BorgBiker
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After looking around for a few weeks I got serious this week. I talked with Sean Morley's customer about his V-max and we were ready to do the deal, but unfortunately the shipping cost proved to be too much to keep the total within my budget. (Thanks Sean for all the effort!)
So I called Dave in Carpinteria who had a V-max listed in Craigslist. We made arrangements to meet at his place Saturday morning at 10 am. It was about an hour and 20 minutes to his place, and the weather was almost perfect (heh, this is California!). I met Dave, talked with him and learned that this is the second of 3 V-Max's he's owned, now he's down to a single 2003 model, which is very nice.
His 96 model now belongs to me! It was almost surreal as I was riding down the Pacific Coast Highway and then the Hollywood Freeway for a total of about 90 miles. This was my first ride since 2004 when I sold my V65 Magna. Turns out I didn't forget much, everything came back so naturally! My biggest problem was remembering that I didn't have to double shift through 2nd like on my Magna (2nd gear was bad on it). Oh yeah, and I had to remember to not grin so hard, as my face started hurting.
The ride was great, traffic was uncharacteristically light, and I just grooved on back home. The Max had a bit of oxidization on some of the aluminum, and a bit of dirt and debris, after a thorough cleaning, it looks real good. I readjusted the windshield to be a bit lower and tilted back a bit more to look a bit better, and cleaned up some of the oxidization.
This pic is of the bike as it sat when we pulled up. I'll post some pics of it cleaned up later.
http://flic.kr/p/aTCd3P
Having newbie trouble getting the pic to show on this page, but the link should work.
So I called Dave in Carpinteria who had a V-max listed in Craigslist. We made arrangements to meet at his place Saturday morning at 10 am. It was about an hour and 20 minutes to his place, and the weather was almost perfect (heh, this is California!). I met Dave, talked with him and learned that this is the second of 3 V-Max's he's owned, now he's down to a single 2003 model, which is very nice.
His 96 model now belongs to me! It was almost surreal as I was riding down the Pacific Coast Highway and then the Hollywood Freeway for a total of about 90 miles. This was my first ride since 2004 when I sold my V65 Magna. Turns out I didn't forget much, everything came back so naturally! My biggest problem was remembering that I didn't have to double shift through 2nd like on my Magna (2nd gear was bad on it). Oh yeah, and I had to remember to not grin so hard, as my face started hurting.
The ride was great, traffic was uncharacteristically light, and I just grooved on back home. The Max had a bit of oxidization on some of the aluminum, and a bit of dirt and debris, after a thorough cleaning, it looks real good. I readjusted the windshield to be a bit lower and tilted back a bit more to look a bit better, and cleaned up some of the oxidization.
This pic is of the bike as it sat when we pulled up. I'll post some pics of it cleaned up later.
http://flic.kr/p/aTCd3P
Having newbie trouble getting the pic to show on this page, but the link should work.
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