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**maillotpois** · 10-19-2009, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by Pax

I did a workout yesterday for the first time in a long time, it was excellent! I'd forgotten how good of a stress reliever exercise can be!

But how's the moto?

**Pax** · 10-19-2009, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

But how's the moto?

Gorgeous! But sadly only has 259 miles on the clock.

If I don't ride it more next summer it's going up for sale, it's too great a bike to languish in the garage.

So...how's the Duc????

**maillotpois** · 10-19-2009, 09:40 AM

Great! I put about 3000 miles on it on our trip to Seattle this summer. I am almost ready for my 6000 miles service! It is so much fun and so light and easy to ride. I will never be speedy but I am getting more smooth and comfortable on it.

After that long trip, I'm now eyeing the Moto Guzzi Norge for touring.... Of course I am going to be self employed starting beginning of the year and will have NO money but I can dream!

**Pax** · 10-19-2009, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

Great! I put about 3000 miles on it on our trip to Seattle this summer. I am almost ready for my 6000 miles service! It is so much fun and so light and easy to ride. I will never be speedy but I am getting more smooth and comfortable on it.

After that long trip, I'm now eyeing the Moto Guzzi Norge for touring.... Of course I am going to be self employed starting beginning of the year and will have NO money but I can dream!

My SO rides a Guzzi, she LOVES it! Since we got scooters last year the bikes sit a lot though. In a small town it's so much easier to hop on the scooters for running errands than to deal with the heavier (and limited storage space) bikes.

**Biciclista** · 10-19-2009, 10:49 AM

Have we drifted to gasoline powered bicycles on this thread ? (sigh)
Today was my 100th bicycle commute of the year. That's human powered.

**maillotpois** · 10-19-2009, 11:06 AM

This thread has drifted to places far less bicycle oriented in the past.

I agree on the scooters - you don't have to get all leathered up. I went into the scooter store this weekend, in fact. I think when DD gets her license she'll probably end up w/a scooter to get to school.

**OakLeaf** · 10-19-2009, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

I agree on the scooters - you don't have to get all leathered up.

ATGATT gal! (Although I gather that "all the gear" is more in California than it is in the rest of the USA. Here, wearing virgin knee sliders on the street is frowned on.

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**maillotpois** · 10-19-2009, 11:24 AM

I don't have knee sliders, but definitely moto leather w/armor and all the rest every time I get on the Duc. ATGATT for sure. But for a scooter (Vespa, etc.) that you just use for groceries around town (and town really being a town), it's hard to imagine wearing all that.... when I had my Vespa I'd wear capris...

**Blueberry** · 10-19-2009, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

Of course I am going to be self employed starting beginning of the year and will have NO money but I can dream!

Congratulations!! This is exciting!

**OakLeaf** · 10-19-2009, 11:36 AM

Nothing wrong with textile, as long as it has good armor. It's single use, unlike leather which is repairable, is the main thing.

**Pax** · 10-19-2009, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by maillotpois

I agree on the scooters - you don't have to get all leathered up. I went into the scooter store this weekend, in fact. I think when DD gets her license she'll probably end up w/a scooter to get to school.

We each have Buddy scooters, I've got an International (150cc) and she's got a regular (125cc), they are more fun than a barrel of monkeys! And I'm rarely ATGATT.

**maillotpois** · 10-19-2009, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by CA_in_NC

Congratulations!! This is exciting!

Thanks!

And scary. We shall see. (It's actually been a hellish process - I had to give notice TWICE before ex-partner believed me. I'm just barely out of hiding.)

On the moto clothes - yeah I also have textile, which is what I used for our long trip - it was SO hot then and the idea of leather was just wrong. But everything's got armor.

I love the Buddy scooters. The guy who owns my gym has one in the lobby. Pax which Guzzi does your SO have?

**Pax** · 10-19-2009, 12:11 PM

She rides a lowered Breva 750, it fits her (all 5'1" of her) like a glove.

**maillotpois** · 10-19-2009, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Pax

She rides a lowered Breva 750, it fits her (all 5'1" of her) like a glove.

Love the look of that - remarkably similar to my Duc (which also fits shorter people well). I have no idea how the Norge rides. I just fell in love with the look and after 2500 miles on the somewhat cramped 696, it felt like a great alternative. Some day I will get a touring bike, and the multistrada is too tall for me, as is DH's Ulysses.

I should stop daydreaming bikes and get back to work.

**solobiker** · 10-19-2009, 03:04 PM

I actually slept last night. I can't even remember the last time I slep that well. It has probably been about 6-8 months.

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