new bike is NOICE!

I notice it a lot when refuelling the R100GSPD with a 32 litre fuel tank
adding 30 kilos up top makes a huge difference to the centre of gravity.

Boxer

 

touche! No, never that comfortable. I'm being very good about leaving a
biiiig gap. Only problem is that ppl in cars keep leaping into the spaces I
leave. Sometimes I think I'm riding backwards.... ;-)

betty

 

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[snort] atec77's discovered how hard it is to type one handed.

Kind regards
Dave Milligan

 

Thats true , have the right wrist in plaster due to a fall.
ALthough it neither supports your inunedo or intent .

 

You really need to learn to assert yourself more to give yourself a
greater road presence. Once you master this you can 'own' your buffer
zone and other drivers will not encroach. This probably means at times
reducing your buffer zone, but a car moving into it will reduce it much
more, so better the devil you can control than the one you can't.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

nor

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

you forgot the K

 

Yep, ta Nev. Working on it. I still have a touch of the post-crash jitters
in traffic (bugger bugger bugger - but hey, I still have swelling, numbness
and pain in various places to remind me ;-). I must say though, that I think
my vigilance levels have soared. (That may well have contributed to the
extra jitters! <grin>)

It may just be coincidence, but just lately Canberra drivers have gone more
mental than usual - driving faster, leaping from lane to lane like bloody
tennis balls in a Davis Cup men's final... I don't think I'm imagining it,
coz ppl at work who don't ride have noticed a similar phenomenon, and reckon
it's just the lead-up to Christmas.

I'm probably being a little over-cautious at the moment, and very aware of
trying to keep a decent gap, stay well out of blind-spots etc, and watch
every other bloody road-user like a hawk (not to mention honing my psychic
powers to predict what the man in the hat is about to do!) - not that it
always means hanging back, mind you - but yeah, I definitely need to be more
assertive. The new bike has a bit more grunt than my dearly departed, so I
know I have the ooomph to do it - and had a couple of successful goes at it
today.

Every day, in every way..... working on getting better at it!

betty

 

Yep, Toy Run

Crowds scare me, crowds of bikes even more so, especially when I'm on a new
bike that I'm not altogether comfortable with yet, so I avoided it all (as
much as I applaud the idea of it) and rode to Crookwell with a mate. Great
fun, but I noticed some HUGE differences between old/new bike
handling/comfort levels and also in my confidence. Will probably just take
time, but I feel as if I've taken three steps back. Oh well - yet another
adventure <grin>

betty, off to the Bay tomorrow to see
how the new bike handles up and down
the Clyde.

 

Don't let Hammo know, he'll offer to palpate it.

-----sharks

 

Auscultate and measure.....

Hammo (...and then drink your beer)

 

1st modification for you you is buy a big mofo fiamm horn set

 

http://www.viberider.com/
You're only supposed to fit it on the passenger seat!

Cheers
Goaty
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30 litres of fuel wieghs 21 kg.

Theo

 

Learn something every day.
http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_liquids.htm
BTW, the tank is always there.

 

Really?

What brand is that? Don't forget the tank to hold it in!

Hammo

 

Forgot to mention the 5 litres of Coffee.

Boxer

 

So 32 litres equates to 23.6 kilos at .7322 Kilos per Litre.


Boxer

 

I don't think he adds the tank to hold his 30 litres when he "tops up".

OK maybe 22 kg, or did you want it to four decimal places suing Shell Ultra
at NTP?

Theo

 

Yeah, but some of us non-Hammo types just use the first significant digit
for rough conversion.
BTW either you can't type or you calculator is on the blink.

Theo