Victory Motorsports December 16, 2006

Picture: Open House at Victory Motorsports in Moundridge, KS
Victory Motorsports is a small independent shop in the equally small Kansas town of Moundridge. They haven't been in business too long and today they had an open house. Louie, Neil, Paul and I rode down there to see what was going and do a little meet and greet. They had the usual free hotdogs and pop, door prizes and sold tickets for a raffle to win a scooter. They are selling the new Diamo scooter. It is owned by Yamaha and built in China. Most of the ones they had were 50cc but they were showing a 300cc that was a good looking scoot.

I rode the REB today, I like to show up at things like this with something different. The owner had actually heard of Royal Enfields, maybe I'll throw a little business there way should the occasion arise.

Pretty profitable day, Louie won a pair of goggles and I won a helmet in the door prize drawings. The scooter won't go until spring. The helmet is one of those shorty kind, all black and small size, just fits Sue, now she doesn't have any excuse not to ride with me, ha ha.

After stopping in Lindsborg for a cuppa, Louie and I traded bikes. He had been wanting to ride the REB and I have always liked the Suzuki S40 (650cc single) but had never ridden one. The S40 is smooth and quiet, I had to look down to find the well forward foot pegs but once I got rolling it was a nice ride. Eighteen miles on the REB probably cured Louie of any Brit bike like fantasies he had and frankly I was glad to climb back on the REB. I am convinced that I must have a ride that I can move around on in order to ease my back pains. Most of today's bikes have easy chair like seating but once you in the saddle you can't change positions.

I had to adjust the valves when I got home, they were getting a little loose. Adjustment should last more than the 600 miles, but loose is better than they way they were getting tight with the stock pushrods. Believe the head will be coming off soon to see what is going on.

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