"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
12/10/2015 at 12:13 • Filed to: None
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"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
12/10/2015 at 12:13 • Filed to: None | 1
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F !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I got a ton of ideas now. Now it’s time to try some of them out. I’ve arranged some test rides with some of the local bike shops (Sun Motorcycles, Coyote Motorsports, Grand Prix Motorsports and Vickery Motorsports - some Denver-area Jalops might know what I’m talking about) and mostly it will be looking at new inventory, so FZ-07s/9s, Kawa Vulcan S’s, Yamaha Bolts, whatever that Scrambler thingie is and yes even the SR400, maybe the CB500 and the Tu250x at the extreme low end. I’ve got my appointments set up for midweek next week, weather permitting (so far looking like...eh). Anyway, feel free to chime in if I’m making a mistake or not.
BringBackTheCommodore
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
12/10/2015 at 12:16 |
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No Honda CB1100s available to test ride? All bikes you’ve listed are good choices, by the way. I was just curious if you had looked into the CB1100 for a test ride.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
12/10/2015 at 13:08 |
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I can’t say this enough times: BMW F/G650. Doesn’t mater what year. The fuel-injected ones are less fiddly, but the carb’d ones are super well sorted and with appropriate maintenance “just work”. Later bikes have a lower center of gravity, with the fuel tank moved below the seat and the airbox moved up to the “tank, but basically the rest of the bike has hardly changed in nearly 20 years. There’s a reason for that. As far as middleweight street-biased dual-sports there’s little better.
“Oh, but it’s only got a single front disk!” you’ll say “but it’s a huge tractor-y single that runs out of breath at 6700 RPM and hits rev limit at 8000” you’ll whine “But it doesn’t have high-end infintely adjustable suspension components” you’ll pout “and it’s only got 45-ish horse power (50-ish for the FI ones)!” you’ll grouse but then you’ll notice it has 40-ish ft-lb (or 45-ish for the FI ones) [28.6/32.1 Nrp is proper Jalop-units] and you’ll say “oh, well, that IS a lot of torque... maybe I’ll give it a try....
then you’ll find that it’s not very porky, and the weight is exactly where it should be, and that that single front disk feels perfectly adequate under hard braking and the lever feel is terriffic, and you’ll find that if you forgot to down-shift to first at a stoplight you can feather the clutch and easily pull away in 2nd, even 3rd if you don’t mind making your friction plates unhappy. Then you’ll discover that despite being a bit tall it lays down and CARVES like proper little bundle of entertainment! You’ll find the handling to stable and easy, never darty, but never reluctant to change direction, You’ll run into the rev-limiter in 5th gear at 107MPH and realize that that big-ol-hunk-of-Austrian-Single-Cylinder-goodness is amazingly well counterbalanced, you’ll check your valve clearances once, at 24k and never wory about them again, you’ll slide it around on dirt roads and two-tracks that you never thought you’d be interested in riding on, and you’ll wonder if an MX bike might be in your future, because, hey, THIS IS FUN! You’ll hit a massive pothole at 50 and barely notice. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without grip-heaters, an auxiliary power jack and hard bags.... you’ll find you’ve ridden across two states this saturday... you’ll ride other bikes and realize they do SOME things better, but you’ll never find one that does SO MUCH this well.