José Mourinho
cocknose
Me and my buddy went out for a ride in the great weather today (a nice change of pace for NI). Liked this view...
Yeah, my mate went and bought one like two weeks after me. I would of prefered he went for something else, but aw wellThe same bike! Adorable...
Sweet location.
The weather has been unreal all this week. If it was like this all year round I'd be a happy camper. I've added quite a few miles to the clock this week. Great fun.Looks great! I'd still like to stick my bike on the Ferry and get over to Ireland and some point..
We've had a huge heatwave this week in the UK, so much that I had to go out and get some vented gloves (and from kyle's pic obviously in NI too!). My car is currently rusting on the driveway, and I'm about to ride off to the pub for lunch... this is why I got a bike!
Any opinions on enduro bikes?
I've been looking at the BMW GS series, Suzuki V-Stroms, and the KTM 990 Adventure. Are there any others I should be considering? Any you can recommend or tell me to stay away from?
Any opinions on enduro bikes?
I've been looking at the BMW GS series, Suzuki V-Stroms, and the KTM 990 Adventure. Are there any others I should be considering? Any you can recommend or tell me to stay away from?
Any opinions on enduro bikes?
I've been looking at the BMW GS series, Suzuki V-Stroms, and the KTM 990 Adventure. Are there any others I should be considering? Any you can recommend or tell me to stay away from?
I will see the orthopedic doctor today, so I'll find out if i need pins to put the bones back together. The weird things is the lack of pain I am feeling. Some discomfort but the pain is really minor, just taking naproxen (Aleve) for the swelling. I do have a high tolerance for pain, but I am just not feeling very pain at all. I could not be more lucky.
An amazing mechanic/tuner brought my bike home from the track. The fairing took some damage and the frame slider is destroyed doing its job, but overall,not too bad at all.
I have this itch to trade in my D675 for a Speed Triple............
An amazing mechanic/tuner brought my bike home from the track. The fairing took some damage and the frame slider is destroyed doing its job, but overall,not too bad at all.
Don't worry too much about it. I was pretty terrible with the clutch when I took the motorcycle course having never ridden a bike and never used manual and I passed. As long as you maneuver around the obstacles decently you should be fine. I didn't really get the hang of shifting until later when I practiced on my own bike.Just finished the first part of the beginner motorcycle training course. It was so much fun! We rode on rebel 250s and there were ninjas as well. I am not used to the clutch and am some what forgetful, at the very beginning of the course it was hard and I felt like I was holding back the entire group but I eventually got the hang of it. The instructor even congratulated me and said I came long way in such a short time. Near the end I was having trouble with the clutch again, for some reason I kept my hand on the clutch in the "friction zone" through out the entire time, which would make the motorcycle burn out when I changed gears, it must be because I am so used to riding automatic when driving a car. If I learn to drive a manual car will this help me? It is because next week I have to take the second part of the driving course and I don't have a motorcycle to practice on.
Any hints on what I'm doing wrong?
Reread your post and saw that I missed this point. That sounds spot on for what I'm doing, thanks.Dave it is hard to say, but I imagine you are going to the lock too early.
I'd say stop worrying about stuff that a bike doesn't like doing. At low speeds, just plant those feet on the ground, guide the bike to wherever you want to park, relax and take your time.
The bike can do it just fine, it's the rider who needs the work. Besides, it's a 560lb bike, I'd rather roll around on motor power than foot power.
i'm pretty sure i just didn't go fast enough and it just fell over. now i always put my feet down if im going too slow.
Anyone suggest a bike that could be had for ~$3,000? I'm willing to take anything now. I just want to ride this summer.
The problem a lot of new riders have is they treat slow turns like normal turns and lean in a bit, which only compounds the fact that the bike doesn't have enough speed to stay upright using that method. The 3-4 posts above yours discuss this more.
I thought your post was a joke, but I guess not. Good luck on that thing, somehow that thing looks scarier to ride than a SS.
How you like my new ride, guys? It only cost me $78.50 USD, haha.
Anyways, I've already fallen once and i don't know what i did wrong, i was just turning left and the thing fell on me. i have never taken any classes on riding nor do i have a license(in china). so i'm winging it.
i'm pretty sure i just didn't go fast enough and it just fell over. now i always put my feet down if im going too slow.
I could use some advice on a technique I've been having trouble with. If I'm starting from a stop it's really easy for me to crank the handlebars to lock and whip the bike around in a real tight turn but if I've slowed down from real speed and try to do it I never have the right feel to get the bike to turn as tight as possible.
Any hints on what I'm doing wrong? Even if I slow down below the speed where I can do the tight turn it never feels right doing it unless I'm moving from a stop.
I actually tried to do it from motion yesterday. I was able to do it pretty well one time but another I had to put a foot down since I didn't counter-balance the bike enough.
I was considering just using my non-ideal-fit X-Eleven and waiting for this helmet to come into shops. Now I'm really glad I jumped and got the Profile that was available. The Profile will no longer be made. It fits my head about perfectly in the crown area (the most annoying part for me to fit). The Signet-Q is too narrow for me! It's actually like the X-Eleven and X-Twelve. There's not enough contact up top around the forehead region on any of those (Signet included) to prevent the helmet from sliding down and covering my eyes when pulling on the chin bar.
Was just out crusing around on the ol gs500.. and felt something weird up by my hand, doh! clutch cable snapped
Kind of freaked out at first and pulled off and popped it in neutral and stopped for a few to figure out wtf i'm doing, but after some meditating, started off with a rolling start in second and managed to time all the lights and traffic home so i didn't have to stop
now to figure out how to replace that... heh
I have an X-eleven. It's a good helmet and fits well. But the only reason I got it is because I couldn't find an Arai that fits me anymore. The X-eleven replaced an old Quantum E. I tried on the new Quantum 2 and they had changed the shape, so it doesn't fit. The vector 2 was ok, but it's not a high end helmet. Maybe I should try the RX-Q ?
That's one thing that always annoyed me. They have different models for every head shape, but there are different tiers to the models. It's not like every Arai is the same and they just fit differently. Like some models that may fit better than other but not have as good of ventilation or whatever.
Honestly the only difference in quality I've noticed with the Shoei compared to Arai is the interior. Arai uses a better and more comfortable fabric to line their helmets.
I am told the Shark Race-R Pro is a bit less round than the RSR2, and Shark's design overall is my favorite, so I may give them another shot when I need a new helmet or around next season (whichever comes first).