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People with more mechanical experience than me may already know this, but I learned the hard way. When you use a grease gun to grease all of the zerks--and there are a lot of them (number and location covered in other posts--Buzzy's, I think), you'll have a lot of trouble unless you use the rear jacks to raise the tires off the ground. This relieves the pressure and allows you to attach and detach the grease gun to the zerks much easier and makes the process of getting the grease into the fittings much easier.

Sherry, I share your concern about online security or the lack thereof. I use Dashlane, a service that generates very strong passwords. I also use two-factor authentication to sign into my Dashlane account. In addition to my username and Dashlane password, I have to enter a code that is generated randomly by an app on my iPhone or insert a USB authentication key into the USB port on my laptop. Dashlane is free, but you need to pay an annual fee to have what I consider to be necessary attributes. I have Dashlane installed on my laptop and mobile devices and it syncs across all those devices. I also change my banking password every week and other passwords every month or so. It's very easy to do with Dashlane. There are other online services like Dashlane. One is LastPass--I used this before Dashlane. I suppose nothing is absolutely foolproof, but Dashlane, two-factor authentication, and frequent changing of strong, randomly generated passwords gives me some peace of mind! www.dashlane.com www.yubico.com

I saw some reviews of that bike and some performance videos on you tube. Looks like a perfect bike for easy loading, dirt and fire roads, short rides two up and as always Honda reliability. Have fun!!

I owned BMW motorcycles for over 35 years and was a member of the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America during this time. Each year the "club" would send out a book (some 238 pages) which contained listings of all BMW dealers, club information, travel information, etc.). As a member of the club one could chose to be listed (or not) and there were a number of "codes" that one could chose to be listed with their name and phone number. Members were listed by state and then by city in that state. Codes included things such as - camping or tent space, spare room, space available to work on motorcycle, working tools available, truck or trailer available, mechanical help, willingness to travel to help in emergency, etc. With thousands of members and a full time office staff, this book was easier to assemble. In addition, advertising was sold to help defray the costs of publishing. From what I read above it appears to me that with our numbers approaching 200 or so, some of us are starting to want things of this sort (rallies, member info). I don't think it is fair or wise to expect or want the factory to do this type of thing for us even though they already have much of the information needed to get it going. We already have a few of us that are closely associated with the factory (I'm thinking the Forum moderators here and, perhaps, a couple of others) that could be the nucleus of our "club". But, we need money and someone to take the "Oliver club by the hitch" in order to get it off the ground. This would be a great topic for our rally in May. Bill