Pity...

bikerbetty wrote:

An awful lot! ..and you'd need to be organised, and, hardest of all
amongst bike riders, you'd need to agree on what you wanted.

A few years back, now, Honda in Europe went through their sales figures
and decided that they weren't selling Hondas to women in the numbers
they expected.

So they picked a person to do some testing and research..... a bloke. :-(

Now, he was quite a short bloke, but, with that kind of attitude,
<shrug> what can you expect.

Also, as an aside, they found that most countries, most women complained
about bikes being too tall. Except Italy. Subsequent research found that
Italian ladies, riding bikes, wore high-heeled boots.

To be fair, "they" do make small bikes, just not ones like you want.

Anyone who claims a Baby Blade is comfy and is over 5'4" is a liar.

R1100R and R850R BMW's have a possible seat height of 760 mm.

Triumph Bonnies and Guzzi Brevas have neat low seats.

None of these bikes are actually slow.

Most of my bike riding life, because of a stuffed back, I have not been
able to ride (for any length of time) a fully faired sports bike, but
have had to look for bikes which allowed me to sit fairly upright.

Should I rail against the bike makers for not building a bike to suit
me, or should I get on with it enjoying riding what I can ride?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I too have a stuffed back buggered knees etc (chopper prang Army), I buy a
bike I want to ride and modify it to suit my needs.

Boxer (175 cm so average height for a short person).

 

LOL, yeah - that bit I certainly understand

I looked into having my bike boots built up after a fellow shortarse in
Canberra told me she'd had hers done - just a centimetre would do the trick,
I reckon - alas, Mr Minit tells me the moulded soles on my boots don't lend
themselves to that sort of treatment. Heel inserts in the boots don't help
either (I actually have tried a few options, as well as having had my bike
lowered an inch - I'm not just whingeing for the sake of whingeing.)

or can afford.... :-( I like the look of the Guzzi Breva but it's way too
expensive pour moi...

Both! ;-) A good whinge can be very therapeutic!

betty

 

Oh yeah! The Joy of Camping (with the obligatory rocket launcher of course).

Nigel (aka "Tinkerbell" on TF CTF)

 

I'm usually the poor sap. No patience for camping :|

 

bikerbetty wrote:

Oh, well... try anything at least once......

Back in the days of my youth I wanted to be a famous race car driver,
then I found out that they didn't make single seat race cars with
ashtrays, ciggie lighters and stubby holders.

What a bastard act, eh?

How do they expect folk to drive round and round the same boring old
circuit without a smoke or two, and a beer or two?

(Gads....you were right, Betty, feel a lot better now.)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Mongrels! Absolutely scandalous..

Almost as scandalous as the price of ladies' underwear - the less fabric
there is, the more expensive the knickers.... how does THAT work?

And schoolkids who use up a two-person seat (one seat for them, one seat for
their schoolbag) while there are grown-ups standing...

And then there are those telemarketers called Angus or Elizabeth, who phone
you from Delhi just as you're getting dinner ready...

Told you so ;-)

betty, feeling all serene and catharticated, heh heh (cathartified?)

 

bikerbetty wrote:

Quite well, I think.

I may be wrong, it was a long time ago.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Strangely interesting yes... it *almost* makes sense


G-S

 

Maybe they are Bean Pole type tall...

my mate who's more the brick outhouse type tall doesn't fit in the
riders seat properly.

That can be a problem with shaped seats and middle age spread ;-)



G-S

 

Hey it's a nice dream.

Well if you could actually muster hordes together you might have a
chance (and therein lies the rub)

Yeah I am. I think you need to talk to BT or Cam or someone if you want
to find the nice one on ausmoto, 'cos it sure ain't me !

JL

 

That's odd... (seriously).

I am on the balls of my feet on an SV650 but easily flat foot an XVS1100
(or XVS650).

Maybe flexibility (or lack thereof) is also part of the picture...


G-S

 

Geez... it's the 00's.

They have prosthetic trays for that problem these days!


G-S

 

They won't much (as you pointed out), but they don't build bikes to suit
5'7" people either... they build most of them them to 5'9" to about 6'1"
people.

Everyone else is to one side or the other of the design brief...


G-S

 

Yes, you are quite correct - getting the rider weight forward and higher
gives better tip in characteristics. For a sports bike you want the
weight forward biased - given the wheels are at each end, basic geometry
shows that means it has to be above at an angle to put more weight
forward than what is naturally distributed if all the weight were in a
single line between the two axle points. Errm did that makes sense ?
Imagine a triangle. If it's not equilateral then weight on the top point
will be placed more on the shorter side.

Given that the "natural" layout predisposes a bike to being rear heavy
you have to go to some trouble to get the weight forward.

Modern sticky tyres would go a long way towards giving it some fairly
serious lean angles, trouble is you won't get them in 19" rims (i'm
assuimg that's what it runs ?)

JL

 

Dunno about auto trading but I can confirm a number of the dealing rooms
in this country use monte carlo simulations for valuing derivatives and
shares and using that to make trading decisions

JL

 

<grin> No just less patient ;-)

JL
(and more inclined to actually type what I say to the screen)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:24:56 +1100

It's running the stickiest you can get, which is what the classic
racers use.

It's hard to tell subjectively but I don't think I can get it as far
over as I've had modern bikes.

Tyre profile shows that you don't get the huge angles before falling
off the tread.

Zebee

 

There's a nice one? Burn the bastard!


GB

 

I didn't say it wouldn't require a bit of a recalibration on your part.
It'd still be your kind of bike.