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Old 04-04-2010, 10:32 PM
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picking up my new heritage this coming weekend, and am wondering if i should ride it home (about a 100 miles), or trailer it, and break it in with the moto-man method.
 
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Old 04-04-2010, 10:34 PM
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ride it?
 
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Old 04-04-2010, 10:35 PM
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ride it, no better time to start breaking it in than on a 100 mile ride home.
 
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Ride it! Just keep it below 65 and stop half way for 20 minutes or so.
 
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Brand new, I dont think I could wait till I got home.....think I would ride it
 
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100 miles? Why did you even ask?

Rode my fatbob home, hardly no experience at all. Got my lady to drop me off, and had a nice enjoyable and memorable ride home. You will miss it if you don't ride her home. Pick her up, find a parking lot and get used to the new bike, maybe stepping up too some residential rodes and then rider her home.
 
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Welcome and congrats. MUST ride it. It is a good luck thing. Just don't play with stuff while on the road. Just watch the road.
 
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ride it that is what its for
 
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Old 04-04-2010, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by weezer_nd
picking up my new heritage this coming weekend, and am wondering if i should ride it home (about a 100 miles), or trailer it, and break it in with the moto-man method.

Dont take this wrong ok .....


You gotta ask ?

If i were you it would be......just try and stop me from rideing it home

Like was said though , a parking lot a lil residential just to get the feel for it..and no playing with the buttons on the ride home


Ride Safe
 
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I see a ton of people trailering bikes home from the dealership and never really understood it (unless it was snowing). I mean why buy a bike if you aren't going to ride it.
 


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