Just got my groove back. Picked up a 2018 Super Duke Saturday. It's damn nice so far. Cant wait to get it out of break-in. Will be putting the '13 Ninja 1000 up for sale shortly. Oh yea, Pony Powersports sucks. They didn't even call me back. Holeshot KTM in Akron; I went down there, cash in hand, the Saturday before memorial day & they were closed even though their website said they would be open. I ended up going to Barnes Brothers, south of Pittsburg.
Okay I have a little more to say about it here's what I posted on a Concours 1400 Facebook page.....
First impression 10 mile run very familiar local twisty road with Steve Sefsicks mountain runner flash.......
HOLY FUCK!!!
I'm running easy one maybe even two gears higher and she pulls harder than I've ever felt. She's got that front-wheel feeling float going on that you normally feel between 6k and 9k RPM it's now doing it between 4k and 7k. The smoothness of Shifting the engine braking the rolling on and off the throttle smoothness is everything that was promised.
But the one thing I want to add that I've never heard anybody talk about is THAT SOUND! I've never heard my bike make those sounds. That deep Lowdown growl on the bottom end. That almost freight train like Tornado sound coming from the air box area and ram air ports at WOT.
I've put 50k miles on this bike since I've owned it and I think we just opened up a whole new can of worms. I was never ever ready to trade her in but now she's so much better.
Kind of like having a beautiful woman that you thought was perfect and then she decides she wants to have a boob job and starts doing squats regularly...haha..lol
So much more to come but couldn't take her out any longer. One because it's getting ready to rain and two my low fuel light has been on for 20 miles because I'm going to do the filter pickup sock on the pump later in the week so I don't want to put any more gas in it.
Oh yeah the brand new T 30s feel fucking fantastic. It's going to be fun times in the dirty south next week.
Took Izzy to play with her friends. Wide open 6th gear through the kink on a 30 year old bike sure is fun!
Yep, that's a 2stroke Aprillia in the background.
I had similar incident a couple years ago. The hole was down inside a tread like it appears to be for you. I plugged it and rode it for about 4000 miles before replacing it.
“We do everything from mobbing the streets,Hocking rides, drag racing, tours of 270, stunt rides, and so much more!”
Yeah, that’s not a group I plan on hanging out with.