Hello all, noob (to monsters) in NoVA/DC here

[dolci]

I live in Annandale, work at 17th & K.  I usually ride a little DR250SE to work. I also have an assortment of dirt bikes and a TL1000S.

I just bought a Monster 620 for my wife that's in need of a little TLC so I'll be poking around here for tech info

Oh Hai - I'm at 18 & K...where have you found to park down here?

[bikepilot]

Cool, what building?  I'm in the Wiley Rein building (1776).  We should grab lunch sometime.  I usually park at Conn. and M as there's free parking there then walk the few blocks over to the office.  I've heard through the grape vine that some folks have cut deals with the parking garages under the buildings here, but their official stance varies from no bikes at all to charging bikes full cage-price.


Incidentally, anyone here know if I need longer brake lines to fit Renthal road high bars to the '06 M620?  I've read that the bend is about the same as the Monster City bars.  I posted a thread here http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=47182.0 but haven't gotten a lot of discussion yet.  If I do need longer brake lines, any suggestions on where to get them?

[zooom]

Incidentally, anyone here know if I need longer brake lines to fit Renthal road high bars to the '06 M620?  I've read that the bend is about the same as the Monster City bars.  I posted a thread here http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=47182.0 but haven't gotten a lot of discussion yet.  If I do need longer brake lines, any suggestions on where to get them?

when I changed to Pro-Taper ATV High Bars on both my old street monster ( before that pregnant dog got it) and on the Gran Canyon, I was able to use the stock lines....but it was a stretch on the Gran Canyon....as far as where to get lines...the best place IMHO is Spiegler www.spieglerusa.com/  ....best thing to do is to unbolt the 4 bolts of the clamp on the top triple and raise up the bar to roughly where the new bars will be to see about how close you might be in terms of that limitation of stretch.

[dolci]

Cool, what building?  I'm in the Wiley Rein building (1776).  We should grab lunch sometime.  I usually park at Conn. and M as there's free parking there then walk the few blocks over to the office.  I've heard through the grape vine that some folks have cut deals with the parking garages under the buildings here, but their official stance varies from no bikes at all to charging bikes full cage-price.

I'm at 1801. I used to be able to park on the sidewalk at the back of the building for $5 but then they "updated" the building, supposedly making it greener and took out all the motorcycle parking. I can still park here but it's full cage price. I quite riding to work since it was faster to metro in and the cost was the same.  One of my coworkers was telling me that she had seen motorcycle parking around M but couldn't remember exactly where - you're probably parking where she's talking about.  May have to check that out (free is always good)!

[tocino]

when I changed to Pro-Taper ATV High Bars on both my old street monster ( before that pregnant dog got it)

But he's not bitter. 

[zooom]

But he's not bitter. 

I would be less bitter if the bike had made it to the west coast 2.5 years ago when she had a job and the ability to have taken care of it...but it has since sat lingering in a state of care where it is far from being the bike it was or could still be and THAT pisses me off just a bit...

[DRKWNG]

But he's not bitter. 

[bikepilot]

Thanks Zooom, I'll play with it tomorrow.  

dolci, we'll have to grab lunch sometime  

If you look at google street view of M street just off Conn. you'll see the bikes parked (the google cage went by summer '09  and took my pic at a different intersection  )