There's that dreaded "e" word again. No amout of classroom trailing will be better the experiance over a period of time.
Taking a group of riders through an area that was known to have bees, wasps etc around was absolutely stupid. What if a rider had a reaction if they got stung?
Out the back of Masterton riding with my visor completely down I had a bee come in my helment under the chin guard. Luckily for me it was quite happy to walk back and forth on the inside of the visor. I just slowed down a b, opened the visorr slowly a couple of inches and the bee figured out how to remove itself from inside my helmet.
Year or two back I went out to make sure I knew a route after work that I was taking somebody out on that coming weekend.
Made the mistake of having my dark visor on. It got dark so I lifted it. Pretty soon after a bug nailed me in the eye.
It didnt get better. I ended up at the Eye unit with a nice lady digging the bug remains out of my eye with a needle.
I cant say it was a fun time.
I do like a wee dredge..
The mention of scooters got me thinking, and trying to fix the wee wheels on me mulcher. Bastard things.. Mulcher wheels.
I ride a fair bit of dirt and the front chops out quite often but it's rarely a scenery tasting event.
So my pondering is that the bigger the front wheel the more time you have to react when losing teh traction? I've never seen a Penny-farthing tuck the front..
Or is their summit else going on?
Manopausal.
Bigger diameter is mostly for rolling over uneven terrain more easily, dealing with bumps etc. It's also slower steering (hence why you see testers comment on the big front wheel of adventure bikes on the road, whether they notice or not).
Narrower so it grips better, less likely to float on top of stuff.
Beyond that, you have configuration of the geometry, weight of the bike, how the manufacturer wants it to steer etc. For example, my R1200GSA loves to plow a trench with the front in rougher stuff, really hard work, turning the wheel simply made it want to fall over. Took the 1090R onto sand, and it was less inclined to dig the front in, and more likely to loft it onto the sand and made things so much easier. The BMW has a 110/80/19 and 150/70/17 combo, whereas the KTM has a 90/90/21 and 150/70/18 combo...
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
So who’s practiced their emergency braking lately? Watching something on tube realised I hadn’t bothered in long time so on deserted rural road did several complete panic style stops with both brake controls from my normal cruising speed of a bit of spare change into tolerance zone on 200kg plus bike with ABS.
First stop was about 36m ish by completely unscientific paces from back of bike so about 40m prob, in simpler terms it was about 4 of the white centre line stripes. Later attempts were slightly better so yeah maybe doing more often is good idea.
Pretty sobering walking back to where you started and looking forward to where you did stop, looks strangely familiar to the distance you see wreckage scattered over and it looks further than you’d like. Anyhow have a go now and then…
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