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Tramp
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 04:41 pm: | 
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your wife know you talk that way about her?
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Tramp
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 04:47 pm: |
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when we have a little more fresh snow, as opposed to ice, you should take your buell up and down the driveway.
get OFF THE SEAT and stand with your mass centered and on the pegs.
avoid the brakes altogether and use little burts of power to move along, as opposed to long, easy throttle opening. the burst will make it easier to slow down without brakes, AND you'll always be 'feeling' your oversteer before it actually become a problem, that way.
afterward, no gravel or wet pavement will ever cause you concern...
incidentally, with the 54o temps here in the Hudson Valley, today, and the dry roads, there were bikes out everywhere. |
Xbduck
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 04:58 pm: |
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O.K., O.K., I have also noticed that the wife's purple '02 HD Sportster does better riding through snow and ice, I guess the extra weight of the purple '02 HD Sportster is good for something. Now remove yourself from the gutter.
I truly have been trying to experience all possible weather conditions while riding. I like when I get to work on a day that has been really raining hard and I am the driest one in the door.
(Message edited by xbduck on December 24, 2005) |
Tramp
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 05:09 pm: |
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sorry-
i thought you meant she was heavy.
I've been trying NOt to experience all wetaher conditions while riding, but, alas, i'm none too bright.... |
Xbduck
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 05:20 pm: |
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Well I figure that one day I will be somewhere on a ride and the weather will turn on me and I will still have to get home.
Tramp, I usually understand your humor, and after reading it again thought it better for personal safety at home to change the wording. I'm sure you understand how the wrong words at any time can be dangerous. |
Buellin_ri
| | Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 06:04 pm: |
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Ducxl- Glad someone is with me on this one.
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Buellgrrrl
| | Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 02:45 am: |
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You guys are so ready for sidecars... No more worrying about touthing the brakes and going down instantly. I was out today for about an hours ride at 2 degrees centigrade with the sidecar, even played in the snow some. Tuesday I may make the 120 kilometer ride to St. Cloud to do some advertising with the sidecar, temps should be around freezing. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 09:26 am: |
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while i don't worry much about touching the brakes and going down instantly, I gotta say
that I find sidecar idea for winter is very cool, BG.
Sidecars and their operators have that cool sort of alternative life in the laternative lifestyle about them, and the idea of using one for safer winter riding is a really cool idea I hadn't really considered fully.
I'm just picturing the 'bada*s coefficient' of showing up at a ski resort with your boards in the hack....
Seems any discussion of winter riding is incomplete without mention of the sidecar.
Someday I'll pick up a /5-/7 boxer in need of repair (as I used to do a lot) and fit it up with a homebuilt hack for winter use.
5-stars, BG... |
Dark_vapor
| | Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 09:36 am: |
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I have ridden in the snow when I lived in Stillwater, NY. I think that was the only time I have been pulled over by a police offices for riding a motorcycle. He thought I was nuts and wanted to make sure I was the owner of the bike.
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Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 07:13 pm: |
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i think the local heat would knock on my door if they didn't see me out on the hiway for a few days. they'd wanna make sure everything's Okay. |
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