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Almost makes me want to buy a half dozen even though I don't own an M&P 9!
I would, even if you think that you might buy one. Hell, if you got a 40..get a 9mm barrel.
BTW..the bike in your avatar...I had a C50..until a guy ran me off the road and left me laying, bloodied in a ditch, the Friday before last Memorial Day..
I miss that bike..was 3 months from paying it off...
Damn, that sucks. I trust you came out of that okay? Did you ever catch the guy? Mine is a 2005 and has between 25 & 30K miles on it right now. I'm probably going to ride it up to New Hampshire again this summer.
I was banged pretty good. Deep road rash from the top of my left butt cheek to the back of my knee. Bike was totaled.
Fucker drove off. Never caught him. Based on the time of day, 3:30, I think it was a teenager coming from school. The car was a white 2 door coupe, like a Civic. He came over a hill in my lane. Had I followed the advice the riding schools tell students and had been riding in the center lane, I would be dead. I never ride in the middle of the lane, I ride to the right hand side.
It saved my life. I tried to trail brake and avoid the fender, ran out of road and got in the debris on the side, then slid into a ditch.
I had about 16,000 miles on mine, it was an '06.
The shitty part was the wife and kids bought the final piece of chrome I wanted for it for my birthday, 3 weeks before.
It pisses me off to this day...but I'm not crippled or dead, so I can't complain.