RedPorscheKilla
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Well it's February and time to shake off the rust from the XMas season..Cabin fever got the better of me since the last ride on my FeeJay was about one month ago. So since the wx guy said, it' sunny, lets hit the road!!
Objective was to get used to the group riding again, as we plan to make a 3500 mile run in July, which will require a tad "wax in, wax out" if ya know what I mean.
So we ended up putting about 160 miles on the clock which was the best thing...
Here's the map as we rode it this time:
Was a nice smaller loop, enough for our friends to get "rid of the rusted", plan actually to go the long way around, meaning hitting WA12 in Chehalis as well, but the other didn't feel their butts been ready for that kind of abuse.
We started our ride of course @ Home...dooh.. but was curious how my FeeJay would look @ the crack of dawn. Doesn't she look nice? The new Osram's are nice and bright, I'm very pleased with them not speak of them reflection stripes...
So we rode from OLY to the Bremerton Airport Diner for a decent breaky... I was silly enough to go for a food challenge....(Objective, eat a stack 2" tall of 4 pancakes 12" in diameter..NEVER AGAIN
)
Yours truly at the start of the challenge:
Some 30 minutes later, the finish
In other words is suck... but that's not really news
Once that was done, off we went, heading for the narrows, hitting Key Peninsula right before.
We even met a few which truly braved the weather as we passed a bit of a bicycle race, I have a great respect for those fellas!!
The Narrow's are for me one of the most beautiful places, especially when the sun shines...
A short stop right before hitting this was needed as a friend of mine, feared that his Goldwing 1800 was suffering a leak in the fork, turned out it was a false alarm. Made us quite happy!
Soon we would hit the 110 mile mark and the intercom went off...Babe! yes Darling! I need to hit a gas station soon. Darling I know.....
Unfortunately her car in disguise needs a quick stop at about 120 miles..because when there is one thing we fear worst than rain, than it's that f'n yellow light...
So yours truly checking on the misses as she refuels her trike....isn't she a beauty? I mean my FeeJay fellas
Continuing through a bit of traffic on the WA7....
Oh I forgot to ask, isn't the sunshine awesome? Right, there was non, despite the wxman telling, it will be sunny, that guy did neglect to mention that between us and the sun about a mile of cloud coverage would be hanging over the Sound!! But it was not raining, pavement for the most part dry, so that as close as it gets to a perfect riding day in WA in Feb. Temps been comfortable between 35 and 45.. so a few layers will do the job just fine.
After about 4 hours we returned to our casa, had a great cup of coffee with our friends, here's the misses:
It was a fun ride, for the first time I was able to feel whether all my farkels worked up to my expectation. here a small test report:
Suspension:
Without a doubt the farkel to have, it was great to lean her in to a few twisties, she gave me a good response and I'm very pleased. Big plus also the 5/8" lift helped the angle of my knees (together with the 1.5" of Rich's seat gives me enough to feel very comfortable) so for the first time I ran 4 hours without wanting to shoot myself in the process, just so I overcome the excruciating pain in my knees.
I though have to tinker with the adjustment on the fork, I found it a tad too hard, like the response, but the fork would tell me EVERY bump in the road, which sometime felt my front wheel is either flat or my rim so out of alignment that just wobbling all over the place.
Pazzo levers VStrom Handguards:
Spot on, I love them Pazzo as I'm riding them already on my Gixxer, the VStrom farkel sweet, no cold finger, winter gloves and good is!!!
Custom seat:
Rich did an awesome job, not one tidbit of pain NADA, I could imagine going for a saddle sore with that seat, sweet!!
CB OEM Windshield:
Hmmm I could imagine to use it in da summer IF, was a tad dis'd about it, not the quality, I bought the +4 +3 but found it too small for my build, couldn't ride with open visor, it was noisy, really shity IMO. So next, I'm glad no one from this forum picked up my backflip Windshield, that will come back on, that's for sure!!!
FZ1 mirrors:
Well I have the aftermarket ones and I'm VERY pleased with them, they don't wobble, no distortion in the rear, just enjoying the relaxed way I now can check on my rear end and think, I got the biggest bang outta that farkel.
Wasn't much of a sight seeing, more to get acquainted to the group riding and leading a group, as we will have tons of them this year, which I'm very happy about. Weather wise, well don't move to WA if you can't make a grey in grey day as sunny as possible. Well to tell you the frustrating part. When we arrived at home at about 0400PM the sun came out for about an hour.... BRILLIANT, well again, that's WA, you won't tan, you will rust that's for sure.
Thanks for reading, hope ya had fun
Yours truly,
V
RPK
Objective was to get used to the group riding again, as we plan to make a 3500 mile run in July, which will require a tad "wax in, wax out" if ya know what I mean.
So we ended up putting about 160 miles on the clock which was the best thing...
Here's the map as we rode it this time:
Was a nice smaller loop, enough for our friends to get "rid of the rusted", plan actually to go the long way around, meaning hitting WA12 in Chehalis as well, but the other didn't feel their butts been ready for that kind of abuse.
We started our ride of course @ Home...dooh.. but was curious how my FeeJay would look @ the crack of dawn. Doesn't she look nice? The new Osram's are nice and bright, I'm very pleased with them not speak of them reflection stripes...
So we rode from OLY to the Bremerton Airport Diner for a decent breaky... I was silly enough to go for a food challenge....(Objective, eat a stack 2" tall of 4 pancakes 12" in diameter..NEVER AGAIN
Yours truly at the start of the challenge:
Some 30 minutes later, the finish
In other words is suck... but that's not really news
Once that was done, off we went, heading for the narrows, hitting Key Peninsula right before.
We even met a few which truly braved the weather as we passed a bit of a bicycle race, I have a great respect for those fellas!!
The Narrow's are for me one of the most beautiful places, especially when the sun shines...
A short stop right before hitting this was needed as a friend of mine, feared that his Goldwing 1800 was suffering a leak in the fork, turned out it was a false alarm. Made us quite happy!
Soon we would hit the 110 mile mark and the intercom went off...Babe! yes Darling! I need to hit a gas station soon. Darling I know.....
Unfortunately her car in disguise needs a quick stop at about 120 miles..because when there is one thing we fear worst than rain, than it's that f'n yellow light...
So yours truly checking on the misses as she refuels her trike....isn't she a beauty? I mean my FeeJay fellas
Continuing through a bit of traffic on the WA7....
Oh I forgot to ask, isn't the sunshine awesome? Right, there was non, despite the wxman telling, it will be sunny, that guy did neglect to mention that between us and the sun about a mile of cloud coverage would be hanging over the Sound!! But it was not raining, pavement for the most part dry, so that as close as it gets to a perfect riding day in WA in Feb. Temps been comfortable between 35 and 45.. so a few layers will do the job just fine.
After about 4 hours we returned to our casa, had a great cup of coffee with our friends, here's the misses:
It was a fun ride, for the first time I was able to feel whether all my farkels worked up to my expectation. here a small test report:
Suspension:
Without a doubt the farkel to have, it was great to lean her in to a few twisties, she gave me a good response and I'm very pleased. Big plus also the 5/8" lift helped the angle of my knees (together with the 1.5" of Rich's seat gives me enough to feel very comfortable) so for the first time I ran 4 hours without wanting to shoot myself in the process, just so I overcome the excruciating pain in my knees.
I though have to tinker with the adjustment on the fork, I found it a tad too hard, like the response, but the fork would tell me EVERY bump in the road, which sometime felt my front wheel is either flat or my rim so out of alignment that just wobbling all over the place.
Pazzo levers VStrom Handguards:
Spot on, I love them Pazzo as I'm riding them already on my Gixxer, the VStrom farkel sweet, no cold finger, winter gloves and good is!!!
Custom seat:
Rich did an awesome job, not one tidbit of pain NADA, I could imagine going for a saddle sore with that seat, sweet!!
CB OEM Windshield:
Hmmm I could imagine to use it in da summer IF, was a tad dis'd about it, not the quality, I bought the +4 +3 but found it too small for my build, couldn't ride with open visor, it was noisy, really shity IMO. So next, I'm glad no one from this forum picked up my backflip Windshield, that will come back on, that's for sure!!!
FZ1 mirrors:
Well I have the aftermarket ones and I'm VERY pleased with them, they don't wobble, no distortion in the rear, just enjoying the relaxed way I now can check on my rear end and think, I got the biggest bang outta that farkel.
Wasn't much of a sight seeing, more to get acquainted to the group riding and leading a group, as we will have tons of them this year, which I'm very happy about. Weather wise, well don't move to WA if you can't make a grey in grey day as sunny as possible. Well to tell you the frustrating part. When we arrived at home at about 0400PM the sun came out for about an hour.... BRILLIANT, well again, that's WA, you won't tan, you will rust that's for sure.
Thanks for reading, hope ya had fun
Yours truly,
V
RPK
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