Moto Medellin….

In less than 36 hours, folks, I’m wheels in the wells and bound for Medellin, Colombia, to hook up with my good buddy Juan Carlos for a circumnavigation of that country on an AKT Moto RX3.  Here’s the route we’ll be taking…

To say I’m excited would be an understatement of gigantic proportions.   It’s going to be a hell of an adventure, and I’ve been having a hard time falling asleep at night thinking about it.    Colombia.  On an RX3.   As the guest of AKT Moto and DeMotos magazine (the only motorcycle magazine in Colombia).   I really fell into clover on this one!

I was in the CSC plant this morning just kind of checking things over on the Internet.   You know from reading the blog and following us on Facebook that we have two specials running right now…one is on the TT250 (a steal if ever there was one) and the other on the 2016 RX3.   Both are great deals.   I have an RX3 (as you most certainly know if you read the blog) and I’ve done some serious miles on it.   I love that motorcycle, and so do a lot of other people.   This morning, I fired up the dirty gal Ryan rode on Sunday (the black TT250), and I put a a quick 50 miles on it on the 210 freeway and then around town.   I love the TT250.  It’s light, it’s torquey, and it’s just flat fun to ride.

The TT250 runs with the big dogs on the freeway, and it’s comfortable cruising at around 60-65 mph.   The 34-inch seat height notwithstanding, it’s not that tall when you get on it.   I have a 29-inch inseam, and I can nearly flat foot it when I’m wearing my motorcycle boots.   At $1,895, this bike has to be the deal of the century.   And like they say, you ain’t seen nothing yet.  I’m in the middle of a series of things we’re negotiating with Zongshen right now, and when the bikes start arriving…well, let’s just say the folks who missed the boat are going to feel real bad.  We can’t talk about these things yet, but trust me on this, you are going to like what we are doing.

With our specials running on Facebook and our social media marketing, the Internet comments have been pouring in.  When we first started marketing the RX3, not many people knew about it and when the trolls started spewing their venom we were the only folks responding to them.   Today, we don’t do that too much any more.   Part of it is we are too busy selling motorcycles, and the other part of it is the folks who already own the RX3 and know our company shut down the trolls before we do.   You know, this whole business of trolling and badmouthing something on the Internet (in all cases, with no real knowledge) induced me to write a blog on the topic when we started selling the RX3.   I called it Venom, Viciousness, and Vituperation, and you can read that blog here.   Yesterday, while I was driving to CSC, I heard the radio talking head mention this same concept.   She referred to it as online disinhibitation.   I liked the term and I immediately Googled it when I got to the plant.  I found a good article that reinforced all of my conclusions on the trolls.  It’s a good read and it made me feel good…a team of high-falutin’ psychologists came to the same conclusions we did (and we’re not psychologists).  You can read that article here.  It’s a good read.  It says a lot about the trolls, and none of it is complimentary (but you probably knew that already; these are not well-adjusted people).

Okay, that’s enough for know.   35 hours and I’m on the Avianca flight to Medellin!