It lives!!!!!

If you are a wide body like me air lift aint a problem .

 

In fact, on a sufficiently powerful naked bike, it is possible to
achieve a complete sense of weightlessness. [1]

--
Regards

Andrew

[1] Sometimes followed by a complete sense of death.

 

I'm coming to Canberra to steal an SV and turbocharge it.

Oh yes, it works. And it sorta goes in reverse at certain speeds that
we won't talk about here.

 

HA! (gee, that was a snappy comeback, hey?)

LOL, touche! <muttering>

 

Well given that I only recently came back from a ride day at Eastern
Creek (pointed statement for any police orificers that may be viewing)
- I can tell you that on a X Raptor the relevant speeds are ~130 and
about 220-230 (tucked in in the latter case - much lower I would
expect if you were silly enough to sit up)

JL

 

Well given that I only recently came back from a ride day at Eastern
Creek (pointed statement for any police orificers that may be viewing)
- I can tell you that on a X Raptor the relevant speeds are ~130 and
about 220-230 (tucked in in the latter case - much lower I would
expect if you were silly enough to sit up)

JL

So... at those "other speeds" which shall never be mentioned, is the wrist
pain from leaning on the wrists, or desperately hanging on and hoping
they're not snapped off by your own body weight as it tries to fly off the
back of the bike???

betty, not ever likely to
find out for herself

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:02:19 +1000

Which bit of the shoulders?

I found stretching the pecs helped with shoulder difficulties as short
pecs were pulling on them, and stretching the traps did too.

See
http://www.healthline.com/blogs/exercise_fitness/2007/03/nice-neck-stretch.html

and
http://www.healthline.com/blogs/exercise_fitness/2006/10/fixing-upper-back-and-neck-pain.html

the whole site has a lot of useful information about posture and it
leading to pain. Has helped me a lot.

The neck stretch was a major factor in dealing with shoulder problems
that referred down to my elbow tendons and meant I ended up selling
the hack Guzzi...

Zebee
- who bought the Norge instead so there's a silver (or red or black,
but I like the silver) lining.

Zebee

 

Well both and neither !

Below 130 if you're not following Zebee's advice then yes you can get
wrist pain (although the riding position on the X Rap isn't at all hard
on the wrists anyway - well at the moment - that may change with the
rearsets).

Above 220, yes you're hanging on for dear life - at 250(1) even tucked
down it's getting scarily strong

JL
1 Which is pretty much flat stick with the stock gearing, and with the
new higher ratios the straight at Eastern Creek isn't long enough to
find out about any faster even assuming it's able to pull above that (it
now has more rpm left but I suspect would take a lot of runway to go
above it)

 

You're obviously riding too slow. Buy a Hayabusa or ZX14

JL

 

The worst bit to touch is the acromion. Lifting with palms down is
particularly painful and movement is limited. Not quite so much with palms
upwards. It's in both shoulders, although left one is a recent development
(and has become worse than right one, which has been hurting for MONTHS) Few
months back the GP shrugged and said "arthritis, probably", so I thought no
more of it until the left one suddenly flared up (and HOW!) about 6 weeks
ago.

Thanks for the stretches Zebee - I dragged my sorry self to a massage
therapist who untied some knots and gave me those very same stretches to do.
Yep, they've definitely helped wth the shoulder mobility, but so far, no
help with the pain. Hoping that will come with time. If not, I'm off to have
things seen to when I get back from PI. I know I kid around about being old
and arthritic, but this is bloody ridiculous! I'm not really old enough for
this shite!

betty

 

Who was asking about Sv's old man?

*cough*

Bamfy

 

nah
Buy a Hayabusa or ZX14
do they do more than my current scooter ?

 

Makes my 148 flat chat seem paltry !

 

148 flat is a bit ordinary for a modern 250. Ally's 10yr old GPX with
lots of Km's on it was good for 160+

Are you scrunching yourself down(1) and knees in to get out of the wind
? It's worth at least 10K on a low HP bike ! Sometimes more.

JL

1 known as "tucking in" nothing to do with putting the kids to bed

 

At silly speeds you tend to have to hang on like hell and it becomes
quite physical. I did a run from Horsham to Adelaide in 1984 and was
cruising at a pretty constant 240km/h (apart from towns) and that
seemed to be OK on wrists. Faster than that and you started to have to
wrestle the bike and pull yourself back onto it.

 

My VTR was only good for about 150 flat out with me on it.

Fraser

 

Time to lose weight ?

JL

 

No kidding. I'm 95kg at the moment. I should be 80. I need to get
back on the bike I have to pedal. Or buy a Harley and push it everywhere.

Fraser

 

Nope. But I do have a bike trailer coming.

Fraser

 

To be honest I can't recall, *now* when I go fast I definitely tuck
myself in but way back then (pre-stack) I was a bit more gung ho I
guess. I presume 28.5 is "low HP" I'm 65Kg and about 170cm tall.