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 Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject: Baghira's home, first ride complete!!! |
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She's home!!!
Mike and company were awesome at MPH. Totally friendly. Nice folks. I think I got an awesome deall. New 2003 Baghira, 27 miles, $5200 plus tax and title. Everything went smooth.
When I got her home, I promptly killed the battery by trying to start her with the fuel petcock set to "off"  
Hooked up my trusty Civic, to get the power flowing again, eventually remembered from my newbie MSF class about the sequence for starting/stopping carbuerated bikes. Guess what? Turned the fuel petcock in the right direction, and she fired up the first time...kinda extra loud...like she was telling me "you dum bass"
Rode from Uptown/Oaklawn area of Dallas up to Coppel, taking the backstreets.
First impression? She's perfect. Has plenty of oomph for the freeway, corners like a scalded cat, and former nuiscances like potholes, train tracks and road irregularities are irrelevent now!!! 
It's the complete opposite bike from the 800 pound gorilla: my vtx1800.
Great contrast. I'm so enthused, I'm going to my next VTX ride on the Baghira! (those guys are gonna freak)
ah well. Thanks to everyone for comments, suggestions, replys, etc.
My immediate plans are to continue losing weight (I'm the phat arse in the picture. The skinny guy is Mike of MPH) so that I can enter levels of hooliganism that are normally unobtainable to fat, 36 year, office workers!!!
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phlat65
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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sweet!!!! sounds like you are having fun!
I have put 14,000 miles on mine now, and enjoy every ride 
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skyfroggy
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That's great, e!
Enjoy your new ride...I know I'm having fun with mine. 
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Scheffi
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cat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:23 am Post subject: Re: Baghira's home, first ride complete!!! |
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| e wrote: | She's home!!!
Mike and company were awesome at MPH. Totally friendly. Nice folks. I think I got an awesome deall. New 2003 Baghira, 27 miles, $5200 plus tax and title. Everything went smooth.
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that's great. you got an awesome deal. mine is going to cost me about twice that - although it's hard to compare with the exchange rates. but it's 92% of the price of a DRZ400SM and 71% of the price of a Husqvarna SM610.
please post photos if you do anything to it - or any ride photos. 
the battery - it's better to have a sealed battery and apparently the OEM batteries are crap anyway. |
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phlat65
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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yes, my OE battery dumped acid down my shock....
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g.w.forrest
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:02 am Post subject: |
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lucky devil.have fun,i know it can't be helped,just keep the rubber on da road.
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whysub01
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If you enjoy it as much as I enjoy mine, it is worth every penny. The trade off between being a little heavier and slower than others is well made up for by the fantastic reliability. All you need is 2,000 mile oil and filter changes, and change the end can for better off the throttle response and noise. And these motors run on forever (my spare engine has done 78,000 miles, and no wear was apparent when it was stripped for a tune).
And it is easier to lose weight and gain power on the Baggi than it is to increase the reliability of a Husky, 'Berg, KTM. etc. Plus you will be out riding whilst owners of others are tediously twirling spanners (unlkess that's your thing).
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