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ice6900

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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2011, 12:47:59 PM »
I use a bicycle most days to get to work, its only 5mins ride, and by the time I have suited and booted to ride my motorised cycle I would already be at work, plus 5mins wouldnt do the engine any good, solution could be to change jobs to one further away or leave this job earlier as I do to grab the early evening weather........
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2011, 01:01:38 PM »
I bought my bike to ride... rain or shine
Plus I get free bike parking at work and I am cheap.

I want to get my moneys worth out of my bike, and that does not happen sitting in a garage.

Just my $0.02
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2011, 01:01:55 PM »
8 miles one way to work, as long as it's calling for good weather I ride, I bought the bike to ride, and I'll jump at any chance to do just that, even if its 1 mile. Also I skip the food at lunch and get in 45-50 mins of riding, then take my good ole time on the way home. Ride it, Life is to short not to.
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2011, 01:58:56 PM »
If I was going to buy something else to ride to work it would be a little beater Toyota or other jap, that way no weather worries. But I, like most, ride my CVO if its less that 50% chance of rain & over 30 degrees.
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2011, 02:22:15 PM »
If I stretch my commute I can make it 20 miles.. but normally the commute is 17... and yes, I ride every day... if I need tools for a work project I fill the saddlebags and the tour pack... if I need something bigger than that I write a work order and make someone else do it!
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2011, 08:04:12 PM »
I've thought about a "work bike" before also. Just in case my company makes me park my work truck. I would not go with the Yamaha. My choice would be something along the lines of a used Road King or Street Glide very likely it would also happen to be a CVO.
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2011, 08:11:59 PM »
I would buy another harley like a road king but for 3k I can get a "work bike" like a yzf and run the crap out of it. I live in calif. and can ride almost all year long so 15,000 on a bike is not unhear of. Plus wear and tear on my truck is not an issue.
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2011, 07:31:19 AM »
 "To each, thier own" Personally if I get the chance to ride, I ride. I have two CVO's and a lowrider. The lowrider is a great bike, the oldest in my fleet and has the fewest miles. Point being I love my CVO bikes and I'm not saving them I'm enjoying them. Just my $.02
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2011, 09:25:16 AM »
I thought about this situation a couple years ago. Simple solution: Quit the job and ride all the time!! (I did)
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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2011, 10:24:04 AM »
Quote from: Fired00d on March 10, 2011, 09:39:40 AM
I had thoughts such as that but more so for those days when it was a chance of rain and I didn't want to ride the 10 miles to work and get the bike filthy. Now I have a take home car it's a moot point. Plus the fact (thought I'd say it before somebody else did) it has been "said on the internet" that I don't ride. ;) ::) ;D

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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2011, 09:22:10 PM »
Quote from: trapperdog on March 11, 2011, 10:24:04 AM
:huepfenjump3: If you're still on your original tires on your 6 year old CVO, you may be from

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Re: Other bikes for work?
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2011, 09:31:57 PM »
Work?............ work is for people who don't ride, oh yea that's me, I work way to much so I take vacations just to work more. :-\
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