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Yamaha Jog (CE50, CG50, CY50)
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bigguybbrParticipant
And with a lot of distracted drivers, we’re lucky if they are paying attention to the road every 3rd or 4th second they are behind the wheel.
bigguybbrParticipantI have the same size, just not the same make boots. I wonder if they are made a little larger in the calf for the possibility of going over pants or thermals? I know that mine are fairly loose in the calf as well.
Maybe they are normal and we just all have chicken legs…
bigguybbrParticipantI got to try on my pair when I was at Americade.
Maybe there are some bike shows or rallies around your area. Great time, and great to check out some gear.
bigguybbrParticipantI still tool around the parking lot practice course about once a week or so in an effort to stave off a tip over. It’s also fun to see how fast I can get through the skill drills these days.
I am also lucky enough to have another secret weapon against tip overs, 36″+ inseams. It’s a bitch to find pants in my size, but it means I can flat foot just about anything on 2 wheels. The only bike that even came close feeling high for me (that I have kicked a leg over so far) was the Ducati Hyper Motard (33″ seat height, and fun as hell by the way)
It does peev me thought it given out as an eventuality that you will tip your bike. I guess I can just use it as motivation to make sure I never do
bigguybbrParticipantMy friend’s old Muy Thai instructor was a Ducati enthusiats lol
bigguybbrParticipantYour a 3rd shifter! Now it makes sence why you post so often!!!!!
There is only thing I wanted to add. I dunno about where you are, but around here in CT there are a lot of highways that aren’t lit at night, really only the big 3 (91, 84, 95) have lights so it’s very easy to ‘over run’ your head lights, basically ride fast enough that your head lights don’t shine far enought to allow you to see adequately ahead to anticipate obstacles and have time enough to react to them. You can use the headlights of the cars infront of you to help you see further, but at 3am out here there is nothing on the road but the occational 18 wheeler, and thats no help.
As for wind, my bike’s wind protection isn’t my favorite, but where it really gets me is on my ride to work. I have to pass over a bridge that crosses the Connecticut River and there is always crazy amounts of wind. This is good however as it was the first stretch of highway I rode regularly. I got used to the excessive wind, so when I started riding other highways, I noticed it “ain’t no thang” as the wind was quite a bit less than what I was used to.
bigguybbrParticipantOh man I’m gonna call someone that today!
I’ll ride by a fruit-scoot brandishing my fist at them yelling effeminate pudnockers!
bigguybbrParticipantSupervisory Control And Data Aquisition Engineer. Basically the eyes and ears controlling the bulk power grid.
The rest of the time is fixin’ houses. Anyone wanna buy mine????
bigguybbrParticipantSchweeeeeet
I wanna go on the crazy duc’ run.
I’m waiting till the year after next and heading to a california superbike school offering out in Jersey. I think it’ll be a hoot. Maybe I can make it something for me turning 30
bigguybbrParticipantHA HA HA HA HA
Oh man thats funny.
Thanks! That made my day.
bigguybbrParticipantWow…
Does everyone really get hung up on the waving not waving thing??? First I’m in trouble for not waving at scooters, and now every Ducati owner is an unsociable aristocrat, looking down their nose at you for waving at them?
If you guys can’t be adult about it I’m just not going to wave to anyone anymore. Then you can talk about how all FZ6R riders are giant evil men who eat whole baskets of puppies in one bite and kick over old ladies as they zoom wildly out of control on their way past.
So lets all drop this whole “a person who rides this bike is friendly and sweet and good to their mother but a person who rides this bike is a douch who skips out on their restraunt bill and pokes fun at cripples orphans…” It’s just silly and childish.
Harley Guys can be fine people. Just Look at Elwood. He’s the bomb.
Ducatti guys can be cool too. Like the 80 year old guy on my street that rides a 696 (thats right he’s 80 and on a Ducatti, friggin cool in my book)
Now where did I put my Ducati catalog…
bigguybbrParticipantThere are some youtube How-to’s that are pretty good. I saw a guy on there that used a wash mitt, but rather than slide it over his hand he would just kinda jam it in the crevices. Looked like it would work pretty well.
bigguybbrParticipantHa ha the sox fever is never going away either.
I may have been born up in Rochester NY, but growing up there was only one team you cheered for in my family.
The only bad part about the Sox at all for me is my granfather, who was one of the biggest Sox fans I have ever known given that his father played minor leagues for the Sox (Portland Sea Dogs or whatever they were back then in Maine), was born in 1926 and died in 2003, just a year before the Sox finally got back on the winning track.
bigguybbrParticipantJust be patient. Give it a few months or even a year and there will be more after market parts for your bike than you can shake a stick at!
June 26, 2009 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Things you should know about your bike’s charging system (especially you SV650 owners) #20245bigguybbrParticipantSweet right up man.
Wish we had the ability to sticky on this forum.
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