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From: Lozzo on 14 Feb 2010 18:17 Beav wrote: > So what about traction control? Want it, or not? I'd have to try it first and see how I get on with it. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, SR250 SpazzTrakka, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) Garage clearout - Yamaha SpazzTrakka 250 for sale, email for details
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 14 Feb 2010 18:22 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> typed >Beav wrote: > >> So what about traction control? Want it, or not? > >I'd have to try it first and see how I get on with it. Talk to that nice Mr Pip, with special reference to the Pahnd Island ferry. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" "Environmentally, it is our duty to re-use our plastic bags. To suffocate our children" - Frankie Boyle.
From: Lozzo on 14 Feb 2010 18:30 Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo > <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> typed > > Beav wrote: > > > > > So what about traction control? Want it, or not? > > > > I'd have to try it first and see how I get on with it. > > Talk to that nice Mr Pip, with special reference to the Pahnd Island > ferry. I have a form of traction control on the Versys as standard. In the great tradition of Japanese motorcycling acronyms it's called CLoP[1]. There's no way it'll spin up on anything but the greasiest of surfaces. [1] Chronic Lack of Power -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, SR250 SpazzTrakka, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) Garage clearout - Yamaha SpazzTrakka 250 for sale, email for details
From: Salad Dodger on 14 Feb 2010 19:33 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:12:49 GMT, "platypus" <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >My old GL1200 had linked brakes - the brake pedal operated the rear and one >front disc, and the lever operated the other front disc.. Statto borrowed >it to take Sue out on, and came back complaining about how ineffectual the >front was. Still stops quicker than a CBX does, though. :) They carried that innovation forward to the 15, as well.
From: Ace on 15 Feb 2010 02:08
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:38:08 +0000, Andy Bonwick <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:31:28 +0000, Salad Dodger ><salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: > >>On 14 Feb 2010 13:16:25 GMT, "Lozzo" <lozzo(a)lozzo.org.uk> wrote: >> >><ABS> >>>I'm not so >>>sure I'd want it on a supersports bike though - I don't know why, but >>>it just seems wrong. I'd have agreed with you up until about three and a bit years ago. Restrospectively, I see that it could have saved me a lot of pain. >>Yet the two "best" supersports bikes both have ABS. > >Name and shame. > >It's probably just me but I really don't see the benefit on a sports >bike. I *like* being able to do stoppies. I used to, but then all of a sudden I didn't. |