The Bambit is gone! Long live the Bambit!

Fare thee well!

We've been through a lot. It was my second bike that I bought in 2005 to replace my GS500E, twice the horse power and all that lovely Bandit midrange torque and sound. I've had it out to the Cabot Trail in 2006, my very first multi day tour, then collided with a deer on it in 2007 putting it into the garage with tweaked forks and missing fairing, and me into the hospital courtesy of the ambulance. I put it back on the road last year at the urging of my good friend Willie, and parted company with it this year as the DR650E is the new love in my life. I'm down to two bikes in the garage now, one of which is powered by pedals. :D 

The KLR is gone... but not forgotten.

On my birthday last fall, a close friend offered me the keys to his new-to-him 2009 Suzuki DR650E, and after a few wheel lofts in the parking lot, I was hooked.

By chance I saw him advertise it for sale this spring, and I jumped all over it and consequently found myself struggling with three bikes jammed into my side of the garage, A Bandit, the DR650 and my venerable old KLR. Something had to go, so I posted a couple of ads on Kijiji about the bikes...

 and met with success fairly rapidly... although it sold under my asking price, I'm pretty sure it'll be treated the way I would have... Abused, dropped, dirtied and put back to into riding order once the foliage is plucked out from the bike. :D

I'll add some more memorabilia pics here when I come across them. I regret not getting a shot of them driving away with it in their truck.