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To start with. I'm Dutch so I'm not a native speaker. I guess my English will bemore 'British' rather than American or Canadian but I'll give it my best. I'm living in Portugal for almost 13 years now.
My name: Rob (almost 70 years young); married; one child (all girls); retired pilot in the RNLAF (Royal Netherlands Air Force).
Have been riding Harley - Davidsons for 51years together with my wife (she had her own HD) but since she stopped riding I hardly used mine anymore. I won't go into the details but I can't leave my wife alone anymore but she still liked riding on a bike but now as a passenger. For that purpose I changed form HD to 'a couch on wheels' a.k.a. as Honda Goldwing. What a terrible thing that is. That thing has really nothing to do with biking. So after a short while a decided to get rid of it and bought a 2017 Grizzly 700 EPS just for the fun. I'm still waiting to get it delivered because it has to come a long way. In Portugal you can't buy street legel ATV's so it has to come directly from Yamaha Europe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). From there it goes to Yamaha France where they do the modifications to make it street legal. From there it goes to Yamaha Portugal and after a (safety-)check by the Portuguese authoritys it goes to my Yamaha dealership where I bought it!
I ordered the Grizzly one week ago but I think it won't be delivered before the half of december. What colour it will be? Yes, I'm quite sure it will have some kind of color :wink2: (Size matters, color doesn't .....)
Almost forgot something. I like cars as well as long as it isn't a Tesla or other electric car. My favourite brands: Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. Own a Jaguar XK, a Volvo S60 and a Land Rover Defender 110 Td5 Hard Top.
Well this is all for the moment.
Now I'll start 'wrestling' through all the posts on this forum and see if there is somthing I can learn from. Already have been reading the Owners Manual and the Workshop Manual (downloaded from the internet) so there will be no surprises or big questions when I get my Grizzly.
On Youtube I already watched a lot of short movies where people are doing exact the things with their Grizzly's that you should not do according to Yamaha!
By the way: I don't wear wooden shoes ............
Greetings
Rob
My name: Rob (almost 70 years young); married; one child (all girls); retired pilot in the RNLAF (Royal Netherlands Air Force).
Have been riding Harley - Davidsons for 51years together with my wife (she had her own HD) but since she stopped riding I hardly used mine anymore. I won't go into the details but I can't leave my wife alone anymore but she still liked riding on a bike but now as a passenger. For that purpose I changed form HD to 'a couch on wheels' a.k.a. as Honda Goldwing. What a terrible thing that is. That thing has really nothing to do with biking. So after a short while a decided to get rid of it and bought a 2017 Grizzly 700 EPS just for the fun. I'm still waiting to get it delivered because it has to come a long way. In Portugal you can't buy street legel ATV's so it has to come directly from Yamaha Europe (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). From there it goes to Yamaha France where they do the modifications to make it street legal. From there it goes to Yamaha Portugal and after a (safety-)check by the Portuguese authoritys it goes to my Yamaha dealership where I bought it!
I ordered the Grizzly one week ago but I think it won't be delivered before the half of december. What colour it will be? Yes, I'm quite sure it will have some kind of color :wink2: (Size matters, color doesn't .....)
Almost forgot something. I like cars as well as long as it isn't a Tesla or other electric car. My favourite brands: Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. Own a Jaguar XK, a Volvo S60 and a Land Rover Defender 110 Td5 Hard Top.
Well this is all for the moment.
Now I'll start 'wrestling' through all the posts on this forum and see if there is somthing I can learn from. Already have been reading the Owners Manual and the Workshop Manual (downloaded from the internet) so there will be no surprises or big questions when I get my Grizzly.
On Youtube I already watched a lot of short movies where people are doing exact the things with their Grizzly's that you should not do according to Yamaha!
By the way: I don't wear wooden shoes ............
Greetings
Rob
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