Becoming one with the new ride

[Hemibee]

I've pretty much been MIA around here for quite awhile and during a lot of that time I've been unable to ride.  On or about 14 April 2013 I ruptured a disc in my lower back and had been off of my Girly for almost a year.  I got back to riding a little in January and slowly started making a few longer rides.  Just as my birthday was rolling around my wife asked what I wanted so I told her the same thing I do every year and like every year I know what the answer will be. . . NO NEW BIKE!!!  Well this year I must have caught her off guard since she said; "Do you know which one you want?"  Is she serious?  Do I know which one I want?  Well to make a long story short, after searching all over Texas and the surrounding States, plus a few others, for a 2013, I located THE bike.  I told the dealer if I arrived and it turned out to be a 12 or 14, he had lost the sale, it had to be a 2013 AND it had to be Matte Green.  So a little over a month after my birthday I finally had possession of my new ride.

Here's a couple or so of my attempts to become one with the new girl . . .










A video slideshow of the bikes at Barber Motorsports

[Mustang]

 
enjoy , I'm sorta jealous 

[Bixxer Bob]

Glad to see you back H, and yes I'm jealous too... 

[John Stenhouse]

Good call, they do look kinda nice after seeing a couple close up in Scotland

[Sin_Tiger]

All I can say is that woman must really  you 

Looks like you're gelling pretty well, hope you find it as comfortable as I have, cute choice of tracks by the way 

[Hemibee]

All I can say is that woman must really  you 

Either that or she was tired of having me around the house and figured I'd be on the road more with a new bike. 

Looks like you're gelling pretty well, hope you find it as comfortable as I have, cute choice of tracks by the way 

I'm loving it.  I was wondering if I would like it as much as I did Black Betty but she was getting a little long in the tooth and I was spending more time fixing mistakes the previous owner had done to her when setting her up for himself.  I thought the Girly was the best they ever built but I'm converted, the 800XC is the greatest bike they have ever built.