| Author | Message | ||
     Carbonbigfoot |
Last night is was slow at work and I had time to poke around on my bike. Took a 1/4 turn out of the compression on the front, and after riding home, and back this morning am all warm and fuzzy. Really hit a sweet spot in how it feels. Point is, these bikes are extremely sensitive to adjustments, and if it's wrong, while maybe not bad, it isn't right. I would like to encourage everyone who rides a Buell to learn about what the different settings do to the handling, and play with them. Gently. Minor changes, and only one at a time. When you get it right, it's pretty cool. R | ||
| Stormy |
Very true, Carbonbigfoot. Sometimes the difference between whether a new owner enjoys the Buell experience or complains of choppy power delivery has to do with his salesman setting up the suspension or not. A bike with the front and rear not balanced and poorly adjusted throttle cables will pitch back and forth with every change of input. | ||
| Slaughter |
AMEN!!! People who want to tweak their engines before FIRST dialling in their suspensions are looking at the WRONG way to ride "faster." | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Get the weight off your arms and it will help minimize the transfer of the road imperfections to the throttle. | ||
| Carbonbigfoot |
Not an issue on my rig. Got the high bars on a CR! No weight to speak of on the ol wrists. (that is not to say there is not weight involved.... <grin>  R | ||
| Fresnobuell |
I have been sooo trying to keep my bar inputs limited to counter-steering only, but it's hard to break long time habits of straight arming the bars and using them to pull oneself from one side of the bike to the other. Or my personal fav-using them to push the bike to one side as I lift my ass up in preparation for a turn-rather than do it the right way and use my legs to move my body off the bike. LAZY! |
