Let me get this straight: Insurance companies get money from owners of Suburbans. Suburbans get into crashes and don't sustain much damage, therefore insurance companies don't pay much. And the companies want to raise premiums? Logic here, please?

What kind of motorcycle is a Suburban? Ed

One comparable to that pictured in the "Serious Stuff" topic!

I guess we could zing this over to "Cars' now... Point being if you insure a Suburban with certain companies they'll charge you more than an S10 Blazer-class just because of 'size'.

So if a Honda Valk hits a Honda Rebel would the same logic apply, ha ha! BJ

Alright

I think it probably would. I'm no physicist (Glenn is, I wish he'd come back) but I would think that it would be much more difficult to get the Valk to fall over. "An object in motion tends to stay in motion" would seem to also mean "a really heavy object in motion REALLY wants to stay in motion." It's easier to move a basketball from its course than the moon.

I think in the case of two motorcycles..no matter what the difference in size..neither one comes out a winner.

Jon, Have you done the upgrade on your Triump yet,if not let me know have done them on numerious machines, can tell you how it all works together. MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK.

Don't have a Triumph yet. "Yet" is the key word, as I will (hopefully relatively soon).

waiting til spring so you can ride it back to CO?

Change o' plans. I'm going to go on a vacation and ride my Ninja (which is having some major surgery performed on it now to get it up to snuff) through the Deep South in late March and early April. That will put the purchase of the Triumph back a little, but it's still planned.

sounds like an excellent ride. stops planned or just a 'fly by the seat o' your pants' ride?

Only plans are that I'm going to leave here with a trailer and trailer the bike to San Angelo. That's one day's boring drive or two days boring ride, and I can't spare the extra two days it would take to ride (I know, I'm going to biker hell for trailering--sue me). From San Angelo I'll ride to my granny's house in Huntsville Texas and then from there to New Orleans. After that no plans, just going to wander around. I want to get to Memphis and Beale Street--sort of a blues pilgrimage, but I'll see what happens and where I end up. On the way back I'm stopping by Dallas for the Nascar race on April 5th. A buddy from Texarkana is going to meet me there for the race. From there back to San Angelo and the drive back to Colorado, at which point I'll be totally exhausted, but (hopefully) spiritually renewed.

Sounds good to me, Jon. Great that you can get that amount of time and go where *you* feel like going.

Well, it ain't that much time. Only 2 weeks total, and it'll be kinda crammed for time (it's 3 days each way just to get to the South) but it'll be fun.

Enjoy the renewal... sounds awesome!