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I can tell you the older I get the more fear I have. I used to ride all year long( as long as the street was not snow cover) . Now I am wait for some of the road salt to wash away before I ride. Is this fear or just being smart??

I don't know if that's old age. I know before I ride I am checking things out - even if it is the day before.

Even so, all the wet roads from the snow melting made the local portion of my riding suckie and over-cautious.

I can also say that sometime before going out on the bike I can feel a bit of fear that needs to be quelled.

I am probably one of the biggest wussies in the world, so I don't know if it counts for anything.

One of the guys at work really wants to see my bike, but I haven't figured out how I'm going to deal with EZ pass. He's like just have it in your pocket and pull it out at the toll.

But on a new bike, with only 100 or so miles behind me, I'm not feeling the confidence to go run out and do that. Especially, when some of the tolls I do are full highway speed tolls and fighting the wind and grabbing the EZ pass isn't something I'd recommend.

The wind doesn't bother me much, but it does feel like it wants to pull me off the bike - not conductive to one-handed riding.

Maybe I'll velcro it to my jacket.

RhadamYgg

Duct tape it to the top of the helmet? How does the EZPass work? Radio?

Fear or just intelligent risk management? Pavement is ice cold, tires are cold, dried salt is slippery, and lots of loose sand around. Plus black ice lurking here and there. Chances of low siding at serious lean angles is much greater than on warm, clean pavement. I ride much more conservatively this time of year. It won't kill me to wait until summer to really dig into the curves.

Plus, salt does the motorcycle no good at all. Washing bikes is a PITA at freezing temps.

RhadamYgg wrote:One of the guys at work really wants to see my bike, but I haven't figured out how I'm going to deal with EZ pass. He's like just have it in your pocket and pull it out at the toll.

Got a tank bag? I stick mine in the map pocket. When I wasn't using a bag, I stuck it into one of those small neoprene camera holders (the ones with a velcro belt loop). I just velcro-ed it to the middle part of the handlebars, between the risers (only works with regular bars, not clip-ons).

Re OP, naaah, I think you're just being smarter. Bones take longer to heal than when you were a teenager, after all.

This is a great solution for your ez-pass, I bought mine at the Yamaha dealer in Metuchen. You can buy them direct as well.

http://www.jjcyclepass.com/index.htm

I bought the "sport bike one" which comes with an extra grommet/spacer to mount it on the mirror stalk, I ended up mounting it on the handle bar, and using a small piece of garden hose to allow a tighter fit to the spot where I mounted it. It has worked great for the few times I used ez-pass on the bike

tymanthius wrote:Duct tape it to the top of the helmet? How does the EZPass work? Radio?

EZ pass is a form of RFID - very long range RFID. There are signals coming out of the toll boths which then trigger my EZ pass to send its ID. Then through their system my account gets charged for the toll.

I wouldn't duct tape it to my helmet... I look dorky enough as it is.

RhadamYgg

If you hid it under cool graphics decals, then it'd be neat.

Honestly tho, it should work fine in a tank bag or outer jacket pocket. The bike won't have as much RF interference as a car would.

Grey Thumper wrote:

RhadamYgg wrote:One of the guys at work really wants to see my bike, but I haven't figured out how I'm going to deal with EZ pass. He's like just have it in your pocket and pull it out at the toll.

Got a tank bag? I stick mine in the map pocket. When I wasn't using a bag, I stuck it into one of those small neoprene camera holders (the ones with a velcro belt loop). I just velcro-ed it to the middle part of the handlebars, between the risers (only works with regular bars, not clip-ons).

Re OP, naaah, I think you're just being smarter. Bones take longer to heal than when you were a teenager, after all.

I've got a tank bag, I'm actually going to try that out when I finally do ride out to work - maybe this Thursday or Friday.

Unfortunately, due to the design of the B-Kings tank... My little tank bag doesn't work so good - the fourth magnetic point is over the gas receptacle/buttons for system operation.

Oddly enough, a large bag would probably work better. I'm going to have to shop around. Also, at some of those tolls in NYC, they have the bars that don't go up until they read your EZ pass.... And sometimes they don't pick me up. So, I get to hand my EZ pass to the police office monitoring and they do some stuff and the bar opens.

RhadamYgg

Timmy S wrote:This is a great solution for your ez-pass, I bought mine at the Yamaha dealer in Metuchen. You can buy them direct as well.

http://www.jjcyclepass.com/index.htm

I bought the "sport bike one" which comes with an extra grommet/spacer to mount it on the mirror stalk, I ended up mounting it on the handle bar, and using a small piece of garden hose to allow a tighter fit to the spot where I mounted it. It has worked great for the few times I used ez-pass on the bike

I bought one of the ones for the faired bikes... A small connection to my handle bars and then a stalk. The B-Kings handlebars are very curvy and I don't think I could use the cruiser models.

I'll report how well it works once I get it - because I'll be itching to hit the open highway as soon as I get it!

Looks like it might be something to work on a GPS unit as well. But one thing at a time.

RhadamYgg