CRASH here … got the nickname when I raced Superbikes “umpty flumph” years ago and it has stuck. First bike was a Bultaco 250 when I was eleven and having survived that have been riding every since. I couldn't list all the bikes I have owned in my 30+ years of riding, but I have owned – and wrecked – quite a collection. Just bought a brand new on the show room floor 2003 Roadstar (the color and the spoke wheels called to me from where I was looking at a Royal Star – the siren’s wail could not be ignored … and my wife liked it too – soooooo …. ) and immediately gussied it up. Am LOVING the bike and HATING Concord Yamaha’s service department

, but thanks to some tweaks I have found here and some other forums, I have my “Woad Star Wunna” purring like a kitten (and virtually rattle free). New pipes and it will growl like a Tigger .. er, Tiger.
Father of a 10 year old son that is the best riding buddy I have ever had and a 13 year old demoness ... I mean daughter. (They go back to normal at some point don’t they?

) The 10 year old has already calculated that about the time he turns 16 I should be wanting a new bike and he can have my Roadstar … kid is too smart, but I can weasel a new bike out of it so what the heck. Work as a Manufacturing Operations Manager near Sacramento, CA and live about an hour from San Francisco.
Great forum and a great community I have found myself in. I never realized how much fun I could have at 50MPH, and what a great crowd of people I would fall in with when I bought my Yamaharley.