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Get a shot of it centered maybe the flash can show the contrast better from that angle.

Like my avatar says: No Fear*

*only have no fear on clear roads with little traffic or pedestrians otherwise use caution.

I'm sure the more time you spend with the bike you'll get to know when it starts to complain. Give it about 1 - 2 tire changes. Maybe 3. Even after 5 years with the Vulcan I still learn new things about it's performance capabilities which is why I still stick with it... until it falls apart.

Gunslinger wrote:Just burn past any Highway Patrol cruiser going about a buck ten, they will provide excellent footage for you at the arraignment.

If I could do a buck ten in a turn - I probably wouldn'r have questions about lean angle.

dr_bar wrote:Don't trust your speedo to be accurate either. Almost every Japanese bike has a definite problem with the speedo. Mine reads approx 5 - 10% higher than actual speed. This may be why you're being tail-gated on the off ramp even though you believe you're doing the suggested speed. If you have access to a GPS, check it out. Also, there is a product called a "Speedo-Healer" or something to that effect and it can solve the speedo problem when set up right...

You know I was yakking about this on my blog, but this is a very good point. I do wonder if it is linear or if the speedo difference increases with speed.

Of course a GPS would be aother instrument to look at in a turn.

RhadamYgg wrote:

dr_bar wrote:Don't trust your speedo to be accurate either. Almost every Japanese bike has a definite problem with the speedo. Mine reads approx 5 - 10% higher than actual speed. This may be why you're being tail-gated on the off ramp even though you believe you're doing the suggested speed. If you have access to a GPS, check it out. Also, there is a product called a "Speedo-Healer" or something to that effect and it can solve the speedo problem when set up right...

You know I was yakking about this on my blog, but this is a very good point. I do wonder if it is linear or if the speedo difference increases with speed.

Of course a GPS would be aother instrument to look at in a turn.

Not sure, but I find my speedo to be quite accurate probably because it's analogue/ relying on a cable connected to the front wheel. Every bike will have some differences with their speedo. I think you can take it to a shop for calibration.

Dude, I like you. Really, I do. So don't take this wrong way....

I'll hold you're purse while you hitch up you're skirt and take a knee here.....

O.K., ready?







Looking at your tire...... time to grow a pair, Dude.

You're a man, start thinking like one. Stop thinking with the head on your neck and start thinking with the right head. You got miles of tire left to lean on, you ain't even in the same zip code as 'close' to any limit yet.

You know what I do for fun? About 2-3 am, I head out and blitz a portion of a local ring road. The thing about this road isn't the road, but the F'ed up way the retardified planners around here tied it into existing roads. As a traffic artery, it sucks balls, but it makes a nice impromptu track.

There is a mess of convoluted cloverleaves and ramps leading off and onto this freeway and at that time of night, everything is empty. I spend an hour blowing through highspeed curves and sharp turns riding off and then back on and around and through and over every dam approach and on/off ramp I like. The best part is, if I see a set of headlights, it probably is a cop, so I got lots of time to either slow up to legal or fluck off entirely.

You should try it sometime. I know you live in what I consider to be a densely over-populated nightmare, but if you can find a patch of empty freeway with some nice on/off ramps, go out and play.

I crank it over as far as I like, as fast as I like, with no danger of traffic or common sense getting in my way..... and I still have lots of safety room on my tires. Not the Great Wall Of China-strips you got, but plenty of buffer zone to pull my azz back if I get carried away.

Put down the calculator and RIDE dammit.

Here, take you're purse back. At least it ain't pink.....

SCgurl wrote:You are sooooo much overthinking this.

I will tell you exactly what was told to me and what I told my buddy from the "best compliment" thread...You cannot be afraid to lean the bike. I try to keep my spine in a straight line with the center of the frame (side-to-side). When I push left or right, I keep my back in that line, so that I'm leaning with the bike, but the bike is doing most of the work. If you accelerate slightly in the turn, the physical forces involved actually give you more stability and will keep the bike leaned. You have to look through the turn, as well-no looking at instruments, the ground, or at the pretty bird in the tree. Just the traffic and the turn. That forces your shoulders into the correct position.

I got a pretty good lesson by a motorcycle LEO one day on posture. We found that keeping my back in line was best for me. He showed me some drills that basically involved countersteering into tighter and tighter circles at slower speeds. Sounds like you need to do the same thing.

Just my

It may be... That when I'm leaning the bike in to a turn I'm edging back up - instead of straight in line with the bike.

Ahhh I won't know for sure until I get my wife to do video of me going through some of the harder turns.

RhadamYgg

JC Viper wrote:Get a shot of it centered maybe the flash can show the contrast better from that angle.

Like my avatar says: No Fear*

*only have no fear on clear roads with little traffic or pedestrians otherwise use caution.

I'm sure the more time you spend with the bike you'll get to know when it starts to complain. Give it about 1 - 2 tire changes. Maybe 3. Even after 5 years with the Vulcan I still learn new things about it's performance capabilities which is why I still stick with it... until it falls apart.

Hmmmm, tire changes? Damn, at the rate I'm putting miles on the bike It'll be a while.

JC Viper wrote:

RhadamYgg wrote:

dr_bar wrote:Don't trust your speedo to be accurate either. Almost every Japanese bike has a definite problem with the speedo. Mine reads approx 5 - 10% higher than actual speed. This may be why you're being tail-gated on the off ramp even though you believe you're doing the suggested speed. If you have access to a GPS, check it out. Also, there is a product called a "Speedo-Healer" or something to that effect and it can solve the speedo problem when set up right...

You know I was yakking about this on my blog, but this is a very good point. I do wonder if it is linear or if the speedo difference increases with speed.

Of course a GPS would be aother instrument to look at in a turn.

Not sure, but I find my speedo to be quite accurate probably because it's analogue/ relying on a cable connected to the front wheel. Every bike will have some differences with their speedo. I think you can take it to a shop for calibration.

Before I really checked the one on my B-King - I had heard that a lot of Japanese bikes have issues with this - but I'm not sure if it is limited by bike style, type of tires, etc.

BuzZz wrote:Dude, I like you. Really, I do. So don't take this wrong way....

I'll hold you're purse while you hitch up you're skirt and take a knee here.....

O.K., ready?







Looking at your tire...... time to grow a pair, Dude.

You're a man, start thinking like one. Stop thinking with the head on your neck and start thinking with the right head. You got miles of tire left to lean on, you ain't even in the same zip code as 'close' to any limit yet.

You know what I do for fun? About 2-3 am, I head out and blitz a portion of a local ring road. The thing about this road isn't the road, but the F'ed up way the retardified planners around here tied it into existing roads. As a traffic artery, it sucks balls, but it makes a nice impromptu track.

There is a mess of convoluted cloverleaves and ramps leading off and onto this freeway and at that time of night, everything is empty. I spend an hour blowing through highspeed curves and sharp turns riding off and then back on and around and through and over every dam approach and on/off ramp I like. The best part is, if I see a set of headlights, it probably is a cop, so I got lots of time to either slow up to legal or fluck off entirely.

You should try it sometime. I know you live in what I consider to be a densely over-populated nightmare, but if you can find a patch of empty freeway with some nice on/off ramps, go out and play.

I crank it over as far as I like, as fast as I like, with no danger of traffic or common sense getting in my way..... and I still have lots of safety room on my tires. Not the Great Wall Of China-strips you got, but plenty of buffer zone to pull my azz back if I get carried away.

Put down the calculator and RIDE dammit.

Here, take you're purse back. At least it ain't pink.....

You're probably right. What color is my purse? I can only hope its' black....

RhadamYgg wrote: ....... What color is my purse? I can only hope its' black....

Really... does it matter what color it is? The issue is that it's a purse, Dude!

Wonder how far we can take this before the women start freakin' out on us?