Dropping a Honda ST1300, Twice
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From: Marc Gerges on 29 Dec 2009 14:48 Road Glidin' Don <d.langkd(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 29, 12:44�am, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Even for someone 6'+ like myself, that bike was a handful at stop >> signs; but mostly because I had to tippy-toe it if I wanted to get >> both feet on the ground at once, not because of it's "high CG". > > If, at your 6'+ height, even you have to tippy-toe to reach the > ground, what race of human beings are these bikes intended for? ;) > Those that don't stop :) In earnest - while I'm not that much into touring the Sahara or Siberia, which these things are perfectly capable of, I enjoy riding a high bike with a high CG. They're agile and flickable. cu .\\arc
From: Twibil on 29 Dec 2009 15:44 On Dec 29, 12:09 am, "Road Glidin' Don" <d.lan...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Even for someone 6'+ like myself, that bike was a handful at stop > > signs; but mostly because I had to tippy-toe it if I wanted to get > > both feet on the ground at once, not because of it's "high CG". > > If, at your 6'+ height, even you have to tippy-toe to reach the > ground, what race of human beings are these bikes intended for? ;) People who are running in the Paris/Dakar, and who value suspension travel and ground clearance above all else. http://images.google.com/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS320&q=paris+dakar+rally+2009&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=M2k6S_-GH42ysgPF5ImKBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB4QsAQwAw They don't even come with kickstands. I had to weld one up for myself.
From: Twibil on 29 Dec 2009 15:48 On Dec 29, 4:50 am, Gaidheal <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Henry, Bob Nixon, and I form a quorum that says you're the jackass, > Pete. YES!! He GOT it!! (Pumps fist in air.) Three racist, psychotic fools don't like me. And the downside is?
From: don (Calgary) on 29 Dec 2009 16:47 On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:23:35 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: >don (Calgary) <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:23:17 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk >> (The Older Gentleman) wrote: >> >> >That had absolutely *nothing* to do with tyre sizes. I had to write an >> >article on this a few years ago, and did a lot of research into the >> >phenomenon of the wobbly Pan. >> >> I would like to read this article. Was it published? Is it available >> online? > >It was a fairly small buyers' guide to the ST that I was asked to do. It >was published. Do you recall who published it? >It isn't online. Do you have a copy of the article? > >There's plenty on the web, anyway. JFGI.
From: The Older Gentleman on 29 Dec 2009 17:39
don (Calgary) <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote: > Do you recall who published it? Yes, of course. Bike magazine. > > >It isn't online. > > Do you have a copy of the article? Oh, somewhere I'll have a copy of the issue it appeared in, yes. I keep all my copies of Bike. Got just about every issue back to Issue One in 1972, with only a few issues missing. Daresay I've got the original electronic document somewhere, too, but not on this machine. Like I said, it's very well documented now, anyway. Just Google for "ST1300 instability". -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com |