It's Official: I am now a new 1600 Nomad Owner

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The day after Christmas I purchased a 2008 Blue/Silver Nomad and picked it up two days later. Right now, with only 2 miles on the odometer, it is in the garage with the tank, seat, and windshield off so I can run all my electrical wiring and install all the stuff.

My 2000 1500 FI Nomad is approaching 117,000 miles. It has served me well. It has made many trips to both coasts, Mexico, once to Alaska and never left me on the side of the road.

For the new Nomad, I have a lot of wiring and distribution panels to build and install to handle both of my two way radios, emergency lights, Zumo GPS w/XM radio/traffic/weather, heated outer wear, J&M intercom/FM along with fabricating a radio box to go under the luggage rack and mounts for two radio antennas, XM, and a GPS-Automatic Position Reporting antenna.

Lightbar, Mustang Seat, Luggage Rack, Cobra True Duals SD, air kit, PC III, and several other goodies are on their way here from several suppliers and hopefully will be here by the middle of next week.

The past five days the weather has been unseasonably warm with temps reaching in the 70s. Sure wish I hadn't pulled 1600 apart. At least I am able to ride the 1500 Nomad.

I hope to have the new Nomad on the road by the end of the month (wish I was already retired).

My next two upcoming VROC events are HCRXI www.dfwvrochcrxi.com in Fredericksburg in April and SEVROC www.sevroc.org in Maggie Valley in May. Looking forward to seeing some of y'all there.