Wednesday was a big day for the wife. After three visits to the DMV and one to the insurance agent, We now have her bike registered and insured, and Mary now has a learner's permit that allows her to ride during daylight hours without a passenger, within the state of Vermont. Be sure to congratulate her on passing the permit test. She is quite happy that she scored a 92%. When I got home from work, we took the little KZ200 down to the high school parking lot, and she spent some time practicing on her now legal motorcycle. Tomorrow, I will be riding down to the motorcycle shop to see about an inspection sticker, and to also get some advice on making it run a little bit smoother. I have fiddled with the carburetor enough to get it to run, and idle and it feels pretty good, but I think with a little more fine tuning, we might be able to get some more power out of it. When you only have 18 horses, every one of them counts!
I rode it into work today, and boy is that thing a hoot! On my suzuki, anything under 60 feels slow, but the KZ is so lightweight and little, that it always feels like you are going about 10mph faster than you really are. No need to worry about accidental speeding on the little one lunger! In fact you pretty much have to beat the snot out of it just to get it to 50. I must say that even though it is small, and far from fast, it does have nimble handling, and seems to take a flogging quite well. I put it through its paces today, and I now feel comfortable letting Mary loose on the road with it.
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The world, as we know it, may never be the same now that there are "TWO HONGS" on the roads of VT with 'cickles'!
Have fun.......Dad
Brrrruuuuppp, brrrruuuppp-upp, knaaawwwww, bbbrrrruuuuuuuppppp!
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