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  1. PadrePoint

    !!Cancelled!! 2022 Land of the Dragon Gathering !!Cancelled!!

    So… is a gathering going to happen this year? (I’m sitting here in Cherokee right now, enjoying a beer and thought I’d look up the event… I went by earlier an empty looking Kickstand Lodge… got me thinking.) Guess I’ll go with the thread’s heading: “Cancelled!”
  2. PadrePoint

    NC700X Stock windshield removal

    I raised the front of my seat (seat slope “trick”), added a seat pad for another almost 2 inches (I’m 6’ 5”), used the lower position on the windshield, and finally added some rubber washers to the lower windshield mounts that pushed the bottom of the windshield forward to flatten the angle...
  3. PadrePoint

    2020: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    Great ride yesterday in southern Wisconsin. The first 50 miles was winding two-lane roads through hills, woods and farms. The second half was a fifty mile state trail that mostly followed along a couple rivers. (Can’t seem to successfully attach pictures.)
  4. PadrePoint

    2020: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    This is a Core Sound 15 by B&B Yachts: https://bandbyachtdesigns.com/core-sound-15-plans/ I purchased the full kit.
  5. PadrePoint

    2020: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    I took a beautiful sunset ride tonight: a 50+ mile loop of backroads north of my house with lots of woods, a few farms, lots of water, some twisties, gravel, and very little traffic. I’ve been working full time in the past three weeks building a 15 foot sailboat. Tonight was my first ride...
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    2020: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    I think my NC is looking at me suspiciously as I am doing the first task in building a sailboat from the kit I brought home yesterday. “Hey, what is that THING doing in my spot in the garage?”
  7. PadrePoint

    2020: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    Replaced my rear tire... It’s a challenge for me, especially the step of extracting the rim... just couldn’t pull it out. So, out came the saws-all. I won.
  8. PadrePoint

    (Edited) 2021 Land of the Dragon Gathering

    This will be on my calendar, which now is rather open with my December retirement.
  9. PadrePoint

    2019: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    I tried a Madstad screen last year and decided I prefer not having a shield bigger than my original. I guess I kinda like the wind. With the shield in the lower position the turbulence begins at my chin and my helmet is mostly in “clean” air. Even so, the buffeting can be noisy (I always wear...
  10. PadrePoint

    2019: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    I haven’t ridden my NC very many times this year... not complaining, it’s just how the schedule has been this summer. On Saturday, I did a first for me by riding the ebike I bought last year in an organized 60 mile ride. Great route on nearby country roads. No traffic, few center lines...
  11. PadrePoint

    Motorcycle Insurance for the NC700X in the USA

    American Family for my three cycles (plus three cars and a house.) $100,000/$300,000 for about $100/year on each cycle... with Property, uninsured, comp. and col.
  12. PadrePoint

    2019: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    Nice 140 round trip this morning for a VERY brief time at work (kind of using the office as my reason to ride.) Used some freeway and county roads to get there but then looked for new roads (without center lines) that wound about through woods and field on the way home. Took much longer on the...
  13. PadrePoint

    NC700X Rider Age Poll

    The brain and ego keep wanting to say 35. My calendar reminds me of 65. Wisdom keeps lagging along somewhere in between.
  14. PadrePoint

    What is your favorite color choice for the NCX? (Poll)

    This thread stopped about when I bought my first slightly used 2013 RED NC (manual). Then, some months later, it went to my son so that I could buy a new 2013 RED NC DCT... and so that I could get back (from my son) my 2013 RED CRF250L. This was when I gave my other son an outboard boat I built...
  15. PadrePoint

    2019: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    Went into the garage for something and walked by the bikes. Thought I’d see how the NC battery is doing during this Wisconsin cold snap. Started right up. Sigh...
  16. PadrePoint

    2018: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    I start a new commute in November. Instead of 110 miles of boring 4 lane highway this commute of 65 miles has all kinds of road options through central Wisconsin... county highways, backroads without center lines, lots of woods right up to the road, interesting farms and homes, lots of slightly...
  17. PadrePoint

    Utopia riders backrest

    I enjoy mine. I purchased it in 2014 and found it was a comfortable installation.
  18. PadrePoint

    How many miles on your DCT?

    My 2013 DCT, that I bought late in 2014, has 27,000 miles, mostly from 2015 and 2016. My current 2-hour-each-way commute is very boring so I choose to drive my car. No problems other than being dumb once in a rear tire change and I had to replace the rear brake sensor (THANKS Showkey for the...
  19. PadrePoint

    D or S Mode on DCT bikes

    I find S is what I use in city stop-and-go riding, and also in hilly or varying terrain. I keep it in D for most basic riding. Last week, in my third run through the Tail of the Dragon, I found it worked best for me to use M and to keep it in 2nd gear the entire way (it never downshifted.)
  20. PadrePoint

    2018: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

    Last week, I trailered my NC from central Wisconsin to Pidgeon Forge for a few days of riding.... over 750 miles of the curvy parkways in the area. Couldn’t make the NC Kickstand gathering this spring but I finally got out there this year for some solo riding. Great time. Nice weather. Little...
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