New to forum / new to riding

Hi all. I wanted to introduce myself and say how happy I am to find this forum. I'm a major lurker usually, but I may not be so quiet on here. Way to many folks to pick brains from. And picking brains can be much fun 8O

Just this summer I learned to ride thru a safety class after riding on the back of the DH's Concours. When searching for a bike, it was mainly $$ driven. Didn't want to spend a bunch just to decide it wasn't my thing. Found my 650 for $1200, looked pretty good for an old gal. We drove it home (about 1.5 hr drive) and rode around town for a couple weeks. Thats when it started getting real fun!! It stranded me, (luckily in town) and for the next couple weeks, my DH & I spent many quality hours together cleaning the carbs twice, and just giving it a much needed tune up. The Haynes manual is a great investment. Even with neither of us having MC mechanican experience, with our heads together, we have her running better than she's probably ran in years.

It's nice to get on here and read about the same issues that I've had in getting mine going. And I'm looking forward to reading alot more.

BTW, I'm thinking that this is my thing!!

 

welcome to the forum

 

Welcome to the forum Lisa.

 

welcome aboard! hope you enjoy the forum as much as you enjoy the bike!

 

btw, whereabouts are you from, Lisa?

 

Hey welcome Lisa. My sweety is taking the course this winter and i hope to have her scootin' in the spring. Have fun and be safe!!

 

welcome to the site. These guys are very helpful!

 

welcome, welcome. There is a ton of great stuff on here. You can get anything answered on here.

 

Thanks for warm welcome.

I am located in Coffeyville, KS, about eqi-distance between Joplin, MO, Tulsa, OK, Wichita and Kansas City.

 

I am in KC! good to see some more KS folks on here!

 

welcome Lisa glad you found us.

 

Lisa, watch out for helmet... he's got more than a screw loose. I think there could be some internal top end damage going on . LOL Just kidding... I would love to ride with any of these folks.

 

Dave, the simple fact you own a Honda gives us a lot of insight to your world...

 

helmet makes a good point lol

 

The fact that helmet is in Kansas tells me that he can't be all that bad. Oh wait, are you on the KS side or MO? Guess I'll reserve judgement till I find out for sure! JK of course :wink:

 

I am a KS boy through and through.... born and raised in Hays and moved to the KANSAS side of KC

 

I used to live in Riley. Does that help? Oh, and I lived in Dodge City for a while too.

Welcome to the forum, Lisa.

 

Dodge? wow, I am so sorry. I would visit my wife there when she was in school at DCCC. as I got closer to the place I would have to actually force myself to go into town and then cheer when I left to come back to KC.

 

I used to live in Derby, KS and worked in Wichita. I liked it there.

 

I used to live in Derby, KS and worked in Wichita. I liked it there.