The way I see it, these routes are kinda like a hunters, or fisherman's favorite spot. Its nice to share with a friend once in a while, but you certainly don't want the whole world to know. There are already plenty of roads that are known for sportbike action. And quite frankly I'm surprised that cops don't set up shop in these stretches and start handing out more tickets. So its kinda nice to keep some of the less common "fun" roads, only known to a smaller group of riders.

Facebook, now thats just crazy talk.

Well after 2 pages of this, I decided to put away my thin mechanics gloves and buy some actual riding gloves for summer use, as I have heavy thick ones for cold riding.I'm pleasantly happy w/ how comfortable these are. I think most people that don't wear safety gear look at riding like driving their car or truck. I mean you wouldn't put on a fire suit, helmet, 5 point harness just to drive down to the groceries store? And on the other hand, if you were gonna run a Vett or camaro on a road track, you'd want safety gear because you know your gonna push it and exploit its performance, and safety becomes more of a concern. So it would seam safety to us is more of a concern as we enjoy the performance of our bikes, but, probably not so much to the guy that just meanders down the road looking at the pretty flowers.

Wow Jeff, glad to here that you went in and got checked out. Too many times we, myself included, try to tough it out until we cant take the pain or sickness. Hopefully you have a lot of vacation time to offset being off of work for awhile. Hope the recovery goes good.

Ha ha, "Bug Run"

Maybe we'll meet up sometime, I work in St. Cloud, but live in Clearwater. 

Yes $600 does seam high, maybe they really didn't want the work and bid it high? I was assuming that you already had bars to put on, but maybe they added an extra 150-$200 for bars and grips in your quote. If you already had bars and grips I would think the ball park of $290-$300 would be more appropriate. You may want to ask how long for labor, and how much for parts when you get quotes. That might help rationalize their prices. Also, if your speedo/tach currently mount to your handle bar. But you want bars that don't allow that, the gauges will have to be remounted, and possibly wires extended. Again adding more labor, raising the quote price. I think these days, shops just bid it high so the customer doesn't freak out if it ends up costing more than the original quote.

No, not new, still the old Triumph from last year. I just dont have any pictures of it to use in my avatar as I know its some times helpful to reference ones bike with the person. So, the "old" bike is the Harley I had prior. I only had that bike on two rides with the group here. I did do some updating over winter though, and it feels like a new-er bike. I even got a tank bag, with map pouch.