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Blake
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 05:53 pm: | 
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What M1 and GeofG said, ensure your gear isn't experiencing aerodynamic perturbations. You could be self-perturbating. You'll need to stop that in order to get a smooth ride.. |
Fullpower
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 05:53 pm: |
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riding an XB12S, model of 2004. unconditionally stable from idle in first through revlimiter in fifth gears. bike will carve effortless figure eights in empty parking lot at low idle in first gear standing on pegs no-handed.can idle no handed standing on pegs down a bumpy rutted gravel road, and bike is rock steady no handed taking photographs with SLR camera at 80 miles per hour even in windy conditions. Rode home one day, passed every car on the ride, running 90 to a hundred the whole way, felt a little "squishy" in back, when i got home the tire was VERY HOT, had no measurable air pressure, found a nail in it, point is even at a hundred miles per hour on a rear flat the bike was not unstable. the Lightning is the easiest bike i have ever ridden to maintain course in high winds, icy roads, slush, snow, deep gravel, and whatever else one may encounter on Alaska's variable low-maintenance roads.
If YOUR bike is unstable or getting shakes at ANY speed it is defective, and/or broken and very immediately needs repair. |
Buellxb9s
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 06:44 pm: |
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Had my XB9s to 138mph and felt smooth.. |
Johnparts
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 07:47 pm: |
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adjust the neck bearings and get a dampener period |
Bikin2222
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 07:47 pm: |
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"Had my XB9s to 138mph and felt smooth."
How on Earth did you do that? Are you running stock ratios? What Mods?
I've got a stock '04 XB12S and it's bouncing off the rev limiter at around 133 MPH! |
Rafartist
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 09:30 pm: |
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Guys, we are missing the point here. The bikes are "naked", backroad burners and hooligan bikes. They were not meant to be freeway blasters, they weren't meant to ride at sustained high speed, thats why race bikes have fairings. You can dump as much money as your credit card will allow and it will never excel at what is being asked of it here. Personally, I flirt with the rev limiter frequently, 52" wheelbase or not, and expect the hyper activity that presents itself. Its why 125mph feels so damn fast and it takes 150 to get the same feeling on a crotch rocket. In other words, you wont get that feeling of stability without wrapping the front in fiberglass and looking through a windscreen with your head on the tank unless you buy a Goldwing. |
No_rice
| | Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:13 pm: |
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huh... i peg mine out in 5th gear enough times and have never worried about it being unstable. hell, out in some wide open stretches when i am going some distance i will even use my other hand as a prop for my head ontop of the air box and the bike never so much as twitchs.
mine is an R, but i have even wound it out with no frontend whatsoever, no lights, fairing, guages ect. and no tail plastic. the thing still wasnt wiggling around. |
Sik_s
| | Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 02:20 am: |
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"adjust the neck bearings and get a dampener period"
The girlfriend is my dampener... |
Kdan
| | Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 02:56 am: |
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 The girlfriend is my dampener...
You had to go there...
(Message edited by kdan on April 22, 2006) |
Rafartist
| | Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 07:14 am: |
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MY, girlfriend head butts me in the back of my helmet if I approach anything over 85! Gotta give it to her though, she'll do her best to get her knee down riding 2-up. |
Bikin2222
| | Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 10:02 am: |
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"Its why 125mph feels so damn fast and it takes 150 to get the same feeling on a crotch rocket."
I really think it's more a matter of mechanical sophistication. |
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