Enjoyed

By aaron.axvig, Fri, 12/06/2019 - 21:41

I sent my friend Simon a link to a motorcycle on Craigslist that I really liked, and he said, "No way, that's exactly the sort of bike I'm looking for.  If you don't buy it I will."  So I bought it!  My friend and coworker Steve came out with me in my car to a country house SW of Fargo and I drove it back.

Simon found his own (same model, different color) to buy so we had matching rides.  I remember tearing it up around Star Lake and on the big sweepers of the road north of Dent.

By aaron.axvig, Fri, 12/06/2019 - 21:39

I bought this motorcycle via Craigslist in the spring of 2011.  As my first motorcycle it was a poor choice to learn on but I loved it.  Simon and Parker came with me to look at it, Parker to test drive it and Simon for his people skills.  I remember the ridiculously loud exhaust that we could hear as Parker accelerated down a street while out of sight.  For $1500 followed Parker back to my apartment garage where he parked it and I waited for warmer weather to try it out.

By aaron.axvig, Fri, 12/06/2019 - 21:34

Purchased from Grandpa Tom. 6 cylinder, two gas tanks, little flip down  seats in the back of the cab, Rhinoliner, plastic bug flare on the front of the hood I think.  I had a cassette adapter but one day that stopped working and I believe was stuck in there.

The 4WD system started to have issues after some intermittent ice near Mapleton shock loaded the system (seemingly).  So it often would not engage, and would make terrible grinding noises.

By aaron.axvig, Sat, 11/16/2019 - 12:27

One of the first things I did in college was get this phone with some of my hard-earned Medora wages.  My roommate (and high school friend) Nic drove me to the Verizon store in his yellow Pontiac Aztec.  Phones were pretty popular by then and many high school classmates and Medora coworkers already had them but it wasn't a given.  Mainly I was interested in being able to keep in touch with a girl.

By aaron.axvig, Sat, 11/16/2019 - 12:15

The $200 price was probably including a Verizon discount and a Microsoft employee discount.

By aaron.axvig, Sat, 11/16/2019 - 12:09

This was a good phone until the battery life became very limited...a common problem with these phones.

By aaron.axvig, Sat, 11/16/2019 - 12:04

For a very reasonable price this was a good phone with amazing battery life and an SD card slot.

By aaron.axvig, Sat, 11/16/2019 - 11:56

All around good phone.  No SD card slot and I wish it had more storage but I survived.  That just means that I can't copy my whole music library onto the phone but I don't miss that too much.  Eventually it did get pretty close to full with all the sailing navigation charts and things.  And it caught a few raindrops one day, after which the USB-C charging port only worked in one orientation.  That was very annoying until I marked my charging cables to know which way to insert them.