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Do Not Wash Your GTS With Hot Water!!!
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Just warning you folks, as this is NOT explained anywhere in the manual: never use water hotter than 150F on your GTS, or she'll shrink as hell. This however doesn't seem to affect the engine

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OH sure now ya tell me Razz emoticon
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Want!
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If I folded myself up to fit on that, we'd need a hydraulic spreader to straighten me out after.

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Oh, great...now you've voided the warranty as well?
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Pretty much how I look on my LX Clown emoticon
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35 mph!!!

Thats faster than my wife's 2014 Honda Giorno which can't hit 30.
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now for you to enter it in next years scooter cannonball.
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That certainly solves any issues for the inseam challenged.
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Hey, I can take it on the streetcar when the weather turns nasty. Multi-modal transportation...
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