Greetings from Western Maryland

[St. Arbucks]

New member here: Jim Bryson. Bought a new-to-me 2014 ES with 2500 on the clock. I'm presently engaged in moding it a bit. Got a reflash from Anthony, ordered a Madstad setup, installed a Stebel airhorn and am eying a Corbin seat. Coming off of several bikes, including an R12GS, a Wee-Stom, an ST-1300 and my present stablemate, a Triumph Tiger, I was surprised that I took to the bike. It was several hours on the bike of a member here that convinced me that this was a bike worth having. Looking forward to many thousands of miles.

About me, I'm a retired engineering and currently running a wrting business. Life is good.

 

[Wallkeeper]

Greetings from Minnesota!

 

[Sierra1]

Welcome from Texas. Did you get your stage name when you were riding the GS? (StArbucks)

 

[pilleway]

Welcome from Mexico! for sure the bike will give you MANY happy miles!

 

[StefanOnHisS10]

Welcome aboard Jim!

Only 2500 miles?? That’s a new bike!

From The Netherlands,
Stefan

 

[St. Arbucks]

Welcome from Texas. Did you get your stage name when you were riding the GS? (StArbucks)

Nah. You know, I was an unconventional BMW rider--I actually rode the thing. Long enough to realize that I wasn't a BMW rider for life. Great experience, great bikes, but terrible reliability at a high cost. I moved on.

I actually got the name from a British preacher. He referred to the local parish as "Saint Arbucks" and would say "You can find me there if I'm not in my office." He was never in his office. Hah!

 

[St. Arbucks]

Welcome aboard Jim!

Only 2500 miles?? That’s a new bike!

From The Netherlands,
Stefan

Yeah, I paid $8k for it. And they threw in new tires, an oil change, and a stem to stern inspection. A week later, Yamaha announced to discontinuation of the bike. So I felt fortunate.

The Netherlands, eh? Did some work there in the early 2000s. Me in a rental car, frantically paging through my Dutch to English dictionary. "What's the word for 'North?'"

 

[StefanOnHisS10]

Yeah, I paid $8k for it. And they threw in new tires, an oil change, and a stem to stern inspection. A week later, Yamaha announced to discontinuation of the bike. So I felt fortunate.

The Netherlands, eh? Did some work there in the early 2000s. Me in a rental car, frantically paging through my Dutch to English dictionary. "What's the word for 'North?'"

That’s a good deal!
Yeah sunny Holland, when coming from the US the Netherlands is like a big city I guess. The north is never far away .
What did you do over here?

 

[Sierra1]

. . . . Yeah sunny Holland, when coming from the US the Netherlands is like a big city I guess . . . .

Which got me to Google-ing . . . . Netherlands square miles = 16k. Houston metro = 10K. New York City metro = 13K. And, Greater Los Angeles = 33.9K.

 

[Electrolyse]

Hi from Switzerland! And welcome

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[SkunkWorks]

Welcome from Colorado!

 

[MFP]

Greetings from NY and welcome aboard this forum.

 

[StefanOnHisS10]

Which got me to Google-ing . . . . Netherlands square miles = 16k. Houston metro = 10K. New York City metro = 13K. And, Greater Los Angeles = 33.9K.

Yup.. I know, and once we were a world power. Owning half the planet, roaming the seas. Something went wrong I gues..

 

[Dshane]

Welcome from Massachusetts.

 

[barkingllizard]

a simple hello, St. Arbucks...

 

[Checkswrecks]

About friggin' time that you checked in and love that you as a writer have a typo in the intro post.

 

[Lowryrides]

Hello from Gettysburg, Pa.

 

[twodogs]

A welcome from Ohio