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Cataract2
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 02:06 pm: | 
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Mental note, I gotta ride that road. |
Bomber
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 06:01 pm: |
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smiles per miles is the onliest metric that matters --
livin is learnin, I say! |
Glitch
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 07:04 pm: |
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You said it Bomber.
Ya'll shoulda seen all the bikes at March Badness.
Every kind o bike you can think of.
Bunches of Buells, I've never seen so many in one spot before.
Rode up and down 60 all day leadin' demo rides.
After doin' that all day for two days I know every bit of that stretch.
After diner the other night, I did a solo run up 60.
Ran a pretty even 50 all the way up and back.
Only touched the brake once for a deaf bicyclist.
It amazes me just how well these bikes handle stock.
Only thing that's not stock (suspension that is) is tires. Love the M1s. |
Djkaplan
| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 08:07 am: |
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"Love the M1s."
I just ordered a set. I've never run anything but Dunlops before, 205, 207, and 208's. I actually paid a little less for them than my last set of 208's. |
M2nc
| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 08:16 pm: |
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I learned early on that I would rather ride only up to 85% of bike's and rider's capability. I usually enter corners cautiously and wait until I see a clear exit before planting the throttle back. I say this and you would think I'm petty cautious and not that fast through the corners, you may be right. The thing is even when the other bike is faster, alway seem to keep up or catch up. Get in front, and I walk away. Even on the Nighthawk, I will ride with friends and then little is said about my slow bikes. Terms like well rounded, or good all around bike start to be said. I never try to say I'm the best rider, because I just do not have enough experience. I learned this back in my street racing days as a teenage, there is always a faster gun out there.
I have smoked some friends on the Nighthawk, then go back and ride the same rodes on the M2. I usually gain 10 to 15mph. Only on the really slow speed, tight stuff does the Nighthawk ever seem to surpass the M2 (Better ground clearance). If the pavement gets rough, the Nighthawk shows its design age. The M2 is rock solid.
After riding an XB9R at Daytona I realized that it has the ground clearance the M2 lacks, and seems even lighter on the controls. I really could make the XB sing and did not feel like I even made it the the 85% threshold on the bike. Then we lost a rider, missed a curve, and I realized, yeah, I did, just didn't realize it. The XB may be so good, that you reach its limits without even knowing it.
I have nothing to prove on two wheels, just like to have fun. Those who have ridden with me soon understand why I love the M2. I run the corners then cruise the straights, that's me. |
Glitch
| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 08:39 pm: |
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I run the corners then cruise the straights, that's me.
That's what I do, I wear out too fast if I rip up the straights. When I ride my pace, I'm never more than a couple of seconds behind the guys that rip it up the straights anyway.
We're ridin' up past Helen GA this weekend.
I can't wait, I love Spring!
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Djkaplan
| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 09:26 pm: |
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"Only on the really slow speed, tight stuff does the Nighthawk ever seem to surpass the M2 (Better ground clearance)."
I've suffered through the low peg clearance issue with my M2. Funny though, it took me a year of railing to realize how limited the ground clearance really was. When I first got the bike, I thought it had unlimited cornering ability; how wrong I was.
But the good news is that it doesn't take much to make the situation much better. I installed the simple peg relocators that raise and set the pegs (and brake and shift lever) back one inch. I still have to be careful about scraping my boots, but the pegs don't grind (yet). I also found evidence, after this weekend in the mountains, of my kickstand actually scraping the asphalt. Unreal. I can't believe I can get the bike laid over that far. |
Bigbird
| | Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 10:42 pm: |
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But the good news is that it doesn't take much to make the situation much better. I installed the simple peg relocators that raise and set the pegs (and brake and shift lever) back one inch. I still have to be careful about scraping my boots, but the pegs don't grind (yet). I also found evidence, after this weekend in the mountains, of my kickstand actually scraping the asphalt. Unreal. I can't believe I can get the bike laid over that far.
I don't have much experience on the M2 but I sure love the things the XB12R allows me to do, and I don't seem to ever scrape bike parts:
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Charlieboy6649
| | Posted on Friday, March 25, 2005 - 01:44 am: |
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OK Jealous! Hurry SpringFast Hurry! |
M2nc
| | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 12:18 am: |
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Great Picture!
Yeah, I realize that I have to relocate the rear sets. The pegs are about the same height as the Nighthawk, but the NH is narrower where the pegs are than the M2. I have only scraped the pegs a few times on the NH & have leaned it passed the tread on the rear tire. No fun by the way. |
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