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Well.. I finally got to go for a ride on my R :clap: .. and of course it was AWESOME... I fell in love all over again! I did have a hard time leaving her all alone in my garage at my new place (I just moved this weekend)..but better than in a storage unit.
Of course, this weekend I want to take her for a trip, but the high will be 42 and we might get rain and some crazy weather forecast even stated that we might get snow... great!
Anyways, I only went for about a 50 mile ride yesterday.. but I loved every minute and mile of it! It was in the mid to upper 60s, the sun was out and it was very windy, but it seems that is the norm here in central to northern Indiana. I forgot how great this bike is!!
I would have gone for a longer ride, but there were two main issues that cut my ride a little shorter:
1. I have the OEM touring/tall windshield: The buffeting from the windshield was horrible! Now I know what you guys have been talking about when you talk about the buffeting being annoying. I never had that issue before, since I either rode my old bike (Honda Shadow with a huge windshield.. where I actually looked through the windshield) or friends bikes with no windshield.
I stood up on the foot pegs a few times to see what it would feel like to be in 'clean' air.. and it was much better than that horrible buffeting sound and my head was more relaxed. I also tucked under the windshield, which was nice and quiet and felt much better too.
2. My Schuberth C3 helmet (only wore it a few times until yesterday, but had some weights in it to wear it in and had replaced the liner with an S2 liner as suggested by Schuberth to create more room for my head) was fine for about 30 minutes, before a pressure point on my forehead AND the back of my head started appearing. The one on the back of my head was the one that bothered me the most. I will use my old helmet (a scorpion full face helmet) for the next few rides probably and put some more weights in the back and front of the helmet to wear those parts out.. if it doesn't work, I will have to sell that helmet. I got an amazing deal on it, so hopefully I won't lose too much money on that.
So, now my new priority is to get a windshield... since I just moved and am going on vacation in 2 weeks, I won't have any money for that, but I might just take the tall screen off ... prefer the bugs hitting my chest and instruments and clean air to the buffeting... it was pretty exhausting after about 30 minutes.
Else, the bike was awesome!!! I even found a few twisty and hilly roads not too far from my new place, which was a lot of fun (most of the surrounding area here is flat and the roads are all straight lines going through corn fields..) .. even if it only was for 5 miles or less. It's like the bike just did everything on its own.. I just had to think about turning and it turned... or at least it felt that way...
Can't wait to get home from work and hope to catch a few minutes without rain. Next 4 days we have thunderstorms predicted..and then the temperature drops into the upper 30s low 40s ...spring doesn't like me and ran off again...
Of course, this weekend I want to take her for a trip, but the high will be 42 and we might get rain and some crazy weather forecast even stated that we might get snow... great!
Anyways, I only went for about a 50 mile ride yesterday.. but I loved every minute and mile of it! It was in the mid to upper 60s, the sun was out and it was very windy, but it seems that is the norm here in central to northern Indiana. I forgot how great this bike is!!
I would have gone for a longer ride, but there were two main issues that cut my ride a little shorter:
1. I have the OEM touring/tall windshield: The buffeting from the windshield was horrible! Now I know what you guys have been talking about when you talk about the buffeting being annoying. I never had that issue before, since I either rode my old bike (Honda Shadow with a huge windshield.. where I actually looked through the windshield) or friends bikes with no windshield.
I stood up on the foot pegs a few times to see what it would feel like to be in 'clean' air.. and it was much better than that horrible buffeting sound and my head was more relaxed. I also tucked under the windshield, which was nice and quiet and felt much better too.
2. My Schuberth C3 helmet (only wore it a few times until yesterday, but had some weights in it to wear it in and had replaced the liner with an S2 liner as suggested by Schuberth to create more room for my head) was fine for about 30 minutes, before a pressure point on my forehead AND the back of my head started appearing. The one on the back of my head was the one that bothered me the most. I will use my old helmet (a scorpion full face helmet) for the next few rides probably and put some more weights in the back and front of the helmet to wear those parts out.. if it doesn't work, I will have to sell that helmet. I got an amazing deal on it, so hopefully I won't lose too much money on that.
So, now my new priority is to get a windshield... since I just moved and am going on vacation in 2 weeks, I won't have any money for that, but I might just take the tall screen off ... prefer the bugs hitting my chest and instruments and clean air to the buffeting... it was pretty exhausting after about 30 minutes.
Else, the bike was awesome!!! I even found a few twisty and hilly roads not too far from my new place, which was a lot of fun (most of the surrounding area here is flat and the roads are all straight lines going through corn fields..) .. even if it only was for 5 miles or less. It's like the bike just did everything on its own.. I just had to think about turning and it turned... or at least it felt that way...
Can't wait to get home from work and hope to catch a few minutes without rain. Next 4 days we have thunderstorms predicted..and then the temperature drops into the upper 30s low 40s ...spring doesn't like me and ran off again...