I pick up a new ride this week from a guy who just arrived Buenos Aires after a year on the road heading south from the US.
It's been lowered two inches so about the same height as the a regular GS or the V-Strom.
On the way home I stopped for gas and then... it wouldn't start - kind of like the South Park banking episode: "and it's gone..." After some tinkering and head scratching (and a trip to two tool stores to buy torx wrenches so I could get the fairings off) I pulled the (gel cell) battery and discovered it had a shorted cell (overheated plastic shell). Five hours and a new battery later, I made it home.
It just had to reinforce it's position in out relationship - I've been bitch-slapped.
Mileage: 40,992
