smitty141
My name is Smitty.. And I have a motorcycle proble
Took a long ride on Friday and part of Saturday. Left Friday morning headed to my favorite road in NW Arkansas. The BIG bike rides the twisty roads very well. My biggest ***** is the front forks, I think I could run over a dime and tell if it is heads or tails. After a a 750+ mile ride I am very pleased overall with this big beast.
One of the problems I have had is getting use to the very slow speed riding. I am talking about starts and stops, quick turn around and stuff like that. Once on the way it is very easy to ride, and has plenty of power to get you in trouble if you like. It turns in very easy and will need to replace the peg scrapers asap. The bike is loooong, but not very wide. I averaged 41 miles per gallon on this trip, and for 1800cc I think that is very good.
I was lost with out a tank bag and map, will order on this week. There is plenty of luggage space, took all of my camping gear, small bag of cloths, extra shoes ect.. Needless to say I had room left over.
I did install my Autocom Pro AVI on the wing, and it worked perfect. I use a patch cord from Autocom to tie the Autocom in to the stock Honda radio/intercom system. This way I can use the factory handle bar volume control to adjust the tunes. I am able to hear AM/FM WX, radar,gps,XM radio, and phone with this setup.
One of the best things I like is you can ride it fairly fast, but you know it has a limit. With most other smaller bikes (sport tourers,sport bikes, ect) it is usually a bit to late when you find the limit :dribble: . I think it is a mental thing, maybe bigger is better!!! So far I will give this bike a B+, if the fork were better it would be a A.
Smitty
One of the problems I have had is getting use to the very slow speed riding. I am talking about starts and stops, quick turn around and stuff like that. Once on the way it is very easy to ride, and has plenty of power to get you in trouble if you like. It turns in very easy and will need to replace the peg scrapers asap. The bike is loooong, but not very wide. I averaged 41 miles per gallon on this trip, and for 1800cc I think that is very good.
I was lost with out a tank bag and map, will order on this week. There is plenty of luggage space, took all of my camping gear, small bag of cloths, extra shoes ect.. Needless to say I had room left over.
I did install my Autocom Pro AVI on the wing, and it worked perfect. I use a patch cord from Autocom to tie the Autocom in to the stock Honda radio/intercom system. This way I can use the factory handle bar volume control to adjust the tunes. I am able to hear AM/FM WX, radar,gps,XM radio, and phone with this setup.
One of the best things I like is you can ride it fairly fast, but you know it has a limit. With most other smaller bikes (sport tourers,sport bikes, ect) it is usually a bit to late when you find the limit :dribble: . I think it is a mental thing, maybe bigger is better!!! So far I will give this bike a B+, if the fork were better it would be a A.
Smitty
