What is your daily Rider?What is your daily Rider?Just thought it would interesting to see some shots of your daily rider no matter if it has two or four wheels. This is what I use unless it is below 40 degrees or raining, then the Toyota truck comes out. Occasionally one of the 305's makes the commute to give the "Big Girl" a day off. It is a 2005 Triumph Rocket 111.
100 mile/day commute in a 2000 grand marquis, which honestly has run contrary to the popular opinion that American cars suck. This thing as been no maintenance and super-comfortable for me.
 However, when my commute is over and I need to run around the city of Milwaukee, I usually ride a Yamaha TW200 since it goes pretty much anywhere, on or off road. I have a trunk on it so it's easy to pick up beer (or these days, diapers and baby wipes)... 
Stock it's got a 14 front / 50 rear sprocket setup that enables you to drive straight up a wall in first gear. I've had it going 65 and that seemed about the danger zone for me. But the sprockets are easily changed out to a 15/54 and then there's no problem doing 65-70 for long periods of time. It's an excellent knock around bike for town, and off-road it can't be beat with the huge tires. I've seen lots of guys on tall bikes going over in the dirt but this bike can be flat-footed. I bought mine new for $3200, and it came out to about $3600 with all the BS destination fees, title, etc. There's a whole forum like this one over at http://tw200forum.com/forums/ And as you vintage bike guys know, it's always fun to ride a very unique bike -- TW200s are pretty hard to find and in 3 years I've never seen another one in Milwaukee... -phil
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