I'm a 68 yo widower. The last 2 motorcycle accidents left me with the need to have something fun to drive with more than 2 wheels. I bought a used 2016 SL with 3059 miles (now over 5000) to satisfy my need. I've been having a blast driving it on nice days. I'm looking forward to meeting other owners. I'm in NE Texas in Paris.
New owner of a 2016 Slingshot SL
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Welcome to the show Scanman ! Congrats on the new ride. Lots of Slingshot owners come from the biking world and I can't think of a better way to extend your riding career. We all grow old but most of us don't grow up!
There's a ton of help here when you need it. Just reach out and someone will have answers. Glad you stopped in.
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I'm a 68 yo widower. The last 2 motorcycle accidents left me with the need to have something fun to drive with more than 2 wheels. I bought a used 2016 SL with 3059 miles (now over 5000) to satisfy my need. I've been having a blast driving it on nice days. I'm looking forward to meeting other owners. I'm in NE Texas in Paris.
Welcome, Glad you found us! Lots of owners in Texas who'll be glad to meet you
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I bought a used 2016 SL with 3059 miles (now over 5000) to satisfy my need
ATTABOY!!!!!!!
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Welcome Scanman! You'll find quite a few events for SS's in Texas (I'm in Austin). Heck, the Austin crew was just up there on Sunday for Babe's Fried Chicken. There is a Get-To-Gether in Houston April 13-16 (I hate to say it, but most of the GTGs are posted on Facebook - yechhhh!)
A few of us from Austin are going to Miami in 2 weeks for the big Slingshot Roadsters event (~500+ SS) if you want to join. We have an Air BNB rented and I'm sure we can fit you in.Alamo Cycle Plex in San Antonio and Team Mancuso in Houston are also a great supporters so check them out. Also check out the vendors on this site. They are all great.
Oh, and BTW, try not to spend too much money on it too soon. Once you start spending money on the SS, you get addicted. Go to some GTGs or shows to see what other people have done before going too crazy. And then get a credit card with a very high limit!
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Thanks for the invite chavey2 but right now Houston is a little far for me to ride.If I manage to get to San Antonio I'll be sure to look up Alamo Cycle Plex.
I can't afford to spend much money on my Sling right now but I would really like to get the LED headlight upgrade from Slingmods.com. For now I'm just going to drive it as is and enjoy the open air. As for the credit card, I have several with high limits.
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Scanman - Welcome to the forum, lots of great people and information on here. Texas is a great state for the Slingshots, there are ton of them out there and great people also. There is a huge event in Houston coming up in April called the Slingexperience, I know you said it is kinda far, but lots of cool stuff to see there.
If you have any questions about the Slingshot, let us know and get out there and enjoy your ride!
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Yep, what Ej says! I made it a month before the jones to customize started calling my name...
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Yep, what Ej says! I made it a month before the jones to customize started calling my name...
My 'mod' of choice is gas for miles of smiles.....
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I've been working on getting seat time. From 1/6 to present I've put just over 2000 miles on it.
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From the words of Axl Rose....."Welcome to the Jungle"
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I have almost a thousand miles since the first week in Feb! Alot of it has been Cold
Did a quick hundred mile round trip yesterday at just over 50 degrees...
Gonna do close to that today!
Might get up to almost 60 degrees today!
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Thanks for the invite chavey2 but right now Houston is a little far for me to ride.If I manage to get to San Antonio I'll be sure to look up Alamo Cycle Plex.
I can't afford to spend much money on my Sling right now but I would really like to get the LED headlight upgrade from Slingmods.com. For now I'm just going to drive it as is and enjoy the open air. As for the credit card, I have several with high limits.
I bought the sm led update. They kept failing in a month or less. Sm kept replacing but I finally gave up. I bought cheap led's on Amazon or eBay, can't remember, and they're still going strong after one season.
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Which ones did you get....was it just a plug and play or did you have to do anything else?
I bought the sm led update. They kept failing in a month or less. Sm kept replacing but I finally gave up. I bought cheap led's on Amazon or eBay, can't remember, and they're still going strong after one season.
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The middle ones from SM never burned out. The outer ones were the problem. I'll try to find what I bought and post
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Scanman best thing you can do is get lots of seat time in before going nuts with new mods. Welcome to the "World of Slingshot Insanity".
Don't listen to him. Buy up everything you see that's Slingshot related and go broke like the rest of us riders