[megaspaz]

Awesome. Totally had a fun time. Geoff had a blast as well. I know talking with Geoff just now, we’re hoping we can do this again as well. Thanks again for organizing. Thank Ray for us for leading the ride.

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[megaspaz]

I have to go with leather as well. With perforated leather you get the ventilation plus maximum skid/armor protection. Plus you’ll feel like a sexah beast…

j/k on the sexah beast part… sort of…

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[megaspaz]

hrm… I can say that for me personally, I have no desire to go up to a litre bike. My sv650s is my forever bike. It does everything I need, want, or look for it to do. Good gas mileage too. About 50 mpg. I am toying with buying a used beater 250 bike just for drills and stuff since I’ve been modding the sv650s. I dunno… As far as I can tell, you’ve already done the 250, 500, and 600 cc stuff. A litre bike will do more than is practical legally. The only way I can see you pushing a litre bike is to do track days. I guess, if I was gonna total my bike, I’d still get an sv650sf….

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[megaspaz]

Heh heh. I’m only about the original and TNG… everything after TNG really isn’t that great, IMO.

/me hides from the Star Trek nutters…

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[megaspaz]

Depends on the area I guess… there should be some, at least a few, used ’08 ninja 250s after the end of the current riding season… but with the updates on the ’08 mebbe more people will keep them a tad longer… honestly, I couldn’t tell you…

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[megaspaz]

Excluding the R1…

All 3 of those bikes will work the highway. The ninja 250 might have issues passing cars going at higher highway speeds though and uphill on a high grade slope. All 3 are often recommended as beginner friendly bikes with the ninja250 obviously being considered the most beginner friendly.

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[megaspaz]

Yeh, guardrails are bad news. You really don’t want to target fixate on them and run into them… Stories abound about those things taking off limbs…

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[megaspaz]

Hiya! welcome back to the saddle! Yeh, a lot of people getting into motorcycling now, especially with the ridiculous gas prices.

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[megaspaz]

hehe. subliminal doing. gotta love it.

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[megaspaz]

There’s lots of things that are hard to wrap your brain around when starting to ride a bike. Actually, for me, finding road hazards is probably the easiest thing to look for. For me the hardest things were technique things. Slow tight right turns, right side uturns for figure 8s are the things that are difficult for me. I’ve gotten better at tight right hand turns, but figure 8s are still hard for me. A perception/technique thing that I haven’t quite figured out correctly and was exposed when doing pagemill road for the first time was choosing a line for corners. Pagemill road has really tight twisties/corners and I had a hard time picking the right line to take the corner in most of the time. I guess estimating where the apex is on such canyon roads would be something else that I could use work on… except those are hard to mimic in a parking lot.

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[megaspaz]

I prefer passing the flow of traffic if possible and taking the lane which is the clearest for the longest distance. Either way, there’s no hard fast rule, you just have to read the traffic around you. That’ll tell you how fast you should/could be going.

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[megaspaz]

Free schwag pretty much does trump all… hahaha

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[megaspaz]

https://www.bestbeginnermotorcycles.com/forum/forum-topic/724/i-think-i-maybe-lugging-engine#comment-3450

3rd reply as the link doesn’t actually seem to go to the actual post…

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[megaspaz]

You’ll find differing opinions about slipping the clutch. Some say it wears your tranny faster and you should downshift each gear properly. Others say the wear caused by slipping the clutch is negligible. Me, I slip the clutch all the way down to first gear in case I have to stop and feather the clutch for a rolling stop if I don’t have to come to a complete stop. Less to think about. *shrugs*

Edit: A lot of the newer, higher cc sport bikes come with slipper clutches, although a lot of the race riders still downshift individual gears out of habit.

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[megaspaz]

https://www.bestbeginnermotorcycles.com/forum/forum-topic/707/what-do-gear#comment-3294

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