Recent content by padanfain

Welcome, Arizona Ed! Looking forward to your insights and comments on riding the NC700X and motorcycling in general.

It's raining like a dirty booger here. Okay, kind of just sprinkling, really. I took the NC out for some rain riding, gear checking, overall sense-busting. 1) I'm dry. Tourmaster coat and pants doing the trick in town. A 100 mile ride in the rain might expose some seams, though. I wouldn't...

Really enjoying the heck out of my new NC700X. I've had it almost two weeks. Felt comfortable on it right away, and I'm a new rider. Finding all kinds of uses for the storage area.

lol. I got the coat before the pants. A Tourmaster Transition Jacket.

I picked up some Tourmaster Venture Pants at the dealer where I bought my bike. They offer 15 % off of safety gear for recent buyers. And I absolutely baked on the ride home. lol. I'll have to save the liner for really cold days.

Those look nice. Thanks!

Do the riding pants with armor fit over your regular pants? Need to get my legs geared, protected.

Grats on the new bike.

The helmet does seem motoX. It has a nice fit, full face shield. The beak is removable and I might have to take it off if I'm riding long stretches of open road. It can throw my head around a little bit. That, or bigger windscreen on the bike. Do they help?

Jeez.. that black is looking fine! Love it!

Many great responses! Thanks!

Parked along the road behind the airport. Somehow a knat (smoke winged ash aphid) found its way into my ear, inside the helmet. I had to pullover to scratch and the fall light hitting the bike was just magnificent. Taken with a BlackBerry Curve.

Greetings, First motorcycle is my very own NC700X. That makes me a noob. Love the bike so far, just running out of weather to enjoy it. Hoping for a few warm days over the next several months. Impressions/questions thus far: Quiet — I have a full face helmet. At speed the NC700X is very...