obiwanbill
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With a missing leg, have been looking for the right bike to not kill myself on. Going back to 2 wheelers wasn't going to work and after looking at many rebuilt/crashed Gold Wings, I bought a Spyder SE5. Started off with a 3" riser and 12volr plug add ons. At the dealer, the riser on hold for me was missing the mounting hardware, so they had to over night a new one. Then was to pick up soon after opening on 5/12. UPS-FedEx didn't bring. Oops! a young man jumped on a bike and made a 3 hour round trip to another dealer to get one. At 430 we were finally on the way. As we hadn't installed a hand brake yet, my son drove the Beastie and I drove the truck
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Act 2, got caught in traffic, Kamikaze drivers, bad roads, detours in the Detroit Freeway system. 3 hours later We arrived at (Jimmy) Mels Monster Garage. He had taken a hitch mounted wheel chair rack (Tilt and Tote) that I previously had and fab'ed it fabulously into one of his hitches, then powder coated it. It needed some minor tweaking as he didn't have the wheelchair to pre-tweak with, so tired, we left the Beastie there and ran off for Toledo
hyea:.
Act 3, Everything tweaked, tall windshield to replace the postage stamp sized one and 3 covers for the 3 shocks, emblazoned with the spider emblem. While there, he gave us a preview of other projects: hitch mounted flag carrier :2thumbs:, an air vent that runs from one of the fog lamp holes, black wire (looked like a spidey web) luggage rank on his Dad's yellow spyder.
On leaving they escorted us to the freeway (So I wouldn't get lost again). so we had a truck and three Spyders (2 grey, 1 yellow) in convoy. Was kinda surreal, like the bike ride at the end of the show each week on American Chopper
A word of note: where the dealer staff seemed asleep at the switch and mostly not full of energy, The Boss and crew at Mels were first rate at every step of the process:thumbup:. Pricing for these aftermarket items was within reason, not like a radio gadget I saw a post on for 2300$:lecturef_smilie:. Sorry, if this is starting to sound like a ad for Mels, but it's obvious to a blind man how passionate he is about his work.
Act 4 Now my son is starting on rigging a mechanical hand brake and I'm golden for the first time since losing my right leg 2 years ago:clap:
. Act 2, got caught in traffic, Kamikaze drivers, bad roads, detours in the Detroit Freeway system. 3 hours later We arrived at (Jimmy) Mels Monster Garage. He had taken a hitch mounted wheel chair rack (Tilt and Tote) that I previously had and fab'ed it fabulously into one of his hitches, then powder coated it. It needed some minor tweaking as he didn't have the wheelchair to pre-tweak with, so tired, we left the Beastie there and ran off for Toledo
hyea:.Act 3, Everything tweaked, tall windshield to replace the postage stamp sized one and 3 covers for the 3 shocks, emblazoned with the spider emblem. While there, he gave us a preview of other projects: hitch mounted flag carrier :2thumbs:, an air vent that runs from one of the fog lamp holes, black wire (looked like a spidey web) luggage rank on his Dad's yellow spyder.
On leaving they escorted us to the freeway (So I wouldn't get lost again). so we had a truck and three Spyders (2 grey, 1 yellow) in convoy. Was kinda surreal, like the bike ride at the end of the show each week on American Chopper
A word of note: where the dealer staff seemed asleep at the switch and mostly not full of energy, The Boss and crew at Mels were first rate at every step of the process:thumbup:. Pricing for these aftermarket items was within reason, not like a radio gadget I saw a post on for 2300$:lecturef_smilie:. Sorry, if this is starting to sound like a ad for Mels, but it's obvious to a blind man how passionate he is about his work.
Act 4 Now my son is starting on rigging a mechanical hand brake and I'm golden for the first time since losing my right leg 2 years ago:clap:
