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Brumbear
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 07:20 pm: | 
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your having a fargin heartattack |
Dannybuell
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 08:02 pm: |
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Parts:
I have ridden with narrow grips on a few bikes. I hate narrow grips. with narrow grips you end up with a clenched fist and all kinds of pressure.
My choice for the last 96Kmi (S1+CR) is what the catalogs call a cruiser grip. Using fatter grips means no clenched fist a fact which my hands like.
Style:
Core balancing balls of feet on pegs and a posture that allows for that and a light grip. At throttle your hand position is thumb and first finger touching, other fingers relax over brake lever. Clutch side gets pretty much the same treatment thumb and first finger touching, relax the rest over clutch lever.
Use the heel of hand on the inside of the turn to push back on bar preventing oversteer.
dannybuell |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 08:18 pm: |
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Try to use your core not your arms to hold yourself up and relax your grip. I find my hands go numb when I am starting a ride I am cranked up and grip to tight I guess, after a while the tingling goes away as I relax. Maybe thats all it is. |
Petebueller
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 - 07:37 am: |
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You can use two Throttlemeister bar ends ad bar weights. They will sell them without the cruise control. I have the standard weight on mine and it knocks off the tingles in he bar. |
Chopped_burban
| | Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 - 08:57 pm: |
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LMAO @ Brumbear.. that's the LEFT ARM for a heart attack 
I love this forum. The feedback and smart ass remarks are great. I'll have to try the throttle meister next trip home (I'm back to Afghanistan on Monday). And I'll take a look at bar weights. The frequency point that Aeholton mentioned makes sense. Still not sure why it was just a right hand thing and not both, but I'm trying many of the suggestions and some are definitely helping. I have also dipped the levers down a little in an effort to assist a little in keeping the wrist from bending backwards. The felt pretty neutral in the stock location but I figure it couldn't hurt.
I never even thought about balancing on the balls of my feet. I'm going to work on that more. I've tried a little so far and almost landed on my ass (mental note.. slide foot forward THEN go for the brake).
I think everything mentioned and applied is a great start for me. Thinking I may want to get some professional instruction for this bike. I don't think I'm retarded, but I think this bike is so much different than my other bikes and riding style, that I'm missing out on the full potential of the 1125 and myself. |
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