zumo, just have to get it installed. All I know, is that when I'm out riding, I've got the biggest grin on my face. I don't want to push the bike too hard just yet, I have no idea of how she was treated before she came over here. I really don't want to learn how to re-built things just yet.
I'm a bit hesitant to ride the bike very often, the PO had installed one of them cool flashy brake light things, but somethings wrong and the brake light sometimes stays on all the time. So, I need to figure out the wiring mess and uninstall it, and re-do it right. He also mounted a set of fat round Bosch driving lights. But never finished the wiring part. I tried to do it, and let all the magic smoke out of the wires. :-/ Got a new Odyssey battery and we'll try again this spring. hehehe Its just too cold to be working out in the shop right now.
She's due for fluid swaps (all of them). I've checked all the FAQ's and "oil" posts, including some from ABC, I think I'll try the Golden Spectro 20W50. I know this is prolly a question for the maintenance section, but, any of you use the pink colored Red Line oil in the final drive? I'm using it in all the Guzzi's, would like to use the same in the airheads.
Rob, sorry about your beautiful bike. I was reading some of the old posts last night.
Happy to hear that you're doing better and that you didn't quit riding.
Where did you get the rear rack from? I have the 'radio box' which is kinda neat, but I like the idea of a rack, should I take any long trips.
I'm going to take a sidecar course this spring (Evergreen Safety council has one in my area in April). Will haul the rig to the class and get used to it there. Lots of big empty lots around here to practice in. I just get kinda tense about riding it, specially when one of the Guzzi riders crashed his GS rig this past summer. He's still recovering. So many new things to learn.
I haven't quite figured out what the mileage is yet. The numbers I kept aren't making sense. I think my math is off when I went from Km to miles to gallons to liters.
Anyways, here's some pics:
