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Colorado VTX Range
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Handle: Vragor
Name: Clay
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Joined: 9 January 2007
Email:
About me:
My handle is Vragor, which is an Orcish sounding
equivalent of Valder, a character in one of my favorite
books.
I live in Colorado Springs and program for Fluke
Networks. I'm a 4 year transplant from Phoenix/Mesa.
Fluke had to pay $200 million dollars to buy the company
I work for just to get me (at least that's what I
think). I don't drink so I'm the defacto designated
driver on most business dinners or trips.
I've had many hobbies over the years from Boating, Water
Skiing, Private Pilot with my own plane, Pen Turning, 4
wheeling (70 Bronco), hiking, horseback riding,
geo-caching, spelunking, fishing, hunting, skeet
shooting, slow smoke BBQ, and allot of others. (I've
never really golfed).
Last year 2 different friends visited from AZ and both
bugged me about buying a bike and going on some rides
with them. Finally around Thanksgiving I decided I
really would like to ride. I took the MSF course in
between blizzards and started test riding bikes. I even
took a day off and rented for a day from Pike's Peak
Harley. $100 (including insurance) got me a 8-5 rental
on 4 different bikes. I rode about 300 miles all
together on a Sportster 1200, Street Bob, Softail
Heritage Classic, and a Road King. I really liked the
Softail but no way was I paying $16,000.
I continued testing and looking and eventually settled
on a blue VTX 1300R because it really felt good to ride,
looked great, great price, and Honda quality.
I spend most of my work time with tight deadlines,
crammed schedules, and constant emergency interruptions,
so my hobbies have always been something to decompress
and relieve the stress. I've already come to enjoy a
slow meander up highway 83 for lunch, gawking all the
way. I especially love putting around Garden of the Gods
at 10 miles an hour and stopping to just look.
My new motto is "The journey IS the vacation". |
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